Red rocks

Get ready to rock with Lera Kiryakova as she shows you how to create pitch-perfect characters bursting with personality

SOMETIMES THE INSPIRATION FOR YOUR NEXT PAINTING can be right in front of you – literally. Trying to find the correct subject with great lighting and composition is quite an art: a lot of images won’t

When everything comes together, there’s no better feeling, as Michael Topham experienced in Croatia

Knick-knack nostalgia Enter the artist’s domain, full of trinkets to distract him from the adult world

If there’s one thing Sarah Eden knows how to do, it’s provide overlooked creatures with a moment in the spotlight. From quietly noble badgers to the much-maligned mouse, her oil paintings lift the eve

Valentin Loellmann’s Dutch atelier is a nature-filled space where he explores his creativity – and invites fellow artists to do the same