For this composition we have a big dramatic sky and a largely insignificant foreground.
Notice the clouds are white on top and darker underneath. Notice also they are smaller close to the horizon where they are further away. Try to give your clouds some lost and some found edges. This means blending.
Blending: wait until the paint has dried a bit - the shine will be disappearing from the paper. If you try to blend when the paint is still very wet you will just move the pigment around and you will either soak it all up on the brush or fail to get rid of the hard edges. When the shine has almost disappeared touch the edges with a clean brush with very little water.
Colours: Ultramarine blue, Raw sienna, Madder lake, Paynes grey
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| Notice the horizon line is 1/5 way from bottom |
Mix Ultramarine with paynes grey. Mix lots of paint Start at the top with one stroke across the page. Dip brush in water but don't swirl it around paint second stroke just touching the bottom edge of the first stroke. Continue until the horizon line. You should have almost no pigment in the brush by this time. Work fast with kitchen paper to dab out the tops of the clouds, then work down. You have to press quite hard. Soften some of the edges. Dry the painting |
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Turn board up-side-down and paint the top right corner with exactly the same colour as in step 1. Blend the edge so you don't get a line. This is just to darken the right side |
Dry the painting. Mix a basic grey using red+blue+yellow paint in the clouds with this grey adding more blue or red allowing the paint to mix on the paper. then blend the edges using the method descibed above. Use the grey + yellow to roughly paint the foreground |
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