Our f2 Profilethis issue, Laura Hynd, shoots portraiture, still life, food and landscapes - an unusually broad range for a top end London freelance. “I guess it’s because when I started I was very much interested in the living landscape”, she says, “but then I began to get briefs that required portraits of people involved in the story, and then I’d get up early in the morning and see that there was a storm
coming, so I’d go to the top of a hill and do a landscape. Then I’d have a meal, and photograph the beautiful looking salad that I’d been served.”

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In the Fifties and Sixties, Pop Art changed the face of the art world, blending techniques from mass production with artistic intent to introduce new ways of creating and looking at paintings – a path that eventually led us here, to digital art. In this issue, illustrator Kyle T Webster takes a look at how we can re-create Pop Art digitally. We’re all about technique this issue, from cutting edge to classical. Simon Buckroyd is sharing his tricks for painting a stellar Sci-Fi scene on p30, and on p58 Anne Pogoda
demonstrates the secrets of a successful landscape painting to help you create imaginative settings. In our Art Study on p52, Cat Bounds tackles a subject that caused controversy in the art world up until the 19 Century – how to paint a realistic horse.

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For many of us, this time of year is cold and rainy. Brad Sutton shows us how to take inspiration from the weather with a tutorial on creating reflective, rainy cityscapes on page 30. And if you want to populate those city streets with people, we present our complete guide to figure drawing on page 20 to get you started on the principles of anatomy and action. Many of these techniques were discovered by the Florentine Old Masters, and so on page 46 Joanna Michalak helps us to brush up our classical education and paint like one of the golden ages of art: the Italian Renaissance. On page 36, Anne Pogoda takes the mystery out of creating and applying your own patterns in Painter. Our Output tutorial this issue shows you how to create an Advent calendar, and you’ll find children’s illustrator Sue Woollatt’s delightful winter scene on the disc ready for printing.
Enjoy your painting!

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For many of us, the nights are drawing in and the weather’s getting colder. Take some inspiration from the changing seasons with our Art Study on p52, in which Cat Bounds explores the rich palettes and textures of autumn leaves. Elsewhere, Zhu Hai Bo creates an unexpected image in the style of artist Chiang Yee, bringing together an icon of the English landscape and the deft, subtle touches of Chinese ink painting on p58. By contrast on p38, reader Judy Misquitta shows us how to liven up Painter’s pastel brushes with an explosion of kaleidoscopic colour. Meanwhile, Tim Shelbourne has handled our Paint Like tutorial this issue, exploring the painting techniques developed by one of the world’s greatest and most inluential artists: Pablo Picasso. Whatever brushes you use there’s something for everyone in our Drawing 101 guide to acrylics (p66) and in our massive ten page feature on customisation, in which Jeff Johnson shows us some of the best brushes to
use and adapt when creating landscapes (p20).
Enjoy your painting!