For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Learn the benefits of the lifting-out technique and paint a flower study with David Webb
• Chris Hughes shares brush and colour-mixing techniques for developing your landscape painting style
• Paint white agapanthus in the Mediterranean sun with Julie King
• How to paint a butterfly on a buddleia with Rachel McNaughton

Plus:

• Paint a plein-air landscape in acrylics with Rodney Kingston
• Paula Henchell completes her oil painting of poppies and peonies
• For this month's painting project, Linda Hampson introduces a photograph of a badger for you to reproduce in coloured pencils
• How to draw a miniature portrait in coloured pencil with Tim Hayward
• Tips and techniques for painting colourful garden scenes using gouache from Lorna Gasperi
• Elena Parashko shows how to paint sea, surf and a rural beach scene in acrylics using the oil-painting technique
• Tim Fisher continues his weather report showing how to infuse your acrylic paintings with mood and atmosphere
• Learn how to create effective aerial perspective in your paintings with Christine Pybus
• Linda Birch introduces Derwent's Lightfast coloured pencils
• Fill your sketchbook with Tony Underhill and follow Tony's challenge to sketch a still life
• Paint figures on a rainy day using Brusho with Carrie McKenzie

And:

• Things to do this month
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Reviews of the latest practical art books and DVDs
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the September issue of Leisure Painter - out on August 10, click here to purchase your copy.