Sommaire pour March 2022 de Leisure Painter

Winter is filled with inspiration and challenges for the artist. It’s a time to find a comfortable spot, close to as much natural light as possible and simply experiment and paint. Inevitably the first subject that comes to mind is a traditional winter landscape, and although we rarely encounter snow here in south-east England these days, creative thoughts often turn to snow-laden wonderlands at this time of year. Who better to introduce the theme than David Bellamy, who offers experienced advice on sketching winter scenery (page 11)? Remembering to put a pencil stub and a small sketchbook in your pocket, he advises, goes a long way to ensuring you are always ready to commit the world around you to paper. There is such value in adding steadily to a sketchbook…

LEARNING OBJECTIVES ■ Work with just three primaries and white ■ How to make your own darks ■ Learn from the masters Someone once said that ‘value does all the work and colour takes all the credit’ so become familiar with value first, or the light and dark relationship in paintings, without the added complication of colour. You could begin with black and white or make your own dark. Making your own darks helps you to explore colour temperature as well as value. Using ultramarine and burnt umber gives a good dark and leaning the mix one way or the other affects the temperature; the blue being cool and the brown, warm. These two colours can form the basis of any painting so exploring them fully will put you in…

LEARNING OBJECTIVES ■ How to create a character ■ Practise mark making for illustration ■ Draw and paint animals and figures In part one (in last month’s issue) I explored the ways in which pen and ink can be used in landscape painting, both as an addition to watercolour and as a way of combining colour with ink. In this article I am using line and wash for creating illustration. When I worked as an illustrator of children’s books, I used line and wash, because my style was suited to the qualities of ink and watercolour. The advantage of pen and wash is that it reproduces well when printed; the line and colour lose none of their clarity or colour. If you want to try illustration, either for your pleasure…

LEARNING OBJECTIVES ■ What is gouache and the materials you’ll need to paint with it ■ How to use the paint TOP TIPS 1 Make enough paint! Gouache is expensive, but if you start with too little paint for a project, I guarantee you’ll reach the point where you need more of a colour and trying to match it will be a nightmare. Instead, make a little more than you think you need. If it ends up being too much, it won’t go to waste, because it can be reconstituted, and you can always use it for another project. 2 Gouache paintings should never be rolled up; they should always be stored flat. Rolling a gouache painting can result in it cracking or chipping, because gouache sits on the surface…

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ON SALE 18 FEBRUARY ● Experiment with surfaces for line & wash ● Easy watercolour techniques for sparkling water, rocks, trees and more ● How to sketch with ink ● Paint landscapes step by step from photographs ● Be creative: how to make interesting maps of your area ● Top tips for painting butterflies in acrylics ● All the queen’s horses: how to draw and paint horses effectively ● Paint flowers in watercolour and acrylic ● ... and lots more! LEISURE PAINTER ON-SALE DATES Issue May June July On sale 18 March 14 April 13 May…

LONDON ■ Bankside Gallery 48 Hopton Street SE1. 020 7928 7521; www.banksidegallery.com ‘Society of Wood Engravers’, 31 January to 20 February. ‘The Broderers’ Exhibition: The Art of Embroidery’, 22 to 27 February. ‘RWS Open’, 4 to 20 March. ■ Mall Galleries The Mall SW1. 020 7930 6844; www.mallgalleries.org.uk ‘The Pastel Society’: annual exhibition, 17 to 26 February. ‘Royal Society of British Artists’: annual open exhibition, 3 to 12 March. ■ National Gallery Trafalgar Square WC2. 020 7747 2885; www.nationalgallery.org.uk ‘The Credit Suisse Exhibition Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist’, until 27 February. ‘Kehinde Way’, until 18 April. ■ Piers Feetham Gallery 475 Fulham Road SW6. 020 7381 5958; www.piersfeethamgallery.com ‘Lucy Willis’: recent work, 8 to 26 March. ■ Royal Academy of Arts Piccadilly W1. 020 7300 8000; www.royalacademy.org.uk ‘Late…

WWW.PAINTERS-ONLINE.CO.UK Shaun Byatt’s work is all about colour. He is particularly attracted to flowers for the vibrancy they provide and tries to avoid unnecessary detail that detracts from the lively juxtaposition of colour. Here he describes how he captured a vase of gerberas caught in the sunlight in the corner of his living room. To see more of Shaun’s work, post a comment or upload your own images, visit www.painters-online.co.uk Shaun Byatt attended Wolverhampton Art College in the 1970s but went on to work in mental health, receiving an MBE for his contribution to mental health services prior to his retirement in 2013. He painted for most of his working life and promised himself that he would dedicate more time to his art after his retirement. ‘The painting here is…

With winter upon us and a climate that can give us a January day of intense cold one minute and balmy warm sunshine the next, it pays to be ready for whatever the season may throw at us, especially when it comes to snow. The landscape may not stay under pristine snow conditions for long so we need to be well prepared to capture those precious views. Snow scenes are extremely effective in helping you introduce a less cluttered approach to landscape painting, as so much is hidden beneath the white blanket and there is no need to take Monsieur Monet’s method of three overcoats and a portable stove. Minimal equipment, such as a watersoluble pencil and an aquash or synthetic plastic brush containing water, plus a sketchbook will suffice,…

LEARNING OBJECTIVES ■ How to paint with acrylics ■ Using a variety of different paint effects ■ Working with a limited palette Walking in the mountains can be the closest thing to time travel. In the high fells, you can wander through places that have not changed for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. I’ve visited the head of the Nant Ffrancon valley in Snowdonia many times since my first geography field trip there as a schoolboy. Cwm Idwal, the great bowl of rock with its mysterious, still tarn, remains exactly as I remember it – an unchanging link to my past and a humbling presence, as I know it will continue to look the same long after I have gone. Even the weather always seems to be the same…

TEN LOOSENING-UP EXERCISES 1 Draw a spiral pattern moving across the page in a clockwise direction. The pencil should move from top to bottom. 2 Change direction and draw the spiral anti-clockwise moving the pencil from bottom to top. 3 Draw an ellipse (oval) moving the pencil anti-clockwise. Don’t worry about making the perfect ellipse, just draw over and over the same shape. 4 Draw another ellipse in a clockwise direction. Creating a continuous flowing movement is important. 5 Using the same technique, draw large circles moving the pencil in an anti-clockwise direction. 6 Draw circles in a clockwise direction. Again, focus on fluid movement. 7 Try an up-and-down zigzag pattern that moves horizontally across the page. Throughout the zigzag, increase and decrease pressure on the pencil to darken and…

LEARNING OBJECTIVES ■ How to create the illusion of detail in a semi-impressionistic painting ■ How to paint refl ections on gently moving water ■ How to paint straight lines You will need ■ Surface • Canvas board (or stretched canvas) 22x18in. (56x46cm) ■ Winsor & Newton Artisan water-mixable oils • Titanium white; raw umber; raw sienna; burnt sienna; cadmium yellow pale; cerulean blue; cobalt blue; Prussian blue; permanent alizarin crimson; cadmium red pale and Payne’s grey ■ Winsor & Newton brushes • Filbert (cat’s tongue) Nos. 10, 12 & 14 • Artisan Rounds Nos. 2, 6 & 12 ■ Rosemary & Co brushes • Ivory Short Flats Nos. 1 & 2 • Ivory Rigger No. 0 TOP TIPS • Foregrounds don’t need to have a lot of content to…