Artists & Illustrators

Artists & Illustrators is the UK’s best-selling magazine for artists and art lovers, providing advice and inspiration every month. Published for almost 25 years, each issue of Artists & Illustrators contains a colourful palette of profiles and features, together with valuable practical ideas, expert technical advice and useful product tests. Whether you favour oils or watercolours, portraits or landscapes, abstract art or botanical illustration, Artists & Illustrators brings a refreshing blend of creativity and advice every four weeks throughout the year.

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INTRODUCING

Artists & Illustrators

Sketchbook • TIPS • ADVICE • EXHIBITIONS • NEWS • REVIEWS

THE DIARY • Open calls, prizes and artist opportunities

Exhibitions • THE BEST ART SHOWS TO VISIT FROM NOVEMBER ONWARDS

annual Christmas gift guide • ‘Tis the season to load up your shopping carts with holiday presents for your artistic friends and family. Unsure about what to get for a creative enthusiast? Check out our top choices for imaginative Christmas gifts this season – with the chance to win the lot, worth over £2,000, on page 16!

Have yourself a Cult Pens Christmas • Giving a gift is wonderful. It’s even better if it’s something they want. But what’s both useful and presentable? Stationery of course!

Win! Christmas prize draw worth over £2,000 • Enter our Christmas prize draw and seize the opportunity to relish a wealth of art supplies and beyond, as the new year begins!

We present… • An artist who likes to continually experiment and sees inspiration all around her

Jonathan Yeo • Renowned for pushing the boundaries of portraiture and challenging the very essence of art itself, one of the world’s most in-demand portrait artists, JONATHAN YEO, is a vibrant luminary in the contemporary art scene, says Ramsha Vistro

Kelli Folsom • American oil artist Kelli Folsom shares how she fully committed herself to an art career no matter the challenges

KELLI’S TIPS ON BECOMING A FULL-TIME ARTIST

Tony Allain • Self-taught landscape artist, TONY ALLAIN tells Sarah Edghill about his love of colour and light, and how his extensive travels have influenced his work

Tamara Williams • British semi-abstract painter TAMARA WILLIAMS’ design background strongly influences her work. Sara Mumtaz learns more about other inspirations behind the artist’s practice

Hockney: the early years • Amanda Hodges looks into an exhibition of DAVID HOCKNEY’s early drawings and finds the young artist obsessed with close observation and detail

Paper dreams • Once confined to the studio as a means of preparation, paper came into its own as medium thanks to the Impressionists who brought drawings, pastels and watercolours to exhibition walls. In a new show, dazzling, rarely-seen works on paper – by some of the world’s best-loved artists – reveal how this simple material levelled up with painting.

Philip Guston: passion painting • Always marrying the personal with the political, PHILIP GUSTON’s career defied categorisation. As a new retrospective opens at Tate Modern, Martha Alexander takes a closer look at the extraordinary life and works of one of the 20th century’s most intriguing painters

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Eye contact • In an extract from her fifth book for Crowood Press, LIZ CHADERTON gives you the confidence and skills to paint lively, contemporary faces and characters in line and wash

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O Christmas tree • In last month’s issue, SANDRINE MAUGY wrote an article giving you 11 tips to design and print greeting cards. Here, Sandrine is following up with a...