African Painting Safari in the MASAI MARA, KENYAwith Hazel Soan

Your Sketchbook Challenge

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This month I have great pleasure in revealing the 13

Diary

THINGS TO DO THIS MONTH

Exhibitions

JANE STROUD RECOMMENDS

Letters

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

Books

WHAT TO READ THIS MONTH

Art clubs

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

Art club gallery

If you would like to see your art group’s winning paintings

Online gallery

Jane Stroud’s selection of works from our PaintersOnline gallery

Your illustrated journal

Begin keeping a visual record of your life as David Bellamy offers insights and practical advice for filling your sketchbooks

Watercolour basics and beyond

Part 4 Develop your watercolour skills further by painting a still life using the wet-in-wet technique, by David Webb

The beach in winter

Wrap up warm and take a stroll with Christine Pybus as she demonstrates how to paint with oils the wide open spaces of the coast in winter

Painting project

Part 1 How to invent credible reflections from a landscape photograph with no reflections, by Judith Heilbronn-Crown

Find your inspiration

Make the most of your reference photos by filtering them through digital technology, zooming in on the detail and cutting them up! John Mitchell shows the way

Landscape lessons

Part 4 Here’s a painting process that will build your confidence and skills as a painter, by Steve Strode

Beautiful bugs

Part 2 Having practised a variety of techniques last month, put them all together to paint a dragonfly, with Liz Chaderton

Where there’s still life

Winter is a good time to set up still lifes, practising techniques and working out compositional ideas that will serve you well for the summer, by Amanda Cooper

Working from life

Follow Julie Askew as she offers tips and techniques for sketching on the go

Rainy day

Here’s a simple step-by-step to follow on a rainy afternoon, with Rachel McNaughton

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Pattern paintings

Ready to try something new? Put down your brushes and try these beginner’s steps to pouring your acrylics, with Elena Parashko

Pastel plus

How to use watercolour and pastel to paint a landscape, by Tony Hogan

Tonal studies

How to make the most of Payne’s grey in your sketches and paintings, by Colin Steed

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