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Paint the Lavender Fields in Provence with Haidee-Jo Summers ROI, ARSMA

An exclusive opportunity to paint the lavender fields, private gardens, rolling hills, mellow-stone hilltop villages and the charming water town of L’Isle sur la Sorgue in the beautiful Luberon region. Travel is by train from London to Avignon so you can take all the painting equipment you wish to

Spatial awareness

Lucy Willis explains how to achieve perspective in your watercolour compositions in subjects including architecture, figures, shadows and aerial perspective

Make it an inky October!

Avid sketcher James Hobbs urges you to participate in Inktober on social media. All you need to do is draw with ink and share the results, as he explains here

Paint mountains with depth and light in acrylics

Jenny Aitken shares her strategies for capturing the scale and atmosphere of mountains

Eyes

Kathy Barker begins a new four-part series on portraiture by taking an in-depth look at eyes, showing you how to capture expressions and emotions

Dahlias

Soraya French continues her new series on painting floral compositons in mixed media by demonstrating a colourful border of dahlias

Early autumn trees

Paul Talbot-Greaves shows you how to paint trees loosely and spontaneously in acrylic to achieve shape and movement

Capture wildlife in the wild

Becky Thorley-Fox shares the secrets of capturing wildlife from life, drawing and painting on the spot

CAMBRIDGE

Geoff Hunt heads off to Cambridge, where he tries out his new paintbox

The power of the sketchbook

Robert E Wells reveals how his sketchbooks are used as a creative tool for studio paintings

Painting Sally

Aine Divine describes how she approached a watercolour portrait of our editor Sally Bulgin, with a step-by-step demonstration

How to learn from your mistakes

Paul Brown shares his experience of analysing his own work in order to improve his chances of success

Paint mountainscapes in acrylics

Paul Riley advises on the tools, materials and techniques for painting mountain scenes using acrylics

Watercolour, pure and simple

Ahead of an exhibition of Pure Watercolour Society members, Josephine Neil discusses the ongoing popularity of the medium, and its relevance in today’s world

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PAINT IN TUSCANY with Richard Pikesley RWS, PPNEAC

Capture the romantic Tuscan countryside with its rolling hills and medieval fortified hilltop villages, Benedictine monasteries nestling amongst elegant cypress trees and the fabulous Renaissance towns of Pienza and Siena

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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

Reflection and refraction

Reflections and refraction add visual interest to our paintings and can be found in many types of subject matter. Peter Burgess explains how to make the most of these natural phenomena in your work

CHARLES WILLIAMS’ MUSINGS

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