live online painting class - rusty truck with artist Renee Walden

live online painting class - rusty truck

14 December 2020

What a lovely fun this was! 6 lovely students from USA, Canada and Australia and we painted a scene that I've been wanting to do for years. I drive past this old truck all the time and I've been wanting to put it on paper before it goes off to old truck heaven. Plus painting rust in watercolour is the biz :-)

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Rusty Truck - demo watercolour painting from live online class

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