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 • MAY'S FIVE BEST ART SHOWS

FIGURE IT OUT • Six leading figurative artists are joining forces for forthcoming exhibition, Now We Are Six. They each share their keys for creating better portraits

Fresh Paint • Inspiring new artworks, straight off the easel

PORTFOLIO PLUS

WALK ON THE Wild Side • Valencia’s self-proclaimed “pop surrealist” painter ANTONIO SEGURA DONAT is putting a fantastical spin on wildlife art as MARTHA ALEXANDER discovers

The Working Artist • Our columnist LAURA BOSWELL reveals why her colour obsession got her banned from a shop

7 LESSONS FROM THE IMPRESSIONISTS • The Impressionists revolutionised painting in the 19th century, but what can they teach us today? RAVNEET AHLUWALIA looks at a rare collection of their work to find out

Ania Hobson • With a BP Portrait Award before her 30th birthday, this young Suffolk artist has already created a distinctive style of her own, as STEVE PILL discovers

“NO SKETCH” PAINTING • Watercolourist KATE OSBORNE shows why working without a preparatory sketch can be liberating and result in a more spontaneous approach to colour and mark making

Kate’s materials

1. OLHÃO PORTUGAL • Every year, GRAHAME BOOTH travels the world teaching art workshops. In his new series, he shares tips and advice for adapting your approach and capturing local colour

HOW TO PAINT…

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FINAL PAINTING • GRAHAME BOOTH, JACARANDA TREES, OLHÃO, WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER, 35X26CM

COHESIVE PALETTES • Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours member CHRIS FORSEY reveals his palette choices and how he combines them to create dynamic paintings

MIXING COLOURS

VARNISH A painting • You’ve painted a beautiful picture and you are ready to varnish it. But where do you start? LIZET DINGEMANS explains your options and shows you how it is done

4. SURFACE • In the penultimate article of his five-part series on the building blocks of life drawing, Draw Brighton tutor JAKE SPICER turns his attention to the skin

GARY STINTON • The Herefordshire-based artist tells REBECCA BRADBURY how he portrays the strength, power and formidable beauty of big cats through his life-sized pastel portraits

A SENSE OF DEPTH • When this charming scene presented itself to MATT JEANES, it came with a challenge: how to paint the foreground and background without overpowering one another

Tod’s materials

LEARNING FROM MISTAKES • Not every picture you paint will be a masterpiece, but accepting this fact and studying what went wrong is very important. ROB DUDLEY lays out his six-point plan for success

Maria RIVANS • The collage artist reveals the influences behind her aesthetic.