Artists Magazine

I am dedicating this post to writing down notes from anything interesting and important from the Artists Magazine that I bought at the bookstore. 

Artists Magazine

COVER
-title in a white background box
-main image--> artwork made of paper
-subtitle "Wild for Flowers" --> what most of issue will focus on
-clear coverlines
-colored texts in relation to cover image: purples
-bottom box section, different colored background--> more coverlines (+)

I hope to create a cover image similar to this, where there could be spacing for a title and coverlines, without overlapping the actual image. It's a clean and not too simple cover, that well suits their target audience. 





TABLE OF CONTENTS
-images of artworks with page numbers
-five categories: Compositions, Prime, Build, Outfit
-top halves of both pages--> images
-bottom halves of pages--> content/text
-artworks ranging from, paper, painting, photographs, to origami

This is not one of the best layouts for the table of contents of a magazine in my opinion, but I like how they showed the differences in artworks that is contained in the magazine. They also used nice fonts for their numbers and text.


TWO-PAGE SPREAD (with AD)
-left page--> advertisement for Royal Talens oil paints, van gogh brand
-main image of Van Gogh's 'Sunflower' painting
-right page--> original content article
-article about Claude Monet, historical & famous artist

Using a paint brand in the name of a historical artist gives users the mental thought that they can paint as well as him. Advertisement technique using a historical and well-known person. 


TWO-PAGE SPREAD
-introduces artist
-aesthetic and nicely spaced border using artist's art
-step-by-step demonstration of artist's illustration, layer by layer

Just like the other magazine I looked at, this one contains a step-by-step demostration, which since seems like a prominent idea for articles in these magazines, will be something I certainly want to include in my magazine. 

TWO-PAGE SPREAD
-continues step-by-step demonstration
-bottom image of artist working, with a quote by her
-advertisement of Staedtler pens/markers-coninues red-colored theme from previous page
Although the ad has nothing in similarity to the article, it seems like it could connect and be related because of the use of similar colors, so a reader may continue to that page and read it, thinking it is part of the article and maybe be interested in the product instead.

Citations:
Brodskaya, Y., Eckwall, J., & Procter, K. J. (2018, April). Contents. Artists Magazine, 35(03), 2-3