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Trevor Waugh Trevor Waugh is the master of loose watercolours

Image copyright and digital publishing

Mark David Hatwood concludes his series with some advice on what you can and can’t do about copyright infringement and how to protect your images online

James Bartholomew

James Bartholomew’s loose, colourful and dynamic paintings include coastlines, animals, cities and landscapes and are worked in a combination of watercolour and pastel, or acrylic, as Susie Hodge finds out

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Art Club of the Year 2019

A Leisurr Painter&The Artist COMPETITION in association with Patchings Art Centre & Jackson’s Art Supplies

Summer skies and clouds

This month Martin Kinnear focuses on the colour of skies and clouds in landscape painting, but to make it interesting, he’s concentrating on that painter’s curse – fine weather

SUMMER

It’s high summer, and Geoff Hunt is pondering why he’s usually happier with his second piece of work produced during a plein-air session

Big skies

Jenny Aitken shares her secrets for painting big dynamic skies, with advice on how to judge tones and achieve a real sense of light

In the frame

Clare Bowen recommends Jackson’s Handmade Linen Boards, which come in a variety of finishes and sizes, and Jackson’s Ready Made Lime Frames, which work beautifully with the boards

Painters Online editor’s choice

Meet this month’s editor’s choice winner from our PaintersOnline gallery

Portraits in profile

Follow Aine Divine as she paints a watercolour portrait of her sitter’s profile

Profile portrait of Jim

Whilst painting Hayley’s side profile portrait, and feeling that she was on a roll, Aine Divine asked her photographer to sit for her during Hayley’s breaks

Interesting foregrounds

In the second of two articles on working with acrylics, Carole Baker shows how she uses texture paste to achieve harmony and interesting foregrounds in her landscapes

Rapeseed fields in sunlight

Paul Talbot-Greaves demonstrates how to paint a field of rapeseed in full flower in five simple stages

Fast flowers in watercolour

Trevor Waugh shows you how to paint watercolours quickly by focusing on edges and lost-and-found techniques

Focus on selfportraits

A devastating diagnosis prompted portraitist Mark Fennell to document his 18-week treatment period by painting a self-portrait each week and posting it on social media

Eye-catching strawberries

Tim Gustard has discovered the value of including some bright red juicy strawberries in his paintings and shares his tips for painting realistic-looking juicy fruits using acrylics

Wildlife impressions in pastel

Wildlife artist John Threlfall demonstrates how he uses pastel when working in the field to record an impression of species shape, size, behaviour and colour

Colour choices in painting animals

Ruth Buchanan’s series continues with a look at colour. This month she advises on temperature and tone when making colour choices