Leisure Painter August 2023

For you this month:

• Be inspired by David Bellamy to start creating your own illustrated family history
• Paul Clark introduces a photograph of Scotney Castle for this month's painting project.
• Paint a tapestry of wildflowers in watercolour with Rachel McNaughton
• The late Murray Ince demonstrates how to paint a woodland scene in gouache
• Tim Fisher puts a new range of Rosa Gallery Watercolours through its paces
• Andy Walker discusses the value of using thirds, fifths and rabatment when composing your paintings
• Learn how tonal contrast creates a variety of effects in oils with DJ
• Using vehicles as the theme, Tim O'Brien demonstrates how to draw ellipses correctly
• Paint a colourful study of a ladybird with Kerry Bennett.
• Use acrylics to paint dolphins swimming in a sunlit sea with Elena Parashko
• Learn the value of making notans and tonal sketches with Richard G Green
• Fill your sketchbook with interesting drawings with top tips and advise from Brian Smith
• Adapted from his new book, let Tim Fisher show you how to paint colourful beach huts using painting knives

And:

• Things to do this month
• Enter our summer landscape painting competition
• Exhibitions
• Latest news and listings from UK art clubs
• Reader's letters
• Art book reviews
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the August issue of Leisure Painter - out on June 16.