Print Issue: The Artist's Magazine October 2010

Practical Ways to Improve Your Studio Lighting

Technicolor Skies - Dazzling Techniques in Watermedia

Still Life from a Hyperactive Imagination

Render Texture with Just a Pencil

How to Paint Lifelike Fleshtones

Features

Technicolor Tranquility
Adding pastel touches on top of watermedia, David Rothermel paints the vivid New Mexican landscape.
By Louise B. Hafesh

Looking Through Glass
Rubber gloves instead of roses - Mikel Glass shakes up the still life tradition with pictures that are humorous and profound.
By Rosemary Barrett Seidner

City Lights
Kim Cogan, John Salminen, Arthur Chartow and David Kapp depict the shifting moods of cities.
Edited by Maureen Bloomfield

In Darkness Visible
Employing the Verdaccio technique that dates from the Italian Renaissance, Adrian Gottlieb paints faces that seem to emit light.
By Daniel Brown

Your Personal Light
An expert at adapting to circumstances shares effective and economical ways to light your studio.
By Koo Shadler

Columns and Departments

Letters

Artist's Life
An international watercolor show in Shanghai, arts organizations working to protect wildlife from the Gulf oil spill, and more.
Edited by Cherie Haas

All Media Competition

Exhibitions
What's up this month; shows near and far.
Edited by Cherie Haas

Color Corner
Keep colors true with a bistre underpainting.
By Kurt Anderson

Drawing Board
Render the intricate textures of bark in pencil.
By Phil Metzger

Brushing Up
Choose the best values and colors for your backgrounds.
By Arletta Pech

Art Clinic
A portrait of a baby is enlivened by an artist's use of patterns.

Ask the Experts
How do you get the most from acrylic colors and keep gouache workable?
By Mark Weber and Cathy Hegman

Master Class
American George Inness's romantic tonalities anticipated Abstract Expressionism.
By Jerry N. Weiss

Supply Cabinet
Interesting products from manufacturers and retailers.
Edited by Cherie Haas

Competition Spotlight
Michael E. Hockenbury concocts a humorous tableau.
Edited by McKenzie Graham