ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR PAINTING SKIES
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this video I demonstrate a set of skills that will help you develop a strategy for painting convincing skies in watercolour. I also show you three different colour combinations that I use regularly to paint different skies, showing you an exercise that will help you to gain familiarity with the three primary colours that you use. I finish up by showing you how to avoid mixing green in your skies - a common occurrence for beginners.
The skill tips that I cover in this video are:
1. Be methodical
2.Plan your colours
3. Use large, soft brushes
4. Have your colour mixes ready before you start
5. Test your colours
6. Use a flat board when painting wet-on-wet
7. Concentrate on your timing
8. Use a smaller brush for cloud detail
9. Stretch your paper if you can
10. Fine-tune your skies with glazing
11. Don't over-work your skies
12. Use blending
13. How to lift out areas (but sparingly)
14. Be decisive
15. Watch your paint dry!
The following link takes you to the paints that I use:
DALER ROWNEY ARTIST'S RANGE - geni.us/rwRJa6A
DALER ROWNEY AQUAFINE - geni.us/8bXMGe
MAIMERI BLU - geni.us/sKIh
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This video contains affiliate links to products, which means that I receive a small commission on a purchase of those products without additional cost to you. The purpose of this video is to share my knowledge and experience of landscape painting and watercolour with you and from time to time that may involve me recommending products that I use. I receive some of those products from manufacturers for free, but the products that I recommend are only products that I believe in, have used for many years and am comfortable to recommend to you.
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In a world of TikTok and UA-cam shorts, thank you for putting out these detailed videos on core topics that beginners like me struggle with. UA-cam may not reward these longer videos, but there are many of us who love watching them and benefit tremendously from them. Thank you and I look forward to many more such videos. Really appreciate the effort that goes in and you sharing your talents.
Agreed! 💯
100%
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Amen! Timelapses and shorts are so discouraging when one is learning.
Agree wholeheartedly. Very much appreciated 👏
Another fantastic video, thank you Olly! These really are the 'gold standard' of watercolour lessons - can't wait for the next one!
I totally agree. Well said.
Thank you Oliver for this second video on painting skies, full of useful informations as every time. I did’t yet practice the exercises but will do soon. I want to tell that after having watched your first video of this série and practised the exercises I look to real skies in a quite different way.
This was super helpful! And for someone like me who struggles with skies that turn green….you’ve explained it so patiently and well! Many many thanks 🙏
Simply brilliant. Thank you for the clear and precise narrative. There are hours and hours of tips to help my practice and so much more helpful than many videos that either simplify or time lapse the detail out and just add to my frustration at not being able to produce a result that I am happy with. Please keep sharing your experience and skill.
This is brilliant - for so long I’ve just been throwing pigments on the paper and hoping for the best - with little or no planning. I am so very grateful. God bless and thank you again. Oh, that way to not get green in the skies - so great. :)
This is "teaching"... and thank you so much. The preparation, the thought process.... where to start and plan a painting... as you say - before you ever touch the paper. It's so nice to be shown and included.... not just an observer. Thank You again!!!
SO HELPFUL. Love your commentary - hearing this from an experienced artist helps make sense of what seems an most impossible puzzle in watercolour use. Thank you - I learned a lot and am going to start a “doodle book” for jus the purpose of watching watercolour do its thing!
I just want to thank you so much for making this skies series. It is incredibly informative and truly the most helpful material I could ever find on this subject!
Thank you so much Oliver, for all your wonderful tips. you are a gift. I love your delicacy and understanding.
Thank you so much for your expertise and thorough process explanation. If I could add one note: in your materials lesson (I am going through your beginners playlist), you mention that you don’t view paper as a larger factor in your output and that buying expensive paper may stall the process due to fear of waste. I am a beginner and I found that switching to expensive paper has vastly improved my learning experience. I believe if I had a lot more experience as an artist, I would get similar results between wood pulp and cotton paper but as a beginner, the switch has been invaluable. Just an opinion that I have observed with other novices as well!
Thank you for your in-depth explanations. Appreciate all the thought and effort you've put into these sessions.
Such a helpful video - terrific thank you Olly!
Thank you for sharing. Luv them and its amazing how you so generously shared your techinques of blending skies.
Thank you so much. You are generous to offer so much of your process. I feel like I’ve been in a workshop because my notebook is full of notes.
