Índice para December 2023 em Leisure Painter

Please turn the page to begin viewing the awe-inspiring artwork from this year's Leisure Painter Open. This exhibition and competition is my favourite annual event in the Leisure Painter calendar, from the first time I view the entries online in April, through to seeing the selected paintings on the walls of Patchings Art Centre and meeting with my fellow judges to discuss who will receive the prizes in July. A huge thank you goes to everyone who entered their artwork this year, to the sponsors, and to the amazing team at Patchings Art Centre, who work so hard to bring it all together. You'll find early information on next year's competition on page 12, and on page 19, there's exciting news about a category we're launching in 2024. For the…

Brush pen choices I wonder if you or your readers can help. After a couple of years using acrylics to do very amateur but self-pleasing pictures, I have moved on to using different types of media, such as inks and fluid acrylics with brush pens. My problem is that refillable brush pens are scarce, especially in the high street. I have bought some online, but they are poor quality and leak or simply don't work. Can anyone recommend a brush pen that can be used with acrylic ink that is refillable and of good quality? Thanks in advance for your help. Chris Martin How to print your artwork Recently, I have managed to dust down my pencils and pens and I have just finished drawing the Red Hall in Bourne.…

Learning objectives ■ See your subject as a series of shapes ■ Follow a step-by-step watercolour process BEFORE YOU BEGIN Transfer the line drawing to your watercolour paper. Step 1 1 Start by painting the head and upper neck with a light wash of ultramarine. 2 Working wet into wet, create a gradient by applying a light wash of purple lake, and leave highlights. Step 2 Apply yellow ochre, working wet into wet, letting the colours bleed together. Step 3 1 Apply cadmium yellow to the beak. 2 Paint the feet with cadmium red pale on half-wet. Step 4 1 When damp, paint the lower beak with cadmium red pale. 2 Apply Payne's grey, leaving highlights. Step 5 1 Use a small brush and Payne's grey to paint the eye,…

Learning objectives ■ How to make simple wood engravings ■ Understand the materials and tools you will need ■ Practise printing methods at home You will need • A drawing you want to turn into a print • Tracing paper • Tracedown or white carbon paper • White gouache paint for painting over the areas marked for cutting (optional) • A piece of prepared boxwood • Two or three wood engraving tools • Sepia ink • Relief printing inks • A small roller • A sheet of glass or similar on which to roll out the ink • Japanese paper • A teaspoon or similar tool for burnishing This article explains how to produce simple wood engravings of two zebras. I selected two drawings from my sketchbook, as I thought…

Learning objectives ■ Practise pastel techniques ■ Understand your materials This painting was completed on Sennelier La Carte pastel card. Although I used a green-grey card for this demo, you could also choose a light blue violet or the darker bluish grey. Take care not to get any moisture on this card. The surface is glued-on powdered cork and any moisture will result in the cork coming off, leaving an unsightly white area that won't take pastel. This is why it is a good idea, if you have a lot of pastel dust collecting, to tap the paper on a table rather than blowing away the dust! Demonstration Golden Foliage You will need ■ Surface • Sennelier La Carte green-grey pastel card 11×8¼in. (28×21cm) Soft pastel colours (see colours used…

WWW.PAINTERS-ONLINE.CO.UK Until she retired, primary school teacher, Barbara Curry, found she had little time for painting apart from the occasional watercolour on family holidays. Here she describes how being free to paint more regularly has opened up a whole new world. To see more of Barbara's work, post a comment or upload your own image, visit www.painters-online.co.uk ‘When I retired, I discovered that painting was the activity I most loved. I completed the excellent Norfolk Painting School Diploma course in 2021, learning to handle oil paints within a wide variety of genres. It's exciting now to see my diploma friends growing and shining in their individual ways. ‘I'm lucky to live in the Cotswolds. I love walking, and I'm surrounded by inspiration in the form of landscapes and changing seasons.…

This year's exhibition and competition featured some of the best paintings we've seen in the long history of this popular event. Held at Patchings Art Centre, our sparkling exhibition featured some 70 drawings and paintings of subjects ranging from landscapes, portraits and animals to still lifes, flowers and more. Although a wide range of subjects and media were seen, the prizewinners all had in common a genuine personal response to their subject, whether it was a granddaughter resting in the shade in Every Picture Tells a Story by Russell Edwards (page 7), or the brilliant early morning light on the island of Zakynthos in Romila Datta's Early Morning Light on the Island (below left), which won the Leisure Painter award. I would like to thank everyone who entered this year's…

