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IT’S TIME TO EMBRACE
URBAN SKETCHING
One of the many things I love about drawing and painting
is that there is a style and approach to suit any personality.
Expressive, single-minded types tend to make good gallery
artists, able to generate works from scratch, while illustrators
tend to be good problem solvers, better equipped to react to a
brief creatively. Likewise, if you’re shy and retiring, there’s the
comfort of a silent studio, whereas if you are more of an
outgoing sort, then sketching in public offers a chance to make new connections.
For this issue, we spoke to two artists who, as members of the burgeoning Write to us!
Urban Sketchers community, definitely fit the latter profile. The Glasgow and
Does your personality suit the
Yorkshire correspondents respectively, Wil Freeborn and Lynne Chapman both
art that you create? Tell us how
enjoy meeting people and experiencing life through the medium of drawing. and share some examples using
If you’ve previously dismissed “urban sketching” as some sort of cutting edge one of these five ways…
alternative to street art and you enjoy the works in this issue, I wholeheartedly
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CONTENTS
APRIL 2016
7 THE DIARY 34 COMPETITIONS
Our pick of the best art events in April Win an illustration contract and a tour of the RA
10 EXHIBITIONS 37 SKETCHBOOK
Plan your gallery visits for the month ahead Bite-size tips, tricks and inspiration
12 FRESH PAINT 57 THE PERFECT PALETTE
Three great new paintings, hot off the easel Grahame Booth’s search for colour concludes
24 THE WORKING ARTIST 62 DEMONSTRATION
Columnist Laura Boswell reassesses old work How to turn a sketch into a complete painting
26 IN THE STUDIO 69 TRY SOMETHING NEW
With Yorkshire illustrator Lynne Chapman Learn how to drybrush in watercolour
28 ALEXANDER GOUDIE 70 YOUR QUESTIONS
BBC’s Lachlan Goudie on his father’s infl uence Gary Hodges answers your wildlife art queries
32 TEN MINUTES WITH... 82 ARTY FACTS 18 WIL FREEBORN
Royal Academy sculptor Ann Christopher Brush up your knowledge on Pierre Bonnard Meet the artist sketching his way to success
43 SPRING PROJECTS 64 COLOUR STUDIES 74 MASTERCLASS
Three in-depth challenges to try at home Quick ways to plan your next masterpiece Step-by-step guide to painting with confi dence
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YOUR LETTERS
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LETTER OF THE MONTH
Send your letter or email
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healing powerS
Re: Your Letters, Issue 362 POST:
I started an art group about two years ago after a close friend was Your Letters
diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Like many facing this difficult news, Artists & Illustrators
I felt compelled to do something practical, particularly as I am an The Chelsea Magazine
Occupational Therapist and therefore clear about the therapeutic Company Ltd.
benefits of meaningful occupation. Jubilee House
Initially we would meet every week to make some artwork. 2 Jubilee Place
When we tired or reached a pause in our work, we swapped pieces London SW3 3TQ
in order to either progress or finish what we had started. This process
of sharing proved to be very creative and resulted in many more items EMAIL: info@artists
being resolved or completed. andillustrators.co.uk
Our collaboration evolved into a larger group after a second friend
became ill. We are now a group of 10 amateur artists working to a The writer of our ‘letter of
monthly theme. We arrange group trips to exhibitions and attend the month’ will receive a
workshops hosted and led by one brave member. We have even £50 gift voucher from our
arranged our first Art Collaboration weekend away in April when we partner GreatArt, who
plan to combine mini workshops, drawing and a lot of laughter. offers the UK’s largest
Our first member passed away in January, but not before we sold our range of art materials
first print and launched our fundraising page for Cancer Research. I can with over 50,000 art
highly recommend the formation of this type of group because it has supplies and regular
helped all of us in so many ways. Artistic pursuits can very healing. discounts and
Joanne Olney, via email promotions. a half. Art should excite the
www.greatart.co.uk imagination, make the viewer wonder
and see things in new ways. There
EMBRACING REALITY been put off by people’s comments. should be adventure, risk and energy
Re: Get Real!, Issue 362 Personally, I love the challenge of in taking topics – whether they be
I thoroughly enjoyed the March capturing the character of an landscapes, buildings, portraits or
edition – this is my sort of style. animal or pet in the small detail and even still life – and giving them a life
I am an elderly gent and didn’t have often thought I would like to and energy all of their own.
