Leisure Painter has been teaching beginners and amateur painters to draw and paint for over 40 years. Top art tutors offer practical step-by-step tuition and easy-to-follow advice on how to draw and paint in a traditional and realistic way.
Included in this month's issue:
Wet-in-wet watercolour techniques for beginners by Fiona Peart
Pauline Hill introduces a photograph of an exotic flower
Discounted practical art books in Leisure Painter Bookshop
Details of our latest workshop at Knuston Hall with Carole Gray
Also Jackson's latest 132 page catalogue full of art products enclosed in this issue
Features
Combining Art Media for Texture and Effect
Posted: 12 May 2009
Joanne Boon Thomas explains how experimenting with mixed media brings out a variety of effects and textures using the same subject for your painting.
See the June 2009 issue of Leisure Painter for the full article.
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