Watercolor Painting Skies Clouds

Perfect for beginners and seasoned artist alike.
Watercolor painting skies clouds. It s fun and freeing because ninety percent of the time you will be using the wet in to wet painting technique. So there we have it in a few simple steps three skies for the price of one. Learn to control these two factors with your clouds and you ll find that your watercolour skills with a host of other subjects will benefit as well. Skies and clouds are universal elements for landscape paintings.
A tutorial and demo on how to paint skies and clouds with watercolor including painting a skyscape and using a sky in a landscape. Often the sky and the clouds in the sky are important supporting. Painting skies and clouds in watercolor these two landscape elements are tailor made for the strength of watercolor. Below we have first a clear cloudless sky then next a sunny one with wispy clouds.
This is the first of a series of clouds and sky tutorials. For larger paintings i simply use a bigger brush. Even when they are not the featured subject their presence serves as at least a back drop. Below i share tips for painting skies and clouds recommended sky colors and a video tutorial where i demo two different skyscapes with watercolor.
I ve already written several posts on this subject but i thought it was time for a more in depth tutorial on how to paint skies and clouds with watercolor.