The Pottering Artist

Welcome reader to this issue of The Pottering Artist magazine. A slim but potent volume of art inspiration to delight and nourish your muse. Completely free of adverts so that every square inch holds some nugget of interest for creatives who paint and draw slowly and enjoy savouring their processes. Alison Fennell. WIN Fine Art Cards! - Needle in a Haystack Competition Somewhere in the pages of this magazine is a graphic of a needle - it looks like the one below and is about that size. If you find it email me at thepotteringartist@hotmail.com - telling me the page number and where on the page it is. After I have received the first 5 entries I will do a random draw on 1st March 2026 and email all entrants…

The magazine is devoted to slow, thoughtful creativity and is designed to be savoured rather than skimmed. It features gentle tutorials in watercolour, pastel, acrylic gouache and pencil alongside art and slow-living book reviews, artistic travel writing, carefully chosen creative resources, and reflections on creativity and well-being. Printed on high-quality sustainable paper, it is part art journal part how-to manual and is very much intended to be kept. Scan here for Softcover Magazine £9.99 + postage Collect every softcover printed issue of The Pottering Artist directly from my stall on the Pics & Ink website. Or tap here now https://redirme.com/kusx7m Scan here for Digital PDF Version £4.99 Collect every PDF digital issue of The Pottering Artist directly via my email - I will send you a Paypal invoice for £4.99…

To me there is nothing more captivating and inspiring than carrying my eyes along a shelf or table filled with the tools and materials of art. Pots of pencils, saucers of tube paint, pottery jugs holding various mark-making implements all with a backdrop of a busy noticeboard featuring half-done sketch notes in graphite or watercolour with the potency of future projects intended make my heart sing. Viewing my own partly-done work has a power that tells of past efforts and leaves space for future potential. I avoid putting completed works up as they tend to limit my progress as they are already done. Half-baked images beckon me to think further on and around them and from the jumping-off point of already applied paint it is easier to gain purchase with…

Immerse yourself into an extraordinary surface for creative expression. This family run business developed this paper over 3 years with input from world class painters. Reliable paper for painting wet-into-wet with hardly any buckling and if it does it will eventually dry flat anyway. Professional grade watercolor paper. Internal and external traditional gelatin sizing making the paint flow divinely and colour lifting easy. 100% Cotton, 140lb Cold Press. 9.06 x 12.2 inch block. 20 Sheets. Gorgeous paper - feels luxurious and shows off watercolour to a tee. It allows lifting very well and does not buckle when painting wet-into-wet. The block is glued on all 4 sides with just a 2 inch gap for you to slit the pages apart with a craft blade when dry in order to remove…

My beautiful girl Tilly passed away in March this year. I will never forget her and now Dixter will carry the terrier torch forward... The cover of this book was so appealing with its pure and highly contrasting washes depicting an ancient church. Tackle essential technical aspects including light, composition, perspective and drawing. Overcome the challenges of balance, simplification and – crucially – how to avoid overworking. Discover dozens of Nicholas’s inspirational artworks. Follow 6 luminous and varied stage-by-stage projects. Develop your knowledge with skill-building tips and ideas scattered through. Gain the confidence and conviction to apply the techniques you learn to painting your own favourite buildings. This is a brilliant book for colour mixing aswell in order to avoid muddy results. An encouraging and wildly original ideas book for…

If you want to start right from scratch with an intense, focussed and methodical drawing course that has stood the test of time you could do a lot worse than read The Bargue Drawing Course. Written in the 1880's The Charles Bargue Drawing Course is an amassed work of knowledge from centuries of academic art education. It has been used in classical art academies worldwide for fine art training. Since the resurgence of traditional values many art schools and academies have emerged which follow this proven structured approach of the great masters. This method is an essential process in understanding the principles of shape, proportion, value and form and sets you right with confident seeing and drawing. Starting with single line studies of simple subjects such as the eye the…