The Artist September 2023

Features:

• Susie Hodge talks to Lucy Clayton about her distinctive watercolour technique
• Sarah Edmonds discusses how e-newsletters can build your community of supporters
• Mike Barr shares his thoughts on why the impressionist painter stands the most chance of capturing mood and atmosphere

Practical painting and drawing:

• In the first of four articles on loosening up in watercolour, Tom Shepherd focuses on looking for shapes
• Jo Quigley shows how to tackle a complicated London street scene in acrylics
• Learn more about painting urban landscpes with Graham Wands
• James Willis puts together his own modern-day capriccio
• Be inspired to take your watercolours en-plein-air with Amanda Hyatt
• Improve your skills and confidence in line and wash with Neil Whitehead
• Explore the colours and strengths of grey in oils with Jenny Aitken
• Kevin Scully shows how to create an aide-memoire sketchbook
• Find your own drawing language with exercises from Clare Lord
• Barry Herniman shows how to paint the textures of buildings in watercolour
• Kick-start your creative focus with Steve Griggs
• Mark Langley shares his techniques for creating coloured pencil drawings of architectural subjects
• Robert Dutton reviews the new Derwent Inktense XL Blocks

Plus:

• The Art World
• Your views
• Exhibitions
• Opportunites
• Directory of art shops
• This month's PaintersOnline Editor's Choice

All this and more in the September issue of The Artist, out on July 13.