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Painting project
Part 1 Bring your paintings to life as you fill them with figures, by Stephen Coates
Animals from life
Part 4 Let your fancy take flight while you paint a colourful toucan in watercolour on a collaged background, with Liz Chaderton
Watercolour magic
How to approach a complex scene and make the most of watercolour’s transparent and vivid colours with gouache and ink, by Adrienne Parker
Inspired by the railways
Part 2 Alan Taylor takes you through the painting of one of his iconic images, inspired by travel posters of the 1930s
Coloured pencil basics
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The power of gouache
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Last year, Leisure Painter and artist-explorer David Bellamy invited readers to participate in a six-month sketchbook challenge. In each issue, David set a task for readers to complete in a journal-sketchbook and offered practical advice on how to tackle it. Here are the six winning entries.
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