summer lighthouse - free watercolour tutorial with artist Renee Walden

summer lighthouse - free watercolour tutorial

1 July 2024

It's the second birthday of my Patreon! So I thought it would be nice to start this month with a bonus lesson and you know how much I love to paint lighthouses.

This painting has a lovely contrast of warm vs cool colours and very loose foreground contrasted with the tightness of the pretty lighthouse. Both ideas are fun to play with.

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Happy painting!

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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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