Leisure Painter | July 2024
Packed with demonstrations, exercises and projects to encourage and inspire you to pick up your brushes, whether you’re sitting at your kitchen table or stepping outside your front door to paint. From top tips for adding atmosphere to your landscapes by David Bellamy, to a colourful and stylised portrait in acrylics and a flower study in watercolour, there’s something to help everyone develop their skills and confidence. Our cover artist, Liz Chaderton, also begins a new series to demonstrate how a variety of media can be added to watercolour, to wonderful effect, while Rachel McNaughton shows the creation of a subtle sunset in soft pastel and Veronica Winters illustrates just how versatile working with coloured pencils can be for the amateur artist. Spring themes, summer trees, insects and colourful tropical birds are all covered within these pages. Enjoy another month of developing your skills and producing a variety of different paintings, either by following expert step-by-step demonstrations or working on your own from the photographs Leisure Painter provides
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Leisure Painter magazine was founded in 1967 and is the UK's most popular art and painting magazine that is published 12 times a year. The award-winning company was created to assist amateur artists of all levels and cover all aspects of painting and drawing including pencils, acrylics, charcoals, oil paints, pastels and watercolours. Not only does Leisure Painter cover a range of materials, but also a huge variety of topics are covered too, including flowers, landscapes, buildings, animals, boats and portraits.
With Leisure Painter magazine, you can gain access to an online community of like-minded artists who share their top tips and advice on how to develop your skills, as well as enter regular competitions including David Bellamy's sketchbook challenge. Plus, you can pour over the exhibition and art events pages to find opportunities to dive further into your hobby with other enthusiasts.
Try your hand at one of the Leisure Painter’s painting projects - for example, “how to capture the character of an old building using watercolours” or “step-by-step guides on how to complete your drawing of distant mountains with charcoal”. Regular projects from our regular contributors are a great way to expand your artistic skill set.
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- The sketchbook challenge
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Leisure Painter July 2024.