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.

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Leisure Painter

DATALAND • The world's first museum of AI arts to open

Spotlight on art • A round-up of events and ideas to enjoy live and online

The simple things • Spanish artist Núria Riera describes the meditative process and mindful quality of her work and how being next to the ocean inspires her work each day…

TOP TIPS for painting loose and lively • Discover the joy of painting tulips with freedom and flair in this vibrant, beginner-friendly project inspired by Jo Allsopp's expressive watercolour style

The art of everyday living with artist and lifestyle brand founder Sophie Allport • From sketchbook to sought-after homeware, Sophie Allport reveals how a lifelong love of nature, disciplined craft and family collaboration shaped her signature botanical style

Cycle of life • Botanical artist Gael Sellwood spoke to us about her observation and reverence for the atmosphere and poetry of plants, captured in her watercolours for posterity

Quiet contemplation • Louise Body speaks to us about her introspective approach to her abstract paintings and how mindfulness is intrinsically part of her process

Q&A Process & progress • Professional coloured pencil artist, Helen Carter, provides helpful guidance and tips for how to draw using the quiet art of learning faster

Garden Secrets • Garden designer Nicola Oakey shares her process of creating beautiful gardens armed with her artistic flair and a penchant for problem-solving

A cut above • Watercolour artist Lizzie Jayne Coles shares a quick and easy way to create a delicate floral wreath, using items found in your kitchen and bathroom…

Art clubs • Over to you for the latest news on your club exhibitions and activities

Art club challenge • In celebration of the wonder that the natural world provides us with as inspiration, we asked you to share your ‘Botanical’ artwork

ART BOOKS

THE ART WORLD • NEWS, INFORMATION AND ONLINE EVENTS IN THE ART WORLD

Dear Diary • Join us as we sneak a peak into the diary of an artist. Robert E Wells

Great & small • Rupert W Brooks oil paints still lives and portraits which capture the magic of the mundane – from plastic wrapped food to the kitchen sink

SENSING, SEEING AND PAINTING THE intangible PART 5 • This month Ingrid Brown explores ‘painting the figure’ and the intimacy and emotion this activity generates

INSIDE THE Society of Botanical Artists • Artist Sheryl Pape shared how the Society of Botanical Artists has helped her on her art journey and what it can offer for others

MINDFULNESS enriching our paintings • Mike Barr explains how he introduces both mindfulness and imagination into his work

A privileged position • In a women's prison, where routine and restriction define daily life, art tutor Nigel Brown is quietly reshaping what education can mean

Lastly, tell us about your own art, we understand you paint exclusively with your fingers and sticks?

A ‘sudden good idea’ • Bob Brandt explores the process of embracing a ‘sudden good idea’ and converting this into a finished painting

Edge of light • Caroline Saunders talks to the very intuitive and instinctive painter, Joanna Commings about her evolving style, veering towards abstraction

REIMAGINING WATERCOLOUR PART 6 Wave watching • Catherine Beale examines how to develop more complex subjects using ‘negative painting’ as she continues her exploration of the twelve fundamental watercolour techniques

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