new painting tutorial - five watercolour skies

26 January 2021
Learn to paint 5 different watercolour skies
Learn to paint 5 different watercolour skies

In this lesson we will paint five different watercolour skies...

  • summer sky with puffy clouds
  • stormy sky
  • cirrus sky
  • sunrise
  • night sky with milky way.

I'll teach you lots of tips and tricks and give you some rules to follow so that you skies will look realistic with a lovely sense of depth.

Skies are a wonderful way to practice painting watercolour - they teach you all about timing (which is so important in painting in watercolours) and about pigment and water control. They're super fun to paint and only take 10 to 15 minutes to complete - so you can paint them again and again, gaining a lot of skills along the way.

Full lesson is 50min long, only NZ$10 and you can find it here.

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