The Artist Magazine August 2024 Retour à l'édition précédente

Our August issue is all about getting out into the elements to paint and there’s plenty of practical advice from our contributors this month: including Maria Rose who brings her passion and a contemporary twist to the great British landscape tradition of plein-air painting; Helen Tarr whose plein-air painting kit is full of practical suggestions; and Robert Brindley, our cover artists, who offers advice on painting in the beautiful city of Venice, with ideas on how to paint in gouache – and avoid the crowds!
There’s plenty of material for anyone planning a staycation too – with advice from Grahame Booth on simplifying shadows in watercolour, painting the sunlight and shadows of Corsica in acrylics with Barry Herniman, how to capture children in oils from photographic references with Mark Fennell, and using aerial perspective to create stand-out focal points with Catherine Beale as she continues her five-part series on painting light effects in watercolour.
With the Olympics fast approaching, Sally Stirling talks to Ben Mosley, official artist for Team GB at the Paris Olympics, and Kevin Scully shows us how to paint loose and lively people in pastel pencils.