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Don’t Stop the Carnival, oil on linen, 36*36in

Lamorna Colony Pioneers

A Summer Afternoon, c. 1925, oil on canvas,

In search of drama

Caroline Saunders talks to Keith Bennett, The Artist award winner at last year’s Pastel Society annual exhibition

Keith Bennett IN CONVERSATION with Caroline Saunders

Keith Bennett Adam and his Glockenspiel, acrylic

Re-visioning your subject in watercolour

Create your own atmospheric paintings by imagining them. Amanda Hyatt demonstrates how to capture your ideal subject using her Five Steps to Watercolour method

AMANDA’S FIVE STEPS TO WATERCOLOUR

MATERIALS ● Baohong hot-pressed smooth 140lb (300gsm) paper.

A cottage garden

Soraya French shows how to use the immediacy, brilliance and versatility of soft pastels to paint a summer garden

Exploring the Zorn palette

Using a limited palette of just three colours plus white Mark Fennell demonstrates how to paint an alla prima portrait in oils

Mark Fennell PORTRAITS

p Mark Fennell Steve, oil on linen, 19¾315¾in

A modern take on the conversation piece

Jo Quigley shows you how to create your own informal group portrait in acrylics

DEMONSTRATION Lunch in Paternoster Square

REFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH For this demonstration I chose to

Looking up and looking down

Alter your viewpoint to make the most of your landscape painting advises Cheryl Culver as she paints a cliff view in pastel

The brilliance of Turner

Using the sketchbooks of Turner as inspiration, Alan Bickley paints his own watercolour in the style of the master

DEMONSTRATION St Hilarion, N. Cyprus

This watercolour painting is referenced from sketchbook material I made while on holiday in Cyprus on Turner Blue paper, 7½x11in (19x28cm). Named after a monk who once lived there, but it’s now a castle!

A light touch

Paul Talbot-Greaves demonstrates why watercolour is the perfect medium for portrait painting

DEMONSTRATION Simon

MATERIALS l Saunders Waterford 140lb (300gsm) Not paper

Learning to look

Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year finalist, Sally Ward uses her observations of tonal hierarchy to build a compelling portrait in oils

Add is more

Paul Riley explores innovative additives to enhance your watercolours

Oils under pressure

Working at speed can have benefits for the plein-air painter, says Rodney Kingston as he paints an urban scene in oils in under three hours

URBAN LANDSCAPES

Rodney Kingston Piccadilly Circus View, oil on board,

Supporting STARS

Winston Oh shows you how to tackle background trees in the landscape, and allow them to provide a supporting role to the main star of the show

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ARTISTS’ RESOURCES

Sarah Edmonds’ picks of the best resources for artists to encourage and inspire in 2023

PAINTERS ONLINE

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MILLBECK FARM, GREAT LANGDALE

Wed 24 May at 11am (BST) Tickets £15

Opportunities & Competitions

Check out the latest competitions to enter and make a note of important deadlines

Exhibitions

GALLERY OPENING TIMES AND EXHIBITION DATES CAN VARY; IF IN DOUBT PHONE TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

Painting in Rome

Saint Angelo Bridge, Rome. Photograph: Michal Ludwiczak Peter

PROOF OF LIFE

Mike Barr shows us how important it is to bring landscape paintings to life with a few marks from the brush

ART BOOKS

Hyper Realistic Drawing Amie Howard Hyper realism in art

PaintersOnline editor ’s choice

Meet this month’s editor’s choice winner from our PaintersOnline gallery