yacht at sunrise with artist Renee Walden

yacht at sunrise

12 December 2024

watercolour painting of a sailing boat at sunrise

Lesson 100 on Patreon and Renee's Studio today! Wow. This feels rather momentous and I think maybe we'll open a bottle of bubbly tonight :-)

Such a pretty scene for this one. Very calm and peaceful too. It's an opportunity to use lovely pastel colours, and a light touch when painting, so that the paper shines through and your painting glows.

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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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