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THE ARTWORLD

NEWS, VIEWS, INFORMATION AND SPECIAL EVENTS IN THE ART WORLD

YOUR VIEWS

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Compositions with colour and imagination

Caroline Saunders talks to Aileen Wrennall, who reveals how she obtains the fresh, clean colours in her watercolour and mixed-media still lifes

Ethereal landscapes

Peter Kettle talks to Susie Hodge about recording the remote locations colours, textures and atmosphere of the Welsh landscape using paint and other media, poured, rubbed and splashed on to large canvases

Sketching competition winners 2018

Last year Adebanji Alade set six monthly challenges to inspire everyone to practise and improve their sketching skills, accompanied by his top ten tips for each challenge. Here we present the winners, who all win £50 worth of vouchers to spend with GreatArt

OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS

Check out the latest competitions to enter and make a note of important deadlines

ART BOOKS

Mary Newcomb’s drawings and paintings are masterpieces

EXHIBITIONS

GALLERY OPENING TIMES AND EXHIBITION DATES CAN VARY; IF IN DOUBT, PHONE TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

Paint Iceland’s Natural Landscapes with Richard Pikesley RWS NEAC

Iceland’s landscapes, seascapes and skies are dramatic and on a scale that takes your breath away. This is a wonderful opportunity to capture the immensity, intensity and atmosphere of Iceland’s natural phenomena with the assistance of a very experienced guest artist. Richard Pikesley will be working in oil, watercolour and mixed media.

Painters Online 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

Digital advertising and SEO

Digital advertising and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) are vital if you’re going to reach new markets, but should you pay for these? Mark David Hatwood provides the low-down

Some of the best art courses and holidays here and abroad

Some of the best art courses and holidays here and

Don’t be afraid to ‘fail’

Having been through a period of ‘not painting particularly well’ David A Parfitt shares how it’s possible to go from ‘failure to failure without losing enthusiasm’ and regain the confidence to prepare for a major exhibition

Reductive drawing techniques

In the second of this two-part series Adele Wagstaffshows how the head can be described by using techniques that focus on tone

How to paint silver

Tim Gustard demonstrates how he paints silver objects using acrylics, giving plenty of advice on how to achieve realistic reflections

Exploring the landscape with pastel

Cheryl Culver demonstrates how to bring a landscape to life and achieve life-like textures and rock forms in pastels

The found still life

Learn more about design and composition by painting unarranged everyday objects, with Haidee-Jo Summers

How to paint from photographs

In the first of a new ten-part series on painting landscapes in acrylics, Jenny Aitken offers top tips on how to use photos as an aide-memoire

Portraits with character

Kathy Barker advises on how to bring a sitter to life by focusing on shapes and values rather than detail when working in oils

Noses, ears and expression

Ruth Buchanan focuses on how to capture animals’ noses, ears and expressions in the third of her ten-part series on painting and drawing animals

An inspirational and versatile medium

Jenny Wheatley discusses the pros and cons of using acrylics and demonstrates a studio painting, with insights into her working practice

Expressive techniques

Carole Robson shows you some techniques you can use to enliven your watercolour landscape paintings