For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Practise graded washes with David Webb
• Follow Michael Lakin to paint a calla lily
• Gwen Scott shows how to paint a winter scene from a summer photograph
• How to find and paint the patterns of a winter landscape with Colin Joyce

Plus:

• Sam Dolman discusses the materials, references and techniques he uses to paint realistic portraits of animals
• Discover the importance of painting in a digital age with Pamela Kay
• Tony Hogan paints a Yorkshire sunrise using pastels
• Experiment with two different ways of starting an oil painting with Noel Gregory
• Linda Birch concludes her journey into abstraction series
• Paint beautiful insects in line and wash with Liz Chaderton
• Colin Steed shows how to add acrylic highlights to watercolour paintings
• Paint natural landscapes and urban scenes in acrylics with Steve Strode
• Judith Heilbronn-Crown shows how to draw realistic reflections in coloured pencil
• Tips and techniques for painting portraits in acrylic with Lorna Gasperi
• View the runners' up paintings from last year's Art Club of the Year competition

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

All this and more in the March issue of Leisure Painter - out on January 26, click here to purchase your copy.