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PaintersOnline editor’s choice

Meet this month’s editor’s choice winner from our PaintersOnline gallery, who receives a £50 Jackson’s Art Supplies gift voucher

In with a chance

Will this be the year you finally enter an open exhibition? Bob Brandt reveals the ‘secrets’ of what the selectors will be looking for

City viewpoints

Caroline Saunders talks to Andrew Halliday about his bold, architectural cityscapes and his use of dramatic contrast and playful colour

Mixed media best practice

In the first of a new occasional series offering essential guidelines for artists, Robert Dutton suggests ten ways to approach mixed-media work to ensure best results

New year, new skills

Paul Talbot-Greaves suggests 12 exercises to practise during the year to help improve your watercolour painting skills

Painting water in pastels

In the second article in this series, Robert Brindley shows you how to create the effects of light on calm and moving water, including sparkles and reflections

Good design in watercolour

Jake Winkle explains why design is essential to good composition and therefore a painting that will hold the viewer’s attention

Textured backgrounds in still life

Penny German explores the different materials and techniques that can be used to add texture and interest to your still-life paintings

Noses

Kathy Barker takes you through the basics of painting a nose in the third article in her series on painting portraits

Go with gouache!

Barry Herniman chose gouache for this demonstration painting of a steam engine (a subject close to his heart) because of the versatility offered by the medium

Chasing the light with sunflowers

This month Soraya French has chosen the flamboyant annual sunflower, a quintessential cottage garden flower, to demonstrate her creative mixed-media techniques

Structure, form and space

Adele Wagstaff begins a new three-part series in which she explores how artists can learn from copying the work of the Old Masters

Out and about in the Rockies

A small set of watercolours, two or three sketchbooks and some drawing pens – what more do you need when you’re off to the Canadian Rockies? Ian Sidaway describes the road to discovery

Take up the challenge

Follow Sandra Orme and create a scene of winter trees with evocative winter light using charcoal and soft pastels

Paper and paper choices

When it comes to watercolour papers there’s a huge choice, so what should you opt for? Jenny Wheatley takes you through the properties of the different papers and advises on the suitability of surfaces and weights

Winter trees

Julie Collins begins a new, year-long series about colour. This month she shows you how to mix the perfect colours to paint winter trees in watercolour

GET TO GRIPS WITH THE BUSINESS OF ART

Paul Brown shares what he’s learnt about the business side of art during the last 26 years of working as a professional artist