Leisure Painter

Welcome

I hope that you enjoy this issue and find a variety of tutorials and practical advice to inspire you to draw and paint this month. There’s plenty of festive and seasonal to tackle, from painting evergreenwonderlands. You will probably have already noticed that we’ve also made changes to your magazine with a new look to the front cover. We have brought the diary and exhibition pages to the front of the magazine, too, and you’ll find a larger section at the back for art clubs and book reviews this month. We want to make more of the images you send us from your art clubs and from our own monthly Art Club Challenge, and wondered why we weren’t giving this section more space - so here it is. Please send your art club news, listings, and ‘best in show’ and challenge images to

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