How To Paint Storm Clouds Watercolor

Painting clouds step by step guide for beginners.

How to paint storm clouds watercolor. How to paint a stormy sky. This background is for the clouds that you are going to make. Wash the paintbrush and than use it to smudge the edges of the clouds in order to create a mild gradation of the paint that depicts fog and rain. Tutorial by peter sheeler duration.

Keith demonstrates painting a sky with clouds over a beach in this video. While i do often work in this premeditated system when in the studio painting en plein air in strong sun and perhaps wind. Don t just stick to flat washes there are all kinds of skies just waiting to be captured in watercolours. Mix a very wet but still strong mixture of french ultramarine and cadmium red and paint the heavy purple storm clouds spreading the paint on the paper with wide brush strokes.

How to paint a stormy sky. Only ultramarine and sepia for this painting. How to watercolor paint clouds r k mcguire r k mcguire. Waiting to switch to a better quality paper later will be much like learning to paint all over again.

First focus on the background. Watercolor artists generally paint from light to dark carefully building up tones in successive layers while preserving the white of the paper where necessary. Artist susan herron demos a sky painting in watercolor during her class for intermediate painters creative watercolor. Step by step guide for beginners with this logical first step.

How to paint a watercolor sky with clouds the art league school. Let s begin painting clouds. How to paint a sunset. In this tutorial we look a quite a dramatic storm.

Keith shows how he watercolor paints clouds then adds some hills with trees.