Leisure Painter — June 2017

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JUNE 2017

T

ake out your sketchbooks, pencils

and colours this month and follow

David Bellamy’s advice to produce

montages of your preferred subjects. Our favourite artist and

adventurer presents beautiful – and humorous – studies of Arctic

wildlife (pages 12 to 16), but the methods he demonstrates will

help you to paint any subject. Tell a story, show the life-cycle of a

flower, paint the seasons or a loved one’s face – there is no limit

to this way of working when you allow your imagination to flow.

This issue is also packed with exercises and practical advice to

help you loosen up and find your own personal style of painting.

If you are at the stage when you have basic techniques under your

belt, you’ll probably want to work out how you can present your

own voice and John Mitchell (pages 46 to 49) offers superb

guidance and ten exercises to help you find it. In fact, throughout

the entire issue there’s a wealth of advice on finding inspiration,

from experimenting with new materials and techniques and

looking at the work of others to honing drawing skills and even

practising yoga exercises (see Julia Thorley’s letter on page 10).

Although we’re all creative, sometimes we just need a bit of help

to keep us motivated, inspired and producing our best work.

As I write this, the final entries to Leisure Painter’s Open

Competition and the Art Club of the Year have come in and I

would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part.

The competition judging and subsequent exhibitions at Patchings

Art Centre over the summer months are high points in LP’s year

and I’m already looking forward to meeting fellow judges this

month to view all the work and begin the next stage of the process.

Enjoy your month of painting – I hope the following pages will

inspire you to produce your next masterpiece!

INGRID LYONEditor

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