Leisure Painter - 17 Apr 2025
A light touch
Create vibrant artwork
Spring is here
TWO GREAT ART MAGAZINES IN ONE
132 pages of ideas, inspiration, advice & mentorship for artists of all levels
On the cover
Keeping an experiments’ book
Drawing project
Animal explorations
First steps with acrylics
A season of small things
Light, mood & atmosphere
First steps in the woods
Spring is here!
New product
Coloured-pencil clinic
Painting project
Highlights
Art clubs
Webinars
Exhibitions
Painters Online
Startart
Studio
Keeping an experiments’ book
Light, mood & atmosphere
Light, mood & atmosphere
Creating colour harmony
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Caran d’ache Neoart 6901 Wax Oil Pastels
Kingfisher on cartridge paper
Conclusion
Andrea Naylor
Spring
is here!
Spring village scene
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Reference photo
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Colin Steed
I woods First steps in the
I woods First steps in the
Denis, what inspires you to paint?
Denis John-naylor
Animal explorations
Animal explorations
Layering acrylics
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Layers and glazing
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Chloe Hibberd
Artist Pastel Starter Bundle
Caran d’ache Neoart 6901 Permanent Pastels
Melanie Cambridge Artist Brushes
ROSA A3 Sketch Board
A season
of small things
Snowdrops
Gouache or watercolour?
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USE YOUR IMAGINATION
Linda Birch
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Drafting film
Fabulous fur on drafting film
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Helen Carter
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Painting project
Colourful acrylics
Sharon, what inspires you to paint?
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Drawing project
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Exercise 2 The Nose
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Step into acrylics
What is foreshortening?
Measuring process
Measuring process
A looser approach
A looser approach
Figure out the angles
Alice May
Exhibitions
Art clubs
Dorking Group of Artists
Bedford Art Society demonstrations
Ambleside & District Art Society’s collaborative artwork
Exhibitions continued
Cheltenham Art Club
Chipping Campden Art Society
Art club challenge
Leisure Painter & The Artist
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Highlights from The Artist
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Stunning batiks
OILS
‘I DO’ Painting LIVE at weddings
Watercolour WISDOM
WELCOME
106
Watercolour waves and particles
Painting with light
Linocuts – keeping it simple
Batik – capturing the world with wax and dyes
Drawing for painting
Sea horizons and the unwanted focal point
A day in the life of Greta Vilidaite
Learn from the Masters
Freedom to paint in the open air
Painting live
Ask an Artist
Turning professional
Going for gold
STAR LETTER
VIEWS
THE ART WORLD
AFLOAT
or Ashore
Artweeks
Virtual to Real
OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS
A day in the life of GRETA VILIDAITE
GRETA’S TOP FIVE TIPS FOR ARTISTS ASPIRING TO TURN THEIR ART PRACTICE FROM A SERIOUS HOBBY INTO A PROFESSION
Painting with LIGHT
Painting with LIGHT
WATERCOLOUR waves and particles
WATERCOLOUR waves and particles
LET THE WATERCOLOUR PERFORM ITS MAGIC
PAINT WITH HAZEL SOAN AT DUMFRIES HOUSE, SCOTLAND
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Linocuts – keeping it simple PART 3
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HOMEMADE PRESS
FINISHED LINOCUT
BATIK – capturing the world with wax and dyes
A BRIEF HISTORY OF BATIK
DEMONSTRATION Day out
Painting live
Tushar Sabale
EXPLORE FUTURE
Freedom to paint in
the open air
EQUIPMENT & MATERIALS
DEMONSTRATION
INGRID’S TOP TIPS
Ingrid Brown
READER EXERCISE
Drawing for
painting
Paul Weaver
DEMONSTRATION
Going for GOLD
Talking about her gold-medal win ahead of last year’s exhibition, Amelia writes:
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CRITERIA USED FOR SELECTION APPROVAL
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Eric Ravilious Through the Eyes of his Contemporaries
Junk & Stuff
Exploring Printmaking
Leonardo da Vinci – Lady with an Ermine
LEARN FROM THE MASTERS:
Turning PROFESSIONAL
KIMBERLEY KEEGAN SHARES TIPS AND ADVICE FOR WORKING ARTISTS
KIMBERLEY KEEGAN
Sea horizons and the unwanted focal point
WOMEN PAINTING WOMEN
SUMMER HEAT
NATURE WALKS
PORTRAITS WITH STORIES
LINOCUTS
PLUS
ONLINE ART CLASSES
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