American Artist Artist magazine of largest circulation. Artist profiles/interviews include multiple photos and reproductions over multiple pages, PLUS: Illustrations, technical features, columns, vintage ads and MORE --Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! Issue Date: OCTOBER 1988; VOLUME 52, ISSUE 555 IN THIS ISSUE:- This description copyright Edward D Peyton. Any un-authorized use of this description is strictly prohibited. COVER: Painting Moon Palace, by Louise Hamlin, 1988, pastel, 24% a 1715/16. Collection the artist. PAINTING IN THE BACKCOUNTRY--A GUIDE TO STREAMLINING YOUR ART GEAR by Janet Tarjan Erl. Californian Janet Tarjan Erl climbs mountains, penetrates forests, and fords rivers in search of subject matter for her paintings. After years of these experiences, En has compiled a list of tools and equipment to take along. THE WATERCOLOR PAGE: MARGE CHAVOOSHIAN by Pat Van Geider. This New Jersey artist travels around the world with her watercolors capturing the architecture, landscape, and people of foreign lands. WORKING FROM LIFE by Charles Movalli. Contributing Editor Charles Movalli advances arguments as to why artists should avoid dependency on photographs and should experience the joy of working directly from live subject matter. A SURVEY OF OUTDOOR PAINTERS by the Editors. Ten outstanding artists who work directly from nature are briefly profiled in this survey article. Each of them has a particular approach to choosing subject matter and painting pictures, and they share that information here. PAINTERS AS PRESERVATIONISTS by Thomas Bolt. The members of the Open Airing Klub of Santa Barbara, California, organize exhibitions of their paintings in order to raise money and increase public awareness of the endangered land that they depict in their pictures. HOW LIGHT AFFECTS AN ARTIST'S PERCEPTIONS by Mark Jacobson. This award-winning artist, who maintains a practice as an optometrist, explains what happens to one's percepfions of color and value when working on location. He provides a demonstration of how he executes his acrylic paintings from color studies done on location and from photographs. DEPARTMENTS: FOOTNOTES. LETTERS. PROFESSIONAL PAGE by DanielGrant. ART MART. CASUAL COMMENTARY. ART BOOKS AND VIDEOS. QUICK TIPS. BULLETIN BOARD. TECHNICAL PAGE by Steven G. Sheehan. COMING IN NOVEMBER. INDEX TO ADVERTISING. EXHIBITS. This description copyright Edward D Peyton. Any un-authorized use of this description is strictly prohibited. Magazine is COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD +++ condition. (See photo)