Learning objectives ■ Experiment with a variety of techniques and media ■ How to paint a vignette ■ Experiment with collage The summer starts to wind down a little, although up here in the north of the country the light lasts longer into the evening and changes to more golden than yellow. The trees won't change colour until the first frosts, but the harvested fields are still golden in sunshine, before ploughing begins. Children are back at the village school, some for the first time. It's a small school and its play area is at the bottom of my garden so the day is punctuated by regular sounds of play. On the road outside, our friend, Maurice (below) takes his daily drive on his mobility scooter in whatever weather the…

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Airbrush Company/ Leisure Painter Highly Commended Award Neo for Iwata Gravity-Feed Airbrushing Kit, worth £200 www.artbrushes.com Batsford Awards Two prizes of Batsford art books to the value of £150 each www.batsfordbooks.com Caran d'Ache/Jakar Award One prize of £250 worth of art material www.jakar.co.uk Clairefontaine Award One prize of £250 worth of premium art products from the Clairefontaine Graphic and Fine Art range www.clairefontaine.com Daler-Rowney Award Two prizes of approximately £150 worth of art materials each www.daler-rowney.com Leisure Painter Award One prize of a showcase feature on a selected artist in Leisure Painter magazine worth £2,600 www.painters-online.co.uk Patchings Award A gift voucher worth £350 to be used at Patchings Art Centre in Nottingham www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk St Cuthberts Mill Award One prize of £200 worth of watercolour paper www.stcuthbertsmill.com Search Press Awards Two…

October painting challenge Colour was the theme for our October Art Club Challenge, and it was interesting to see how many readers chose to use a limited-colour palette. Beatrice Phillips used just two colours for her watercolour of Elvis the Pig while Jane Bagshaw's subtle painting of poppy and verbena seedheads from her garden used three. Linda Robson also chose a limited palette to good effect for her detailed watercolour, Woodhorn Colliery (above right). At the other end of the scale, we had some riotously-coloured floral paintings by Helen Bailey, Jean Deval, Sharon Tiernan, and this humorous watercolour by Philip Judd (above), which captures all the full-blown glory of the English country show. December Painting Challenge If you would like to see your work published here, take part in next…

Learning objectives ■ Practise colour mixing ■ Follow a classical oil-painting technique ■ Work from photographs Last month I introduced you to this photograph (below) of a bright pot of flowers placed in front of turquoise shutters, taken on holiday in Italy, and I discussed the various options open to you for transferring the image. I improved on the image by the addition of a different flower (image found on Pixabay, right). This month, I will take you step by step through the painting of the pretty scene. There are many ways and styles of painting. This demonstration shows one of the most basic ones practised by classical painters. The overall idea is to make a warm brown underpainting then layer colours over it. Warm brown warms up the surface,…

Learning objectives ■ Learn from the masters ■ Practise traditional oil-painting techniques In a 1961 survey, the most recognised painting the UK was not the Mona Lisa; not Botticelli's Birth of Venus; and nothing by Monet. It was Vladimir Tretchikoff's Chinese Girl. Framed reproductions of the Russian artist's famous green-faced girl were available to buy at Woolworth's in the 1950s and 1960s. By his death in 2006, Tretchikoff was almost as rich as Picasso. The original painting later sold in 2013 for nearly £1 million. In the 1970s the high street chain Athena Posters published good quality prints of works by Czech artist, Alphonse Mucha, and masterpieces by Monet, Toulouse Lautrec and the Austrian painter, Gustave Klimt. Athena took the lead in introducing a generation of shoppers to the world…

Visit www.painters-online.co.uk/store and click on the link to books to buy the latest practical art books available from LP's online bookshop. Botanical illustration Leading botanical artist and tutor, Leigh Ann Gale introduces us to the finely observed art of botanical painting in her book, Botanical Illustration, originally published in hardback in 2018 and now available in paperback. Leigh Ann is a qualified tutor of botanical illustration, known for her encouraging and supportive approach to teaching students. She is vice chairman of the Hampton Court Palace Florilegium Society. A complete guide to the art, Leigh Ann takes you through every step of the journey, from materials and equipment, to choosing your subject, looking closely at the anatomy of plants, composition, drawing, adding colour and developing your paintings. Step-by-step instructions clearly explain…