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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A CLASSIC • As one of Britain’s best-loved storybooks turns 95, MARTHA ALEXANDER talks to illustrator Mark Burgess about updating the legacy of Winnie-the-Pooh

The Working Artist • Struggling to develop your personal style? It’s time to make a statement, says our columnist LAURA BOSWELL

Colour Obsession • Author and broadcaster DR JAMES FOX explores our changing tastes in pigments and why the favourite hues of leading painters has had a profound influence on their art

Mark Hearld • The ever-curious artist-designer welcomes SALLY HALES into his shared York studio to preview his new exhibition and reveal the secret to staying creative on a daily basis

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WIN £1,139 WORTH OF COLOURED PENCILS • Discover the wonders of CARAN D’ACHE’S light-loving Luminance range, courtesy of TURNHAM ARTS

Layered PORTRAIT • If you have patience as you follow KIRSTEN BRITT’s methodical technique for painting in mixed media, you’ll be rewarded with a bright, bold portrait full of life

4. Linear Perspective • To continue his series on creating a sense of depth in drawings, JAKE SPICER shows the benefits of adding perspective lines

The Loomis METHOD • Golden Age illustrator Andrew Loomis developed a structured way of drawing. LIZET DINGEMANS gives a primer to his enduring techniques

CLOUDY Days • Dull weather shouldn’t mean dull paintings. GRAHAME BOOTH shows how looking a little harder to find strong light and dark shapes can add interest to even a mediocre scene

3. Collage • Your paintings can be enhanced by using more than one media at a time. AINE DIVINE’s experimental series concludes with a floral painting using cut-up elements

Peter Quinn • The Royal Watercolour Society member tells STEVE PILL his tips for drawing complex subjects, balancing bold colours, and suggesting details in just a few simple marks

2. Glorious Colours • Ask an Artist’s PETER KEEGAN continues his three-part still life painting workshop by sharing a foolproof way of mixing colours based around two simple questions

Ameenah BEGUM • The Cos Colours founder on how she turned her upcycled paint project into a growing business