Animals
How to Make Quick Lively Sketches of Animals with Gary Geraths
Gary Geraths shares advice for painting quick, lively sketches of animals in the January 2018 issue of Leisure Painter
Animals in motion – paint a tern in flight with Marie Antoniou
Marie Antoniou reveals how she uses bold brushmarks and clean colours to achieve a sense of movement in her abstracted, impressionistic wildlife paintings.
Painting Safari in Kenya with David Shepherd in spring 1967
Leisure Painter launched over 50 years ago in spring 1967. This article taken from that very first issue where David Shepherd, successful painter of wildlife, talks to Joanna Borchard about getting big game on to canvas.
How to draw and paint montages of your favourite animals with David Bellamy
Here’s how to draw and paint montages of your favourite animals in their natural habitats. David Bellamy offers practical advice from where to look for inspiration, materials and techniques to exercises you can try at home
Contemporary Old Master - The Photographically Accurate Animal Paintings of Alison Elliott
Alison Elliott’s photographically accurate portraits of animals are painted with an almost obsessional level of detail using traditional methods, as Robin Spalding discovers
How to draw an iridescent peacock feather in coloured pencil
Gayle Mason shares the coloured-pencil techniques necessary for drawing the structure and iridescence of a peacock feather