Leisure Painter - 04.2017

Leisure Painter is the UK’s best-selling learn-to-paint magazine and is essential reading for beginners and hobby painters. Leisure Painter is passionate about teaching its readers to draw and paint, publishing easy-to-follow demonstrations by the best-known, most experienced art tutors in the UK, in every issue. Leisure Painter can help anyone to learn to draw and paint, and have fun learning a new, lifelong hobby, whilst making new friends with a similar passion.

*... Diary Things to do this month * Exhibitions Some of the best shows around the country * Letters Your tips, suggestions, ideas and questions * Books Some of the best practical art books are reviewed * Art clubs News, exhibition listings and ‘best in show’ paintings * Online gallery Jane Stroud chooses a dog portrait from PaintersOnline * New beginnings Challenge yourself as you take five steps to becoming a more creative and prolific painter, with Helen Elliott * Virtual help Follow Paul Bramble’s top tips on showing your work to a worldwide audience * Trees in the landscape Hone your observational skills and technique as you draw and paint trees in watercolour, with David Bellamy * Primary issues Practise five easy-to-follow exercises to build colour-mixing skills and learn more about the theory behind painting, by Paul Alcock * Colour and depth Follow step-by-step the painting of a koi carp in watercolour, with Alison Fennell * Understanding colour Part 17 Tony Paul completes his back-tobasics colour series with a look at the cool browns, blacks and whites in your palette * At home Using the chateaux of the Loire as her theme, Pamela Kay offers insights into how to see and paint traditional interiors in oils * Take three colours David Webb discusses three of his favourite colours and how he exploits them to produce a range of effects and textures in watercolour * Pastel primer Part 1 Follow Rebecca de Mendonça as she discusses how to work with surface textures and colours to produce dog portraits in pastel * Drawing matters Part 3 Simple tips and exercises for drawing with a variety of inks, by Anne Kerr...*