Leisure Painter - 20 Jun 2025
Play with light
Landscapes
In oils, watercolour, acrylics and more
CREATIVE PASTELS
TWO GREAT ART MAGAZINES IN ONE
On the cover
Six lessons in the landscape
Easy days
Coffee-break inspiration
Buttercups & bluebells
Loosen up your style
Tradition and innovation
Add the sparkle
Coloured-pencil clinic
Editor’s choice NEW!
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Discover how Valerie Pirlot, winner of The Artist Award in the annual Royal Institute of Oil Painters’ exhibition paints her fresh and spontaneous alla prima oil paintings full of light and colour
Drama in the sky
Create marks that are impossible to make with a brush. Catherine Beale shows you how to turn capillary action to your advantage in her new series on watercolours
Sunlight and shadows
Impasto alpaca
Robert Brindley shares tips on making the right tonal and colour choices as he paints summer light and atmosphere in gouache
Online learning
Learn all about Picasso and his relationship with animals in Sarah Edmonds’s Learn from the Masters series
Start Art guides
Art clubs
Coming next month
Martin Taylor shows you how to paint the colour green as we enter the summer season
Spotlight on art NEW!
Mike Barr encourages you to paint in series and find something new to say each time!
Editor’s choice
MEET ARTISTS
Spotlight on art
Spotted by the editor
A summer of painting
The rise of the young
Seen on Painters Online
Exhibition of the month
One to... read
It’s a dog’s life!
One to... visit
One to... try
Found on the web
HAVE YOUR SAY
Coming your way
How to take a good reference photo
Six lessons in the
landscape
You will learn
How to figure out a composition
How to make a 20-minute tonal sketch
How to create nuanced shadows
How to make good colour choices
TOP TIP
How to make a 30-minute colour sketch
David Webb
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Add the sparkle
Add the sparkle
TOP TIP
How to create a dramatic seascape
TOP TIP
TOP TIP
Naomi Jenkin
Discover more
Buttercups
bluebells
Discover more
Julie King
Loosen up your style
Loosen up your style
TOP TIPS
Reference photo
TOP TIP
TOP TIP
Hazel Money
Discover more
Summer
Unlock the potential
of Pastelmat
Helen Carter
5 blending methods for quick results
Discover more
Co ee-break inspiration
Exercise 1 Morning co
ee drawing
TOP TIP
Exercise 2 A
ernoon tea painting
Tony Underhill
Easy days
4 TOP TIPS
Nina, what inspires you to paint?
5
1
3
inno&vation Tradition Fountain-pen ink artist, Nick Stewart is enthusiastic to work with
Diamine’s imaginative new nano-particle ink, Forever Ink
Diamine launches Forever Ink
Why are Forever Inks so special?
Drama in the sky
TIP
TIP
Try this!
Colin Joyce
Impasto alpaca
Impasto using acrylic
How to paint a landscape
TOP TIP
Tonking...
TOP TIP
TOP TIP
Art clubs
Art club challenge
Best in show
Don’t forget
Painter & the artist
Painter & the artist
Highlights in the September issue of The Artist
The perfect GREEN
Tonal & colour choices for SUMMER LANDSCAPES
WATERCOLOUR ‘BLOOMS’
OILS & GOUACHE
WELCOME from the editor
A day in the life of Karl Terry
In the footsteps of Tunnicliffe
The colour green
The presidents’ exhibition
Watercolour freed!
Learn from the Masters
Soft transitions and small details
The benefits of a painting series
Shape, colour, action!
Ask an Artist
Turning professional
Summer light
EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS
THIS MONTH’S COVER
The Art World
COMING NEXT MONTH: highlights in The Artist’s September 2025 issue
Book reviews
TURNER PRIZE 2025
OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS
A day in the life of KARL TERRY RSMA AROI
‘BEST ADVICE I’VE HAD FROM OTHER PAINTERS’
TERRY’S TOP FIVE TIPS FOR ASPIRING PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS
EXPLORE FURTHER
SHAPE, COLOUR,
ACTION!
EXPLORE FURTHER
The colour
GREEN
BLACK AND WHITE
The Presidents’ Exhibition
Soft transitions and small details
Amber Tyldesley
EXPLORE FURTHER
Summer light
BASIC MATERIALS
TEN TOP TIPS
DEMONSTRATION Rape Field, Eden Valley, Cumbria
MATERIALS
APPLICATION TIP
Robert Brindley
In the footsteps of
Tunnicliffe
Becky Thorley-fox SWLA
PROJECT INSPIRATION
‘Their striking white and pale angular forms contrasted with the hazy softly-lit spring morning.’
BECKY’S MATERIALS
EXPLORE FURTHER
BECKY’S TOP TIPS
REFERENCE PHOTO
Watercolour freed!
Catherine Beale
MATERIALS
Note
EXPLORE FURTHER
Picasso
and his animals
LEARN FROM
THE MASTERS:
EXPLORE FURTHER
David Hockney – a Graphic Novel
The Manchester Art Book
Nature in Ink and Coloured Pencil
Turning PROFESSIONAL
KIMBERLEY KEEGAN SHARES TIPS AND ADVICE FOR WORKING ARTISTS
KIMBERLEY KEEGAN
The benefits of a painting series
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