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PaintersOnline editor’s choice

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

Let it roll (and drip and run)

Michael Sole gets physical with oils and acrylics as he drips, pours and shakes to let the paint take its own course in his semifigurative seascapes. It’s an intuitive process, he tells Susie Hodge

Competition fever

Charles Williams shares his experiences as a contestant in this year’s Sky Portrait Artist of the Year competition

Search Press

As our PaintersOnline bookshop partner, we are delighted to mark Search Press’s half-centenary. Martin de la Bedoyere, managing director of this award-winning publishing house, talks about his company’s 50 years of success

Seeing patterns

Hazel Soan begins a new three-part series on how to hone your artistic vision. This month she focuses on identifying pattern in your subject matter

How to find a subject

Graham Webber’s six-part oil-painting series about the process of landscape painting from small, plein-air sketches to larger, framed studio work continues with advice on subject matter as he demonstrates a plein-air oil sketch

Figures alla-prima

Brian Smith concludes his series on capturing figures in watercolour by sharing a painting he made during a plein-air painting day at Windsor Castle

Snowdrops in mixed media

Snowdrops make a wonderful subject for a still-life painting or even a landscape when shown growing in drifts in a woodland setting, as Soraya French demonstrates here

Express yourself with drawing media

Robert Dutton takes the bewilderment out of choosing drawing media, highlighting his personal favourites and sharing his top tips for using them creatively

Zoom-in on portraits

Follow Andrew Newton as he demonstrates how to paint a hyperrealistic-style portrait in oils

Planning, sequencing and using negative spaces

Kim Whitby concludes her three-part series on using ink to help develop your watercolour skills by stressing the importance of planning

Spring still life

Julie Collins explores her watercolour palette and shows how to create bright, modified colours for fresh spring still-life paintings

Constable and Yarmouth

Glyn Macey continues his journey documenting the changes to the English coastline with a painting inspired by a well-known artist. This month he records Yarmouth pier using mixed media

Oils on the go

Wondering what to pack for your painting holiday? Clare Bowen shares details of her essential oil painting kit, advises on how to prepare for air travel and how to manage your paintings while you are away

Love line and wash

Discover how Milly England uses the line and wash technique to add life to drawings of historic houses and buildings