The Easy Guide to Painting Skies in Watercolour by Stephen Coates

The sky is probably the most important part of any landscape painting. Get it right and you immediately have the mood, lighting, atmosphere and weather in place. Get it wrong and no amount of work on details or foreground will rescue the piece. Stephen will show you not just how to look at colours and clouds, but also how to use washes and all the properties of your palette to capture look, feel and aesthetics. Your results will not just look like a believable sky, but feel like one and set the tone for the complete painting, which will follow perfectly naturally. Stephen is well-versed in the techniques required to do all this, and he explains them clearly and concisely. You'll find washes, wet-in-wet, negative shapes, lifting out, drybrush and much more in demonstrations that cover just about every kind of lighting and weather you're likely to encounter. There is sunshine, there are mists, storms, warm and cool light and, of course, clouds galore. This is a thorough and complete guide that will tell you everything you need and want to know.