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Paint with Hazel Soan at Dumfries House, scotland

A special one-off opportunity to participate in a tutored watercolour painting programme hosted by Hazel Soan at one of Britain’s finest and most exclusive Royal country estates

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ART BOOKS Reviewed

Poetic Woods – Experimental Watercolour and Collage Ann

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PaintersOnline editor ’s choice

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

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DECEMBER ISSUE

Giving animals a voice

Caroline Saunders talks to Annabel Thornton whose wildlife pictures are alive with stunning colour and texture

NO PLAN? It’s time to make one

THE ARTIST’S LIFE: 11TH OF 12

Getting to know your materials

In the third of four articles on loosening up in watercolour, Tom Shepherd turns our attention to materials, mind-set and painting language

DEMONSTRATION Hornbill

This demonstration is taken from an archive video on my Online Watercolour School, and is a great example of taking everything we have explored so far and bringing it all together. I will show you how I see the subject tonally, then how I translated that into washes and brushstrokes that jigsaw together to give us an interpretation of our subject.

Ten steps to painting flowers in pastel

Paint your own floral still life with Sophie Ploeg as she shares tips and techniques for using pastel on paper

A change in the air

Grahame Booth invites us to explore the colours of autumn with a step-by-step demonstration of an allotment scene in watercolour

GRAHAME BOOTH  The colours of autumn

Grahame Booth Damp Morning, Ardess, Late October, watercolour

Window on Colonsay

Capture the textures of the landscape with Helen Hanson and discover new ways of using ink and coloured pencils

INK & Coloured Pencil HELEN HANSON

Helen Hanson Gigha Shore, ink and coloured pencil,

The forgotten medium

Explore gouache with Kevin Scully and discover its many beauties and benefits

KEVIN SCULLY Exploring GOUACHE

Kevin Scully Dawn Reflections, gouache on Saunders Waterford

THE STUDIO

Cupboard or palace, Mike Barr muses on how a studio should provide a sanctuary where magic can take place

Turning on the light

In the penultimate article in her series on capturing special effects in your paintings, Jenny Aitken demonstrates how to put the warmth into woodland light

Nature printing

In this abridged extract from her latest book, Poetic Woods, Ann Blockley explores how to connect artwork with place using experimental watercolour and collage

Manipulating PHOTOGRAPHS

In this abridged extract from her new book, Poetic Woods: Experimental Watercolour and Collage, Ann Blockley describes how to use photographs to your advantage

Don’t forget the mid tones!

In the second article in his two-part series on counterchange, Barry Herniman stresses the important role tones play in between the lights and darks

Light and dark

In the penultimate article in his current series Steve Griggs explains how experimenting with developing motifs will help you discover new ideas and creativity

Autumn glow

Paul Talbot-Greaves relishes painting in autumn, when rich colour and low light abounds. Here he demonstrates why acrylics are the perfect medium for capturing autumnal colours

Painting with Peter Brown, PPNEAC, RBA, PS, ROI in KATHMANDU NEPAL

A special one-off opportunity to join ‘Pete the Street’ en plein air painting in Kathmandu and the foothills of the Himalayas, at one of the best times of the year to visit Nepal, and experience the Sonam Lhosar Festival