The Artist April 2024

Features:

• Caroline Saunders talks to Taiwanese watercolourist Chien Chung-Wei
• Sarah Edmonds discovers that working across different media adds creative freedom to the work of artist Maggie Smith
• The move into professionalism for artists comes at a cost, warns Mike Barr
• Mark David Hatwood shares his thoughts on Non-Fungible Tokens

Practical painting and drawing:

• Charles Williams demonstrates how he uses paint to tell a story
• Rosso Emerald Crimson starts working on the background of her floral portrait in the third of her four-part series
• Grahame Booth turns his attention to buildings as he continues his series on simplifying your subject
• Steve Hall uses pastels to paint the villages and landscapes of East Anglia
• Carole Robson explores the gouache lift technique and demonstrates a colourful tulip painting
• Learn to love your greys as Paul Riley shows how this colour can transform your watercolour paintings
• Peter Keegan explores light and atmosphere as he shows how to paint figures in oils
• Barry Herniman exploits the qualities of gouache to produce paintings of falling water
• Alan Bickley puts the Natural Line range of eco-friendly papers by Hahnemühle through their paces
• Paul Talbot-Greaves offers advice on how to make sure the focal point is supported by the rest of the work
• Erwin P Lewandowski shows how to capture the swirling quality of water with coloured pencils

Plus:

• The Art World
• Your views
• Exhibitions
• Opportunites
• Book reviews
• This month's PaintersOnline Editor's Choice

All this and more in the April issue of The Artist, out on February 16.