For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Paint white cliffs in watercolour with a step-by-step demo from Rachel McNaughton
• Animal painter, Joy Alderson explores the versality of watercolour pencils
• Colin Steed discusses colour principles for landscape painting

Plus:

• Paint a festive scene set in candlelight with Milly England
• Jenny Aitken puts the new Cadmium-Free Oils from Winsor & Newton to the test
• Understand the rules of perspective with Paul Robinson as he demonstrates buildings in line and wash
• Have fun with Liz Chaderton as you paint a portrait of Father Christmas on recycled cardboard
• Paint a Christmas tree in water-mixable oils with Valėrie Pirlot 
• Join part one of Jackie Garner's year-long acrylic painting course
• Learn to adapt and paint from photographs with Elena Parashko
• Take up your pastels and paint an atmospheric landscape with Graham Cox
• Produce a series of paintings around one theme with Tim Fisher to encourage future sales

And:

• Win art materials worth over £500 from Winsor & Newton
• 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 January issue of Leisure Painter - out on November 27.