Thank you so much Oliver it was a very informative tutorial and I look forward to trying out the different combinations you showed us. You are so generous with your time and I greatly appreciate that.
Another video jammed full of practical advice--thank you.
Of course I like your videos. You are a great teacher and your channel has grown a lot.
Thank you for being so thorough, putting so much critical information in this lesson. Too often I am left thinking 'well, what about when...' after watching an online 'teacher'. I especially appreciate learning techniques for wet paper versus dry. I have definitely been muddling those... Also the quick color lesson is quite helpful.
And may I just say that your rhetorical style and word choice make me feel I have just learned valuable life lessons?
Thanks again.
Thanks for the kind comment - pleased the video helps.
Thank you for this great instructional and inspirational video, Oliver. Watching it makes me pick up a brush and have a go again :-)
Absolute fabulous demonstration!!! Always learn so much from you!!!👏👏👏👏😍😍😍😍
Great tutorial videos! Thank you very much.
I would try the methodical approach and planning in my paintings to get more natural transitions of colours.
This tutorial was so helpful, thank you so much!
Thanks Oliver, enforces the need to think about design and composition before hand.
Your videos are immensely helpful and enjoyable! Many 😊 thanks from across the pond;)
Great Video, very much appreciated. Thank you!
Wonderful and thank you.
Thank you so much. Very useful and inspiring material.
Brilliant! I have had such difficulty working with water. This is so clear and concise.
Hello from Northern California. I was looking forward to this. You did not disappoint Oliver
I learnt a lot from this and other of your videos. Thank you for that!!
Thank you so much for giving your time and knowledge to help beginners like myself to learn to paint with WC, you are very generous person , your talent is remarkable
Thank you so much Oliver, this was really interesting and informative. 🤗
Thank you!!!! 🙌✨
You're the poet of clouds!
Brilliant! Thank you Oliver 👍
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the lesson I've kept a note for the sky colors
Very very helpful, thanks for explaining in details mixing of colors
Thanks for the interesting video. I’ll have to give the colour mixing a try, but I’m usually precious about using watercolour paper! I notice that you have an aversion to Crimson Alizarin; many of the books I learned from used this with French Ultramarine.
thank you so much this is so much helpful!!
Thanks for sharing your videos Oliver
Very helpful! Thank you Oliver 😊
Thank you useful information
Just wonderful! So surprised how dry you keep the paper when doing those demos !
denniscaeton--Oliv er, you are Marvelous, i tend to view each painting as an experiment, which is probably a terribly wrong approach. i often am pleased with levels of experiment and sometimes love the results, sometimes i have to wad up the paper, sometimes, im able to set it all aside, for days or more, and hace many unfinished efforts that i rework, ,some times, in my experiment i am introduced to those little miracles that happen with watercolorsl --honestly, i don't have , yet, your patience , but i envy it, and am doing better , i hope. Off to bed. love and admire your work.
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I understand that - there should always be an element of experimentation in any creative endeavour. Always be experimenting.
Dennis, I too approach each painting as an experiment or learning experience. It helps me relax rather than just freezing in front of a blank sheet of paper😂 As you say, the results are often surprisingly better than expected. It may not be a masterpiece, but if I learn something or get good practice at something, I count it as a success.
Thank you Oliver, very informative.
This was very informative . Thank you🙏🙏
Thank you
Beautiful
Many thanks
What colors did you use? Trying to get back into watercolor. I left it for awhile to play with acrylic but, I miss it. Your videos are great because I have memory issues and realize I’ve lost my techniques because it’s been a couple years. I’m realizing that the timing is critical, which i seemed to have lost. So thanks because you truly do know the medium so well.
Oh never mind lol
Excellent teaching👌👌👌
Thank you for a wonderful video. I'm looking forward to more. I was wondering, please, what size were the brushes you were using?
Hello,
Thank you for telling me which paper you use because I can't get the result I'm looking for; the paper is too wet or dries too fast ( i use Canson Montval 300g and Le Coq paper 325g)
What colors you use to create the gray in the middle of the blue to yellow transition at the very end of your video? Thank you?
Same queries here
Is this simply a mixe of the 2?
Why can't they manufacture already stretched papers
Cost! You can purchase watercolour boards (paper pre-fixed to board) but these are expensive
It was a bit painful watching you overwork on purpose.
Thanks so much for taking the time to break down the steps and colors you use to create your gorgeous skies!! Can’t wait to see your next video.
