Highlights
Guide to Surfaces: Paper, Canvas & Board
Portraiture Today!
4 Bold Approaches
Evocative Landscapes
in Acrylic, Watercolor, Oil, Graphite and Pastel
Photograph Your Art
for Competitions & Galleries
Features
Practice Makes Perfect
By working on a number of small studies, Casey Baugh perfects his concept.
By Louise B. Hafesh
Looking Inward, Facing Out
Gaela Erwin extends the boundaries of self-portraiture.
By Lisa Wurster
Starstruck
Steven Polson paints the foremost political figures of our time.
By Louise B. Hafesh
Places In Time
Interiors empty of people are Matt Condron's evocative subject.
By Rosemary Barrett Seidner
Landscape Into Art
Five artists paint what they see and what they imagine.
Edited by Maureen Bloomfield
On the Surface
Paper, panel, canvas—substrates for painting are examined and explained.
By Greg Albert
Columns and Departments
Letters
Close-Up
Applying mask and painting wet-into-wet create a sky.
By Paul Jackson
The Artist's Life
Women artists to the fore, a page from a sketchbook, and more.
Edited by Grace Dobush
Exhibitions
What's on view this spring.
Edited by Holly Davis
Brushing Up
How to apply glazes in watercolor so the transparent layers suggest depth.
By Birgit O'Connor
Drawing Board
Part 2 of a lesson in drawing painterly landscapes in graphite.
By Phil Metzger
Creative Workout
Take this artistic challenge: Look for the overlooked.
By Betsy Dillard Stroud
Business
Find a workshop to suit your skill level and schedule.
By Rosemary Barrett Seidner
2010 Art Competition
Ask the Experts
Tips on photographing your artwork for competitions; definition of digital art.
By Daniel T. Pessell and Ursula Roma
Master Class
Little known in America, Adolph Menzel was a superb draftsman.
By Jerry N. Weiss
Supply Cabinet
Take a look at these new products.
By Grace Dobush
Competition Spotlight
William A. Schneider conceives an unusual format for a portrait in pastel.
