For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Learn fail-safe methods for painting watercolour skies with Terry Harrison
• Rachel McNaughton shows how to paint simple dandelion clocks
• Use watercolour techniques to paint an autumnal still life in miniature with Denise Heywood

Pencil:

• How to build-up a likeness from a photograph using layers of coloured pencil with Rosalind Jelbert-Ingram
• Develop your drawing and painting skills using liquid pencil with Trudy Friend
• William Mather discusses the business of portrait sketching at an event

Oil:

• Transform a dull photograph into a sunny beach beach scene with Elena Parashko
• Becky Samuelson tests out Jackson's Artist Oil Colours
• Celebrate impasto - how to use a painting knife with Steve Strode

Plus:

• Tony Paul shows how to use warm greens in your palette
• Tony Underhill introduces a photograph of Guernsey boats for this month's painting project
• Complete your painting of a stag using soft pastels with Emma Colbert
• Try simple print techniques and develop your skills with Collage with Linda Birch
• Elena Parashko offers solutions for dealing with five acrylic painting problems
• View the work of Gateshead Art Society - runner-up in this year's Art Club of the Year competition

And:

• 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 much more in the October issue of Leisure Painter - out on September 9, click here to purchase your copy including your FREE 24-page guide to art courses and holidays 2016/17.