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

Pottery meets painting

Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious

Painting project • Part 1 How to make meaningful figure studies from your family albums, by Steve Strode

Painting project • Part 2 Draw and paint both a side view and a front view of a vintage car using photographs, with Tony Underhill

Focus on animals • Don’t be intimidated by pastels! Naomi Jenkin offers a host of tips and techniques on using her favourite medium to capture stunning wildlife subjects

Winter warm-ups • Part 1 Celebrate your creativity indoors this winter as you paint a memory still life, work from artificial flower heads, and create a simple linocut lookalike, with Linda Birch

Q&A Blurry backgrounds • Welcome to the coloured-pencil clinic. Professional coloured-pencil artist, Helen Carter will be here every month to answer your questions and provide helpful guidance, tips and tricks for using this versatile medium

Strong focus • How to lead your viewer into a painting with the help of a convincing focal point, with Greg Howard

A painting process • Elizabeth Baxter discusses her materials and practices as she paints animals and portraits using traditional oils

Shiny baubles • Part 2 Having practised painting glass baubles last month, now tackle the diverse textures of vintage glass ornaments and wooden blocks in this colourful Christmas still life, with Sharon Tiernan

INTRODUCING YOUR 2024 TALP PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD WINNERS

Take a humble pencil • Part 1 Laying the foundation. This month, Conor Smith begins his new drawing series looking at the tools he uses, initial sketches, choosing the perfect reference, and how to render your image accurately

5 top tips for choosing a good reference photo

hoosing your reference photo

Wallace Seymour Oil Colour • Tim Fisher puts his chosen Wallace Seymour colours to the test – and comes up with great results

Building blocks • INew to watercolour painting? Try the easy-to-follow methods of Mike Jackson to complete a simple scene with cottages

Books • TREAT YOURSELF AND TRY SOMETHING NEW WITH THE AID OF ONE OF THESE NEW BOOKS!

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