The Artist

Features:

• Discover the Derwent Tinted Charcoal Paint Set and take your creative charcoal work to the next level
• Caroline Saunders talks to Paula Sharples about her stylised designs
• Sarah Edmonds looks at ways to make an income without compromising your passion for art
• Enjoy an extract from a new book by Andrew Lambirth, created to celebrate Royal Academician Diana Armfield’s 100th birthday
• Learn to recognise your own style of painting with Mike Barr

Practical painting and drawing:

• Sandra Corpora experiments with reds as she prepares a still life of roses in a silver bowl
• Be inspired to paint birds from life with Richard Allen as he sketches birds on the shoreline in watercolour
• Robert Brindley shows how to paint nocturnes in pastel with a night-time New York street scene
• Hazel Soan concludes her current series by getting up close and personal with facial and full figure portraits
• Re-connect with nature as Ann Blockley shares her love of found objects for inspiring her work
• Tom Cringle completes his series with a look at how sketching skills can inform a studio painting
• Discover successful colour mixes for summer landscapes with Paul Talbot-Greaves
• Soraya French shows how liquid acrylics can be used with dry media to create vibrant floral paintings
• Will Teather shares the process of a commission to paint two children in his trademary style
• Learn to translate feelings experienced when gathering source material into your finished work with Carole Baker

Plus:

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

All this and more in the August issue of The Artist, out on July 9.