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Classical academic drawing and 'Keying' the painting create a humanistic quality for Justin Hess

John Lovett explains how using a CMYK color palette can inform your artwork

Time, practice, and experimentation with subject matter have helped Colley Whisson develop and enhance his oil paintings

How to use contrast to capture essence.

The key role of perspective devices in John L Hammond's cityscapes.

Cheryl O decided to re-do an old painting in an abstract "wet and wild style" as a departure from its former realistic evolution

Writing copy or sales literature is not too difficult if you remember a few pointers

Using a blend of pastel and colored pencil, Sally Edmonds emphasizes her feathered subjects against plain backdrops

The secret of oil painting success is at your fingertips.

A tribute to Richard Schmid in celebration of the 20th anniversary of his boo, Alla Prima II

This renowned watercolorist describes three unique approaches. to painting.

Using a black underpainting, Jed Dorsey shares the advantages and joys of working from dark to light

Bill Vuksanovich views design as the quintessential concept of art

Glenn Rudderow - David Graeme Baker; Joel Babb - Chung Shil Adams; Larry Francis - Frank DePascale; Robert Douglas - HunterSergio Roffo; Sidney Hurwitz - Andrew Raftery; David Lowrey - Sam Vokey; Richard Raiselis - Sedrick Huckaby; Susan Stephenson - Nathan Lewis

This artist paints interiors that frequently lack figures but always powerfully convey the people who gave the room its character.

In his figurative and architectural watercolors, Mario Andres Robinson applies glazes methodically

This artist likes close cropping, a sweeping foreground and luscious, broken color.

Jeremy Mann explains how he experiments and transfers techniques across subjects and approaches.

Paula Henchell works in a very realistic manner, but her approach to her subject is based on asbtract design

Noted New York artist Daniel Greene talks about his shift towards a new theme of carnivals and games.

Are you feeling bogged down in the same old medium or style?

View the subject as a puzzle of shapes with values, edges and colors that bump up against each other. Find the most obvious element and then relate everything else to that.

Expression, discipline and freedom in art.

Part 2 -- Painting Knives at Work

Part 3 -- The Studio Boat

Part 4 -- Diamonds in Your Own Backyard

Part 5 -- Creating a Vision

Part 6 -- A Year of Light

Part 7 -- The Painter as Teacher

An interview with Christine Egnoski

Landscape artist Nicki Ault approaches her paintings by building up layers of acrylics and oils

The Bennett Prize gives women figurative realists a chance to shine on a monumental scale

Murals may not be everyone's cup of tea, but they sure present a challenge

This award winning artist uses real talent and experience to create eye-popping appeal with colored pencil.

Condensing and simplifying values allows Aldo Balding to achieve realistic, painterly effects

Recently, Kerry Brooks has taken an interest in pulling lights out of dark backgrounds

Thomas Paquette demonstrates how artists can utilize iterations to explore a range of possibilities in their work

This issue we feature The Oil Painters of America and Great Britain's 1st Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Exhibition.

This issue we feature winners from the AWS, the Watercolor Society of Huston and the Sun Herald Camberwell Rotary Art Show.