Features:

• Caroline Saunders talks to Fiona Carvell about how experimentation leads to new discoveries
• Hilary Page puts the new Artists’ watercolours from Michael Harding through their paces
• Sarah Edmonds talks to friends about their unique brands and developing businesses
• Mike Barr encourages you to give your paintings space to breathe

Practical painting and drawing:

• In the second of three oil painting articles, Helen Tarr paints plein air in her garden
• Andrew Field introduces us to the seven oil colours he uses to paint his landscapes
• Paul Weaver explains why line and wash is the perfect medium for outdoor sketching
• Paul Talbot-Greaves uses colour to paint light more convincingly
• Learn to paint peonies in oil with Penny German
• Paint a sunset river scene in watercolour as Catherine Beale begins a new five-part series on painting light effects
• Catherine Ingleby shares with us her preparations for painting fictitious flamingos
• Peter Keegan uses the Zorn palette to mix tonal values for painting portraits in oils
• Kevin Scully begins his new series of five articles on loose and lively painting with a less-is-more approach
• Barry Herniman uses gouache to simplify details and texture

Plus:

• The Art World
• Your views
• Exhibitions
• Book reviews
• This month's Painters Online Editor's Choice

All this and more in the July issue of The Artist, out on May 17 - click here to purchase your copy.