AINTING aE A NORT £1599 Leisure S Painter. Ks MARCH 2015 53.99 white subjects NEW SERIES Spotlight on acrylic THE POWER OF TWO Two paintings from one scene WATERCOLOUR How to mix and apply greens for spring landscapes PICK UP A PASTEL Step by step still-life painting Trees, flowers and foliage in = watercolour Back to basics Beginners’ pastel New charcoal testedGreatArt Price & Choice WE LISTEN TO OUKCUSTOMEKS ff, , Ane WE VALUE THEIK FEEPBACK \Y WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE ow OFFERING THE BEST SERVICE DELIVERY CHAKGES! FREE For all orders over £34.95 * For orders between £19.95 and £34.94 = £2.95 * For orders under £19.95 = £4.95 For brush only orders: . Ee FREE OVER £19.95 Under £19.95 = £2.95 Pa A et Crt rooney rye YT) (ols)Incorporating esure Pinter and Gaftsman and Creative Cats VowNes973 ISSUE 51 wor eisurepainterco.uk ‘wnvepaintersonfine.couk Iss 00240710 MARCH 2015, dita Ing yon conributng tito JaneStroud itor constans: Daa efile, Ra, NEAC (Hon, RWS ay Gampbel Smith, FA, FSP EWS Tory Pal STP Advertising Sales ‘a Mate Brown Te: 177830208) (annamaresawarnessroupcout) Advertsing Cony: ‘Sue Woodates Te: 177838206 (Guewondgatesawarersgroup cou) Financial Dietor: ‘dy Tapley Accounts (Geoine Mars et: 1778381023) vents Manage: Coolie ets ‘Subscriptions & Marketing Manager: ‘Wend eg0ry Subscriptions: icc akon & Sophia aca (Fel ors 763515753673) online fait: Daan Frey Designers Also Reno ‘sarah Poole eure Pointers pied ‘fey our weeks by: “he Ariss ublsing company Limited (o9r9, canon use, (665 High ea, enteron, ent 130 680 (Fel an50 763915) Managing Director: Desay Bug, Hon Vesa ‘ewould fe readers ta nate thatthe steers made by contrniors are not hays representative the pubiiers opinion Annual sition ates: Urs 50 nes Neri rand Se $a ‘Gata $52 ECmember counties ‘67a eter counties tering ie 5. Foreign cumeny pies ince bankcharges, Payments made by cea cad are len tering alte ate of £5, Printed byNeadey ‘other, asd, Ket. Newsade diribution by Warners Goup Publications le (dev 01778 3000) wew.painters-online.couk Welcome from the editor s write this, a wintery, wet squall is throwing itself at our office windows and I realise why I couldn’t resist including Gwen Scott's tutorial, Say it with Green, in this month's issue (pages 10 to 13). Let's prepare for early spring landscape painting by practising colour mixing, making sheets of colour swatches and tonal charts (don’t forget to label them), and finding ‘out how to temper some of the less-than-subtle readymade greens in your paintboxes, Confident colour mixing is a vital skill if you want to paint successfully, and time in experimenting and honing this skill is always well spent, Painting should be fun, but to move forward, some serious effort is also needed. With the colour sheets ready, try Gwen’s exercise at the top of page 11. It’s a valuable lesson in simplifying what often looks like ‘a jumble of colours and tones in a landscape, Although Steve Strode has barely started on colour theory and practice, his 13-part series, All about Colour (pages 46 to 49), is proving immensely popular. If you have a question relating to colour or colour mixing, contact me and one of our experts will answer it. | would also love to hear from anyone who has advice or painting practices that they think would benefit other readers. For a change of pace, you'll find two articles on monochrome this month. Tony Paul reports on a high-quality charcoal (pages 14 to 15) and explains a host of techniques used to draw portraits with this much-valued medium. Linda Birch (pages 28 to 29) offers a tutorial on painting black and white subjects using water-soluble media, including an image that looks like a linocut, but was simply produced using white gouache and ink, Sometimes these snippets, found in panels and captions within these pages, will make all the difference to your own paintings. Try something new this month and see where it leads you, 4g sek os INGRID LYON Editor April 2015 issue on sale 27 February sors LelsurePainter 3