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Loose in the Cotswolds by Steve Hall
With its spectacular scenery, varied climate and the delights of the changing seasons, the British Isles offer the perfect combination for watercolour landscape painters, as Steve Hall demonstrates.
Simple Pastel Landscape Demonstration by Tony Paul
Follow Tony Paul’s guide and create a pastel landscape in four easy stages
Painting a cockerel in watercolour with June Crawshaw
June Crawshaw paints a cockerel in watercolour
Painting a night scene by Marie Antoniou
Don’t be put off painting a night scene – Marie Antoniou has some great advice to get you started and to make the bright lights glow.
Capture the light by Tony Hogan
In the final of three works depicting different light effects throughout the day, Tony Hogan demonstrates how he paints evening light
Paint a Patchings vista in gouache with Graham Laughton
Follow Graham Laughton step by step as he sketches a Nottinghamshire landscape in gouache.
David Curtis paints a portrait of The Artist editor, Sally Bulgin
David Curtis invited Sally Bulgin, editor of The Artist, to sit for him for his Patchings festival demonstration. Here he recounts how he captured the first likeness in his short session in front of an audience and cameras, followed by…
A waterside scene in watercolour with Barry Herniman
First steps in painting a waterside scene.
Unwrap the gift of COLOUR with Steve Griggs
Colour need not be representational – Steve Griggs suggests some unusual dyad and triad combinations in watercolour and urges you to move away from the expected to create compelling compositions
Spatial awareness with Lucy Willis
Lucy Willis explains how to achieve perspective in your watercolour compositions in subjects including architecture, figures, shadows and aerial perspective
Painting on the Beach with Brian Smith
Brian Smith uses a watercolour sketchbook study to work up a painting of a hot day on the beach.