Landscape Essentials: Skies

Description Learn color-mixing, application and perspective secrets for painting skies alongside artist and instructor Kathleen Moore. Start with tips for composing captivating skyscapes, preparing your canvas with layers of gradated pigment and adding key details. Next, you’ll see how to paint fluffy cumulous clouds and wispy cirrus clouds with lifelike dimension and shadows. Move on to techniques for capturing the dynamism and power of windy, rainy, stormy skies. As the storm clears, Kathleen will teach you color-mixing and application techniques for painting sunrises and sunsets. Plus, you’ll discover how to paint captivating night skies lit with shining stars and the glow of the moon.

• Class Preview
• Composition & Perspective
• Painting the Sky: Color & Value
• Different Kinds of Clouds
• Giving Dimension to Clouds
• Stormy Skies
• Sunrises & Sunsets
• Nocturne