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6 Meet the tutors Introducing StartArt ’s contributors 7 subscription offer Take advantage of our special introductory subscription offer to magazine and enjoy more step-by-step help with your drawing and painting, every month 10 Discover value Everyone can draw! Pick up your pencil and follow these easy exercises, introduced by Ruth Glenn Little 16 Draw realistic children Advice from husband and wife team Rick and Carrie Parks on how to draw children from your favourite photographs 21 Watercolour basics Tim Fisher gives you ideas about what colours and other basic materials you will need in order to get started on and practise some simple watercolour techniques 24 A winter’s night It only takes 20 minutes to follow Julie Angell ’s watercolour demonstration and produce this lovely wintry scene 29 Paint summer trees in watercolour Now you are warmed up in watercolour, follow Tim Fisher ’s basic brush techniques and paint convincing trees 33 It’s all about shape Painting people doesn’t have to be difficult…make your task easier by using a photograph and seeing your subject as a series of light and dark shapes, says Michaelin Otis , who shows you how... 10 16 21 24 Con Publisher Dr Sally Bulgin Editors Dr Sally Bulgin Ingrid Lyon Advertising Linde Ovington Lee Telephone: 01580 763673 Email: linde@tapc.co.uk Design Brenda Hedley All material copyrighted; reproduction forbidden without permission. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher StartArt is published by TAPC (The Artists’ Publishing Company Ltd), Caxton House, 63/65 High Street, Tenterden, Kent TN30 6BD. Telephone 01580 763673/763315 Fax 01580 765411 Email penni@tapc.co.uk www.painters-online.co.uk the website for StartArt , Leisure Painter and The Artist magazines Printed by Headley Brothers Ltd., The Invicta Press, Queens Road, Ashford, Kent 29 RT START Cover Tim Fisher Demonstration painting of a village street scene: see pages 42-45