start painting until after a stroke, try painting plates of food and cake When I look at art that appeals to
having never had any interest in art from local cafes. Your article has me I want to be excited, whereas all
up until then. I tried oil and acrylic really encouraged me to give it a go. I think when I look at this realist art
not very successfully, then gave Laina West, www.lainawest.co.uk is how realistic it is – nothing else!
watercolour a try and liked it. David J Auld, via email
Having always been interested in I have studied
wildlife, I thought I would give birds the March issue Great magazine as always.
a try. After hours of practicing front cover and I particularly enjoyed the article on
strokes with very fine brushes and the articles Photorealism. It was also great that
looking at other wildlife artists, I inside and one you devoted a number of pages to
began to feel I was heading in the has to admire this type of art, in view of all the
right direction. Here is my latest the consummate controversy surrounding it.
attempt: a chaffinch on a branch skill of those You often hear people ask
[right], based on a photo taken by who do realistic “what’s the point?” The point is that
a keen photographer friend. work of this kind, it takes a tremendous amount of
Peter Brown, via email but – and this is skill and practice to expertly control
a big but – it is the brush and medium to produce
I was thrilled and not a little surely craft, not this type of artwork.
inspired by the wonderful art. Or not art as Only a handful of artists are
photorealistic paintings in your it has flourished capable of this and having us
March edition. I have painted a few and developed wonder how did he or she do it.
quite realistic animal portraits in over the last Well done, Artists & Illustrators.
pastel [top right], but have often century and Toulla Hadjigeorgiou, via email
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Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village
1 March- 5 June 2016
New Exhibition
Poetry in beauty
the pre-raphaelite art of
marie spartali stillman
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De Morgan Collection Watts Gallery Watts Chapel Watts Studios
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9 ARTISTIC THINGS TO DO IN
SKETCHING ST IVES
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The Cornish harbour town of St Ives has inspired the work of countless British artists. In the 1950s in particular, it
provided a hub for international modernism to thrive as painters flocked to its rugged coastal landscape. The St Ives
School of Painting is keeping this tradition alive with an ongoing programme of workshops and creative weekends for
artists of varying skill levels. The five-day Exploring Forms course (18-22 April) delves into the work of Barbara
Hepworth, Sandra Blow and Wilhelmina Barns Graham, scouting for ideas in the environment that inspired them.
Looking ahead, painter Gary Long’s When Sea Meets Land (3-6 May) workshop invites students to sketch the
coastline first-hand and learn how to create dramatic visual notes on colour and weather. www.schoolofpainting.co.uk
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Live Drawing Workshop
Sketch like there’s nobody watching
at Sadler’s Wells in London
(15 April). The class begins with a
discussion on live drawing by artist
Heidi Wigmore, before offering the
chance to sketch the English
National Ballet practising pirouettes
in the theatre’s auditorium.
www.ballet.org.uk/whats-on
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RCA Secret 2016 This is Rembrandt
The Royal College of Art’s Rembrandt van Rijn had
annual fundraiser sees anonymous a dramatic life worthy of fiction,
postcard-sized works from famous finding fame in the Dutch Golden
artists sit alongside pieces by recent Age, yet becoming destitute by his
graduates. View in person from 8-9 death in 1669. Jorrella Andrews’
April. london.secret.rca.ac.uk/2016 book (Laurence King, £9.95) tells
his story with the help of Nick
Higgins’ playful illustrations.
