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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Exhibitions • MARCH’S FIVE BEST ART SHOWS

CANVAS OPINION • Five questions to ask yourself when choosing your next support

Fresh Paint • Inspiring new artworks, straight off the easel

PORTFOLIO PLUS

NEW FACES • The new Contemporary British Portrait Painters collective is keen to reflect new and diverse approaches to the genre. Ahead of a first group exhibition, founder member IAN GOLDSMITH outlines their mission

HERO JOHNSON

PATRICK MORALES-LEE

OWAIN HUNT

ILSA BRITTAIN

JEMISHA MAADHAVJI

The working Artist • Find out what intrigues you in a potential subject, says our columnist LAURA BOSWELL, and your personal style will soon emerge

WIN A STUDIO EASEL & ART VOUCHER • Get your studio organised with a MABEF M/30 studio easel plus a £250 voucher to spend courtesy of GREATART

HOCKNEY ON Drawing • The “man who likes to draw” DAVID HOCKNEY exclusively shares his thoughts on draughtsmanship with his close friend and biographer MARTIN GAYFORD

Felicia Forte • Ahead of her first UK painting workshops, the in-demand American painting tutor and BP Portrait Award runner-up shares her studio methods with STEVE PILL

PAINT LIKE MONET • Claude Monet used directional strokes to bring a painting to life. Pewsey Vale Studio’s PAUL OAKLEY shows you how to recreate the Impressionist master’s techniques

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THE ART OF KEEPING IT simple • St Ives School of Painting’s LIZ LUCKWELL and MARION TAYLOR show you how to harness the abstract potential of still life, inspired by two iconic modernist painters

EXERCISE 1

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BLAKE • In an exclusive interview, the legendary children’s illustrator tells STEVE PILL how he generates fantastical book ideas and creates his iconic line-and-wash drawings

Brushing up! • Stock your studio shelves with these 23 contemporary painting and drawing books to develop your understanding and improve your techniques

2. MUSCLES & TENSION • JAKE SPICER’S new five-part series on the building blocks of life drawing continues with a focus upon how to show tension through musculature

IN CONTEXT: MICHELANGELO

OBSERVATIONS

PLOTTING Landscapes • ROY LANG reveals the four key elements you should consider when you are planning out the composition of your next landscape painting

4. DETAIL AND SUGGESTION • Norfolk Painting School’s MARTIN KINNEAR concludes his series of Old Masters-inspired workshops by showing how to be selective with details to create a painterly finish

COLOUR SHIFTS • Royal Society of British Artists’ CAROLE GRIFFIN guides us through a still life painting to show you how to maximise the range and strength of colour

Repairing CANVAS • London Atelier of Representational Art tutor LIZET DINGEMANS shows you how to fix a torn masterpiece with a minimum of fuss and simple tools you’re likely to have at home

Anthony WHISHAW • The Royal Academician shares his love of Spanish culture, Antony Gormley and his...