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

Ready for action • David Bellamy extols the virtues of being ready to capture a scene at a moment’s notice and discusses the depiction of figures on the move

DIARY • EXHIBITIONS, NEWS AND EVENTS FROM THE ART WORLD

Rising Splendour

OPPORTUNITIES

Revealing nature

The Shape of Things

Society of Women Artists

Watercolour with a twist • Part 2 If a picture paints a thousand words, why add text? Liz Chaderton offers tips and techniques for adding something extra to your artwork

Painting project • Part 1 Be inspired to create your own unique version of a seaside fish-and-chip hut, with Tony Underhill

Painting project • Part 2 How to add sparkle to your watercolour landscapes. Colin Joyce demonstrates the techniques he uses

Ready, steady, go! • With the 2024 Olympics almost upon us, you have a wonderful opportunity to practise sketching dynamic figures.

EXERCISE Pole vaulter • Let’s look at one detailed example. We’ll sketch this skilled pole vaulter, using a final sketch of mine as the reference.

Daler-Rowney System 3 • Tim Fisher works with System 3 Original acrylics to produce a variety of effects using brushes and creating impasto effects with painting knives

Masterclass: animals • Part 1 Follow Kerry Bennett as she takes you through the process of painting her dog, Jala, using the grid method to ensure Jala’s proportions are correct

Focus on butterflies • Part 1 In celebration of warm summer days ahead, Elena Parashko uses water- soluble coloured pencils and ink to create a vibrant depiction of a marbled white

Buildings • Brian Smith continues his look at favourite sketchbook subjects with tips and techniques for sketching buildings

A passion for decay • Richard Holland describes the joys of sketching derelict barns and other structures in the Derbyshire Dales

Slow art • Part 1 The bigger picture. Linda Birch discusses ways to use watercolour and coloured pencils to create larger pieces of artwork

Simply trees • Part 3 How to mix and apply the colours of autumn, with Tony Hogan

Books • WHAT TO READ THIS MONTH

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