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ARTIST Adam Fisher

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PATCHES OF LIGHT

As the brighter weather returns, the sunshine creates beautiful plays of light in the home. SIAN DUDLEY shows you how to capture this by controlling hard and soft edges

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The Working Artist

Whether we like it or not, we all make mistakes. Owning them is an important part of the creative process, says our columnist LAURA BOSWELL

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Albert Kiefer

Five years ago, the Dutch designer rediscovered a love of drawing with marker pens. He shares his techniques and reveals why anyone can do what he has done

7 mins |

MEET THE ARTIST Kathryn MAPLE

The John Moores Painting Prize winner on parks, priorities and post-lockdown plans.

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Back to Life

Whether you’re returning to life drawing after a year of Zoom classes or trying it for the first time, ALAN MCGOWAN shares the joys of a life class and advice for making the most of it

Crosshatching

Do you find it hard to draw hands accurately? Illustrator AUGUST LAMM has a simple 12-step plan that will give expert results every time – and can be applied to any subject

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN

IT'S NOT ALWAYS PRACTICAL TO PAINT FROM THE DINING TABLE. SIX ARTISTS INVITE US INTO THEIR GARDEN STUDIOS TO SHARE THE JOY AND OFFER TIPS FOR SETTING UP YOUR OWN CREATIVE HAVEN

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Create An Epic Scene In Cinema 4D

Mondlicht Studios take us through the pipeline of a key shot in ‘Elevation’ – a project created for the Motion Design Awards

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Bring Your Unreal Environment To Life

Develop your skills in real-time graphics and keep up with the industry!

8 mins |

The Working Artist

Our columnist LAURA BOSWELL loves the community and support of online art forums – could now be the time to find your tribe too?

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HOW I DRAW Curtis Holder

The winner of last year’s Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year shares his techniques, his honest approach to portraiture, and his shameless art shop confessions

Halla Shafey

The winner of the Artists & Illustrators Award at the Pastel Society’s annual show talks to REBECCA BRADBURY about prompting a pastel renaissance from her home studio in Cairo

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Painting FROM PHOTOS

Former BP Travel Award winner EDWARD SUTCLIFFE shares his simple seven-step plan for making striking realist paintings from your source pictures

Sketchbook STRATEGY

Although you only tend to see finished work, a sketchbook is often a key part of the process. We asked seven top artists to open their books and share their methods

Expressive FIGURES

Royal Institute of Oil Painters member LUIS MORRIS shows how working from a sketch and mixing up a range of colours early can allow a more creative, painterly finish

Painting from memory

After a year in lockdown, our visual memories are more important than ever. ROB DUDLEY shares a method that will help you utilise them to create more artistic paintings

4 mins |

Fresh Paint

Inspiring new artworks, straight off the easel

4 mins |

David Hockney

Writing exclusively for Artists & Illustrators, author and art critic MARTIN GAYFORD speaks to the great Yorkshire artist about the joys of spring, his enduring inspirations, and how his latest French studio has given him a new lease of life – and cured his limp!

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1. COLOUR LANGUAGE

JAKE SPICER begins a new four-part series on understanding colour by showing us how the use of more accurate descriptions can help us better identify and replicate hues

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