Celebrate Leisure Painter's 50th Anniversary in 2017!

For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Paint a moonlit woodland scene with Ian Pethers
• Jem Bowden shows how to develop your composition as he completes his landscape painting project
• Ideas and techniques for painting birds in watercolour from Liz Chaderton
• David Webb shares his three-wash watercolour technique

Acrylic:

• Be inspired by the contents of your kitchen cupboard to paint still lifes with Rodney Kingston
• Cat Croxford shares techniques for painting acrylic landscapes

Plus:

• Paint a garden scene for this month's painting project with Julie King
• Steve Strode sketches small studies as he finds artistic inspiration close to home
• Expand your traditional painting skills by trying digital art with Tony Underhill
• Tim Fisher uses a limited palette of acrylic inks to create a variety of effects
• Learn to record the changing nature of local buildings and scenes with Trudy Friend
• Becky Samuelson puts Jackson's Raven synthetic squirrel brushes through their paces
• Improve your tonal awareness uisng water-soluble graphite pencils with Colin Steed

And:

• Paint a nocturne 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 in the September issue of Leisure Painter - out on August 11, click here to purchase your copy.