The Artist Magazine November 2016 Back Issue

How to use photos to create very different genres and styles of work in a variety of media is a recurrent theme in this month's issue. Alison Elliott uses them to help her paint realistic animal portraits; Emma Copley as a starting point for thickly painted oil portraits; Paul Talbot-Greaves shows how to paint loose, expressive watercolours from them while Winston Oh reveals his use of a digital camera to capture dramatic skies and David Parfitt demonstrates how to use photos as a reference for larger, studio-based watercolour landscapes. We also include inspirational features on painting a seated figure by Aine Divine, how to improve your figure painting by Ann Witheridge, articles on colour and colour mixing from Paul Riley and Julie Collins, how to find your own style by risking failure by John Owen and an insightful test report on Derwent's Graphic pencils by Ian Sidaway. Robert Dutton encourages you to get outdoors to capture the winter landscape in mixed media and we go behind the scenes and take a peak at the filming of one of the heats of this year's Sky Landscape Artist of the Year series which is about to start on our TV screens....all this and more to keep you inspired over the coming weeks!