Leisure Painter — June 2017

Note also that I eliminated some of the foliage in the right half of the middle ground. There are more tall trees in the photogr ...

Draw along with LP O ver the past few months (LP, February to May issues) we have looked at various types of drawing materials a ...

Summary Here are the main points from my series to help you plan your own image of the scene. 1 When drawing your initial pictur ...

Pastel A rtists sometimes need justification for working from photographs, but the late London Group artist, Victor Kuell, and s ...

Your support For pastel portraits and figure paintings, I work on either the smooth side of Canson Mi-Tientes gris fumée(smokey- ...

it back in the same place if it moves or you need to go over it again. It is now time to commit to the reference points of the f ...

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Watercolour I n the last issue I shared the first three of the six reasons I love painting in watercolour. In addition to the co ...

anything else you can think of in order to find out what you like doing best. Is it when you drop colours randomly onto wet pape ...

30 JUNE 2017 http://www.painters-online.co.uk discovering new ways to use the medium. I hate repeating anything I know I can do ...

and interest is created by the movement of the water over the slippery surface. Painting partnership I enjoy watching what water ...

painters’ society, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. These societies stipulate that the works should be in the manner of the ...

well-saturated colours. These colours are priced in Series, using a numeric or alphabetical coding – for instance 1 to 5 or A to ...

cleaned. This causes the brushes to splay prematurely. Whereas, for watercolour work natural hair brushes, such as sable and squ ...

Daler-Rowney and Jackson’s have many good ranges for acrylics. Next month, I will discuss the palettes and supports available fo ...

Watercolour I could probably tell you how to plant it, but I’m afraid there is no magic formula for painting a tree. It is not t ...

dry before introducing darker hues. Try to paint trees in two ‘hits’ – your first rather frenzied foray followed by another more ...

38 JUNE 2017 http://www.painters-online.co.uk JUNE’S COMPETITION This month’s challenge is to paint a landscape (in any medium), ...

W e are so fortunate! As artists, we notice, appreciate and enjoy our surroundings, and relish the beauty around us. We welcome ...

Inspiration 6 Making a swatch of colours is a great help. You will then know how to mix them quickly and not panic! These strawb ...