Celebrate Leisure Painter's 50th Anniversary in 2017!

For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Learn the value of hard and soft edges when painting a landscape with Jem Bowden
• Practise wet-in-wet watercolour with Rachel McNaughton as she paints summer flowers
• Liz Chaderton shows how to paint lively watercolours of animals
• David Webb looks at tonal variations in the first of a short problem-solving series
• Build your confidence to paint more freely with Sue Bradley
• Julie King shows how to paint the colours and textures of summer gardens

Acrylic:

• Journey into acrylics with Cat Croxford in the first of a new series on painting landscapes
• Paul Alcock completes his painting project harbour scene from last month's photograph
• How to paint translucent layers of acrylics with Tony Paul

Plus:

• Experiment with oil pastel resists, acrylic inks and watercolour with Tim Fisher
• Steve Strode on finding artistic inspiration close to home
• Paint a moonlit seascape in oils with Elena Parashko
• Claire Martin shows how to use tinted surfaces for mixed media

And:

• Paint a local scene for this month's anniversary painting competition
• 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

All this and more in the August issue of Leisure Painter - out on July14, click here to purchase your copy.