Features:

• Annie Boisseau, winner of The Artist Award at the 2019 Royal Society of British Artists' exhibition, talks to Susie Hodge about inspiration, colour and light
• Sarah Edmonds shares advice on creating videos at home and how to post the online

Practical painting and drawing:

• Paul Weaver reveals the techniques he uses to achieve aerial perspective
• Try coloured pencil over watercolour with Liz Seward
• Top tips for painting pets from Paul Talbot-Greaves
• Follow Adebanji Alade to paint lively street scenes from photographs
• Tony White shows how to paint successful skies in watercolour
• Discover all you need to know for painting self-portraits from life with Kathy Barker
• Try your hand at line and wash with Milly England
• Be inspired by Carl Knibb to paint a cityscape narrative
• Nicholas Poullis begins a new series in which he explains how to create a watercolour painting from conception to finished picture
• Paint night skies in oil with Becky Thorley-Fox
• Julie Collins brings her current series to an end with ideas for modifying your colours to paint winter buildings

Plus:

• Win an original Adebanji Alade sketch!
• The Art World
• Your views
• Exhibitions
• Opportunities
• This month's PaintersOnline Editor's Choice Award

All this and more in the December issue of The Artist, out on October 30.