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EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY OPENING TIMES AND EXHIBITION DATES CAN VARY; IF IN DOUBT, PHONE TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS
Check out the latest competitions to enter and make a note of important deadlines
Giants of the shipyards
Lachlan Goudie describes how he documented the building of two new aircraft carriers in the Scottish shipyards of Govan and Rosyth
Celebrate other artists
Adebanji Alade points out that enjoying other artists’ work has a tremendous effect on your life as a creative person
FEATURES
Portraits with focus
Caroline Saunders talks to winner of The Artist Award in last year’s SWA exhibition, Caroline de Peyrecave, about painting portraits by the sight-size method and capturing the ‘unique aura’ of the sitter
Exploring the visible
In the second of three articles, Peter Burgess reveals the choices he makes about the materials of painting – paints, pigments, tools – with practical advice on safety, use and storing your materials
Open your own gallery
Nick Poullis shares his experience of setting up and opening a gallery in which to sell his own watercolours
ART BOOKS & DVDS
Alyona Nickelsen This guide is genuinely comprehensive.
Charles Williams’ musings Art materials
When the great American painter Philip Guston died
PRACTICALS
Skies
Graham Webber begins a new three-part series on landscape painting with advice on one aspect that affects everything – the sky
Self-portrait in charcoal and chalk
Charlie Pickard, student-tutor at the London Atelier of Representational Art (LARA), talks you through the different stages of producing a sight-size self-portrait
THE A-Z OF COLOUR
Yellow can add much freshness and warmth to your watercolour paintings, says Julie Collins, who advises on the different yellows and their uses
Autumn inspirations
Paul Weaver demonstrates how the warm colouring, soft atmosphere and quality of the autumn light can create irresistible watercolour subjects, with tips on colour choices and equipment
Focus on seascap
Robert Dutton concludes his series by showing you how to apply the rules of perspective to create exciting seascapes
Impressionistic interiors
There’s so much to explore when painting interiors, says Haidee-Jo Summers, who demonstrates a light-filled scene painted from a dark corner of the room
New thoughts about complementary colours
Hilary Page says that complements are not just one pair of colours, but two. She calls these visual complements and mixing complements, and they are not the same. Read on – this information could change the way you paint!
Perfectly consistent colour
Michele Del Campo loves Winsor & Newton Artists’ Oil Colours because they have a creamy consistency, the colours are bright and powerful and the mixes are clean
Interpreting space
Penny German advises on how to use negative spaces to improve your drawing and painting
White isn’t just white
White animals aren’t pure white, the white is full of subtle colours reflected from the animal’s surroundings, as Marie Antoniou shows by painting a white wolf in acrylics
Seascapes on a textured ground
Follow Catherine Strong‘s tips for painting an impasto seascape using acrylics. She advises on the best way to achieve texture and how to mix the colours you’ll need
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