Masterclass:

Tom Wood talks about his abstract and figurative work with Caroline Saunders

In Conversation:

Susie Hodge talks to Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, winner of The Artist Award at the 2015 Society of Women Artists' annual exhibition

Practical painting and drawing:

• Give your florals some viatlity with Aine Divine
• Peter Brown relives a painting trip to India
• How to paint arresting portraits with Jason Bowyer
• Glyn Macey invites you to paint a rushing river using acrylics in 60-minutes
• Wet-in-wet or wet-up-to-wet? Jake Winkle explains how and when to use these watercolour techniques
• Loosen up with Paul Talbot-Greaves for this month's acrylic exercise
• Deborah Walker captures the light and moods of water in her large-scale watercolours
• Martin Kinnear explains how oil glazes can craete translucency
• Oil painting from sketches and photographs with Kevin Scully
• Geoff Hunt introduces his minimum sketching kit
• How to avoid a washed-out look in watercolour with Paul Weaver
• E is for experiment - the A-Z of colour with Julie Collins
• Charles Williams muses on why life drawing is still relevant for today's artists
• How to keep costs down when showing and selling online with Katherine Tyrrell

Plus:

• Julian Halsby recommends the Inquisitive Eyes exhibition at Bristol's Royal West of England Academy
• Your views
• The Art World
• Exhibitions
• Opportunities

All this and much more in the May issue of The Artist - out on March 24, click here to purchase