Celebrate Leisure Painter's 50th Anniversary in 2017!

For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Use a limited palette to paint snowdrops with Julie King
• Learn to paint fluently with Jem Bowden's step-by-step landscape demonstration
• Tim Fisher completes his three-part response to a reader's question on painting foliage
• Paint the wildfowl and reedbeds of Suffolk with Richard Nichols

Oil:

• Learn to capture light and atmosphere in winter paintings with Christine Pybus
• Paint 60-minute studies with Colin Joyce

Plus:

• Ideas for drawing in water-soluble media with Anne Kerr
• Dave White shows how to achieve realistic skies in acrylics
• How to produce and transform a rough sketch and a photograph into a finished painting with Wendy Jelbert
• Elena Parashko discusses how photographs can be used to support your artistic practice
• How to use the warm dark browns in your palette with Tony Paul
• Lisa Hooper shows how to produce linoocuts of wildlife subjects at home

And:

• Produce a painting in 60-minutes for this month's anniversary painting competition
• Reader's letters
• Things to do this month
• Reviews of practical art books
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the March of Leisure Painter - out on January 27, click here to purchase your copy.