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Learn to Paint Towering Summer Evening Clouds In Watercolor

 In this watercolor painting lesson you’ll learn how to paint those towering, puffy clouds that are seen so often in the summer evening sky. We’ll light them with bright warm light and show the three dimensional form with colorful shade and shadow.

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Paint Towering Summer Evening Clouds

The look of the summer sky changes through out the day. Often, on hot and humid days, cumulus clouds have built up  to the point that they are towering over the landscape. These tall clouds catch the rays of light from the setting sun in dramatic ways.  In this watercolor painting lesson, we focus on the methods and techniques that will help you paint these clouds successfully.

Drawing Layout For Any Painting

One note on the drawing layout. The downloadable layouts are done with heavy lines to make it easy to see and copy onto your watercolor paper. It is best not to draw the lines too heavy on your paper, especially in the sky, since there is a good chance the lines will show through the paint. It’s not a deal-breaker, but those heavy pencil lines are sometimes a distraction.

What you’ll need

 Get ready, turn on the video and let’s jump in!

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2 Comments

  1. FasolaJoanne
    FasolaJoanne on September 3, 2019 at 8:32 pm

    Hi Tony,
    one thing (of many) that trips me up in the watercolor tutorials is I don’t have a sense of how much of a puddle to make. Often, the puddle runs out at inopportune times when I need to quickly finish before a section dries. I see you making quick and sure movements between your water, your paint, and your puddle, but I’m never quite sure what you are doing. How do we estimate? Or how should we start so as not to run out?

    • Tony Conner
      Tony Conner on September 4, 2019 at 9:55 pm

      That’s a good question. I’ll have to address that in videos from now on. In the meantime, you are always better off with bigger puddles and more color in them on the palette. I rarely mention it during the lessons but should. You might have noticed that I often have so much water in the puddles that they start running together. In general, make the puddles bigger, more fluid, and with more color.

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