For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Paint a simple jug using the wet-in-wet technique with David Webb
• Amanda Cooper shows how to set up and paint still lifes
• Paint a lively crowd scene on a rainy day with Rachel McNaughton
• Tony Hogan mixes watercolour with pastel to paint a multi-layered landscape

Plus:

• Start keeping an illustrated journal with ideas from David Bellamy. Plus enter the first of our sketchbook challenge competitions
• Christine Pybus demonstrates a winter beach scene in oils
• Tackle reflections in part one of this months' painting project with Judith Heilbronn-Crown
• John Mitchell shares tips on working creatively with your photographs
• Follow Steve Strode's five-stage acrylic painting process to paint a landscape
• Paint a dragonfly in pen and wash with Liz Chaderton
• Julie Askew offers ideas and tips for sketching on the go
• Try pouring acrylics for abstract effects with Elena Parashko
• Make the most of Payne's grey to practice tonal painting with Colin Steed
• View the winners of last year's anniversary painting competitions

And:

• Reader's letters
• Things to do this month
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Practical art books reviewed
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery
• Launch of this year's Art Club of the Year competition

All this and more in the April issue of Leisure Painter - out on February 23, click here to purchase your copy.