For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Practise the wet-in-wet technique to paint animals with Kerry Bennett
• David Webb shows how to use masking fluid for painting a seascape
• Use a variety of techniques and ideas from Rachel McNaughton as you paint an autumn hedgerow
• Pauline Denyer Baker completes our series on painting miniatures with watercolour portraits on polymer

Plus:

• Follow Colin Steed's primary colour-mixing challenge as he introduces this month's painting project
• How to draw a badger using coloured pencils with Linda Hampson
• Discover a new way of looking at the landscape in the second part of our series on perspective with Christine Pybus
• Julie Askew demonstrates how she sketches and paints subjects in the wild
• Learn how to change daylight photos into moonlight paintings with Linda Birch
• Steve Strode looks at colour, shape and tone as he shows how to paint metal and glass
• In his final weather report Tim Fisher shows how to paint winter scenes and skies using acrylic
• Practise your drawing skills with Tony Underhill's still-life demonstrations
• Learn to paint realistic water scenes using water-soluble oils with Murray Ince
• Follow Elena Parashko to paint an orchid in oils
• See this year's award-winning paintings from the Leisure Painter Open Competition, plus advice from judges, David Curtis and John Sprakes

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 and DVDs
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the October issue of Leisure Painter - out on September 9, click here to purchase your copy.