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Learn to paint a landscape in ONE easy lesson!
"I dream a painting and then I paint my dream" — Vincent Van Gogh
Joan A Brown | Free step-by-step oil painting lesson - No.1
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Step 4: Paint a few clouds
You may choose to leave your sky cloudless but, if you'd like to add a
few clouds follow the next few steps. Load one corner of your filbert
brush liberally with white (not the soft, liquid white). Fig. 17
Holding the brush horizontally and the handle slightly angled up, make
small clockwise motion to create clouds. Fig. 18
Don't lift the brush as you move across the canvas. Be free with the
brush. Dance it across the canvas. Don't try to be too detailed or
specific. Clouds have no rhyme or reason to them. Simply twist and
roll the filbert wherever you want to place clouds keeping in mind to
make them smaller and more faded (less pressure on the brush) as you
work down the canvas. Fig. 19, 20
You may choose to leave your sky cloudless but, if you'd like to add a
few clouds follow the next few steps. Load one corner of your filbert
brush liberally with white (not the soft, liquid white). Fig. 17
Holding the brush horizontally and the handle slightly angled up, make
small clockwise motion to create clouds. Fig. 18
Don't lift the brush as you move across the canvas. Be free with the
brush. Dance it across the canvas. Don't try to be too detailed or
specific. Clouds have no rhyme or reason to them. Simply twist and
roll the filbert wherever you want to place clouds keeping in mind to
make them smaller and more faded (less pressure on the brush) as you
work down the canvas. Fig. 19, 20
Fig. 17
Fig. 18
Fig. 21
Fig. 19
Fig. 20
Clean and paper dry the 1" brush. Using just a few bristles
on one corner of the brush, soften the base of the clouds
into the background. Fig. 21 & 22
on one corner of the brush, soften the base of the clouds
into the background. Fig. 21 & 22
Use small clock-wise circular motions,
(counter-clockwise if you are left-handed). Clean
your brush often on paper towel in order to keep
your clouds white. If you like, you can use a clean
filbert brush to soften some of the bases of the
smaller clouds.
(counter-clockwise if you are left-handed). Clean
your brush often on paper towel in order to keep
your clouds white. If you like, you can use a clean
filbert brush to soften some of the bases of the
smaller clouds.
Fig. 22
Dedicated to my late beloved son, Jabec Easton Bellehumeur.