Celebrate Leisure Painter's 50th Anniversary in 2017!

For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Paint lively portraits with Hazel Soan
• Jo Louca paints a nocturne in watercolour
• Complete your portrait of a barn owl with part two of Paul Hopkinson's demonstration
• Paint late spring on the river bank using a limited palette with Richard Nichols
• Botanical painting for beginners with Jarnie Godwin, who demonstrates an iris

Acrylic:

• Paint a scene on Bodmin Moor with Tony Hogan
• Make the most of acrylics with techniques from Tony Paul
• Elena Parashko paints a scene from five photographs

Plus:

• Techniques for adding washes to line drawings with Tim Fisher
• Paint in your garden - first steps in painting outdoors from Steve Strode
• Paul Alcock shows how to draw a complicated harbour scene in part one of his painting project
• A wealth of hints and ideas to take your painting to the next level from Michael Fenner

And:

• Paint wildlife for this month's anniversary painting competition
• 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 summer issue of Leisure Painter - out on June16, click here to purchase your copy.