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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

Ullswater pt88

Windermere pt89

Haystacks & Fleetwith Stack pt90

Wastwater pt91

Langstrath Beck pt92

Crummock Water pt93

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Signed Original Watercolour Paintings are approximately 35cm x 26cm.

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