These lessons are incredible. You provide so much information that my head is spinning😂 but that’s a good thing! Tomorrow I hope to get started practicing and trying out different combinations of my own colors. This is very exciting. Thank you very much for all that you do for all of us beginners. It means everything when you have no teacher and no compatriots to discuss things with-which is why I also love Our Landscape, which is a very helpful forum.
Yes, you have actually managed to make watching paint dry into something interesting. Thank you. Good tips and great video.😀
I've just enjoyed this for the second time and learned a lot. Your considered approach is delightful. I second your appeal for practice and experiment. Many people regard this as wasting paper and pigment when the reverse seems to be true. Keep up the good work and many thanks.
Yes!!! Thank you for these detailed tutorials instead of time lapse and shorts that actually make me feel sick. They don’t teach me anything. I truly appreciate your style of teaching and also having a “visiting” with artist feel. You are so appreciated!!! ❤
Thanks Trisha
@@oliverpyle-ourlandscape4442 you’re welcome
This is such a great video. It gives you true instruction - you’re not just watching someone else paint - he shows you HOW ahead is doing what he is. Really really good.
Such a useful video. Gets to the nuts and bolts of how to achieve a sky that adds drama without looking false. Love the non-wet in wet technique. I've always started by wetting my paper in the sky. Also the little playing with trios of color exercise is going to be fun.
Thank you Oli so much! Very informative and beautiful painting!
Ollie, you really teach well. Thank you for all you have done to produce such an informative tutorial, I look forward to your next video 😊
I have a lot of skies to practice. I love how you show messing up beside doing it right.
you are greatest teacher, share all your techniques. It is really help me to improve my watercolour more. no words to say. Thank you
Great exercises. Thankyou for spending the time to film this. I will make a go at all these and post my results on the blog.
Fantastic as usual , what was the grey mix at the end of the video?
The colour combo doodles is a great idea, thank you. Guess what I will be doing tomorrow? I hope to come up with some useful 'Australian' colours.
У вас очень нежные работы. Очень красиво. Я не знаю английского, просто слушаю вас и смотрю. Спасибо большое!
An excellent second installment. The graded wash demonstration is especially helpful, that's a skill that can be quite tricky for new painters.
So helpful
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!
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Your tutorials never get old. Watching all over again. As I'm healing fron x3 major abdominal surgeries performed in one go, and can't yet be upright long enough to put brush to paper.. your videos are keeping me sane and happy right now. Really loved revisiting this video Oliver it's full of Gold information and advise. Thankyou 🙏
absolutely riveting! that last sky was so real in its subtle changes to the horizon. Thanks again.
Do you think that paint from different companies are slightly different? I’ve tried to make grey like you but ended up with purple, no matter how much of each I use.
Being new to watercolor, this video was so helpful! Your advice was so easy to understand. Thank you so much. Can’t wait to try your color exercises!
Thank you so much...I have some practising to do! Your patience and step-by-step guidance inspired me to work more carefully and preparation is the key to achievement.
So happy to have discovered you!
Very helpful! Thank you for doing these sky videos. 🙂
Thank you very much for your excellent teaching, so beneficial, I appreciate. Looking forward to watching your future videos.
Very helpful indeed! Thankyou! ❤ XXX
Thanks very much for these detailed tutorials. Giving me insight and motivation and they are very helpful.
Superduper fantastic yet again Olly, thank you. Did you say that the Daler Rowney Raw Sienna contains a hint of Permanent Rose or have you added a touch of that to the Raw Sienna for your skies also is the ‘murky grey’ at the end a mix of F Ultramarine and Perm Rose. Thank you
Excellent!!! Thank you for the share!!!
Thank you for giving so much detailed information in a clear and understandable manner, very much appreciated on the ever learning journey of watercolour
Thank you for actually teaching!!! I am so grateful.
So very helpful! Love the exercises. Thank you Oliver
I’ve so struggled with skies! This has been incredibly helpful. Thank you!
Just brilliant. You are a great teacher. Thank you so much!
As a beginner, I wonder why you use the side of your paint brush to paint instead of the tip. ???
Thanks for explaining how to avoid green skies!
Patty - What brush could I use on ace of a Hake brush? I don't have one of those.
Extremely helpful…lightbulb moment for me at least x
Please tell us the colors you are using as you use them. Thanks!
26:02 Dark blob in middle 26:05 - someone scrubbed it out.
Great sky tips! Thank you
Hello from York