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An affinity with acrylics

Part 1 Wildlife painter, Jackie Garner introduces her year-long series on acrylics with a look at how the medium can influence your work

Letters

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Exhibitions

JANE STROUD RECOMMENDS

Books

WHAT TO READ THIS MONTH

Online gallery

Jane Stroud’s selection of works from our PaintersOnline gallery

Stuart Johnson

Amateur painter, Stuart Johnson won the Leisure Painter Award in our 2021 TALP Open competition. Here he talks about his painting life

Welcome to the neighbourhood

Everyone loves maps! Here’s an imaginative exercise for you to try this winter, with Hazel Jarvis

Painting project

Part 1 Andy Walker introduces this month’s painting from a photograph and discusses its possibilities before demonstrating how to make a simple tonal sketch of the scene

Painting project

Part 2 Use a limited number of coloured pencils to create a vivid still life on tinted paper, by Veronica Winters

Consider your surface

Liz Chaderton delves into the world of corrugated cardboard, scraps of packaging and newsprint, to use as exciting surfaces for her paintings

Paint for health

Here are five top tips for developing confidence and skill in acrylic painting while promoting a sense of well-being, by Alice May

Beginner’s watercolour

Part 4 Practise the techniques you will need to paint water, rocks and trees, and paint three simple vignettes, with Stephen Coates

Let’s draw

Part 4 How to draw realistic-looking fabric, while practising pressure control on your pencil and working with lost-and-found edges, with Elena Parashko

Explore watercolour

Part 4 Take your watercolours to the next level with Brian Smith as he discusses the value of painting against the light this month

Back to basics: gouache

Part 2 This month, Manda Comisari encourages you to try 12 different techniques as you experiment and play with this versatile medium

Sketching made easy

Part 1 Ink pens. Colin Joyce offers tips and advice to encourage you to pick up an ink pen and draw

All the queen’s horses

To mark HM Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee, Linda Birch showcases her much-loved horses as subjects for painting

The moods of the sea

Part 4 Paint figures playing boules in a sunny, calm Mediterranean coastal scene, with Murray Ince

Versatile sponges

How to use a sponge roller with acrylic paint to create different effects, by Peter Wood

Take three colours

How to exploit the white of the paper and use just three colours to paint white flowers in watercolour, with Julie King