DIGITAL Issue 10 The Pottering Artist Magazine

DIGITAL Issue 10 The Pottering Artist Magazine "Divest" Winter 2023

A studio companion for artists who prefer to wander, wonder and create with meaning.

• Empowering
• Confidence-boosting
• Engaging
• Sustaining
• Distinctive
• Transformative

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.

CONTENTS

1 Haystack Hunt Competition - win a watercolour animal print

2 Loafing Locations - discover the enchanting, forest lino-cutting studio of Patricia Homewood

5 Snowbird Feast - How to Convert Poetry to Paint - watercolour two juncos stripping away the last of the red berries

8 Going for the Chop

9 Book Reviews

11 Delightful Detachment - Watercolour studies of the planes of falling leaves to acquire leaf anatomy wisdom

13 Divest to Survive - explore animals who moult and move on

14 Resource Rummage - a minimal lino-cutting resources guide

15 Peeled apple linocut tutorial

18 Carve and Reveal - parallels between sculpting, devore, lino-cutting & watercolour

19 Obliterate to Oblivion - using opaque markers to liberate and embolden seeing & simplification skills

21 Masters' Mindset - The Value of Studying The Masters - John Singer Sargent's Stairway in Capri is a veritable stairway to heaven

23 Disrobed - gestural pastel sketches on undressing

24 The beauty of NOTHINGNESS

25 Peeling Prowess - observational pen & ink studies of vegetable preparation

29 Tangerine Dream - watercolour still life with bokeh

31 Elegant Erasure - using putty or electric erasers to extrude wintry traceries from a charcoal ground

33 Extreme Supplies Limit

34 First installment of Tossleaf & Peckberry - my new, fanciful blackbird chronicle to enjoy with tea and cake