free watercolour tutorial - a little ermita

a little chapel in a field of summer flowers
a little chapel in a field of summer flowers

The Ermita de San Anton is a lovely, historic building on one of our favourite walks. I've sketched it many times before when I'm walking past, but this is the first time that I've done a full painting of the pretty place.

On one of our walks past the little chapel recently, the grassy patch in front was full of summer flowers and humming with bees and butterflies. I thought making a feature of these colourful wild flowers would make a fun scene to paint. Plus there's the wonderful stonework on the ermita too.

This tutorial is the free tutorial offered on my new iPad and iPhone app, Renee's Studio. Get the app here.

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