Ribeira Area Webcam in Porto

If you’re a novice artist searching for a town scene to paint that won’t be too testing for your skills then you may just have found it with this webcam. Stick with it for a couple of minutes as the views whizz from one part of the Ribeira district of the city of Porto in Portugal to another and inspiration may well strike especially if you like drawing pretty coloured squares and rectangles topped by triangles.

A maze of cobbled streets and the Douro River run through Ribeira, part of Porto’s historic Old Town which dates from the 18th century. Winding streets and water are difficult to paint so stick to daubing your version of the fronts of the building in one dimension and leave the complicated stuff to the Portuguese masters like Pinheiro.