EDITOR’S LETTER
Dive in… …to the July issue of Artists & Illustrators, packed full of arty inspiration and practical advice. Now the sun is out, Anna Mason encourages you to schedule regular times in your diary to take your sketchbook, pencils and travel paints with you out into the fresh air and into nature. The combination of both nourishes your emotional wellbeing as she found out after going through a difficult period in her life. Ann Witheridge also encourages you to go outside with your art. The beauty of en plein air landscape painting is that you become part of nature, the birds sit with you, the flowers scent the air and the scenery changes as the day progresses. We may sometimes take nature for granted, but it’s one of the greatest…