Celebrate Leisure Painter's 50th Anniversary in 2017!

For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Hone you skills in painting and drawing trees with David Bellamy
• Follow Alison Fennell to create a painting of koi carp step-by-step
• David Webb uses three of his favourite colours to produce a range of effects and textures

Oil:

• Pamela Kay offers insights on painting traditional interiors
• Paint more 60-minute studies with Colin Joyce

Plus:

• Take five steps to becoming a more creative and prolific painter with Helen Elliott
• Follow Paul Bramble's tips for showing your work to a worldwide audience
• Easy-to-follow exercises to build your colour-mixing skills from Paul Alcock
• Elena Parashko shows how to simplify a scene and tell a story
• How to use the cool dark browns, blacks and whites in your palette with Tony Paul
• Lisa Hooper introduces white line woodblock printing to try at home
• Produce dog portraits in pastel with Rebecca de Mendonça
• Anne Kerr shares simple tips for drawing in a variety of inks

And:

• Paint trees in the landscape for this month's anniversary painting competition
• Reader's letters
• Things to do this month
• Reviews of practical art books
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the April of Leisure Painter - out on February 24, click here to purchase your copy.