The Artist - February 2021

Features:

• Susie Hodge talks to Kate Newington, winner of The Artist Award in last year's Society of Women Artists' exhibition
• Marine Costello begins a series of articles on how to build a successful career as an artist in our digital world

Practical painting and drawing:

• Develop your oil painting skills with Alan Bickley as he begins a new four-part series by discussing popular choices of materials
• Discover the techniques you will need to paint a winter landscape in gouache with Robert Brindley
• Rob Wareing shares his methods for painting alla-prima oil portraits over more than one session by keeping the paint wet and workable
• Pet portraits in monochrome - Kate Priestman demonstrates and advises on the business side of working to commission
• Capture a winter sunset in watercolour with Paul Talbot-Greaves
• Marie Antoniou encourages you to let your imagination run riot when painting snowy landscapes
• Starting with a moody sky in watercolour, Barry Herniman begins a four-part series on painting elements of the landscape
• Discover Robert Dutton's favourite surfaces for creating texture for expressive paintings
• Steve Strode explores a new range of colours from Winsor & Newton's Winton oils
• Learn how to paint hair with Ann Witheridge
• Nicholas Poullis completes his watercolour series with a demonstration of a light-filled scene

Plus:

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

All this and more in the February issue of The Artist, out on December 24