Leisure Painter

Leisure Painter - the number one learn-to-paint magazine featuring practical painting and drawing features from top art tutors. Includes step-by-step tuition and easy-to-follow advice on how to draw and paint.

Leisure Painter

Welcome

DIARY • EXHIBITIONS, NEWS AND EVENTS FROM THE ART WORLD

OPPORTUNITIES

Ladybird book artists

David Hockney: Drawing from Life

EVENTS

Lavery on Location

Your new go-to! • What if we were to tell you that there's an exciting new online haven for all your favourite art products?

Painting the snow red • Dispel the gloom as you follow David Bellamy's hints and tips on introducing warm colours to your snow scenes

Romila Datta • This year's Leisure Painter Award winner, Romila Datta, answers questions about her painting life, inspiration and plans for the future

Painting project • Part 1 Prepare to paint a winter landscape in watercolour as you practise colour mixing and brushstroke techniques, with Colin Steed

Painting project • Part 2 Using line and wash, turn a summer holiday photograph into your own version of a classic Lake District inn, by Tony Underhill

Why acrylics? • New to acrylics? Mike Rollins introduces his materials and techniques for painting with this popular medium

Ignite your creativity • Develop your creative muscles by following Elena Parashko's top ten tips

Looking to the stars • Practise painting fast and loose to produce a lively watercolour portrait, with Liz Chaderton

Try something different • Part 1 Practise essential scratchboard techniques and find out about the minimal equipment needed to produce successful artwork, with wildlife artist, Conor Smith

Have sketchbook, will travel • Part 1 How to choose the right media for your subject, by Tony Hogan. This month, experiment with calligraphy pens and water-soluble ink

Drama and light • Part 2 Having learned the basics from Greg Howard last month, join him to put theory into practice and paint a dramatic scene of the Lake District

Just add snow • How to create a snow scene from a summer photograph and make it into a successful greetings card, by the late Murray Ince

Waiting around • Brian Smith offers a host of hints and tips on how to fill your sketchbook when you have time to spare

Down by the canal • Follow Richard Holland's thought processes and practices as he turns a potential plein-air sketch into a finished painting back in the studio

SUMMER LANDSCAPE COMPETITION

Online gallery • Jane Stroud's selection of works from our Painters Online gallery

Books • WHAT TO READ THIS MONTH

Art clubs • OVER TO YOU FOR THE LATEST NEWS ON CLUB EXHIBITIONS AND ACTIVITIES