Contents:

THE WORLD
Art Prize Challenge
All the Prize Winners in our International Artist magazine
Challenge No 67 Wildlife

THE WORLD
Call for Entries
Entry form for International Artist magazine's Challenge No 69 Flowers & Gardens.
Now you can enter using digital printouts and online!

USA
The Art of the Portrait
Chairman's Letter

Words of Wisdom
Christine Egnoski speaks with the 2012
Portrait Society Faculty

Masters Showcase

Portrait Demonstration
THOMAS REIS

INSPIRATION

A Day in the Life of an Artist GABRIELA DELLOSSO
A series where we take a look into the lives of some the world's most noted artists
by Wende Caporale

ILLUSTRATION
The Art of Illustration
Brom the Storyteller
We look at what drives this seasoned illustrator
by Rebecca Guay

USA
Oil
James Gurney Masterclass
Part 7 Cloud Shadows
James Gurney, the author, artist, and illustrator of the #1 best selling art instruction books Imaginative Realism and Color and Light reveals useful insights about painting light.

Oil Watercolor
Part 3 Landscape Painting with Oil and watercolor
Readers are in for a treat in the months to come as you enjoy this regular column by award winning all media artist Bill James

Oil
Control Your Acrylics
With A White Paint Impasto
John Stephens recognized what Titanium White Underpainting could do for his acrylic paintings - and has not returned to oils!

Watercolor
Using Imaginative Color
Reiko Hervin enlivened her paintings by stretching her color boundaries

Oil
Big, Bizarre and Bountiful
Painting the Everglades
The natural attractions of her home state have inspired a search for drama for Carmen Beechers

BULGARIA
Watercolor
Balancing Act
Aleksandar Alexov achieves authenticity in his miniatures by treating color and shape as equal partners in wildlife art

SPECIAL FEATURE
Various Media
Your Painting Workshops Start This Issue!
New Zealand artist, Richard Robinson critiques some student paintings from his online workshop and demonstrates key points with his own painting

CANADA
Oil
The Power of Sheer Beauty
Guy-Anne Massicotte’s still life realism flirts with abstraction, creating a beautiful tension

JAPAN
Watercolor
Side-by-Side in Japan:
Two Artists, Two Perspectives
Gary Snavely and Tatsuo Inoue prove that opposites truly do attract, resulting in a unique, shared, creative experience

UNITED KINGDOM
Oil
Expressive Evolution
Carole Baker uses colour as the prime motivator when designing a painting

TECHNIQUE
Discovering Art
The Making of an Artist Part 39
‘Straight Line Approximation’ & ‘Unequal Space Division’
by Barry John Raybould