For you this month:

• David Bellamy shares pivotal moments in his career as he celebrates 40 years of writing for Leisure Painter
• Starting with a skyscape, Tim Fisher begins a new series on knife painting
• Mike Rollins shares three photographs of tropical beach scenes for this month's painting project
• Complete your watercolour park scene using just three colours with Stephen Coates
• Learn how to choose and use a sketching kit with Andy Walker
• Be inspired by Wendy Jelbert to paint old red telephone boxes
• Follow Graham Cox as he demonstrates a spring landscape using soft pastel and pastel pencil techniques
• Paint a split-screen effect ocean scene in acrylic with Elena Parashko
• Pick up your smallest brushes and paint a ladybird, step-by-step with Paul Hopkinson
• DJ shows how to add texture to your oil painting landscapes using your fingers, brushes and knives
• Paint a Celtic style letter U with Margaret Morgan
• Murray Ince paints an old ship in an Italian harbour
• Learn to paint a landscape using knives and acrylics with Jackie Garner

And:

• Things to do this month
• Exhibitions
• Reader's letters
• Reviews of the latest practical art books
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the July issue of Leisure Painter - out on May 14, click here to purchase your copy.