Features:

• Susie Hodge talks to Caroline Ward-Raatikainen, winner of The Artist Award in lat year's Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour competition
• Sema Martin shares ways to make your art pay

Practical painting and drawing:

• Paint contemporary still lifes with Peter Graham
• Graham Webber demonstrates a studio painting imbued with the energy of his original plein air study
• Soraya French shows how to paint a flower border in mixed media
• Use your linear and scribble techniques to improve your figure-drawing skills with Ruth Buchanan
• Paint like Seago as you follow a landscape demonstration with Paul Gadenne
• Carole Baker shows how to work from reference material which has very little colour
• Paint summer still lifes with Julie Collins
• Jenny Aitken shows how to capture a glowing sunset using a simple alla prima oil process
• Paint gorgeous watercolour roses with Trevor Waugh
• Barry Herniman continuess his painting journeys along quiet country lanes
• Make the most of acrylic colours with advice from Jenny Wheatley
• Bob Brandt takes a look at framing to make the most of your work

Plus:

• The Art World
• Your views
• Exhibitions
• Opportunities
• This month's PaintersOnline Editor's Choice Award

All this and more in the August issue of The Artist, out on July 10.