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

Editor’s choice • In a dazzling exploration of hue, Colour brings over 150 vibrant objects spanning art, nature, science and culture, offering a kaleidoscopic journey that’s perfect for art lovers, families, and curious minds alike.

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

Texture & momentum • Textural seascape Gemma Lessinger discusses the ways she creates her incredible art, creating waves from waste, and shares her tips and advice

GEMMA’S TOP 5 tips for exploring texture in your art:

The art of arrangement • Part 2; Assessing reference photos and ‘compositional sketching’, by Jem Bowden

Capturing the essence of the festival • Richard Holland shares his approach to outside oil sketching followed by studio painting

Seasons of small things: Summer • Linda Birch discusses the uses of slow art and the discovery of painting small

Rolling countryside • In this tip-packed watercolour tutorial, artist and tutor Nicki Saunders guides you through painting a gentle rural scene. Using classic techniques like wet-in-wet, masking fluid and subtle scoring for bark texture, you’ll learn how to build depth and atmosphere while enjoying the freedom of experimental mark-making. Perfect for artists looking to explore landscape painting in a relaxed, creative way

Painting with sight problems • Registered blind, self-taught artist John Mitchell has defied the odds to become an accomplished plein air painter working in watercolour and oils proving that visual impairment doesn’t mean the end of creativity, but the beginning of painting differently. Here he shares his story and tips for artists who might be battling with sight loss

Q & A Shines & reflections • Professional colour pencil artist, Helen Carter provides helpful guidance, tips and tricks for using this versatile medium to create the look of shine

Spanish sun • Learn the painting process of Daniel Fermor-Smith as he captures late afternoon at the Alhambra

6 TOP TIPS for painting late afternoon at the Alhambra

Travelling light • Everything you need to sketch on location and still travel light with Tony Underhill

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

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WELCOME from the editor

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

Painting boats and harbour scenes • Boats and harbour scenes have always been popular with artists and the variety of subject matter available is second to none. Robert Brindley discusses the attraction of painting these versatile scenes using oils.

A day in the life of IAN SIDAWAY RI ASGFA • I am privileged to have worked with Ian as a regular contributor to The Artist magazine during my editorship and delighted that he agreed to share the following insights into his professional career as a practising artist.

Discovering the perfect surface for wildlife • After over 15 years painting wildlife on every surface from copper to cotton, Daniel Wilson, artist and educator behind Studio Wildlife shares why ACF Canvasses have become his goto, transforming not just his process, but his entire approach to painting. In this step-by-step breakdown, he reveals how the right surface can elevate both technique and storytelling.

Pastel expression and vibrancy • Caroline Saunders talks to pastel artist Cathy Pearce about her fascination for saturated and vibrating colour

Panoramic highland landscapes • Paul Weaver...