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“ We’ve met so many talented artists willing to shar their work and experience”

Watercolour Painting • You don’t need much kit to get started with watercolour, but it’s worth buying the best quality you can afford…

Timeless Tuscany • Alessandro Andreuccetti paints a classic landscape in the hills of his home country. Follow his guide to create your own pastoral scene...

Sketching using the rule of thirds • Establish the arrangement of elements and light and dark areas.

Alessandro Andreuccetti: my approach

Sketchbook Studies • Christine Lawes shares her artistic process

Still life evolution • Renowned for her exciting compositions, unusual perspectives and colour combinations, Shirley Trevena reveals how her style’s evolved.

Pansy Study • Does the beauty and detail of nature inspire you? For Julia Trickey it ‘s all she wants to paint.

Street Life • Learn how to compose, indicate and colour a simple everyday scene with this inspiring walkthrough by artist and tutor Brian Smith.

Horse Chestnut Leaf • Suzanne Balchin specialises in a dry brush technique that allows her to develop detailed studies of natural history with beautifully elaborate, textured backgrounds.

Choosing a beginner’s paint set • …without making an expensive mistake!

A very fruitful career • Turning a talent for painting fruit and florals into a long, varied and successful profession started with a lucky break for Helen Laura Ashley. Here‘s her story...

Making art your career

Summer Veranda • Painting on white paper gives the brightest tones and greatest potential for translucency, says watercolour artist Lucy Willis.

How to mix colours • Be patient while you develop your artist‘s eye, says Will Kemp.

Land’s End Cliffs • Learn to capture the reflective light and drama of where land meets the sea with coastal expert Paul Lewin.

St Ives Bay • Mixing the media you work in gives a variety of tools with which to create effects, textures, messages and to explore meaning, says Helen Kaminsky.

Art’s a blast! • Jody Thomas creates powerful, photorealistic artworks sprayed across huge canvases and walls. We discover the inspiration and techniques behind this innovative artist.

Preparing a canvas for acrylics • Will Kemp describes how to apply a toned background.

Refreshing displays • Increasing numbers of cafés, bars and other spaces are holding art exhibitions, but is this viable for showcasing your creative prowess?

How to draw perspective • You‘re not alone if your early attempts look… odd!

Sketching & Drawing • You may think you can’t draw, but we all can. It just takes practice and some simple tools – be patient and revel in the results!

Grape Study • Sketching simple still life objects is a great exercise for increasing pencils skills, says Julia Trickey.

The art of sketchbook drawing • Sketch every day and your hand/eye co-ordination will develop naturally. But it’s the art of looking that is the key to drawing well, says artist Karen Wallis.

Grey Wolf • Pastel pencils are the perfect medium for creating realistic portraits of animals, says artist Colin Bradley.

Circling shapes • Try some simple exercises to help your sketching describe the width, length and direction of shapes.

The centre line • Placed and surrounded accurately, the centre line can give drawings a sense of weight and volume.

An illustrator’s love of wildlife • Much has been written about the adult colouring-in trend – it’s a new way of relaxing the mind through art, some say. But what does it take to create ‘calming art’? We ask best-selling illustrator Millie...