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This issue The Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, The Central Ontario Art Association, Pastel Society of Eastern Canada, National Watercolor Society (USA), Allied Artists of America, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Pastel Artists of Ontario Canada and the Federation of Canadian Artists.

Winners, finalists and selected entrants from the 190th Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour Exhibition; The Jerwood Painting Prize UK; The 30th Laing Seascape & Landscape Competition UK and the Colored Pencil Society of America.

This issue we feature the winners and finalists from the UK Singer & Freidlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2002, the American Women Artists; National Association of Women Artists and the Austin Pastel Society.

We feature the winners and finalists from the UK's Jerwood Painting Prize and the USA's Texas Watercolor Society.

This issue we feature winners from the American Watercolor Society and the Oil Painters of America.

Featuring winners from The Salmagundi Club and Southwestern Watercolor Society, USA, and The Royal Institute of Oil Painters and The Royal Society of Marine Artists, UK.

This artist uses large brushes to cover vast areas without an outline insight

Our recent International Artist Painting Workshops have revealed some marvellous painting sites.

A solid grasp of foreground, mid and background makes Colley Whisson’s scenes come to life

Variation and contrast give each place its unique identity

Patricia Moran explains why every painting should provide the viewer with a sense of 'being there'

Aura Skugariene uses a hatching technique to create her colored pencil portraits

Using a well-honed method of design, Barry McCarthy easily creates his large-scale oil paintings

Christine Egnoski reflects on the beginnings of the Portrait Society and the achievements of the Society's late chairman, Gordon Wetmore

To paint her subjects, Yvonne Korotky relies upon observation and measurements

Jeanne Crain Leemon gradually builds up the lights using varying layers of overpainting and scumbling

This artist calls himself a contemporary naturalist and even includes GPS co-ordinates in his works.

This artist combines the art of Western and Asian cultures into spiritual works that reflect a return to nature.

Living and painting on the Isle of Cumbrae, this artist's panoramic images capture the brooding solitude of the Scottish coastline

Matthew Bird approaches his paintings by working from back to front, left to right, masking off surrounding elements as needed

Virtual Art Academy recently revamped its program with a sequential series of workshops for the self-study artist

Through pencil sketches, photographs and plein air studies, Mike Kowalski completes watercolors, as well as oils, on location and in the studio

Igor Raikhline looks beyond the subject matter to the meaning on his artwork

Paul Baldassini discusses his methods to oil painting using a monochrome underpainting

By reproducing a Master's painting, a student will learn how to quickly identify, appreciate and at least begin to understand the artist's compositional vocabulary, which may or may not be obvious

We explore the loose, impressionistic style of John Yardley and discover he's not afraid to help out a watercolor with a little gouache.

Case studies in watercolor and oil.

Chairman’s Letter

How to use complementary colors to create a consistent color framework that ties elements together and gives your work a rich atmospheric quality.

Using a palette of white and grays has allowed Daniel Maidman to explore now properties in his artwork

This artist uses discoveries made by the major art movements to develop his own personal statement.

The watercolor paintings of Zhao Long more beyond the technique to the essence of the subject

What this artist found when he packed up his sketchbook in search of new and stimulating landscapes.

Demonstrates his technique

Solid painting skills stand the test of time

When 6 artists put their heads together one of the most challenging, powerful and insightful exercises in portraiture was the result.

The world of the specialist aviation painter.

No single reliable source can answer the important questions: What is authentic? What do we look for? Whom can we trust? From what matrix can we judge this thing called abstraction?

Our Associate Editor tackles the contentious issue of abstract art and finds peace of mind.

Debora Stewart combines elements of drawing and abstract painting in her pastel works featuring bountiful blooms

The watercolor paintings of Slawa Prischedko rely on tonal values and perception