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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Artists Magazine

Go Big, Go Bold • For artist MIA TARDUCCI, the secret to success is to keep stretching and growing—to try new things that challenge and maybe even scare her a little. This has led the Pittsburgh artist to create large-scale works of abstract art, which she paints in oil on stretched canvas. Here, the painter shares some advice for embracing a fearless approach to art-making.

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A Marriage in Creativity • A collaboration between two artists yields a happy marriage, two successful businesses and the safeguarding of other artists’ rights. C.J. Kent shares how the duo juggles studio time and professional endeavors. Hint: It’s not always easy, but it’s worth it.

Cheerful City Sidewalks • Michael Storrings’ vibrant urban designs for jigsaw puzzles, ornaments and giftware are just one side of his colorful creative story.

WE ASKED... • Who’s a painter that changed the course of landscape painting?

WE ASKED... YOU ANSWERED

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Master Strokes • To practice the most effective methods for crosshatching, artist AUGUST LAMM recommends copying the work of the Old Masters.

TROMPE-L’OEIL • HELEN OH demonstrates how to create the illusion of three-dimensional objects with a trompe l’oeil technique.

DEMONSTRATION: TROMPE L’OEIL

How Did She Do That? • JEAN LEIBOWITZ unlocks lessons from a 19th-century portrait by Cecilia Beaux.

LINING UP

Things Big and Small and the Spaces Between • Play with scale and distance for a game-changing impact on your art.

READER HACK

Compositions

Unstoppable • The 15 student winners of the 38th Annual Art Competition exhibit admirable skills and dauntless spirit. The past two years presented special challenges for student artists, many of whom, due to the pandemic, battled stress and emotional lows. In addition, social distancing restricted their access to in-person classes and workshops. The creative drive prevailed, however, and several of the 15 student winners found that the changes and trials engendered inspiration. We salute these indomitable emerging artists.

Orchestrated Scenes • Seemingly simple yet meticulously composed, Jason Line’s still lifes invite observation and contemplation.

Advantages of Fewer Colors

Line on Drawing

LINE’S MATERIALS

Meet the Artist

Dancing Through Time • THE BODY IN MOTION, PARTICULARLY WHEN DANCING, HAS INTRIGUED ARTISTS FOR CENTURIES.

TRUTH, MYTH and BEAUTY • SCOTT NOEL takes an improvisational approach to even the largest of paintings, relying on a universal sense of design and beauty to see him through.

Finding the “Rightness”

MEET THE ARTIST

A Bee-eautiful Story • Some paintings are a lifetime in the making; here’s the tale of one, from childhood fascination to final brushstroke.

WORKING A SERIES

The Whitney Biennial Is a Bellwether of Contemporary American Art. • Keeping you in the know

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Independent Study • Resources to inspire + build skills

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