sky studies

This is an early evening sky on a stormy day. Or you could say it was a sunset on a stormy evening. I love the way the dark, dark clouds contrast with the bright, warm sunset below. One secret to painting skies is to make the top of the painting darker than the rest of the sky to create depth in your paintings. Sunsets always make me think of Antoine De Saint-Exupery's book "The Little Prince".

stormy sunset, 6x8 watercolor

sky studies

This is a sky on a calm, early morning in summer. Notice the soft, warm colors and the feeling it gives you which is so different than the previous sky. Art is a lot about feeling. If you can feel what a painting is saying, then it's a good painting and the artist has been successful!

Early morning sky, 6x8 watercolor

sky studies

Here are three samples of skies I painted using watercolor. As I said earlier, there is so much variation in sky colors, clouds, shapes and weather that you could go on painting skies forever and never run out of ideas!

Stormy sky, 6x8 watercolor