Leisure Painter – September 2023
English | 96 pages | pdf | 239.97 MB
Welcome
If this month’s issue has a theme, it’s got to be colour, and especially the colours of the season. Linda Birch begins a look at life in her village with sketches and paintings in line and wash and watermixable oils that celebrate community life and the surrounding countryside over the summer months. You don’t have to live in a picturesque village in the Pennines or a busy metropolis to find inspiration in capturing your surroundings. Look in the corners of your garden, the local park or down your street to find the next subject. If you’re short on inspiration this year, why not take a leaf out of Linda’s book and start a series of paintings or sketchbook entries that document a year in the life of your home town? Perhaps even make it into a community or art club project. David Bellamy’s second article (in his two-part series on illustrating a family history) will inspire you further with help in making maps and a variety of different techniques and effects to incorporate finished paintings, sketches, photographs and words into journals and sketchbooks.
If you need help with colour mixing, look no further than Colin Steed’s easy colour recipes for a beginner’s summer landscape in watercolour. Colin’s clear demonstration shows how to create a variety of clean summer-inspired mixes from just three colours. So put away those tubes of green and mix your own. It’s easier than you think!
Last month we featured a demonstration from Tim Fisher’s new book, which resonated with many readers. There’s more about Tim’s knife-painting techniques this month as well as practical advice on how to produce creative textures, shapes and marks in your own artwork, from our cover artist, the oil painter DJ (and this doesn’t necessarily mean just using brushes).
As always, our aim at Leisure Painter Magazine is to help you develop skills and confidence in drawing and painting. If we’re missing anything you’d like covered, please let us know.
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