the town of chulilla, valencia, spain with artist Renee Walden

the town of chulilla, valencia, spain

6 April 2023

Chulilla, Valencia, Spain. Painting in pen and watercolour

I'm still in Chulilla, having a wonderful time painting the lovely white houses.

In our last lesson (a step-by-step) we sketched just a few houses, zooming in on all the details.

In this lesson we step right back and paint a much larger portion of the town, including the old moorish castle on the hill and the surrounding cliffs and bushes. We're going to minimise the detail, until we have just enough to make the town recognisable.

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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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