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Artists Magazine

January/February 2021
Magazine

Readers learn painting and drawing firsthand from other artists through written instruction and reproduction, guiding them step-by-step through the creative process. The magazine shows readers a wide variety of creative options, teaching the fundamentals of art making, presenting techniques in different painting and drawing media.

A ROUND OF APPLAUSE

Artists Magazine

Prime

A Powerful Portrait of Power • A formidable industrialist and his patron-of-the-arts daughter present a striking pair in EDMUND TARBELL’s splendid painting.

Treasures Hidden in Plain Sight • Art and science merge with the collaboration of an illustrator and two polar marine researchers.

NATURAL ART

HIGH AND TINY

Itinerant Artist

WE ASKED... • If you could plan a travel getaway right now to recharge creatively, where would you go?

WE ASKED... YOU ANSWERED

Build

SURFACE EXPLORATION • Follow HELEN OH’s step-by-step demonstration for painting on a metal substrate.

STILL LIFE: PAINTING ON COPPER

Snow Day • KATHLEEN DUNPHY offers tips for painting outside in the winter months.

CARING FOR CANINE PAINTING COMPANIONS

MY PLEIN AIR TOOLKIT

DEMO: PAINT THE SNOW—IN THE SNOW

Take the Detour • When your sketching practice begins to feel a bit lackluster, try a new direction. SUHITA SHIRODKAR shares four strategies for switching things up.

A Masterly Technique • ANDREW S. CONKLIN demonstrates the use of a mirror to reproduce the form and color of a figurine with remarkable accuracy.

COMPARATOR VIDEO

Compositions

Layers of Time • With brushes, sticks, fingers and cloth, Atanas Matsoureff creates haunting watercolors that show the past is so close, we can touch it.

MEET THE ARTIST

BRUSH With DEATH • A look at art in the time of pandemics provides a sense of the changing attitudes toward disease as well as the anguish and poignancy of its human toll.

GIVING NATURE HER DUE • HEIDI JUNG recasts the glory of the botanical world with a compelling, innovative use of sumi ink and charcoal on Mylar.

NATURAL SETTING

MEET THE ARTIST

The 37th Annual Art Competition • PRESENTING 15 PRIZEWINNING WORKS OF ART, PLUS 50 HONORABLE MENTIONS. GET READY FOR INSPIRATION OVERLOAD!

art news • Keeping you in the know

Outfit

Declare Yourself • Set yourself up for successful goal achievement with these tips.

Independent Study • Resources to inspire + build skills

ARTISTS NETWORK ONLINE

Lasting impression


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Frequency: Every other month Pages: 92 Publisher: Peak Media Properties, LLC Edition: January/February 2021

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: November 11, 2020

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

Languages

English

Readers learn painting and drawing firsthand from other artists through written instruction and reproduction, guiding them step-by-step through the creative process. The magazine shows readers a wide variety of creative options, teaching the fundamentals of art making, presenting techniques in different painting and drawing media.

A ROUND OF APPLAUSE

Artists Magazine

Prime

A Powerful Portrait of Power • A formidable industrialist and his patron-of-the-arts daughter present a striking pair in EDMUND TARBELL’s splendid painting.

Treasures Hidden in Plain Sight • Art and science merge with the collaboration of an illustrator and two polar marine researchers.

NATURAL ART

HIGH AND TINY

Itinerant Artist

WE ASKED... • If you could plan a travel getaway right now to recharge creatively, where would you go?

WE ASKED... YOU ANSWERED

Build

SURFACE EXPLORATION • Follow HELEN OH’s step-by-step demonstration for painting on a metal substrate.

STILL LIFE: PAINTING ON COPPER

Snow Day • KATHLEEN DUNPHY offers tips for painting outside in the winter months.

CARING FOR CANINE PAINTING COMPANIONS

MY PLEIN AIR TOOLKIT

DEMO: PAINT THE SNOW—IN THE SNOW

Take the Detour • When your sketching practice begins to feel a bit lackluster, try a new direction. SUHITA SHIRODKAR shares four strategies for switching things up.

A Masterly Technique • ANDREW S. CONKLIN demonstrates the use of a mirror to reproduce the form and color of a figurine with remarkable accuracy.

COMPARATOR VIDEO

Compositions

Layers of Time • With brushes, sticks, fingers and cloth, Atanas Matsoureff creates haunting watercolors that show the past is so close, we can touch it.

MEET THE ARTIST

BRUSH With DEATH • A look at art in the time of pandemics provides a sense of the changing attitudes toward disease as well as the anguish and poignancy of its human toll.

GIVING NATURE HER DUE • HEIDI JUNG recasts the glory of the botanical world with a compelling, innovative use of sumi ink and charcoal on Mylar.

NATURAL SETTING

MEET THE ARTIST

The 37th Annual Art Competition • PRESENTING 15 PRIZEWINNING WORKS OF ART, PLUS 50 HONORABLE MENTIONS. GET READY FOR INSPIRATION OVERLOAD!

art news • Keeping you in the know

Outfit

Declare Yourself • Set yourself up for successful goal achievement with these tips.

Independent Study • Resources to inspire + build skills

ARTISTS NETWORK ONLINE

Lasting impression


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