a little street in chulilla, valencia, spain

Let's walk into the town of Chulilla, to one of the little streets leading up to the church. Here the focus is on the play of light and shadow on the pretty white houses.

This is our third lesson in Chulilla - we've sketch a few houses close up with lots of detail, a larger portion of the town with minimal detail and, in this one, the detail is somewhere in between.

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