For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Follow Paul Hopkinson to paint a blue-eyed cat in watercolour
• Learn to paint reflections with part one of Colin Steed's painting project
• Use wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry techniques to paint boats with David Webb

Plus:

• Complete Sandra Busby and Tara Roskell's 31-day sketchbook challenge and enter our sketching competition
• Julie King completes her garden scene in line & wash
• Be inspired by pale blue oil pastel as Tim Fisher continues to discuss his favourite colours
• Ann Mortimer shares more ideas for your sketchbook garden journal
• Pack up yoir paintbox and head outdoors with Steve Strode
• Learn to work light over dark to paint a portrait of a teddy bear in gouache with Murray Ince
• Use urban sketching techniques to paint from a photograph with Tony Underhill
• Elena Parashko shows how to paint an ocean view in acrylic
• Christine Pybus explains the materials and colours you need to begin painting with oils
• Experiment with acrylics with Linda Birch
• Lorna Gasperi offers tips and advice for painting abroad

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
• Reader's letters
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the summer issue of Leisure Painter - out on July 12, click here to purchase your copy.