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Tips when Painting Skies
Sky Painting Tip: Stop
Blue and Yellow Making Green
When using yellows (e.g. raw sienna) and blues in painting skies, you can avoid getting greens by using a tiny amount of red (eg permanent rose) added to either of the two colours.
Tip from: Brian O'Donovan
When painting skies in
watercolour, let the water do the work. Try this experiment:
1. Use a
sheet of good quality paper to prevent buckling. Saturate the whole sky area
with clear water.
2. Now take some cerulean blue (making sure it has been
thinned down with lots of water) onto your brush and "dab" it onto the sky part
of your painting in a fairly arbitrary manner.
3. Tip the sheet of paper
upwards so that the colour runs down towards the horizon in your composition.
You will find you can control amazing cloud/sky effects as the blue "fuses" into
the wet water-only areas of your paper.
4. You can also use other blues
to "leach" into the cerulean blue to produce wonderful atmospheric effects.
Tip from Ray Johnston | 
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