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Be Inspired to Paint Finished Watercolours from Initial Sketches WATERCOLOURS • ACRYLICS • OILS • PASTELS & MORE! www.painters-online.co.uk February 2020 £4.80 THE PRACTICAL MAGAZINEartist FOR ARTISTS BY ARTISTS – SINCE 1931 Win A digital painting bundle worth £1,700! See page 23 Be inspired to paint nished watercolours from initial sketches Plus OIL PORTRAITS PASTELS ACRYLICS � Advice on how to store your watercolours � Try new digital painting techniques � Develop your sketching skills � Try new colour combinations in watercolour for powerful results 02> What to look for & how Capture a frosty morning Discover how realism can to paint ears sunrise step by step bring your subject to life 9 770004 387193 artist PAINTING HOLIDAY 10 to18 October 2020 Paint in MoroccoEssaouira Adebanji Alade with Adebanji Alade VPROI ADEBANJI ALADE is vice president of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and ‘artist in residence’ for the BBC’s One Show. Adebanji is known for bringing a lively sketchy feel to his paintings, and his work is inspired by atmosphere, people and the mood created by a particular light. He was winner of Pinto Rapido in 2013. Adebanji has chosen Essaouira for his painting holiday, because it is full of colour and sun, and has a buzz in the air. ssaouira is a place where your senses are and miles of wind-swept exposed to exotic colours and exquisite sandy beaches, as well as Earchitecture. It offers an intoxicating sea fortifi cations, dramatic mix of exotic Arab architecture and rocky seascapes and a Mediterranean-style white-washed houses thriving traditional fi shing with blue shutters, a working fi shing harbour harbour. with traditional boats and colourful spice souks. Time has stood still in Essaouira, which PAINTING PROGRAMME ▲ Evening Light, Hampstead High Street, oil by Adebanji Alade remains an important market town for the Every day will be spent nomadic Tuareg people. Donkeys are laden painting in Essaouira with Adebanji Alade, with goods, men still wear the traditional who will be working mainly in oils but also just fi ve minutes’ walk to the fi shing port and full-length and hooded burnous and women acrylics, watercolour, pastels, coloured medina. An accompanying escort will take their fl oating jellabahs and hijab (veil). pencils, charcoal and graphite. You’ll care of everyone and all the arrangements. In There is plenty to paint here and inspire receive endless motivation, inspiration and October the weather is normally sunny and all artists. Inside the walled old town are entertainment from Adebanji’s wealth of warm with a gentle breeze, making it ideal dappled sunlit squares, meandering alleyways, experience. He will encourage you to work for painting en plein air. secretive doorways, elegant minarets, with a sketchbook and help you with your • Dates October 10 – 18, 2020 mosques and mosaics, aromatic and colourful paintings as and when necessary. Adebanji • Number of students 8 – 12 souks and much more. In contrast to the will also do demonstrations on alternate • Price per person £2,875 hustle and bustle of the trading medina lie the days for anyone interested. This free-style • Single supplement £400 serene and mellow streets of the mellah or painting holiday with some tuition is suitable • Price includes: Flights from LHR, eight nights Jewish quarter. Outside the walled medina are for intermediate and experienced students. 4* hotel, breakfast & dinners daily, host artist, sun-drenched avenues lined with palm trees Your hotel overlooks the sandy beach and is travel escort from the UK. Essaouira Essaouira Essaouira FOR FULL DETAILS CONTACT 01825 714310 • [email protected] • www.spencerscotttravel.com We have paintings holidays in 2020 with other well-known artists including: Peter Brown PNEAC, RBA, PS, ROI, RP, Richard Pikesley NEAC, RWS, Lachlan Goudie ROI, Haidee-Jo Summers ROI, ARSMA and Hazel Soan. The Artist magazine has been o ering overseas painting holidays since 1990 with renowned artists. These holidays are organised on our behalf by fully licensed operator Spencer Scott Travel Services CAA ATOL 3471 artist incorporating ART & ARTISTS First established 1931 ISSN 0004-3877 Vol.135 No.2 WELCOME ISSUE 1078 from the editor Publishing Editor: Sally Bulgin PhD Hon VPRBSA Want to comment on something you’ve read, or seen? 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