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

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DIARY • EXHIBITIONS, NEWS AND EVENTS FROM THE ART WORLD

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EVENTS

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Storing artwork • Tim Fisher offers a host of hints and tips on how to look after your finished drawings and paintings

Grand vistas • Travel with David Bellamy as he follows in the footsteps of JMW Turner and offers tips and techniques for producing lively watercolour sketches and paintings

Painting project • Part 1 Forget the dark days of winter and work on a beach scene, taking elements from two photographs, with Elena Parashko

Painting project • Part 2 How to suggest detail and create a mood with a limited palette using acrylics, by Mike Rollins

Art journaling • Part 2 Try junk journaling – a creative adventure to document your life, with Liz Chaderton

Flowers made easy • Use the delicacy of watercolour to paint two beautiful flowers, with Penny Brown

The Collection by Hahnemühle • Tim Fisher reports on how well a range of Hahnemühle watercolour papers performed using a variety of watercolour techniques

Make the change • Paint for the sake of painting, and because your choice of medium excites you, says acrylic advocate, Sharon Tiernan

Top dog • Award-winning animal artist, Sam Dolman, discusses the detailed process and materials he uses to paint his realistic portraits of dogs

Inspired by winter • Make the most of oil paints as you capture landscapes this winter, with Sarah Manolescue

Speed and fluency • Give yourself a quick confidence boost by trying this on-the-clock technique, by Anthony Nield

Animal magic • Part 1 This month, prepare to paint a meerkat from a photograph by practising a technique for capturing fur using acrylics, with Chloe Hibberd

Have sketchbook, will travel • Part 3 Tony Hogan sketches using tinted charcoal inspired by a plein-air ink sketch of the north Cornish coast

Water • How to use your sketchbook to experiment with capturing water in all its moods, by Brian Smith

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