For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Seven steps to success with Terry Harrison
• Improve your work by sketching and painting people on the move with Amanda Brett
• Make the most of watercolour with a special technique from botanical artist, Helen Campbell

Oil:

• Learn to see and paint like an artist with Pamela Kay as she paints still lifes
• Martin Kinnear shows how to transfer your acrylic skills to oil painting

Other media:

• Arnold Lowrey discusses the versatlity and fun of painting with acrylics
• Paint a winter landscape using a limited number of pastels with Les Darlow
• Paint three views of winter trees using Inktense and watercolour with Trudy Friend
• Wendy Jelbert shows how to use collage and other effects to create beautiful winter still lifes
• Explore a variety of seasonal subjects in watercolour, coloured pencil, marker pens and pastel with Linda Birch

Plus:

• Judith Milne introduces photographs of a sunlit doorway and garden pots for this month's painting project
• Tony Paul starts a new 17-part series on understanding colour
• Fibralo Brush test report by Judith Milne

And:

• Call for entries to Leisure Painter Open Art Competition 2016
• Art Club of the Year 2016 competition launches this month
• Reader's letters
• Things to do this month
• Reviews of the latest practical art books and DVDs
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and much more in the January issue of Leisure Painter - out on December 4, click here to purchase