Description
For landscape painters, painting a believable sky means creating a sense of distance, atmosphere, light, and mood. This course is designed to give students the knowledge and techniques to paint beautiful atmospheric skies. In this course we will cover:
- gradation of colors in the sky at various times of day
- gradation of values in the sky
- types of cloud formations and how to depict them
- use of atmospheric and linear perspective to create believable skies
- glazes and scumbling techniques
- using a variety of edges in painting skies
- composing skies for maximum effect