Leisure Painter

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This issue is packed with demonstrations, showing a wide variety of techniques, media, colour-mixing ideas and brush-handling advice. From the depiction of colourful and lively birds using water-soluble pencils, and a step-by-step acrylic-painting demonstration of this month’s delightful cover image of a meerkat by Chloe Hibberd, to how to capture decorative tiles using freehand drawing skills and line-and-wash techniques with Tony Underhill, we have something for everyone this month.

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