Celebrate Leisure Painter's 50th Anniversary in 2017!

For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Paint wisteria in watercolour with a step-by-step demonstration by Rachel McNaughton
• Jem Bowden completes his spring landscape in part two of his painting project
• Paint a portrait of an owl with the first part of Paul Hopkinson's demonstration
• Wendy Jelbert shows you how to paint a lively farmyard scene
• Follow Colin Joyce as he paints sunlight and shadow

Oil:

• Richard Holland shows how to mix greens and paint buildings in the landscape
• Paint beaches and coastal scenes through the seasons with Christine Pybus

Plus:

• David Bellamy describes his experiences of sketching in cold and remote places
• Part 2 of Tony Paul's series on acrylic painting looks at palettes, supports, priming and colours
• Anne Kerr completes her drawing and painting project of a Mediterranean town
• Complete a portrait of a child using pastel pencils and soft pastels with Martin Ash
• Practice line and wash techniques with Tim Fisher
• Elena Parashko shows how to extract stories from a photgraph

And:

• Paint late spring flowers or a scene from your garden for this month's anniversary painting competition
• Reader's letters
• Things to do this month
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the July issue of Leisure Painter - out on May 19, click here to purchase your copy.