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OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS

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

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

Moments of colour and light

Susie Hodge talks to Sarah Butterfield, winner of The Artist Award in the 2018 Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition

How to sell your paintings

Nicholas Poullis offers advice, based on his personal experiences, on how to give yourself the best chances of selling your work

Observation, memory & imagination

Wildlife artist and traveller Mary-Anne Bartlett reveals how she captures wildlife convincingly in watercolour in situ and then works up a painting in the studio

Making a statement

I took my Aunty Megan to see the ‘Animals And Us’ exhibition

When I choose oil

Be inspired by Jenny Wheatley as she explains her approach to both on-site and studio oil paintings, and demonstrates how she develops a composition in the studio

Well composed

Paul Banning stresses that a painting needs structure, balance and proportion, whatever medium you use, and demonstrates his point with a plein-air watercolour of a coastal scene

Drawing August

Join Haidee-Jo Summers as she makes a drawing a day throughout the month of August and share your results on Twitter – you’ll see your work improve

Sunlight in watercolour

Jake Winkle demonstrates how to capture sunlight and shadows in watercolour to add drama to a scene

Blinding sparkles

Jenny Aitken demonstrates how to suggest the effects of dancing sunlight on water

Same subject, different medium

Are you an oil painter, a watercolour painter or paint only in acrylic? In the first of two articles, Steve Hall urges you to move beyond your comfort zone as he demonstrates the same picture in oil and pastel

VENICE SKETCHBOOK 1

Geoff Hunt presents a selection of sketches made in Venice in preparation for a one-man show

Winsor & Newton Cadmium-Free Professional Water Colours

Julie Collins reports on Winsor & Newton’s innovative new environmentally friendly cadmium-free watercolours, concluding that they’re a pleasure to paint with

Make a linocut

John Scott Martin incorporates collage into his linocut prints to add both colour and texture, as he demonstrates here

Buildings made simple

Follow Paul Talbot-Greaves as he shows how to paint buildings using watercolour and gouache, without worrying about straight lines and square windows

How to paint lakes and rivers

Water is a perennially fascinating subject – Amanda Hyatt shares her top ten tips for painting rivers and lakes in watercolour, and demonstrates a painting of a river close to her home

Textures and edges

Ruth Buchanan worked and taught in graphic design and