snowy christmas robin with artist Renee Walden

snowy christmas robin

9 November 2023

I'm going to say it! Christmas is coming!! So let's get a bit of head start by painting a cute, little, fluffy robin in the snow.

You can scan your finished painting and turn it into a Christmas card or paint is as an original to give to someone special.

I painted this one to match the deer in the snow that is a lesson from about a year ago. They'll look so lovely together.

Happy painting!

Find the full, real time, video tutorial on Patreon and Renee's Studio

Thanks to Abdul Rehman Khalid on Unsplash for the lovely reference photo.

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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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