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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Editor’s choice • £1.3m art fund grants to bring new life to museum collections across the UK

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

Light in winter landscapes • Take a simple scene and infuse it with the essence of winter lighting, using a loose approach and experimental tools.

Introduction to GEL PRINTING • Colin Joyce talks through the tools and techniques to use for effective gel printing results every time

Fountain pen ink art • Nick Stewart shows you how to utilise the chromatic qualities of fountain pen ink to dramatic effect while adding household bleach for highlighting and erasing

Turning problems into positives • Use your disappointments and failures to take your art to the next level! Tony Underhill shares some helpful ideas and exercises

Moonlight on snow • Rachel McNaughton shares the best palette and marks to make for a stunning wintry scene in soft pastels

Coffee Grounds Challenge • The patterns left in your coffee cup can provide endless inspiration! Judith Heilbronn-Crown, with members of the UK Colour Pencil Society, share how to join in with their challenge

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

Painting with hearing loss • How progressive hearing loss has affected my art journey

Q&A Knitted know-how • Professional colour pencil artist, Helen Carter, provides helpful guidance and tips for how to draw realistic knitted textures with coloured pencils

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

Dear Diary • In this new feature we’ll get a brief insight into the diary of an artist as we follow along with the advertures of Robert E Wells

Abstraction • Caroline Saunders talks to Patrick Haughton about his abstracts where each mark is significant in the search for truth

The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard • Sarah Middleton continues her history of art series with a look at Jean-Honore Fragonard…

SENSING, SEEING AND PAINTING THE intangible PART 1 • Ingrid Brown starts a six-part series exploring how mood, weather, light, emotion and setting affect painting and how to convey these in paint. In this first part Ingrid introduces the theme, focussing on sensing the atmosphere

REIMAGINING WATERCOLOUR PART 2 Deeply dramatic • This second article of twelve fundamental watercolour techniques, from Catherine Beale, examines how to create a variety of tones across a painting.

The five stories of every painting • Mike Barr looks at the deeper meanings that can be derived from every piece of art

Solving the SOLVENT • Paul Talbot-Greaves explores an effective alternative to traditional solvents when working with oils

An eye for COLOUR • Bob Brandt explores using colours which go beyond the ‘real’

De-mystifying the ethereal qualities of light • Robert Dutton demonstrates how to create an allure of mist with an expressive painting style using a wide variety of media

Snow and Steam • Barry Herniman indulges in his love of steam locomotives with particular focus on the myriad of colours in the smoke clouds.

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Holdiays & courses

Key questions to ask • Advice on how to ensure your chosen course or holiday is the perfect fit for you

Teaching people to see differently • From corporate boardrooms to coloured pencils, Yorkshire artist Bonny Snowdon has...