Features:

• Your painting holiday queries answered by Richard Pikesley
• Be inspired by Paul Brown's personal journey to becoming a successful artist
• More musings from Charles Williams

Practical painting and drawing:

• David Curtis demonstrates his oil techniques for painting a portrait of his son
• Paint a winter stream using layers of acrylic with Paul Talbot-Greaves
• Learn to simplify interior subjects as Amanda Hyatt demonstrates a scene in watercolour
• Robert Brindley begins a three-part series on basic pastel techniques
• Discover what to look for when painting lips in the second part of Kathy Barker's series on portraiture
• Geoff Hunt sketches on the spot and works up a painting in the studio
• Using pattern for increased interest with Bob Brandt
• Soraya French paints irises using mixed media techniques
• Michele Del Campo documents a recent composition from concept to completed oil painting
• Learn to capture the colours of winter in watercolour with Paul Weaver
• Robert Dutton uses Amsterdam Photo Transfer Gel to take his mixed media landscapes to the next level

Plus:

• The Art World
• Your views
• Opportunities
• Exhibitions
• Art Books
• This month's PaintersOnline Editor's Choice Award
• The Artist 2019 index

All this and more in the December issue of The Artist, out on November 1.