The Artist June 2023

Features:

• Caroline Saunders talks to Malcolm Taylor about his semi-abstract landscapes, in pastel and mixed media
• Sarah Edmonds explains why today’s forward-thinking art galleries have much to offer artists
• Mike Barr muses on how photographs can be both friend and enemy to the artist

Practical painting and drawing:

• Alan Bickley explores the colours and watercolour techniques of the great landscape painter, Rowland Hilder
• Soraya French shows how to energise your work as she demonstrates a seascape in mixed media
• Ollie Tuck paints everyday food items and crockery in oils
• Explore the many qualities of pastel pencils with Kevin Scully
• Barry Herniman paints an evening harbour scene in acrylics the watercolour way
• Robert Brindley shows you why light, colour and especially tone are essential to the success of your landscape paintings
• Marie Antoniou demonstrates a colourful woodland scene
• Paul Talbot-Greaves uses pencil and charcoal in the first of two articles on portraiture
• Explore the versatility of pencils with Clare Lord
• Sally Ward explores how the observation of shapes can help build a convincing portrait
• Diana Boanas demonstrates how to make glass objects sparkle in your watercolour still lifes  

Plus:

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

All this and more in the June issue of The Artist, out on April 21