Watercolor Artist, October 2010 Digital Download

Highlights
Evocative Landscapes on a Large Scale
Choose the Right Brush for the Right Job
Light Your Creative Fire: 12 New Tools to Try
5 Steps to More Creative Figures

Features
Special Report: Elements of Style
By Jessica Canterbury
Is your work feeling a little stale? Need a new way to kick-start the creative process? One of these 12 new products could offer the solution. From papers and brushes that promise an original painting experience to watercolor sticks that can also work as encaustics, there's some-thing to inspire everyone.

Altered Sensibility
By Donna Zagotta
An acclaimed watercolorist shares her best tips for breathing new life into your realistic figure paintings. Hint: Don't get distracted by the people.

Once Upon a Time
By Meredith E. Lewis
Marjorie Glick explores the idyllic beauty of New England's islands, forests, waterfalls and floral vistas in enchanting, large-scale watercolor landscapes.

Portraits of the World
By Sarah A. Strickley
Charles Sluga records his impressions of cities around the world, pairing careful planning with a loose application of paint.

Reclaimed by Nature
By Ken Gofton
English artist David Poxon imbues old tools and fixtures with human qualities, bringing an emotional realism to his industrial still lifes.

Columns
Making a Splash
By Jessica Canterbury
Shanghai welcomes the world's watercolorists, plus words of wisdom passed down from Matisse.

Creativity Workshop
By June Rollins
Get your painting off to a "rough start" and uncover the secret to creating rich, textured backgrounds.

Meet the Masters
By Ashley Capps
Maurice Prendergast's unconventional Venetian watercolors revived interest in the excessively painted subject.

Watercolor Essentials
By Cathy Johnson
Get the most from your watercolor brushes: 43 ways to use your favorites. Plus, a few new brush shapes to try.