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Todd M Casey

The New York artist’s enigmatic still life paintings rely on solid classical training – and a flair for narrative and drama, as JENNY WHITE discovers

The Working Artist

Our columnist LAURA BOSWELL ponders when copying another artist’s work is useful – and when it can impact on creativity.

Tonality

In his new series on colour theory, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts tutor AL GURY begins by showing you ways to better understand and replicate the value of colours

Paul Gauguin - Portrait Of Madame Roulin, 1888

RACHAEL FUNNELL tells the story of the French artist’s turbulent time living with Van Gogh when he painted this modest portrait of a local postman’s wife

Wild Roses

PARASTOO GANJEI’S expressive flower paintings are gaining an ardent following and they are equally inspired by her Wiltshire surroundings and her artistic family, she tells STEVE PILL

Marine Art

We asked two members of the Royal Society of Marine Artists – watercolourist DEBORAH WALKER and president BEN MOWLL – about the best ways to depict boats and water

Light And Shade

As JAKE SPICER concludes his series of compositional lessons, he turns his attentions to Dutch visionary Rembrandt van Rijn

Drawing Buildings

Whether exploring new cities on holiday or capturing local architecture, KEVIN SCULLY has top advice for creating quick, insightful sketches

Clive Head

A decade on from his record-breaking National Gallery show, the Kent-born painter reveals how he developed a more expressive wayof working.

Blue In Green

As a new exhibition in Holland collects together the late garden paintings of Claude Monet, STEVE PILL celebrates the Impressionist artist’s private journey to abstraction.

4. High Viewpoints

Landscape artist TOM HUGHES heads to the Devon coast to show you how to build a painting one section at a time

Painting On Board

Suffering from artist’s block, SARAH MURRAY joined a world cruise in the hopes of finding inspiration for new artworks

David Cobley

JENNY WHITE chats to the Wiltshire-based artist ahead of a major career retrospective to find out how he brings his portrait paintings to life

Paint Brushes

Want to know the right brushes to use in the right situations? SYMI JACKSON from world-renowned brush manufacturers Rosemary & Co. has all the answers

Scottish Colourists

Born under grey Edinburgh skies, the Scottish Colourists had a thirst for brighter hues. So what can we learn, asks STEVE PILL, from a new display of their stylish, modern paintings?

Lose Edges, Join Shapes

When MARK HARRISON realised his favourite artists all used the same trick, he decided to try the same. He shows how lost edges can create a more painterly finish

Art Courses Special

As Britain’s art schools gear up for the new term in September, our eight-page special is packed with practical advice to help you get the most out of your next class

Duncan Shoosmith

The newly-crowned Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year opens up about his unlikely passage into portraiture and why painting Sir Tom Jones is not unusual. Interview: RACHAEL FUNNELL

Alla Prima

American figurative master DAVID SHEVLINO reveals how he gets stunning results while painting wet-in-wet – and shows you how to avoid your bright colours getting muddy

2. Vibrancy

HASHIM AKIB ’s new series features exercises for creating stylish, modern portraits. Here he shows how to use vibrant colours without overpowering a painting

Clean Up Your Sketches In Krita

In the first installment of her series on using the free art program Krita, Sara Tepes shows how she tidies up her imported pencil sketches…

‘To Cause Justice To Prevail In The Land...'

There is much more to the 282 laws of Hammurabi than ‘an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth’ explains Diana Bentley, who pays tribute to the remarkable legal code instituted by the king of Babylon nearly 4000 years ago. 1

Last Supper In Pompeii

The Romans’ passion for fine dining is well known – now a mouth-watering new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum shows how the production, distribution and consumption for food and wine coloured every aspect of Roman life, as its curator Paul Roberts explains

Words Of Power & The Power Of Words

Curator Peter Toth explores the crucial role that writing has played, plays, and will continue to play in human history – as shown in cuneiform, hieroglyphs, runes, letters and emojis inscribed across a fascinating exhibition on show at the British Library

Out Of Africa

Matilde de Chantrain describes how African artefacts that inspired modern European painters and sculptors were once categorised as ethnographic, but are now seen as an esteemed art genre valued by collectors worldwide – as shown in a new exhibition in the Archaeological Museum of Bologna

In The Lap Of Luxury

As the Getty Villa in Malibu displays original artefacts from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum for the first time, Geraldine Fabrikant explains how the ancient villa was built for a rich Roman in the 1st century BC, buried in AD 79 by the Vesuvian eruption, rediscovered in 1750 and recreated by J Paul Getty during the 1970s

Natalia Goncharova The Cyclist, 1913

As Tate hosts the first major UK retrospective of the avant-garde Russian artist, RACHAEL FUNNELL takes a closer look at one of her most celebrated paintings.

Positive Painting

In this exclusive extract from her new book, JEAN HAINES shows how energising colours and positive thinking can boost confidence when painting.

The Colour Of Memory

On the eve of PATRICK CULLEN’S 70th birthday, STEVE PILL joins the New English Art Club member during a studio clear out as he reflects on his work and the challenges that lie ahead.

Lines And Shapes

JAKE SPICER’S new series looks at the compositional lessons we can learn from the masters. He begins by exploring the graphic prints of the Grosvenor School.