The Artist November 2024

Features:

• Caroline Saunders talks to Andrew Barrowman about the subtleties of his charcoal, pastel and metalpoint landscapes
• Use your thumbnail sketches as a trial run for the real thing, advises Mike Barr
• Sarah Edmonds talks to four artists about how they find a balance between work and life

Practical painting and drawing:

• Charles Williams discusses transparency and opacity focusing on the work of Francis Bowyer and James Faure Walker
• In an abridged extract from her new book, Painting People and Portraits, Hazel Soan suggests ways to represent faces and figures accurately
• Paul Talbot-Greaves describes how to use the qualities of light to create a dynamic autumn painting
• In the first of a two-part feature, Alan Bickley shows you how to approach individual buildings
• Greta Vilidaite demonstrates ways to emphasise the focal point in your work and allow it to tell a visual story
• In the final article in her series on painting light in watercolour, Catherine Beale looks at short-lived light effects
• Robert Brindley shows how to paint boats and harbours in acrylics
• In the final article of his five-part series on loose and lively painting, Kevin Scully paints an autumn landscape in oils
• Peter Keegan paints a full alla-prima head-and-shoulders portrait and shares tips on taking on portrait commissions
• Catherine Ingleby describes how to set up and paint an autumnal still life using oils

Plus:

• Be inspired by award-winning artists in this year's TALP Open
• The Art World
• Art holidays & courses
• Opportunities
• Book reviews
• Discover an artist from the Painters Online gallery

All this and more in the November issue of The Artist, out on September 20