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We have great pleasure in presenting Cardigan Art Society

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From watercolour landscapes and gouache portraits to painting animals in oils, LP is here to inspire and motivate your painting this winter

PAINTERSONLINE and ProColour Competition

PaintersOnline, the online home of Leisure Painter and The Artist has teamed up with ProColour™ to offer you the chance to win one of six sets of four 59ml bottles of ProColour™ Acrylics. Each set includes three primaries and a white with a total value of £33(rrp) per set.

PAINTERSONLINE and STAEDTLER Competition

PaintersOnline, Leisure Painter and The Artist have teamed up with STAEDTLER to offer you the chance to win one of two complete sets of their new Art Range, worth more than £128(rrp) each.

Paint on L’IIe de Ré, France with Haidee-Jo Summers ROI

Paint on L’IIe de Ré, France with Haidee-Jo Summers

PAINTERS ONLINE

The online home of Leisure Painter and the artist magazines

Diary

THINGS TO DO THIS MONTH

Exhibitions

Returning for his third solo show at the Jonathan Cooper

Letters

SHARE YOUR TIPS, SUGGESTIONS, IDEAS AND QUESTIONS WITH OTHER READERS

WHAT TO READ THIS MONTH

Visit www.painters-online.co.uk/store and click on the link to books to buy the latest practical art books available to UK readers from LP’s online bookshop

Art clubs

OVER TO YOU FOR THE LATEST NEWS ON CLUB EXHIBITIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Art club gallery BEST IN SHOW PAINTINGS …

If you would like to see your art group’s winning paintings reproduced here, encourage visitors to your next exhibition to vote for their favourite work then simply send us the details. Full information is given below.

Online gallery

Jane Stroud’s selection of works from our PaintersOnline gallery

50of the best art course and holiday providers in the UK and abroad

50of the best art course and holiday providers in the

Landscape studies

Part 2 Try Steve Strode’s five painting practices to depict water in the landscape, from sparkling seas and still water reflections to fast-flowing torrents

Painting project

Part 1 Tony Hogan introduces this month’s project from a photograph and demonstrates techniques for painting the scene in pastel

Painting project

Part 2 How to paint snow onto white paper using traditional transparent watercolours, with Colin Steed

Watercolour basics and beyond

Part 2 Stretching paper is a good basic technique to learn. David Webb shows you how

Approaches to portraiture

Be inspired by Tony Paul as he offers techniques and ideas for painting portraits in watercolour, acrylics, pastels and oils

Sketch to painting

Part 1 How to paint oil sketches on location to use as source material for a finished painting, with Richard Holland

Look for the shapes

Yes, you can draw! Stephen Coates offers a plethora of advice and solutions to common drawing problems

Winter in the woods

Use your imagination to paint an atmospheric winter landscape using a variety of watercolour techniques, with Alison Fennell

5-minute landscapes

Try four techniques for sketching landscapes quickly and easily, by Virginia Hein

Winter in watercolour

Part 2 How to paint a figure, add the effect of sunlight and shadow, and paint natural textures in a winter scene, with Colin Joyce

Clowning around

Try a new composition idea and the following techniques for painting in oils or acrylics, using a bright and fun motif to inspire you, by Elena Parashko

Try something different

For frog-lovers everywhere, uncover the mysteries of tone using black and white ink brush painting, with Yukki Yaura

Journey into abstraction

Part 2 Try two practical ideas for developing abstract work: working with shape and colour, and producing an abstract map, with Linda Birch

The sketchbook habit

John Mitchell extols the virtues of keeping a sketchbook, offers quick tips on turning a sketch into a full-sized painting and how to find inspiration in every day subjects

Sketching Finland

Pam Bowen discusses the benefits of taking a sketchbook on holiday

Art Club of the Year 2017

From its mid-20th century roots as an antidote to the rise of computers to a truly 21st century art group, Martin Clements shares the history and aims of Cardigan Art Society