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

Angelica Kauffman symposium

Cambridge Open Studios

Paint the Park

Women Impressionists

OPPORTUNITIES

Sargent and Fashion

Focus on landscapes • How to analyse and simplify a complicated landscape before painting it in watercolour, by Colin Steed

Painting project • Ask yourself the right questions before you put paint to canvas in this month's project from a photograph, with acrylic painter, Hazel Money

Painting project • Part 2 Join Nina Squire as she paints a view of a bluebell wood from a photograph

Subject in flight • Part 1 How to capture a moment in a hummingbird's flight. This month, Julie Askew prepares to paint her subject with the help of compositional sketches

Soft pastel • Part 2 How to use a limited pastel palette and work on black paper to produce a dramatic scene, by Mike Rollins

Tuscan village • Ready for a rainy-day challenge? Try painting this cheerful village scene by practising your drawing and colour-mixing skills, with Rachel McNaughton

All in the eyes • How to paint a barn owl using a limited palette of watercolour, by Kerry Bennett

Towards abstraction • Follow Linda Birch as she takes you through the process she uses to create semi-abstract paintings

Loose and lively • How to loosen up your brushstrokes and find your own style, by Jo Allsopp

Let's draw: cherry blossom • Creative ideas for practising your drawing skills, by Bianca Giarola

Simply trees • Part 1 Tony Hogan takes you through the basic materials needed to paint with oils before beginning a short series on painting tree studies for beginners

Vehicles • Top tips and advice from Brian Smith on sketching vehicles in different media

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

ART BOX • Art products to help you develop your skills

UK ART SHOPS • Support your specialist art retailer by purchasing your materials from the shops listed here

Books • WHAT TO READ THIS MONTH

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

LETTER

ART CLUB CHALLENGE