For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Practise colour mixing and other essential techniques with Lesley Linley
• Follow Liz Chaderton and combine newsprint and watercolour to paint a portrait of a woman in a hat
• Discover the joy of  watercolour pencils with Joy Alderson

Plus:

• Complete your festive scene set in candlelight with Milly England
• Tony Underhill introduces a phtograph of Wiveton Hall in Norfolk for this month's painting project
• Put Winton oils' new colours to the test with Steve Strode
• Take a New Year sketchbook challenge with Andy Walker
• Paint a sparkling Christmas market scene with Valėrie Pirlot 
• Rosalind Jelbert-Ingram shows how to draw a portrait of Percy the cat in coloured pencils
• Get to know your brushes with Jackie Garner
• David Whitehead talks you through the process of scanning, editing and printing ink drawings before adding colour
• Paint a moorland scene with grouse in acrylics with Charles Evans
• Wendy Jelbert experiments with texture as she relives happy memories of sand and sea

And:

• Things to do this month
• Exhibitions
• Reviews of the latest practical art books
• Reader's letters
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the February issue of Leisure Painter - out on December 24