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START RT 3 Start Art FEBRUARY 2020 www.painters-online.co.uk CONTENTS TUTORS 4 Yes, you can draw! Part 1 Coloured pencils. Elena Parashko begins a three-part series on how to draw successfully with colour 8 Colours in the landscape Understand your colour choices and how to create depth in your acrylic landscapes, by David Hyde 10 Distant mountains Practise acrylic painting techniques as you follow David Hyde’s step-by-step demonstration of mountain scenery 14 Moored on the mud Warm up your drawing and watercolour painting skills with Charles Evans’s demonstration of a simple boat, water and reflections 16 Early morning How to use a carefully chosen four-colour palette to paint a trees in a snow scene in watercolour, by Frank Halliday 19 The short cut Ready to take on a challenge? Here’s a beautiful landscape to stretch your watercolour painting skills David Hyde David lives and works in Cambridgeshire. He paints and tutors in watercolour and acrylics, mainly landscapes and birds. For more information visit his website at: www.davidhyde.org.uk Charles Evans A regular contributor to Leisure Painter , Charles is a versatile painter, demonstrator and art tutor, and has written several books for Search Press. Visit Charles’s website at: www.charlesevansart.com Frank Halliday Based in Cromer, Norfolk, Frank runs painting holidays, courses, workshops and classes for all levels and abilities. Find out more about his work by visiting his website at: www.norfolkskies.co.uk Elena Parashko Elena is a regular contributor to Leisure Painter . Based in Sydney, Australia, she offers online painting tutorials. www.elenaparashko.com Publisher Dr Sally Bulgin Editor Ingrid Lyon Advertising sales Anna-Marie Brown Telephone 01778 392048 Email annamarieb@warnersgroup.co.uk Subscriptions Telephone 01580 763315/763673 Designer Sarah Poole All material copyrighted: reproduction forbidden without permission. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher. Start Art is published by Leisure Painter and The Artist , Warners Group Publications plc, Caxton House, 63/65 High Street, Tenterden, Kent TN30 6BD Telephone 01580 763673/763315 Email info@tapc.co.uk www.painters-online.co.uk the online home of Leisure Painter , The Artist and StartArt magazines Printed by Warners Midlands plc, The Maltings, Manor Lane, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH START RT Welcome to the first 24-page instalment of StartArt in 2020, published in association with Leisure Painter and The Artist magazines. Cover Charles Evans Moored on the Mud Practise essential drawing and painting techniques with Charles on pages 14 and 15 SPECIAL OFFERS ON Practical art books (page 2) Receive a free gift when you subscribe to Leisure Painter (page 24) 8 16 19 4