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Renee Walden

🎨 Rustic buildings series - painting timeless structures

Published over 1 year ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader,

Today on Patreon I created a Rustic Buildings Series. This group of watercolour tutorials takes you right through from the beginning with skills lessons, then 2 intermediate lessons, an advanced one and finally a guided challenge to do on your own.

Here's what's in the series...

  1. Skills : old wood & corrugated iron (video)
  2. Skills : stonework & brickwork (video)
  3. Intermediate : old door (video)
  4. Intermediate : a barn in a meadow of summer wild flowers (step by step)
  5. Advanced : sunlit ruin with stormy sky (video)
  6. Challenge : old door with climbing flowers

All the lessons include full instructions, a materials list, reference photos, drawings to trace and, for the skills lessons, there's a worksheet to print out and keep.

You can find it on Patreon if you're already a subscriber. Or if you prefer not to subscribe, you can download each individual lesson for $5.

Ready to join me?

It's no secret that I love painting old buildings. Ones that are full of character and that seem to hold stories of the past and the lives that were once lived there. I look forward to sharing some of this inspiration with you.

Happy painting!

Warm regards,
Renee

INSPIRATION WALL

A few paintings from my "Story Keepers Series" - an ongoing body of work where I ponder the stories ruins, huts, boats and old cars could tell if only they could speak.

Drake Place, Lake Hawea, Otago 9382
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Renee Walden

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