The Artist May 2021

Features:

• Caroline Saunders talks to Liz Wright about her love of strong colour and mixing fantasy with reality
• Should you use black in your palette? Mike Barr invites you to join him on the dark side
• Penny Harris shares top tips for improving your writing and communication skills for reaching online followers

Practical painting and drawing:

• How to capture boats and reflections in watercolour with Paul Weaver
• Anne McCormack shares her ideas for working out composition as she demonstrates an interior scene in acrylics
• Use a limited palette to study tone and temperature with Adele Wagstaff
• Be inspired by Oriental artists as Paul Riley uses watercolour to paint flowers and the insects that visit them
• William Mather reveals how he painted his first online portrait using Facetime
• Look ahead to the end of lockdown as Kevin Scully shares his tips for sketching people, both stationary and on the move
• Diana Boanas shows how to paint a still life of everyday kitchen equipment
• Discover the importance of choosing the right frame and how to make your own frames for oil paintings with Alan Bickley
• Barry Herniman shows how to paint moody seas and crashing waves

Plus:

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

All this and more in the May issue of The Artist, out on March 19