For you this month:

• Start your journey into soft pastels with top advice from Greg Howard
• Sue Bradley shows how to create special efects using the granulating properties of watercolours
• How to paint and make your own Christmas cards with Alice May
• Improve your watercolour skills with Jem Bowden
• Tony Underhill shows how to paint a Lake District hotel scene from a photograph
• Learn to sketch charaterful buildings in watercolour with David Bellamy
• Paint a dramatic sky over rolling waves in oils with Elena Parashko
• Kerry Bennett gets you in the festive mood as she shows how to paint a pair of robins in watercolour
• Learn how to turn sunny spring photographs into snow-laden winter scenes with Murray Ince
• Add gold for Christmas sparkle as you paint a bowl of hellebores with Julie King
• Follow Brian Smith and build your figure drawing skills as he fills his sketchbook with people
• Jo Allsopp demonstrates how to paint loose and lively pet portraits

And:

• Things to do this month
• Exhibitions
• Latest news and listings from UK art clubs
• Readers letters
• Art book reviews
• Paintings from the Painters Online gallery

All this and more in the January issue of Leisure Painter - out on November 17, click here to purchase your copy.