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THE ARTWORLD

NEWS, VIEWS, INFORMATION AND SPECIAL EVENTS IN THE ART WORLD

Rural idyll

Helen Allingham was an artist ahead of her time. By

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EDITOR’S GALLERY CHOICE

Bundi to Benares

India is the inspiration for Patrick Cullen’s new exhibition

Brighton’s open houses

Brighton’s Artists Open House Xmas Festival will see

Peter Graham

Peter Graham has been busy over the summer. Catch him

YOUR VIEWS

Letters, emails and comments

OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS

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

Intuitive responses

Susie Hodge talks to Claire Harkess, winner of the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s 2017 Wildlife Artist of the Year and The Artist Award, about her passions for watercolour and wildlife

How to make money from your art

If people appreciate your work enough to want to hang it on their wall, they are likely to be prepared to pay you for it. John Roland suggests ways in which you can turn your art into an income

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Christmas Gift Ideas…

Choose the ideal gift for yourself or an artistic loved one this Christmas with our selection of ideas

ART BOOKS

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EXHIBITIONS

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Develop your botanical skills

Follow Jarnie Godwin as she paints an artichoke in watercolour. You’ll achieve a high level of tonal variation, complex, natural colours, deep shadows, and lots of detail using just three primary colours

Cézanne Portraits

Susie Hodge reviews this important exhibition of Cézanne’s portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in London

Do it anyway!

Adebanji Alade’s final tip is simple: make sure you are making art in some way or another – keep it going, keep it showing and keep it glowing – just do it!

The lure of the garden

David Curtis describes how he raced against the light and the heat as made an alla-prima contre-jour oil painting of a picturesque corner of his garden

London’s trees in winter

A project to paint and draw trees across London is quite an undertaking. Ian Sidaway describes how he achieved this – from making made both pen and watercolour sketches on site to selecting subjects to work up into finished paintings

Exploring the visible

As he concludes his three-part series, Peter Burgess describes the processes he uses to create a finished painting, having made choices about the composition and materials

THE A-Z OF COLOUR

Concluding her two-year long monthly series on colour, Julie Collins looks at some watercolours that weren’t included in any of her previous colour articles – Daniel Smith’s luminescent range

Structure in painting

Understanding the subject is the first challenge of any painting, says Graham Webber, who continues his series by showing you how to understand and paint structure in the landscape, using boats as his example

Creepy-crawly drawing

Judi Whitton describes how to use her creepy-crawling drawing method to produce a unique and interesting depiction of your subject, without using a viewfinder

The torso

In her new series Adele Wagstaff helps you to understand the proportions and forms of the figure by looking at what the artist needs to know about anatomy

Playing with light

Light is a critical element of a still-life painting. Penny German shares her tips on setting up and lighting a still-life composition