Painting the sky is just like reproducing an atmosphere. In Brittany, we are lucky ones : our sky keeps changing constantly Let your brush follow the stream of your emotions: remember a promenade and the wind whipping your face : only then, you will paint the sky Technique : oils Colours : ultramarine mid-cadmium red yellow ochre lemon yellow umber titanium white Brushes : No 12 Raphael flat brush No 18 Raphael flat brush |
| 1st step
: background Paint a background on your canvas using ultramarine and turpentine. Never use white for background. Background material must be very liquid with little colour, because it makes texture opaque. |
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| 2nd
step Mix ultramarine with umber and white. Now you are working on the thickness, without turpentine. Start painting from the top of the canvas and, as you go down, lighten using white. To suggest clouds, save some tiny locations. 3rd step Using dashes of red, dashes of yellow and white, paint clouds in a swift movement. As your background is still wet, borders will mix with the strong blue of your sky. |
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| 4th
step Use ultramarine, a dash of umber, a dash of red and some white. Touch up the lowest right part of your sky, to give it a paler and mauver shade (to give an impression of depth). Touch up clouds and try to bind them. Put the emphasis on the light surging from the sea, as well as on the cloud receiving this light. To achieve the painting, give the sea the same colours as those of the sky. Of course, you should paint SKY and SEA at the same time and not one after the other. |
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