DIGITAL Issue 4 The Pottering Artist Magazine

DIGITAL Issue 4 The Pottering Artist Magazine "Chimerical" August 2019

Slow down, focus deeply and build lasting creative confidence — without distraction.

• Depth
• Focus
• Confidence
• Inspiration
• Calm
• Connection

The Pottering Artist is an independent, process-led digital art magazine created for reflective, thoughtful makers. Rooted in over 30 years of self-taught watercolour practice, it celebrates slow creativity and the quiet discipline of attending with presence.

Each issue includes in-depth step-by-step tutorials across multiple media, alongside artist-themed travel, nature writing and spiritually infused slow-living features. With carefully curated art resources and considered book reviews, it offers both practical guidance and gentle inspiration. Designed as a seasonal companion, the magazine invites artists to linger, observe and deepen their relationship with their craft. It is a publication to savour, return to and collect.

1 Quixotic Collage Couplings -pairing fanciful halves using printed images to let go of pre-conceived ideas. Then transfigure a collage into a watercolour portrait - full

tutorial.

2 Dare to Sketch - keeping a carefree, thinking out loud journal using pen and ink to swap impossible with possible, fanciful with sensible and eccentric with conformist!

Follow several demos.

3 Get Unreal - envision your life as something or someone else in a fictitious time and place - create a mood board for your bizarre being. I morph into a Navajo weaver from 19th century New Mexico and narrate the pattern of my fantasy days in words and pictures.

4 Follow an engaging and simple step by step watercolour tutorial on moccasins.

5 Painting Paradise - express the soundtrack of your imaginary life with pastels - selecting melodies and sounds to suit your make-believe existence and responding to them in pastel. Pastel demo included.

6 Wild and Foolish - conjure up your own gouache Punchinella design for a surreal and unique Punch & Judy show.... follow a simple demo.

7 Regular features, book reviews, give-aways & competitions and more...