For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Chris Pendleton introduces a photograph of a kingfisher for this month's painting project
• Learn to depict aerial perspective with Lesley Linley
• Paint a charming village scene with Charles Evans
• Jem Bowden completes his snow-laten landscape painting

Plus:

• Alison Nicholls shows how to draw realistic faces using an ink pen as she continues her series on wildlife art
• Practise your acrylic brushstrokes for painting landscapes with Jackie Garner
• Graham Cox shows how to depict the effects of snow on the landscape using soft pastel and pastel pencils. Watch a video to accompany Graham's demonstration.
• Andy Walker encourages you to get creative with media and techniques in your sketchbooks
• Paint a winter mountain scene, step-by-step in oils, with DJ
• Linda Birch shares imaginative ideas for using acrylics as a foundation for your art
• Add vitality to your water-mixable oil paintings with Murray Ince
• Leisure Painter Award winner 2020, John Jarratt talks about his work
• Discover eight solutions for finishing a painting from Valérie Pirlot
• Christine Spence shares creative ideas for painting flowers from life

And:

• Things to do this month
• Exhibitions
• Reviews of the latest practical art books
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the April issue of Leisure Painter - out on February 19, click here to purchase your copy.