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

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

• 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!