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Acrylic Painting: How to Paint Realistic Clouds: Sunset Sky Painting

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Overview

In this class you will learn how to paint convincing fluffy colorful clouds. We will focus on how to use a reference photo for composition and color. 

Painting clouds is all about painting light, and I show you how to do this quickly by using many layers of acrylic paint.

Materials:

Acrylic Paint:

-phtalo blue

-ultramarine blue

-white

-paynes gray

-red violet

-cadmium red

-cadmium yellow

-sap green

Additional supplies: Glass palette, cup for water, paint brushes, gesso, drying towel for brushes, paper or canvas

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Surface Preparation: How to Gesso
  • Sky: Base Layer Color Mixing
  • Sky: Gradient
  • Sky: Blending
  • Sky: Vibrancy
  • Clouds: Outline
  • Clouds: Base Layer
  • Clouds: Lights
  • Clouds: Midtones
  • Clouds: Composition
  • Clouds: Volume
  • Clouds: Shadows
  • Sky: Defining and Darkening
  • Clouds: Bright Colors
  • Land: Mountains
  • Land: Hills and Trees
  • Final Details
  • Thank you!

Taught by

Yvette Lab

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