Hello friends and welcome to my channel.
Today I'll be sharing with you
how I created this painting of the sky.
And right now you'll see my photo
and my value sketch
where I try to figure out the composition
and the values.
So the paper is wet on both sides
And it stays wet for a really long time
and it allows me to manipulate the color
add more,
remove some,
so I really like this technique of
having the paper wet on both sides
and you just saw me removing some of the
moisture with a paper towel.
I did that so I can have some clouds with
hard edges
I want some variety and, that's why,
I want to have some clouds with hard edges.
Now I'm adding some shadows
While I'm doing that
I have a lot of pigment on the brush
and very little water.
The paper is already so wet.
If I were to have some water on the brush,
it will just flow uncontrollably.
I'm using mostly indigo
with some cobalt blue here and there
and some quinacridone siena
where I want the color to be slightly warmer
closer to the sun
You can use any other blue color but
I think, indigo, indanthrene blue, and
colors, such as, Payne's gray, neutral tint,
those will give you the really dark value.
Color, such as, cobalt blue or ultramarine
they won't give you a dark value just by themselves.
You'll have to mix them with something like burnt umber.
I added some darker sky below the cloud.
The strokes are pointing towards the sun
so that it looks like sun rays.
At this point, the paper is starting to dry.
So, you can see, I'm trying to add
a little bit of variety, like,
making an opening in the cloud
but it's not looking very good.
Now the paper is dry.
So you can see the colors look much lighter.
I kind of wish they were a little bit darker but
I can do nothing at this point.
So I'm just adding the ocean and the shore,
using a little bit of the dry brush technique
to leave some highlights where the ocean meets the shore.
I'm removing some of the pigment
with a damp brush.
There is very little water on it
so it absorbs the pigment.
I'm using a credit card to try to lift
some of the paint
to make it look like there is some driftwood,
but it didn't really work.
There has to be a certain timing when you use
the credit card technique,
and I didn't catch that timing
Now everything is dry again,
and I'm adding the background trees.
I'm making sure to leave some highlights
so that it looks like roofs or something shining in the background
I'm adding more pigment to have some darker value
I'm using a dry brush technique again
in the foreground.
Just adding some stones and something like that,
things that you see on the shore.
Now I'm actually adding more pigment to the water.
It seemed to me like it was way too light, so
I wanted to make it a little darker.
And some finishing touches.
Again, I'm just adding some specks, lines,
something that looks like what you find onshore.
And adding some white gouache
to show some of the highlights.
And this is the finished painting.
I hope you enjoyed the process.
Let me know in the comments if you'd like to see
some other videos
or any questions you may have.
Thank you very much for watching
and until next time! Bye!