little mountain villages - calendar 2018 with artist Renee Walden

little mountain villages - calendar 2018

5 November 2017

I took a trip down memory lane yesterday and made a calendar with 13 of my sketches of little mountain villages in France, Spain and Italy.

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I hope you like the choices I made. I can tell you it wasn't easy, but it was such fun paging back through my sketchbooks.

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One of my all-time favourite paintings of a stormy day in a ruined Roman town in Spain.

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