paint a small town in the pyrenees with artist Renee Walden

paint a small town in the pyrenees

13 August 2025

Here's a scene from very close to home. So close, in fact, that's our house there at the back - the one with the new roof.

Back in spring I sketched this scene, when the meadow was full of pretty, white cow parsley. I knew straight away that it would make a lovely tutorial - the rich colours in the foreground and the beautiful light against shadow in the buildings.

The tutorial is already on Patreon and Renee's Studio. Come paint along!
www.walden.co.nz/learn

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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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