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Artists Magazine

Apr 01 2019
Magazine

Readers learn painting and drawing firsthand from other artists through written instruction and reproduction, guiding them step-by-step through the creative process. The magazine shows readers a wide variety of creative options, teaching the fundamentals of art making, presenting techniques in different painting and drawing media.

EVERYDAY INSPIRATION—EVERY DAY.

Prime

Mustard Yellow • Caught between joyful, bright yellow and earthy brown, mustard promotes subtlety and balance.

Home Jewels • Lara Bohinc leverages her industrial-design and metal-work expertise to create distinctive luxury pieces for the home.

“The Beautiful Is Quite Close to Him” • Allied with the Impressionists but a traditionalist at heart, HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR found art in a tabletop.

WE ASKED... • What’s the most memorable art exhibition you’ve seen?

WE ASKED... YOU ANSWERED

Build

Materials

Mementos • ANDREW S. CONKLIN’s still life of common objects conveys a more complex message than may first appear.

PORTABLE STUDIO • JEANNE OLIVER assembles an on-the-go studio designed to jump-start creativity in this excerpt from her new book, The Painted Art Journal .

INSIDE MY ON-THE-GO STUDIO

Materials

CREATE A PORTABLE WATERCOLOR PALETTE

ART JOURNALING

Foundations of Design • In her book, Paint Alchemy , EVA MAGILL-OLIVER explores the five principles of design and explains how to implement them to create a balanced composition.

PUT THE KEY ELEMENTS OF GOOD DESIGN INTO PRACTICE WITH PAPER

5 Approaches to Drawing For Beginners and Beyond • Let your creativity loose and try these 5 exercises to improve your drawing skills.

1. SHAPE-BASED DRAWING • A simple way to learn how to draw is by reducing complex forms into simple shapes. It’s the same technique used by most animators.

2. KEYLINE DRAWING • This approach owes much to skeletal anatomy drawing. It’s useful for drawing gesture and movement, but even a static subject, such as a building, has a “skeleton.” Similarly, a plant or body of water has a direction of movement, so this technique is truly applicable to figural and nonfigural subjects alike.

3. ENGINEERING DRAWING • “Engineering” is my term for a more mechanical approach, used to construct the base of a drawing. This approach is a useful exercise, but I find that it can lead to stiff, stilted results, so I use it more as a way to check my drawings than to construct them when I’m drawing figures or animals. The example here is City Square in Leeds (England), which is very near my studio. It hosts a variety of architecture and statues, including a famous statue of Edward, the Black Prince.

4. NEGATIVE SPACE

5. SUBTRACTIVE DRAWING

Going Big • Enjoy the HUGE advantages of these kits and sets!

Art of the Ordinary • Save shopping time and money—and enjoy experimenting with these everyday hacks.

READER HACK

Compositions

THE INTRIGUE OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS • Jaye Schlesinger explores the meaning and purpose behind commonplace objects by painting all of her possessions.

MATERIALS

ELEVATING the ORDINARY • Angela A’Court’s instinctive approach to painting—combined with her mastery of line, color and space—infuses everyday objects with new meaning and purpose.

Still Lifes That Pop! • Pennsylvania artist Robert C. Jackson uses color, unconventional subjects, intriguing arrangements and a touch of humor to produce engaging still lifes that are anything but still.

Phases of the Milk

Palette

Talent + Effort OVER Time • Winners of the 2018 Artists Magazine Over 60 Art Competition display their finely honed skills.

American Splendor • The Diker Collection of...


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Frequency: Every other month Pages: 102 Publisher: Peak Media Properties, LLC Edition: Apr 01 2019

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: February 1, 2019

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

Languages

English

Readers learn painting and drawing firsthand from other artists through written instruction and reproduction, guiding them step-by-step through the creative process. The magazine shows readers a wide variety of creative options, teaching the fundamentals of art making, presenting techniques in different painting and drawing media.

EVERYDAY INSPIRATION—EVERY DAY.

Prime

Mustard Yellow • Caught between joyful, bright yellow and earthy brown, mustard promotes subtlety and balance.

Home Jewels • Lara Bohinc leverages her industrial-design and metal-work expertise to create distinctive luxury pieces for the home.

“The Beautiful Is Quite Close to Him” • Allied with the Impressionists but a traditionalist at heart, HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR found art in a tabletop.

WE ASKED... • What’s the most memorable art exhibition you’ve seen?

WE ASKED... YOU ANSWERED

Build

Materials

Mementos • ANDREW S. CONKLIN’s still life of common objects conveys a more complex message than may first appear.

PORTABLE STUDIO • JEANNE OLIVER assembles an on-the-go studio designed to jump-start creativity in this excerpt from her new book, The Painted Art Journal .

INSIDE MY ON-THE-GO STUDIO

Materials

CREATE A PORTABLE WATERCOLOR PALETTE

ART JOURNALING

Foundations of Design • In her book, Paint Alchemy , EVA MAGILL-OLIVER explores the five principles of design and explains how to implement them to create a balanced composition.

PUT THE KEY ELEMENTS OF GOOD DESIGN INTO PRACTICE WITH PAPER

5 Approaches to Drawing For Beginners and Beyond • Let your creativity loose and try these 5 exercises to improve your drawing skills.

1. SHAPE-BASED DRAWING • A simple way to learn how to draw is by reducing complex forms into simple shapes. It’s the same technique used by most animators.

2. KEYLINE DRAWING • This approach owes much to skeletal anatomy drawing. It’s useful for drawing gesture and movement, but even a static subject, such as a building, has a “skeleton.” Similarly, a plant or body of water has a direction of movement, so this technique is truly applicable to figural and nonfigural subjects alike.

3. ENGINEERING DRAWING • “Engineering” is my term for a more mechanical approach, used to construct the base of a drawing. This approach is a useful exercise, but I find that it can lead to stiff, stilted results, so I use it more as a way to check my drawings than to construct them when I’m drawing figures or animals. The example here is City Square in Leeds (England), which is very near my studio. It hosts a variety of architecture and statues, including a famous statue of Edward, the Black Prince.

4. NEGATIVE SPACE

5. SUBTRACTIVE DRAWING

Going Big • Enjoy the HUGE advantages of these kits and sets!

Art of the Ordinary • Save shopping time and money—and enjoy experimenting with these everyday hacks.

READER HACK

Compositions

THE INTRIGUE OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS • Jaye Schlesinger explores the meaning and purpose behind commonplace objects by painting all of her possessions.

MATERIALS

ELEVATING the ORDINARY • Angela A’Court’s instinctive approach to painting—combined with her mastery of line, color and space—infuses everyday objects with new meaning and purpose.

Still Lifes That Pop! • Pennsylvania artist Robert C. Jackson uses color, unconventional subjects, intriguing arrangements and a touch of humor to produce engaging still lifes that are anything but still.

Phases of the Milk

Palette

Talent + Effort OVER Time • Winners of the 2018 Artists Magazine Over 60 Art Competition display their finely honed skills.

American Splendor • The Diker Collection of...


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