It’s February already, so you know what that means. February 2020 CP Magic is now available.
What’s in the February Issue
First the artist interview.
I had the great pleasure of interviewing John Middick, creator of Sharpened Artist Podcast. You’ll enjoy hearing about John’s artistic journey, how he became a full-time artist involuntarily, and see how he organizes his studio and tools.
Bonus! You can read part of that interview in Talking Portraits with John Middick right here on the blog.
After that, John’s step-by-step tutorial. He used Inktense and colored pencils on LuxArchival paper. If you’ve never used this new paper, you’ll want to see how John works with it and what he thinks of it.
The tutorial includes full-color illustrations, and clear, easy-to-follow descriptions. John also included a link to the reference photo so you can follow along if you wish.
This month’s Before-and-After Clinic shows you how much difference an extra hour of work can make on your next (or current!) project.
Finally, I’m including a featured reference photo you can download and draw for yourself.
About CP Magic
CP Magic is a monthly digital publication written by a colored pencil artist—yours truly—for colored pencil artists at all levels. That’s you!
Each month features an artist interview and a tutorial so you can meet the artist and then see how they work. Other columns are the Before-and-After Clinic and the featured photo.
Back issues are always available.
Get your copy of CP Magic February 2020 here.
Hi Carrie, I love your new art magazine! It has all kinds of interesting things in it. I especially love the tutorials and I know there will be some I want to replicate. Would there be any way of including full sized line drawings in your magazine for the main tutorial in each issue? I found that as a beginner, having a line drawing for a tutorial made it so much easier to follow the work of the artist and try to replicate what was drawn. Again…. wonderful magazine!
Thank you for your comments, Gail.
I’ll have to look into the possibility of including line drawings.