Artists & Illustrators Magazine

My latest article for Artists & Illustrators magazine has just been published in the June 2019 issue. Titled "Finding Your Style" it is based around my series of small paintings that I did a few months ago when I was trying things out before I took on the IX 2019 Commission. Whilst I was essentially just tweaking aspects of how I go about painting things, especially skies and clouds, I have written the article from the point of view of more of an amateur painter looking  to give their work an individual style as this is the main readership of the magazine. 
Ironically later on after I had finished the series of 18 paintings I realised that quite a lot of my conclusions about moving my work forward I had already reached a decade ago and had kind of forgotten when I moved the focus of my work towards Imaginative Realism - this is not mentioned in the article!
I have another article to write for the magazine in a few months time titled "Combine Shapes. Lose Edges!". This will be a step-by-step painting demo of the things I had learnt from the earlier series of small paintings specifically about the design and feel of my paintings that I was looking for.