Celebrate Leisure Painter's 50th Anniversary in 2017!

For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Follow Julie King as she paints a garden scene in part two of her painting project
• Build confidence in handling watercolour and your brushes with tips from Hazel Soan
• Tips and techniques for painting colourful gardens with Judith Milne
• Paul Hopkinson shows how to paint a harvest mouse, step-by-step, in the first of a two-part demonstration
• Develop your skills with Rachel McNaughton as you paint foxgloves
• How to paint a cat in watercolour with Liz Chaderton

Acrylic:

• Paint an autumnal scene on Bodmin Moor with Tony Hogan
• Rodney Kingston demonstrates a busy still life of bottles, jars and spoons

Plus:

• Bring your deach scenes to life with Christine Pybus
• Colin Steed shows how to paint a village scene from several photographs
• Learn how to combine inks with soft pastel to create beautiful landscapes with Tim Fisher
• Adrienne Parker reports on her experiments with Jackson's Handmade Soft Pastels
• Tony Paul begins a four-part series on composition with a look at classic shapes
• Try a miniature challenge with Helen White
• Amanda Cooper offers a lesson in landscape painting on holiday
• View the winners of this year's Leisure Painter Open Exhibition and Competition

And:

• Paint your favourite shoes for this month's anniversary painting competition
• Reader's letters
• Things to do this month
• Art club news, profiles and exhibition listings
• Practical art books reviewed
• Exhibitions from around the UK
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more, plus your FREE 16-page guide to art courses and holidays in the October issue of Leisure Painter - out on September 8, click here to purchase your copy.