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Practical advice, tips and inspiration for painting with watercolour, acrylics, oils, inks and drawing mediasketching sets

PAINTERSONLINE and Search Press Competition

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Leisure Painter& PAINTERSONLINE in association with GreatArt ANNIVERSARY COMPETITIONS 2017

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Diary

THINGS TO DO THIS MONTH

Exhibitions

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Letters

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Online gallery

Jane Stroud’s selection of works from our PaintersOnline gallery

On the beach

How to bring your beach scenes to life with the addition of figures, with Christine Pybus

Painting project

Part 2 Follow Julie King step by step as she uses a variety of techniques to paint a garden in watercolour

Painting project

Part 1 Use photographs of a parade of village shops and several figures to paint an interesting scene, with Colin Steed

Wildlife in watercolour

Part 1 Build confidence in handling watercolour and your brushes as you follow Hazel Soan’s exercises over the next three months

Jackson’s Handmade Soft Pastels

Adrienne Parker reports on pastels that play a leading role in mixed-media approaches

Line and colour

Part 6 How to combine inks with soft pastel on different surfaces to create colourful landscapes with heaps of drama, by Tim Fisher

Colour and light

Judith Milne offers a wealth of tips and techniques for painting colourful gardens

A walk on the moor

Tony Hogan’s seasonal rendition of Bodmin Moor comes to an end with this autumn scene using acrylics

In the frame

Part 1 Tony Paul begins a four-part series on composition by looking at how the use of classic shapes can enhance your paintings

Bottles, jars and spoons

Part 2 Develop your skills with Rodney Kingston as you follow a three-part exercise from a photograph then a step-by-step contemporary still-life painting

Harvest mouse

Part 1 Join Paul Hopkinson over two months as you paint a harvest mouse in detail

Lost and found

Paint free-and-easy foxgloves and background using a loose watercolour technique as you follow Rachel McNaughton step by step

Loose and lively

Part 3 Liz Chaderton completes her series on how to paint animals in watercolour with this portrait of a cat step by step

Wide-open spaces

Feeling adventurous? Amanda Cooper offers a lesson in landscape painting as she discusses a recent painting tour of Georgia

Try something different

Ready for a miniature challenge? Paint a medieval decorated initial letter, with Helen White

Leisure Painter Open Competition 2017

We have great pleasure in publishing the award-winning work from the amateur category in this year’s Open Competition, organised in partnership with Patchings Art Centre

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Select from some of the best art courses in the UK and abroad