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WELCOME from the editor

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HOW TO ENTER

The competition is open to artists worldwide. Two-dimensional

UK ART SHOPS

Support your specialist art retailers by purchasing your materials via mail order, during the lockdown, from the shops listed here

ART BOX

Art products to help you develop your skills

PaintersOnline editor’s choice

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

STAR LETTER

Perspective explained

Alternative support for oil pastels

It was pleasing to read Robert Dutton's article

Lifeline

I had been buying The Artist for a

First steps to success

Congratulations Barbara Kozyra (The Artist Your Views, April

TURNER’S Modern World

NEWS, INFORMATION AND ONLINE EVENTS IN THE ART

PaintersOnline webinars

Grahame Booth Watercolour artist and tutor, Grahame Booth

Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years

Grayson Perry Cocktail Party, 1989 at York Art

The Artist's 90th Anniversary CHALLENGE

Emma Price Floating World, pen and wash, 11½38in

ARTClubs

Learning by Zoom

A celebration of trees

Carol Cox Winter Tree, watercolour, 11¾39in (30323cm) at

Reframing Narratives: WOMEN in portraiture

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY in partnership with CHANEL

OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS

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

EXHIBITIONS

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

Bold and wild

Collette Clegg, winner of The Artist Award in the 2020 David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Artist of the Year Competition talks to Susie Hodge about her approach to painting

The colour of shadows

Mike Barr explains why the colours of shadows are rarely just darker versions of the areas not in shadow – something that the Impressionists used to great effect

DAILY SKETCHING

In the first of a new series Sarah Edmonds looks at the discipline of keeping a sketchbook and why it’s an important ritual

Funding your practice

Penny Harris looks at what funding is available to artists, and how to apply for it

Art collecting in a time of coronavirus –

Sally Middleton offers a personal view

Dramatic forms and gentle reflections

Be inspired by Judith Yates as she demonstrates how she creates her impressionistic landscapes in acrylic with layers of texture and glazes

A portrait of love

Follow how Francesco Fontana painted the portrait of a grandmother and her granddaughter as part of a series of watercolour paintings on the theme of relationships

Keeping it fresh

As Helen Tarr demonstrates, careful preparation and pre-mixing the colours are the keys to creating a lively painting of roses in oils

Better design

Paul Talbot-Greaves’ new series unlocks the secrets behind creating better paintings. This month he discusses the importance of good design as he demonstrates how to plan a watercolour landscape

A brilliant combination

Liquid acrylics make a great base for coloured pencil work, as Liz Seward shows with a lively spring landscape

Acrylics, watercolour style

Acrylics can be diluted and used just like watercolour says Amanda Hyatt as she demonstrates an interior scene and shares her top ten tips to get you started

Add water to your landscape

Follow Sarah Manolescue as she demonstrates a plein-air landscape of a riverside scene in oil, with details of her outdoor painting kit

Paint a still life in oil

Adele Wagstaff completes the transition from drawing into painting using information gained from her previous studies and explains how to mix colours from a limited palette to paint a still life in oil