For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• How to paint a building with three different sets of colour in the second part of Colin's Steed's painting project
• Gwen Scott shows how to paint an autumn landscape
• Learn to apply background washes to paint boats on the water with David Webb
• Practice watercolour techniques for painting autumn leaves with Tessa Spanton

Plus:

• Be inspired to keep an illustrated garden journal with Ann Mortimer
• Richard Holland shows how to paint crashing waves in oil in this month's painting project
• Paint a still life of metal and glass using acrylics with Steve Strode
• Julie Askew shres her thoughts and techniques to produce a meaningful painting of wildlife
• Learn to add colour to your sketches with Tony Underhill
• Tim Fisher starts a new beginners guide to oil pastels with a still life of a red pepper
• Paint an autumn landscape using acrylics with Charles Evans
• Elena Parashko shows how to simplify a complicated image of ship's rigging
• Develop your skills and build confidence with advice on painting every day from Tara Roskell and Sandra Busby
• Tim Fisher puts Pintor pens by Pilot to the test
• Our series on miniatures comes to an end with a look at surfaces for portraits with Pauline Denyer Baker

And:

• Things to do this month
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Reader's letters
• Reviews of the latest practical art books and DVDs
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery
• Enter this year's Charity Christmas painting competition

All this and more, including your free guide to art courses and holidays for 2018/19, in the November issue of Leisure Painter - out on October 5, click here to purchase your copy.