The Artist Magazine May 2016 Back Issue

Welcome to our bumper 76-page edition with even more inspirational content to help improve your knowledge and technical skills. We provide insights into painting portraits in our features on top professional artists Tom Wood and Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, while Jason Bowyer advises on the practical aspects of painting people and self-portraits in oils. For watercolourists our contributing artists offer advice on wet-in-wet techniques, how to capture the light and mood of water, how to avoid the 'washed-out' look and colour-mixing ideas to get you experimenting and out of your comfort zone. Painting challenges and exercises from Glyn Macey and Paul Talbot-Greaves will help you with your acrylic painting and see you through an artist's block, while Aine Divine demonstrates how to imbue your still-life paintings with vitality in oils over acrylics. With advice from Geoff Hunt on his minimum sketching kit, how to improve your oils from Martin Kinnear and ways to save money when showing and selling online, and more, there's plenty to help keep you drawing, painting and promoting your work throughout the month!