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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Fresh Paint • Inspiring new artworks, straight off the easel

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Chasing Skies • Having forsaken big city life long before it was fashionable, OLIVER AKERS DOUGLAS has spent 2020 in search of remote landscapes, as KATIE MCCABE discovers

JMW TURNER • As the Romantic artist’s embrace of the modern world is celebrated in a new Tate exhibition, FLORENCE SHEWARD reveals six techniques we can learn from his paintings

The Working Artist • Our columnist LAURA BOSWELL is in a mindful mood this month, as she makes a plea for all artists to stop rushing and slow down

Ann Shrager • The New English Art Club member tells REBECCA BRADBURY how she recreates the life and colour of far-flung destinations from the comfort of her nest-like studio

Watercolour SKIES • FABIO CEMBRANELLI shows you how to capture those big skies we fall in love with on our holidays, by lifting out colour and keeping the little details varied

PINEAPPLE FIVE WAYS • Tackling the same subject in different ways helps you to compare techniques and find the right one for you. HASHIM AKIB sets five fruity challenges to get you started

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PHIL DEAN • The so-called “Shoreditch Sketcher” reveals how energetic line work and bold colour choices helped attract a huge following for his evocative drawings of city life

Brush and PALETTE CARE • Looking after your tools not only saves money, it also improves your art. Here is everything you need to know to get great results for longer...

2. SIDE PROFILE • AINE DIVINE’S new set of workshops looks at the head from different angles, continuing with a sideways look at portrait painting that utilises shape and colour

LOOKING PICTURES AT • Thinking about how and why people interpret paintings in the way that they do can help you to become a more impactful artist, as TERENCE CLARKE explains

6. SIMPLE THINGS • In the final instalment of his six-part series, JAKE SPICER explores the work of Euan Uglow and how he used careful measurements to create characterful still life

ARTIST IN FOCUS EUAN UGLOW

EXERCISE MEASURING LIFE

DEMO STILL LIFE IN OILS

DRAMATIC flowers • KIM SCOULLER shows how to turn fresh blooms from your garden into a striking still life composition using high contrasts and chromatic black paint mixes

IN OR OUT? • Unsure which subjects and details to include when you are painting from life? You need to decide what your painting is really going to be about, says ROB DUDLEY

CASE STUDY • BELOW ARE SIX STAGES OF A SINGLE PAINTING WITH AN EXPLANATION OF THE DECISIONS MADE AT EACH POINT

FURTHER EXAMPLES • TWO MORE PAIRINGS OF PHOTO AND PAINTING THAT SHOW WHAT TO LEAVE IN OR OUT

Emma BLOCK • The illustrator and workshop tutor on her “making cupboard” and multi-hyphenate career. Interview: REBECCA BRADBURY