For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• How to produce work that is painterly but also accurate with David Webb
• Judith Milne explains the techniques and colour mixes she used to paint a colourful doorway in the second part of her painting project
• Becky Samuelson puts Jackson's own brand professional watercolours through their paces
• Follow Rachel McNaughton as she paints irises step-by-step in watercolour

Oil:

• Martin Kinnear shows how to use oils in mixed-media paintings
• Explore modelling paste as you paint a landscape with Richard Holland

Other media:

• Colin Steed introduces a snow-laden winter scene for you to paint in acrylics for this month's painting project
• Develop your pastel painting skills with techniques and advice from Jeremy Ford
• Wendy Jelbert looks at the new Sennelier Abstract Acrylics
• Overcome your fears of painting en-pein-air with Tony Parsons

Plus:

• What to paint in February - seasonal subjects from Linda Birch
• Tony Paul discusses the media choices available today in his series on understanding colour
• Learn how to paint from photographs with Terry Harrison
• Follow Lorna Gasperi's ideas and exercises to release a natural sense of composition
• Twenty brilliant ideas to make you a more successful painter from Adrienne Parker

And:

• Your FREE 24-page guide to art courses and holidays for 2016
• Call for entries to Leisure Painter Open Art Competition 2016
• Art Club of the Year 2016 competition launches this month
• Reader's letters
• Things to do this month
• Reviews of the latest practical art books and DVDs
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and much more in the February issue of Leisure Painter - out on December 31, click here to purchase