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Q&A Readers’ • Tim Fisher answers three questions on colour, application and art

Develop & expriment • David Bellamy discusses a variety of watercolour techniques to help you create more atmosphere and light in your landscapes

Light and space

Painting project • Part 1 Free your usual ways of painting by experimenting, simplifying and changing elements in this month's project from a photograph, by Hazel Money

Explore ink • Nick Stewart introduces you to the materials and techniques he uses to draw and colour with this unique medium

Buttercups & bluebells • Part 1 Develop your drawing skills and mix a range of greys this month as you prepare to render a delightful bunch of spring flowers, with Julie King

Perfect partners • How to combine gouache, watercolour or Inktense with chalk pastels to create a natural textures for painting animals, by Naomi Jenkin

Busy marketplace • Ready for a challenge? Take out your paints and tackle this lively scene, with Rachel McNaughton

Make the right choices • Melanie Cambridge introduces her own set of brushes for oil and acrylic painting

Q&A Your essential kit • Helen Carter answers your questions and provides helpful guidance, tips and tricks for using this versatile medium. This month, what comprises a workable kit?

Light, mood & atmosphere • Part 2 This month we look at more simple techniques you can use to add atmosphere into your paintings, with Greg Howard

Drawing project • Conor Smith completes his drawing of an African painted dog using many of the techniques he discussed over the past seven months

Introducing… oil pastels • Part 4 Tim Fisher takes you through the processes he uses to paint birds with oil pastels

A travelling artist • Pack up your kit and follow Marilyn Allis into the sunshine as she takes you on two painting adventures

TOP TIPS FOR PAINTING EN PLEIN AIR

Exhibitions • Must-see exhibitions from around the UK

Art clubs • Over to you for the latest news on club exhibitions and activities

Exhibitions

Workshops

Art club challenge • Here are the entries to the popular April issue theme of ‘colour‘. If you would like to see your artwork published here, take part in this month's challenge, which invites you to paint a picture on the theme of ‘sunlight and shadows’. Send your image, its title, medium and dimensions to ingrid@tapc.co.uk by 14 June, titled ‘Leisure Painter July Challenge’ for your chance to feature in a forthcoming issue.

Books • For a huge range of practical art books, with discounts for UK shoppers, visit our online bookshop at painters-online.co.uk/ArtSupplies and click on the link to books

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WELCOME from the editor

THE ART WORLD • NEWS, INFORMATION AND ONLINE EVENTS IN THE ART WORLD

OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS • Check out the latest competitions to enter and make a note of important deadlines

A day in the life of JENNY WHEATLEY RWS, NEAC • Jenny Wheatley talks to Sally Bulgin about her life and career as a professional artist

The painter's narrative • Susie Hodge talks to prize-winning artist, Lorena Levi about her imagined narratives that create intriguing psychological relationships between her sitters

Perfect light • Immerse yourself in the heat and colour of the French Riviera as Peter Graham demonstrates how he painted the port of Saint-Tropez in oils on a grand scale

In the footsteps...