Celebrate Leisure Painter's 50th Anniversary in 2017!

For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Michelle Campbell demonstrates a painting of a robin using just four colours
• Tips and techniques for sketching landscapes using watercolour pencils from David Bellamy
• David Webb shows how to paint compelling skies
• Paint animals on the move with Hazel Soan
• Julie King demonstrates a study of a geranium

Plus:

• Paint a harbour scene using acrylics with Brendan Smith
• Judith Milne shares techniques and inspiration for painting floral Christmas cards
• Use oil and acrylic to paint water and reflections in wet sand with Elena Parashko
• Put Stephen Coates' exercises from last month to the test as you paint a landscape from a photograph
• Complete your painting of an atmospheric Yorkshire landscape with oil painter Martin Kinnear
• Inspiration for this year's Christmas card from Charles Evans
• Christine Pybus shows how to paint seasonal beach scenes using complementary colours
• Develop your compositional skills with Tony Paul

And:

• Enter our final anniversary painting competition
• Reader's letters
• Things to do this month
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Practical art books reviewed
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this plus your 2017 index in the December issue of Leisure Painter - out on November 3, click here to purchase your copy.