Self-portraits from life

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PaintersOnline editor’s choice

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Sensory landscapes

Annie Boisseau, winner of The Artist Award at the 2019 Royal Society of British Artists’ exhibition, talks to Susie Hodge about inspiration, colour and light

How to use video to promote your art

Sarah Edmonds continues her series with advice on how to create videos at home and post them online, together with top tips for filming and equipment recommendations

Aerial perspective in watercolour

Paul Weaver reveals the key techniques he uses to achieve aerial perspective, focusing on tonal recession, colour temperature and edges

A great combination

Liz Seward recommends working with coloured pencil over watercolour. Be inspired as she demonstrates a still life in a combination of these media

Perfect pet portraits

Paul Talbot-Greaves offers some great advice for painting a pet using acrylics, with tips on lighting, background and how to obtain a good reference photo

Paint lively street scenes from photographs

What do you do when you’re not able to paint in situ? You work from photographs, says Adebanji Alade, who shares his techniques for painting vibrant urban scenes using diff erent media

DEMONSTRATION Summer Light, Oxford Street

For this painting I used gouache, which is such a wonderful medium, very forgiving and it produces some of the purest and brightest colours when mixed

Techniques for great skies

Tony White shares his methods for painting successful skies that will establish the mood and atmosphere of your watercolour paintings

Line and wash

Try your hand at line and wash paintings with Milly England. Here she recommends nibs and inks to use and shares her tips for adding the wash

The individual in the crowd

Let Carl Knibb inspire you to paint a narrative with figures moving through a cityscape

Subject selection and composition

Nicholas Poullis begins a new series in which he explains how to create a watercolour painting from conception to finished picture. His first article tackles composition and subject selection

The sky at night

Becky Thorley-Fox recommends dusk and night-time plein-air painting and demonstrates, with tips and advice, how to capture glowing hues and moody skies in oil

Winter buildings

Julie Collins brings her current series to a close with some ideas for modifying your colours for watercolour paintings of winter buildings