Leisure Painter - 12.2018

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.

***Welcome to the December issue of Leisure Painter. As always, the issue is packed full of demonstrations and tutorials for you to follow, from watercolour, pen and wash and pastel to acrylics and oils. Liz Chaderton demonstrates how to add gold leaf to your paintings for that added wow factor and Julie King offers inspiration for this year's Christmas card. There are three quick practices to help you paint watercolour with more confidence and our cover artist, Shelly Perkins shares her unique methods of combining traditional and digital techniques in 'Pencils, Paint and Pixels'. Find out where some of the best exhibitions, art events and art club shows are running this month, books to read and so much more! Enjoy your month of painting with Leisure Painter.***