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Diary

THINGS TO DO THIS MONTH

Exhibitions

JANE STROUD RECOMMENDS

Letters

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Night vision

Part 3 Practise your drawing and painting skills as you paint a moonlit woodland scene from a sunny photograph, with Ian Pethers

Painting project

Part 2 Develop composition, colour and application skills as you paint along with Jem Bowden this month

Painting project

Part 1 How to plan a painting of a garden from a photograph, by Julie King

Mersey shore

Part 2 Take time to walk and sketch small studies as you find inspiration in local scenes, by Steve Strode

Embrace digital

Part 2 Follow Tony Underhill step by step as he demonstrates how to use digital art to expand your traditional drawings and paintings

Line and colour

Part 5 Use a limited palette of acrylic inks to achieve a variety of effects, from drawing to adding washes, with Tim Fisher

Loose and lively

Part 2 Liz Chaderton discusses a variety of techniques and approaches to painting bird and animal textures in watercolour

Jackson’s Raven synthetic squirrel brushes

Becky Samuelson experiments with a range of well-made, affordable synthetic brushes to produce a variety of effects and textures in watercolour

Lessons in the landscape

Part 2 Develop the basic techniques learnt last month to paint a landscape in acrylics, with Cat Croxford

Just for the record

Trudy Friend offers hints and tips on recording the history of a local building

Take three washes

Part 2 Paint along with David Webb as you practise his three-wash technique in colour

All about tone

Improve your tonal awareness using water-soluble graphite pencils with these three exercises, by Colin Steed