Summer 2020

For you to try this month:

Watercolour:

• Use a variety of different watercolour techniques to paint skies with David Bellamy
• Julie King shares a photograph of a sunny lane in St Tropez for this month's painting project
• Use your smallest brushes and a handful of colours as you paint blackbird's eggs with Paul Hopkinson

Plus:

• Complete your rose in part two of Elena Parashko's acrylic painting project
• Paint a colourful Venetian scene from a photograph with Tim Fisher
• Tony Underhill shows how to take control of what you do and don't include in your paintings
• Learn to depict trees through the seasons using pastels with Rebecca de Mendonça
• Tony Hogan begins a series of acrylic demonstrations showing how to capture the effect of light at different times of the day, starting with a scene at dawn
• Learn to draw animals using coloured pencils with Linda Birch
• Jackie Garner continues her look at liquid, gel and textural mediums
• Refresh your paintings at home by learning from Amanda Cooper's methods for sketching abroad
• Develop an expressive way of working in line & wash with Milly England
• Anne Kerr commences a new series of beginner's guides with a look at pastel pencils

And:

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

All this and more in the Summer issue of Leisure Painter - out on June 12