Artists 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.

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An Innovative Portraitist • HANS MEMLING’s paintings in Flanders influenced the Italian Renaissance.

Wild & Whimsical • A colorful bohemian aesthetic plus a strategic approach to business add up to a successful brand for surface designer Barbra Ignatiev.

Painting What’s Just Outside the Door • Michelle Wooderson shares how she finds extraordinary beauty in the ordinary day-to-day scenes that surround her.

VARIATIONS ON A THEME

WE ASKED... • What’s a little-known painting that stopped you dead in your tracks when you first saw it?

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DISTORTED VALUES

Where Land Meets Sky • LIZ HAYWOOD-SULLIVAN shows how one value relationship is key to determining values throughout a painting.

TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECT

WORKING FROM THE SKY DOWN

A Mirror Illusion • ANDREW S. CONKLIN demonstrates a supreme challenge for realist painters—rendering a mirror and its reflection of shiny objects.

5 Painting Styles • Drive your vision at the easel with a brush-up on art history.

READER HACK

Compositions

A Familiar Ring • Scott Prior’s evocatively lit paintings reflect the everyday world around him, resulting in highly relatable work.

IN PURSUIT OF THE Big Picture • Whether depicting supersized multimedia scenes of New York’s Central Park or portraits of friends and relatives, Janet Ruttenberg renders what she sees with both her outer and inner eye.

ANAMORPHIC ART A STRETCHED PERSPECTIVE • Contemporary versions of fool-the-eyes distortions trace their roots to the Renaissance.

A Renaissance Approach to Anamorphic Art

Portrait of a Lifetime • Before painting a series of portraits of aging seniors, artist Janet Boltax met and interviewed her subjects. Their stories make them faces to remember.

LIVES IN TRANSITION

A Stitch in Time • The centuries-old art of working with thread gets a contemporary update in the hands of four groundbreaking creatives.

On the FAULT LINE • Harvey Dinnerstein combines past and present to express the turbulence of contemporary life.

INSPIRED BY RAPHAEL

MEET THE ARTIST

art news • Oliver Sin Creates Covers for TIME’s “100 Women of the Year” Project

Outfit

Go For the Grant! • Put in the grunt work and get that grant.

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The Illustrators

Independent Study • Resources to inspire + build skills

Workshops 2020- 2021 • Your Complete Guide to Workshops Here and Abroad

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