Leisure Painter October 2023

For you this month:

• Simplify a summer garden scene by using just four colours with Julie King
• The late Murray Ince shows how to paint a dramatic sky using water-mixable oils
• Practise working at speed in line and wash with Tony Underhill's guide to painting a Lake District village in summer
• Pick up your pastels and paint a copper pan full of summer cherries with Rachel McNaughton
• DJ shows how to create exciting textures and shapes in your landscape paintings by working with knives
• Go miniature and paint a tiny rendition of a huge landscape with Christina Hopkinson
• Discover the value of mixing ink and graphite as Brian Smith continues his look at sketchbooks
• Let Nina Squire take you into the world of soft pastels in the first of a new series
• Take three colours and two brushes as you paint a boat on a beach in watercolour with David Webb
• Ian Pethers demonstrates a moonlit beach scene in ink and wash
• Learn to work more with tone than colour as Paul Minter tackles colour value substitution
• Use a variety of watercolour techniques to paint a stack of pebbles in subtle detail with Kerry Bennett
• Using vehicles as your inspiration, learn how to paint curved surfaces with Tim O'Brien

And:

• Things to do this month
• Enter our summer landscape painting competition
• Exhibitions
• Latest news and listings from UK art clubs
• Nina Squire answers a reader's question
• Art book reviews
• Paintings from the PaintersOnline gallery

All this and more in the October issue of Leisure Painter - out on August 18.