3LEARN www.laurenceking.com
Renaissance Drawing
Materials and Techniques
Gain insight into the innovative 8STUDY
methods of Da Vinci and his peers Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists
with this talk at Laing Art Gallery Far more than passive models, the
in Newcastle (20 April), which key female artists of this movement
coincides with new exhibition, Ten rarely feature in our history books.
Portraits from the Royal Collection. To learn about the work of painters
www.laingartgallery.org.uk like Elizabeth Siddal, visit Surrey’s
Watts Gallery for this five-week
course (18 April to 16 May).
ENTER www.wattsgallery.org.uk
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Broadway Arts Festival
Submissions are open
until 30 April for the chance to PRINT
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exhibit in this Worcestershire Screenprint Weekend
festival in June. This year’s theme FRAN Want to learn a new skill
is ‘Conflict’ and awards include the CIS BOW in just two days? Challenge yourself
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The Architecture
of the Figure
Build on your life drawing skills
with the Royal Watercolour Society.
In this one-day workshop at
London’s Heatherley School of Fine
Art (16 April), students will paint
both a nude and a dressed model to
study the layers of form and figure.
www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk
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EXHIBITIONS
APRIL’S BEST ART SHOWS
LONDON Painting the Modern Garden On the Surface
Painting Norway: Nikolai Astrup Until 20 April 6 March to 18 December
Until 15 May Last chance to see Monet’s Agapanthus Triptych. Textured paintings, prints and tapestries.
Rustic visions of Northern Europe. Royal Academy of Arts. www.royalacademy.org.uk Shipley Art Gallery, Newcastle.
Dulwich Picture Gallery. www.shipleyartgallery.org.uk
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Botticelli Reimagined
5 March to 3 July David Jones: Vision and Memory
Astrazione Oggettiva: The Experience of Colour Interpreting the Italian’s ideas of beauty. 12 March to 5 June
13 April to 26 June V&A, London. www.vam.ac.uk Watercolourist with a lightness of touch.
Abstract Italian paintings from the 1970s. Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham.
Estorick Collection. www.estorickcollection.com ENGLAND – NORTH www.lakesidearts.org.uk
Anthony Clark: Burning Belief
Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics Until 1 May Bridget Riley: Venice and Beyond,
Until 15 May Watercolours of European cathedrals. Paintings 1967-1972
Illustrations by a host of female comic artists. Bowes Museum, Durham. Until 25 June
House of Illustration. www.houseofillustration.org.uk www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk Early experiments in graphic colours.
Graves Gallery, Sheffield.
Dutch Flowers Tom Wood: New Work www.museums-sheffield.org.uk
6 April to 29 August Until 19 June
Tulips abound in these classical still lifes. Fresh portraits from the popular Yorkshire artist. At Home
National Gallery. www.nationalgallery.org.uk Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate. www.harrogate.gov.uk 19 March to 5 June
Smaller works from the Arts Council Collection.
Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty and Rebellion Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield. www.ysp.co.uk
Tchaikovsky Until 5 June
17 March to 26 June Victorian art inspired by the Renaissance. ENGLAND – SOUTH
Famous faces from Moscow. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Impressionism: Capturing Life
National Portrait Gallery. www.npg.org.uk www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Until 5 June
28 masterpieces by Degas, Renoir and co.
The Holburne Museum, Bath. www.holburne.org
Maria Merian’s
Butterflies Wu Lan-Chiann: Reflections
15 April to 9 October Until 15 May
In 1699, the 52-year-old artist Contemporary ink paintings by a Taiwanese master.
Maria Sibylla Merian sold the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath. www.meaa.org.uk
contents of her Amsterdam
studio to fund an ambitious Inquisitive Eyes: Slade Painters in Edwardian
two-year trip to the Dutch colony Wessex, 1900-1914
of Suriname in South America. Until 12 June
She spent the next two years The Dorset art colony featured in issue 361.
creating sketches of flora and Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
fauna that she later adapted into www.rwa.org.uk
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