For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Top tips for painting moving water from Lesley Linley
• Colin Joyce captures a Scottish landscape
• Produce fresh lively paintings using just three colours with Andy Walker
• Michelle Campbell shows how to draw and paint a starling
• Practical advice for painting your garden throughout the year from Amanda Cooper
• Brian Smith shows how to paint snowscenes
• Paint a fig in detail with Helen Campbell

Plus:

• Milly England introduces a photograph of flowers on a cafe table for this month's project
• Practice mark making with a sword liner in the second part of Jackie Garner's series on brushes
• Ten top tips for painting portraits in oils from Valérie Pirlot
• Rebecca de Mendonça paints studies of plants and vegetables in pastel
• Learn to draw building effectively with Murray Ince
• Anne Kerr shows how to compose and paint a landscape in pastel
• Paint a Russian-inspired still life with Elena Parashko

And:

• Things to do this month
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Reviews of the latest practical art books
• Reader's letters
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this plus your free guide to art courses and holidays and more in the March issue of Leisure Painter - out on January 24, click here to purchase your copy.