The Artist Magazine February 20 Retour à l'édition précédente

Welcome to the February issue of The Artist including a fantastic new digital painting demonstration for you to follow on pages 20-22, plus a digital art competition to enter on page 23, brought to you in partnership with Corel. Watercolourists will enjoy the ideas suggested by Steve Griggs, Ian Sidaway, Derek Robinson, Paul Talbot-Greaves and Julie Collins to help you choose unusual colours for greater impact, create finished paintings from original sketches, add shadows to a bright February landscape, and mix colours to capture winter skies. Learn now to paint a realistic still life in acrylics, try Yael Maimon's suggestions to help boost your creativity, improve your portrait painting in oils with Kathy Barker's advice on how to paint ears and discover the importance of negative spaces for painting white poppies in mixed media with Soraya French. We also include a demonstration on how to paint a dramatic winter scene in pastel, suggest exercises to help hone your sketching skills and highlight what we can learn by studying the work of the Old Masters. Plus, don't forget to enter our TALP2020 Open Competition for the chance to see your work exhibited, published in the magazine and win one of 45 prizes worth over £18,000!