Leisure Painter

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Leisure Painter

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Next month’s highlights

WINNERS OF THE EMERGENCY SERVICES PAINTING COMPETITION

Diary • THINGS TO DO THIS MONTH

Exhibitions • JANE STROUD RECOMMENDS

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

Improve your watercolour mixing with a limited palette • Tim Fisher shows the way

Painting project • Part 1 Practise a variety of watercolour techniques as you prepare to complete a painting of a pink camellia

Painting project • Part 2 How to paint a sunny landscape using just four water-mixable oil colours, by Andy Walker

Sketching made easy • Part 2 Watercolour pencils. Colin Joyce offers tips and advice on making the most of your art materials

Seasonal trees • Part 1 Learn techniques to paint winter and spring trees using acrylics, with Charles Evans

Ammonite study • Part 1 This month, practise your drawing skills as you transfer the information in a reference photograph of a fossil onto your chosen surface, by Paul Hopkinson

Beginner’s watercolour • Part 5 How to paint simple skies, using a variety of essential watercolour techniques and just three colours, with Stephen Coates

Let’s draw! • Part 5 This month, follow Elena Parashko’s top tips and techniques for successfully drawing flowers in graphite

One subject, two media • Part 1 Rachel McNaughton uses delicate colours and a host of techniques to paint Dunstanburgh castle in watercolour

One subject, two media • Part 2 Now Mike Rollins paints picturesque Dunstanburgh Castle from a different angle, using acrylic techniques and just five colours

Reflections • Part 1 Follow Colin Steed as he shows you how to paint reflections using the wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry watercolour techniques

Spring is near • From first sketches to finished study, Alice May takes you through a creative, fun process to paint a celebration of spring

Explore watercolour • Part 5 Develop your painting skills as you learn how to paint with conviction, with Brian Smith

Texture and light • Practise essential acrylic techniques, impasto and mark making to paint a dramatically coloured early spring landscape, with Tony Hogan

Books • WHAT TO READ THIS MONTH

Online gallery • Jane Stroud’s selection of works from our PaintersOnline gallery