Leisure Painter & The Artist Magazine Mar-21 Back Issue

You don’t have to leave your front door to enjoy developing your creative skills and exploring the world of drawing and painting. Aimed at beginners and amateur painters, for the past 55 years Leisure Painter has offered step-by-step demonstrations, practical features, projects from photographs and tips and techniques – all designed for painting at home. This month, we are delighted to introduce you to wildlife artist, Alison Nicholls, who begins a three-part series on how to draw and paint animals quickly and confidently. We also focus on painting landscapes, portraits and nature studies in watercolour, and depicting figures, water and seascapes in acrylics. Develop a sketchbook habit, learn how to add colour to a pen-and-ink drawing using digital media, and work through a variety of creative ideas for flower painting. Jackie Garner continues her back-to-basics year-long acrylics series with a look at colour and colour biases, which will be of interest to all painters, and there’s even a chance to win a painting by Jem Bowden – if you submit your own version of the theme that he sets you this month!