Features:

• Caroline Sauders talks to artist Wendy Yeo who combines sweeping Chinese brushwork with western art values in her watercolour, acrylic and collage paintings

Practical painting and drawing:

• Soraya French paints a profusion of poppies in watercolour and pastel
•  Discover ways to represent texture in your still life paintings with Peter Burgess
• Hazel Soan completes her series with an explanation as to how to be your own best judge of your work
• Ruth Buchanan begins a new five-part series that will help you represent the human figure
• Capture a lively market scene in acrylics with Jenny Aitken
• Graham Webber reveals his strategies for coping with the challenges of the weather when painting en plein air
• Learn to mix and modify colours for painting summer skies in watercolour with Julie Collins
• Jo W Pickering describes techniques used by the old masters and demonstrates how to use them in your own work
• Get creative with pastels with advice from Robert Dutton
• Rita Isaac explores the creative possibilities of pouring fluid acrylic paint
• Be inspired by Helen Bradley as Glyn Macey paints the northwest coast
• Winner of the Harbour Gallery Award in The Artist Open Competition and Exhibition, John Hopkins, shows how to capture reflections in water
• Tim O'Brien reveals how he develops his observational skills by making rapid sketches as he accompanies the Royal navy on training exercises

Plus:

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

All this and more in the July issue of The Artist, out on May 15