Leisure Painter & The Artist July 2025

Features - Leisure Painter:

• Develop and experiment: Practise a variety of watercolour techniques that will help you to create stunning landscapes, with David Bellamy
• Painting project: Part 1 Prepare to paint a spring heathland scene using acrylics. Top tips and practical advice from Hazel Money
• Explore ink: Nick Stewart introduces you to the materials and methods he used to draw and paint with fountain pen ink
• Buttercups and bluebells: Part 1 Develop your drawing skills and mix a range of greys as you prepare to render a delightful bunch of spring flowers, with Julie King
• Perfect partners: Combine gouache, watercolour or Inktense with chalk pastels to create natural textures, with animal artist, Naomi Jenkin
• Busy marketplace: Ready to a challenge? Take out your paints and tackle this lively scene, with Rachel McNaughton
• Make the right choices: Melanie Cambridge introduces her own set of brushes for oil and acrylic painting
• Your essential kit: In this month's coloured-pencil clinic, Helen Carter discusses the materials you'll need to start drawing with coloured pencils
• Light, mood and atmosphere: Part 2 This month we look at more techniques you can use to inject your paintings with atmosphere, by Greg Howard
• Painting project: Part 2 Conor Smith completes a realistic drawing of an African painted dog in graphite
• Introducing... oil pastels: Tim Fisher discusses best practices and methods for painting. His subject this month - birds
• A travelling artist: Follow Marilyn Allis as she sketches with watercolour in Morocco and Guatemala

Features - The Artist

• A day in the life of Jenny Wheatly: Sally Bulgin interviews the artist about her painting career
• The painter's narrative: Susie talks to Lorena Levi about her imagined narrative and the relationships she creates between her sitters
• Women in art: Julie Collins sheds light on the history of the Society of Women Artists with a focus on women painting women
• Learn from the masters: Sarah Edmonds reveals lesser-known artworks by artists we know and love. Part 7: Henri Matisse
• Turning professional: Rodney Kingston shares his experience of his first year as a full-time artist
• Ask an artist: Kimberley Keegan offers tips and advice for working artists
• The importance of painting output: Mike Barr encourages you to make regular painting a habit

Practicals - The Artist

• Perfect light: Immerse yourself in the heat of the French Riviera with Peter Graham as he paints the part of Saint-Tropez in oils
• In the footsteps of Tunnicliffe: Follow Becky Thorley-Fox in her three-part series as she paints en plein air through the seasons
• Linocuts: In the final article of his four-part series on creating linocuts with impact, Keith Tunnicliffe demonstrates a complex scene of boats in the harbour
• Drawing for painting: Paul Weaver uses his original on-site sketch as the basis of a water-mixable oil study later in the studio 
• Interiors from life: Tushar Sabale paints a special place using a limited palette of oils and a restricted time limit
• A full head of steam: Capture the drama and nostalgia of steam trains with Barry Herniman using gouache and watercolours
• Watercolours freed!: Unlock the potential of watercolours with Catherine Beale as she begins a new six-part series that encourages you to push the medium to its limits