Editorial
Welcome to the April issue of Leisure Painter & The Artist. In the first half of the magazine you’ll find many of our demonstrations and guides to drawing and painting landscapes and woodlands, simple buildings, skies, and animals and birds. Be inspired by Steve Strode who begins a two-part series on the value of keeping your own sketchbook habit, while new contributor, Nick Stewart recommends developing your skills by filling a ZigZag sketchbook. Then join watercolourist, Colin Joyce on his motorhome travels around Ireland, discover easy colour-matching ideas with coloured pencils in Helen Carter’s coloured-pencil clinic, and find best practices for oil painting with Tim Fisher.