For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Paint loose and lively flowers with Claire Waite Brown
• Jem Bowden completes his autumn landscape in part two of his painting project
• Follow Paul Hopkinson to paint a portrait of a long tailed tit
• Develop your watercolour skills as you paint wet-on-dry clouds with Becky Samuelson

Oil:

• Elena Parashko demonstrates a painting of a racehorse
• Martin Kinnear answers a question on the use of solvents and mediums

Plus:

• Tony Paul shows how to use the yellow earths in your palette
• Produce your own Christmas cards by painting and drawing holly with Judith Milne
• Tim Fisher discusses circles, elipses, spheres and curvilinear perspective
• Learn when to blend and when to keep texture with Anne Kerr as she paints a pastel sunset
• Set up and paint a still life using whites with Paul Alcock
• Linda Birch concludes her series with a look at sgraffito, Chinese brush painting and artists' felt-tip pen techniques

And:

• 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
• Christmas gift ideas

All this plus your 2016 pull out and keep index and more in the December issue of Leisure Painter - out on November 4, click here to purchase your copy.