Hey are your clouds not coming out the way that you thought they would when
you're doing your painting if so stay tuned because I'm gonna show
you a really cool quick tip to give your clouds that extra little pop that make
them more realistic but also pleasing to the eye so let's get into it
Hey all my name is Wild helping you become bigger and better with your
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below and tick that bell anyone my videos go live for you so if you're a
new painter out there you probably have struggled a little bit with clouds and
the biggest problem people have is generally when they put them on darker
colors your white paint will get contaminated with the undercoat
generally blue which kind of mutes the color of the white not making them
really stand out to be big and impactful and give that kind of eye visual candy
kind of look so what you want to do is add another extra layer when your
painting has dried its gonna give that extra little highlight look that's gonna
make it pop so let me show you what I mean by showing you a quick little
example here that you're just going to love for this tutorial you're gonna need
a few simple tools and supplies which you probably already have for your
brushes you're gonna need a fan brush but you can also use an angled shader or
a dagger brush or even a filbert plus a two inch brush and of course you're
gonna need some white titanium paint now if you're white titanium paint is really
firm like Winsor Newton paint which is completely fine I recommend having a
little few drops of either liquid clear on standby or you could use even
something like walnut oil whatever you got near will be perfectly fine so
here's our painting we did on our wine Wednesday and it looks really good and
fantastic but if you were to add a few more details here in the cloud what you
want to do is wait till your paintings pretty dry here we've already got a dry
painting so not to worry about it and we can add some details of highlights on
here to really make them pop and come forward now if you want softer details
in here I really recommend taking liquid clear and clearing the whole top here so
that way it gets nice and wet so if you mess up you
and kind of blend things out but all I'm gonna do is add a little bit of liquid
clear to my white paint here just so it gets a little smoother but don't overdo
it this is just to easily apply it here on our canvas for details so grab what
you need until you get a smooth consistency it's starting to run off my
palate there don't worry about that and again we want to use a little bit of the
corner of the brush like we did to produce these clouds if you need any
help with clouds can put a video in the top right corner you can take a look at
now what you want to do is look at where your lights coming from and add details
and since our light sources on the bottom a lot of the light would be
catching the bottom of these clouds I don't want you to worry about that at
the moment I really want to get comfortable of putting details on top of
the clouds because that's actually a lot easier to do so let's just start with
that so what I'm gonna do is just find some subtle detail spots and start
whisking in some little highlights here and really start to make a little bit of
a shape that stands out a little bit more on my cloud shapes here and I'm
just having a light touch but all I'm really doing is more or less whisking
the clouds and letting my paint and bristles flare out and grab onto certain
spots where I think some highlights would kind of catch in the clouds here
and don't go too crazy with it because you want to have some darks and
mid-tones here that's what's gonna make your clouds stand out and separate from
one another if there's one strong tip here just to keep that paintbrush moving
because it's gonna make your cloud look more natural
overall with all these little subtle details here all right there we go I
think that looks pretty good so now that we've got all of our highlights detailed
in here what we really want to do is give it more of a natural flow so with a
nice clean fan brush here we're more or less going to scrape in and get all the
kind of shape that we want just on the bottom to blend it into the shape and
the body of our cloud and grab a little bit and kind of just pull down into the
body of the cloud and this is gonna give it more of a natural shape but it's okay
to have very strong highlights because those are gonna look like specular
highlights where the sunlight kind of more or less just kissed
get some smooth soft details but still some strong highlights in here okay I
think you can even hear how hard I scrape on this canvas sometimes and just
to reiterate all I'm really using is the corner of the brush and really letting
those bristles work back and forth up and down and zigzag and scrape in a
little bit here you don't have to blend it in too much because we'll get that a
little bit on our next step here now I think you can see how the details are
starting to pop out here a little more our next step is to clean up all of our
messy brushstrokes that we introduced with that fan brush so you kind of have
two options you can use a two inch brush or one inch brush it depends on what you
feel most comfortable with so let's start with a one inch brush and I'll
show you how we finish with a two inch brush all you're going to be doing is
using the top part of the bristles here to smooth out just the bottom portion of
our cloud to pull in those highlights again to look more natural and this is a
very soft touch we're just working out all those hard brush strokes that we did
now try your best not to touch the top of your crowns in your cloud this is
just smoothing out and adding that little extra body texture and make sure
you're using only the top part of your paintbrush at the moment okay
alright look how much more smoother that looks now now that we worked in the body
let's finish by making sure that the whole clouds in the body takes shape
so we can do the same thing with the two inch brush and we're gingerly gonna go
over everything inform it until one okay so just use the top your brush and
you're barely gonna touch the canvas and this is just to work out the gigantic
blobs and also smooth out some of the brush strokes from the first time we put
them on with the fan brush okay so very very softly very softly there we go and
if you want you can give your clouds a little bit of a lift here if you need so
little extra kiss it's really up to you know personalize your clouds work off
all that paint again and then make all of your paint strokes even across your
horizon and sunset so that way it doesn't look like a painting it looks
like a photograph see it wasn't that super dope it's something so easy that
you can add on to your painting it only takes a few
it's to make it so much better I really recommend you give it a shot one of the
biggest problems people do with wet on wet painting is they see Bob Ross and
Bill Alexander and all these other really good painters knock out a
painting in just a few short minutes and that's really cool but that's probably
not you at the beginning and it definitely is not me so don't be afraid
to go back to your paintings that add these little awesome details because
it's really gonna take it above and beyond what you thought you could do and
you're welcome now if you need any more help with painting or perhaps you want
to see how we did that awesome sunset painting which is perfect for any
beginning painter out there got you covered I did that an awesome wine
Wednesday which I'm gonna put right over here for you to check out and if you
need help with clouds or right at the bottom there it's gonna help you be a
cloud master until next time my name's Wild
make'n sure you stay creative and I will see all you beautiful people later in a
course take care and peace