This is a call to all you witches, wizards and goblins out there - upload your spookiest paintings to the gallery and enchant the visitors. Whether it’s ghoulish monsters or spooky spirits, I want to see your most terrifying visions. A magic spell will be sent to the best one!

Ballistic Publishing is a fabulous company that produces some exquisite digital art books - regular readers will have seen our reviews of their titles and know how much we love them! I just wanted to let you know about a disc they recently launched. It’s called Ultimate Klara Medkova and is a collection of 300 photos of the human form in various positions, clothes and moods. It’ll cost you a mere $65 and is just the thing for perfecting your life drawing. Find out more at www.ballisticpublishing.com/dvds/ultimate/ultimate01/

Hello to you all. I just wanted to write a few words about the ratings system on the gallery. These are a way of quickly leaving feedback on an image and a way of rewarding a piece of work you really like with a high score of 3 or above. They are not to be used as a way of marking down other people’s work so your own art moves up the rating scale. We can track who gives what ratings and if someone is abusing the system we will delete his or her account. This is a fun place for people to share their love of Painter and creating art. Anyone who harms this will be removed.