DIGITAL Issue 8 The Pottering Artist Magazine

DIGITAL Issue 8 The Pottering Artist Magazine "Presence" Summer 2022

Gentle. Grounded. Intentional. An immersive and encouraging space in magazine form to develop your authentic creative voice.

• Nourishing
• Practical
• Reflective
• Skill-building
• Inspiring
• Uncluttered

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.

• Tilly's Top Titles - indulge your love of reading with reviews on art, creativity and lifestyle books page 4
• Watercolour Woodland Sprite Demo page 6
• Tao Te Ching Philosophy page 8
• Colour Crossing - Harness the power of complementary colours page 9
• Barmy for Beach Huts - Palette Generators & Pastel Demo page 12
• Feeling Your Way with Faces - A Value & Design Approach page 16
• Framed by Foliage - Creating Simple Watercolour Overlap page 21
• Resource Rummage - Glassine paper and charcoal powder page 24
• Why do People Paint? - Therapeutic & Creative Benefits of Art page 25
• Fingerbobs & the Fun of Felted Puppets page 27
• Shoemaker as Folktale Archetype & Pen and Wash Shoes page 28
• Dream doorways & powerful portals - Where will a doorway take you? page 31
• Loafing Locations - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA & Painting from the Past page 32
• Tales from Terrier Cabin - Part 4 page 34
• Outlines for all tutorials