Project 2 Overview and Handouts
Project 2 Overview
In this project, you’ll learn the many different techniques for painting clouds of all sorts, plus a bit about how to use clouds to enhance the design of your painting. We’ll cover:
- understanding cloud shapes and movement; and perspective in skies and clouds
- using clouds to enhance the design of your painting
- color mixing for skies and clouds (daytime conditions, clear and stormy weather)
- wet-in-wet techniques for painting darker clouds on a lighter sky
- lifting techniques for lighter clouds on a darker sky
- using negative painting wet-into-wet for lighter clouds on a darker sky
- using gravity wet-into-wet to create “wind” effects in painting clouds
Project 2 Templates and Handouts
Course Content
Preliminaries
Project 1 — Crescent Moon in a Pre-Dawn Sky
- Project 1 Overview & Handouts
- How and Why to Stretch Your Watercolor Paper
- How to Mix Watercolor Washes for Larger Areas
- How to Print Photos and Templates Poster-Size (Using Adobe Acrobat)
- How to Resize Rectangles Proportionally (with no calculating)
- A Less-Messy Way to Spatter Watercolor Paint and Masking Fluid
- Three Ways to Mask a Crescent Moon
- Project 1 Design and Planning
- Project 1 Paint-Along
- Working With Reference Photos for Skies
Project 2 — Dramatic Clouds at the Beach
- Project 2 Overview & Handouts
- Color Mixing for Skies and Clouds in Watercolor (Daytime Skies)
- Three Ways to Create Clouds in Watercolor by Lifting
- Working on Saturated Paper to Practice Wet-into-Wet Techniques
- Painting Dark Clouds on a Lighter-Value Sky
- Using Multiple Washes to Create Clouds Layers
- Painting Light Clouds on a Darker-Value Sky Using Negative Painting Wet-Into-Wet
- Preserving Soft-Edged Highlights with a Gum Arabic Resist
- Project 2 Design and Planning
- Project 2 Paint-Along