Sky Painting with Clouds

Recent Project: Working on a sky painting for a Trompe l'oeil window.

With the background blended in a blue fade with incidentals, warm tones are laid in on the thin horizon clouds. The same value is then lightened for a second application on the highlight side, covering approximately 2/3rds of the cloud. With the value lightened again, work begins on the highlight side, covering the upper 1/3rd of the cloud.

In the final stage, blue is used sparingly for corrections and the final highlight value is applied.

Learn something? We hope so, this is one of the many techniques taught in our "Trompe l'oeil - Mural Painting Class", click the link for more images / info!