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Capture Light on the Sea in Acrylics with Jenny Aitken, THURSDAY, JULY 11
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Cracking the colour code
For Danish artist Liza Krügermeier, colour is the most important aspect of her vivid acrylic paintings, and for each one she feels there is a colour code to be cracked in order to achieve perfectly balanced colours, as Susie Hodge discovers
Newsletters and your ‘voice’
Mark David Hatwood stresses the importance of regular email newsletters, with tips on what to include and how to build up a mailing list
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Painting in the garden
There’s a subject to be found in every garden, says Haidee-Jo Summers, who demonstrates her point with an oil painting of a table of pots and plants beside a potting shed
Sketching on the go
James Willis encourages you to make the most of your sketchbooks – the results do not have to be great pieces of art and will provide plenty of information for your finished paintings, alongside your photographs
Bring your waves to life
Jenny Aitken explains how to make your waves so realistic that viewers will imagine they can hear the sound of them crashing to the shore
The colours of spring
Martin Taylor demonstrates how to portray a difficult subject such as a bluebell wood when working en plein air in oils, and explains his outdoor painting equipment
The way of the brush
In the second of her three-part series, Hazel Soan urges you to resist intervening and instead observe how watercolour settles on the paper – literally watching paint dry – in order to control your brushwork
Varnishing
Graham Webber concludes his series with advice on what to consider before varnishing an oil painting and offers his ten top tips for obtaining the best results
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This month Geoff Hunt paints three plein-air watercolours at the coast – one in the UK and two in the US – and has a cautionary tale about tides
Working from different sources
Ruth Buchanan discusses strategies for drawing animals that include sketching from life, working from memory and from photographs, with tips on avoiding pitfalls and obtaining successful outcomes
Face painting
Amanda Hyatt demonstrates how to paint faces in watercolour in order to achieve an interesting representation rather than an identical copy
Laundry day
Paul Talbot-Greaves shows you how to paint an everyday scene in watercolour with bright lights and pockets of shade in just three easy parts
Choosing and using colour
Martin Kinnear begins a new four-part series on colour by discussing how to choose and use a core palette for landscape paintings
Water-mixable oils revisited
Max Hale recommends trying water-mixable oils. He shares his experience and the many benefits of working with this medium
The value of a positive wish
Jean Haines encourages you to make a wish list and live your dreams by feeding the power of positivity into your watercolour paintings, as she demonstrates here
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