Artists & Illustrators

Artists' studios are wonderful places. I'm lucky enough in this job to have visited plenty of them and they never cease to amaze me. The smell of turps, the splashes of paint, the untapped potential in every sketchbook and unfinished canvas... They a

When you think of Pop Art, Richard Hamilton may not be the first artist to spring to mind, but he is in fact the founding father of the movement – hence his moniker, Daddy Pop. In this retrospective, you can see how the British artist drew from mass

1 Look through the tutor’s artwork online. Does it feel alive to you? See if you can find progress photos on Facebook or Instagram to see their process. You don’t necessarily have to love a tutor’s work but want someone who will facilitate you in nou

The painting techniques of the world’s best artists Elpis, Jenny Saville’s recent exhibition at New York’s Gagosian Gallery, continues her claims to being the finest British figurative artist of her generation. Though the surface of a portrait such

Sprawling across northern Lancashire into the western edges of Yorkshire, The Forest of Bowland is a rather forgotten landscape to all except the more adventurous locals. The name is rather misleading too, as much of this designated Area of Outstandi

Spending time in the studio of a favourite artist can be something of a pilgrimage, a chance to celebrate their genius and get closer to the source of their creativity. Doing so can help to further bring to life the paintings that were created there

Have you ever thought of taking a commission? If you share your artistic achievements, chances are that you’ll be asked to work to order at some point. However, it’s a good idea to think the idea through before anyone puts you on the spot. Decide up

Something strange is at play in the paintings of Mary Newcomb. In one of her better-known works, The Lady with a Bunch of Sweet Williams, a landscape painted in 1988, we meet a woman as she passes through a golden clearing in a field, the dark shadow

Artists & Illustrators is proud to support The British Art Prize 2021, in association with Viking, the award-winning cruise line. This major new national open art competition will provide artists of all ages and abilities with a platform to gain expo

REBECCA BRADBURY about being a frustrated oil painter and working in his “man cave” garden studio The moment Mark Entwisle spotted the paper bag that he painted for the 2020 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition will not be forgotten in a hurry – not

I visited Chédigny a couple of years ago, a small village known as “The City of Roses”. I love painting doors, balconies and windows with flowers, the play between light and shade attracts me so the wisteria subject was perfect for me. I took hundred

Many years ago, I was set a task that was to accompany my application for a place at art school. I was asked to make a drawing of an apple, together with peel and paring knife, that must be placed on top of a mirrored surface. At the time I remember

Many artists are apprehensive about drawing and painting animals. They might really want to draw their own pet for instance, but all that fur just overwhelms them. So where do you even start? I vividly remember struggling to paint animals when I star

A“composition” is an arrangement of the formal and informal visual elements of art within a pictorial frame. The formal elements include shape, line, form, value, colour, texture, geometry and movement. The informal (or subjective) elements refer to

As primarily a painter of landscapes, my work has often featured stone and its many textures. From shiny, worked granite and natural field boulders to stone rows and rocky coves, it seems as if I’ve painted stone in all its forms and guises. Living a

The rough surface of the paper helped to accentuate these drybrush strokes. The white of the paper was reserved to indicate sunlight hitting the stone. I let these cauliflowers form their own textural details within the shadows. Allowing paint to do

•Paints Winsor Orange (Red Shade), Scarlet Lake, Cadmium Red, Rose Dore, Quinacridone Magenta, Winsor Violet (Dioxazine), Antwerp Blue, French Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue (Red Shade), Cerulean Blue, Manganese Blue Hue, Winsor Green (Blue

Ffiona Lewis was born in Devon in 1964. She qualified as an architect before taking courses at Central Saint Martins and working in the props department at the National Theatre. Ffiona’s first major solo exhibition took place in 1993 and she has been

HOW DID YOU GET STARTED IN ILLUSTRATION? I left school at 16 and did a national diploma in art. I had never really heard what an illustrator was, but I discovered the work of Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe. Their work introduced me to illustration