DIGITAL Issue 5 The Pottering Artist Magazine

DIGITAL Issue 5 The Pottering Artist Magazine "Beckoning" January 2020

Develop skill, sustain momentum and grow a confident creative voice with depth-driven inspiration.

• Mastery
• Engagement
• Focus
• Expansion
• Confidence
• Progress

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.

Page 5 The Beckoning of The Outermost House - escape to the elemental energy and the wilds of wind, sand and sea as we journey back in time tobe with Henry Beston. This lyrical re-telling of living of-grid before it became a new trend is by America's most loved naturalist author. Absorb his journal of life on that beach as he endures and enjoys earthly delights during this now cult account of that solitary year-long sojourn in a hut on the continent's most easterly edge.

Page 8 Stretched to the Limit - finally learn how to properly prepare watercolour paper and make your painting sessions a breeze!

Page 14 Hare Today - immerse yourself into the magical midnight meadow of an enigmatic hare as you paint a wistful watercolour in simplesteps.

Page 22 Tempting Toadstools - glean simple watercolour tips on how to paint the ever-enchanting Fly agaric mushroom.

Page 24 Sunflower Still Life - develop ways to distil this pleasant tableau into doable sections with the help of tones andexperience a traditional and trusted painting technique in 8 methodical steps.

Page 28 Sink into your sofa on a chilly winter's eve with Part 1 of my Tales from Terrier Cabin. Follow the first and fanciful escapades of Dotty and Tilly. These two tired and trapped townie Jack Russells are desperate to finally feel the flutter of snowflakes on their noses...