Artists & Illustrators

Artists & Illustrators is the UK’s best-selling magazine for artists and art lovers, providing advice and inspiration every month. Published for almost 25 years, each issue of Artists & Illustrators contains a colourful palette of profiles and features, together with valuable practical ideas, expert technical advice and useful product tests. Whether you favour oils or watercolours, portraits or landscapes, abstract art or botanical illustration, Artists & Illustrators brings a refreshing blend of creativity and advice every four weeks throughout the year.

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SKETCHBOOK

Fresh Paint • Inspiring new artworks, straight off the easel

PORTFOLIO PLUS

Young AT HEART • Two of the best up-and-coming children’s book illustrators, ROBYN WILSON-OWEN and ALLISON COLPOYS, share the secrets behind their fairy-tale success stories with REBECCA BRADBURY

The Working Artist • Our columnist LAURA BOSWELL on the fine line between establishing a style and repetition

JOSEPHINE HOPPER • Previously relegated to a sidenote in the biography of her famous husband Edward, the art of JOSEPHINE NIVISON is finally receiving its due as KATIE MCCABE discovers

2020 VISION • This year’s three BP Portrait Award finalists share the stories and techniques behind their winning artworks and their thoughts on the role of a portrait painter in 2020

EXPLORING EXTREMES • Taking a leaf out of Matisse’s book, TERENCE CLARKE uses pure black and white pigments as part of his main colour scheme to create a vivid still life composition

Terence’s materials

3. PROVENCE FRANCE • During lockdown, we must travel through art. GRAHAME BOOTH shares tips for recreating a little local Mediterranean colour

LOCAL COLOUR

PAINT CLOTHES

HOW TO PAINT… SHADOW DETAILS

FINAL PAINTING • GRAHAME BOOTH, TOURTOUR, WATERCOLOUR ON SAUNDERS NOT 425GSM PAPER, 49X36CM

PAINTING WITH Inks • Keen to try a new medium? SUZY FASHT explores exciting ways to draw and paint with inks, including three exercises that show its true creative possibilities

SUZY’S FIVE TOP TIPS

Top tip

PORTRAIT sketch • In-demand American art tutor and BP Portrait Award runner-up FELICIA FORTE shows you how to build a likeness in an experimental way using thin washes of oil paint

Felicia’s materials

1. REFRAMING THE FAMILIAR • Draw Brighton’s JAKE SPICER turns his attention to everyday objects for a new six-part series, which begins with a look at Richard Diebenkorn’s approach to still life

ARTIST IN FOCUS RICHARD DIEBENKORN

BERNADETT TIMKO • The young Hungarian artist’s latest paintings speak of a world on lockdown. She reveals the methods, inspirations and techniques behind her award-winning works

Paint FROM PHOTOS • If lockdown has limited your options for working from life, you can still produce impressive paintings from your old photographs, as LIZET DINGEMANS explains

THE MUNSELL COLOUR SYSTEM

MIX AND MATCH

BEYOND the photo • ALYSSA MONKS gives expert advice for moving beyond a photographic reference so you can create more engaging and painterly artworks

Floral PALETTES • TREVOR WAUGH uses his rose studies from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to explain how to match colours and create balanced paintings

OBSERVED COLOURS

Peony GENT • The House of Illustration’s resident artist on finding inspiration in the everyday.