Features:

• Brian Fleming, past winner of The Artist Award at the 2019 Royal Society of Marine Artists exhibition, talks to Susie Hodge about why gouache is his preferred medium
• Sarah Edmonds looks at e-learning as she brings her series to a close

Practical painting and drawing:

• Shirley Trevena explains her take on perspective
• Try the new Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901 Portrait Assortment with Liz Seward
• Michelle Heron documents independent shops by painting unique scenes in acrylics
• Learn to apply pure watercolour washes with Nicholas Poullis
• Archie Wardlaw shares tips for painting a likeness in oils with particular emphasis on how to paint eyes
• Express yourself in graphite with Robert Dutton
• Jenny Aitken puts the new Winsor & Newton Cadmium-Free oil colours to the test with a still life painting of flowers
• How to deal with backgrounds for portrait paintings with Ann Witheridge
• Carol Griffin demonstrates how to paint roses in watercolour
• Discover the differences between watercolour inks, pans and tubes with Milly England

Plus:

• Win art materials worth £500 from Winsor & Newton
• The Art World
• Your views
• Exhibitions
• Art book reviews
• This month's PaintersOnline Editor's Choice Award

All this and more in the January issue of The Artist, out on November 27