How to paint skies with watercolors

Watercolor is a very suitable material in order to draw the sky. It is transparent and gives the opportunity to convey subtle shades. The sky is not so often a one-ton. In different seasons it is different. Drawing of dawn or sunset sky can be used not only blue, but also pink, and yellow paint. For winter sky take the paint a little lighter for summer is brighter. In some countries it can even be Navy blue or purple.

You will need

• - watercolor;
• paper;
• - thick, soft brush;
• - a piece of foam;
• water;
• - needle or pen.

Instruction

1. Decide what time of day will be in your drawing. Depending on this, choose and paint. The brightness of the watercolor tones is determined by the amount of water, but still try to choose the color closest to your plan. Keep in mind that the paint is dry the picture will appear slightly more faded than when drawing.
2. Draw a horizon line. This can be done directly with a brush and the same paint, which you will draw the sky or what's under it. The horizon line is rarely perfectly straight. It only happens when you draw boundless field or sea. In all other cases, it is necessarily something curved. On the horizon may be the forest, it can obscure the city. So make it not flat. The location of the sheet can be any and depends entirely on your plan. If the horizon line is not necessary, sketch the contours of the object, which will be on sky background.
3. If the leaf is big, the original Bay do with a piece of foam. You can pre-outline the clouds. Nothing, if you accidentally mess up their paint. Clouds can be any shape, and excess stain picture will not spoil. Wet the sponge with water and moisten the entire space of the sky.
4. To paint the sky on a clear day dial on the sponge the blue paint. Make the worksheet blur and blur it around the space. If the sky blue color as is in a nice summer day, nothing more is needed. Let the figure dry and if it is too dull, apply in the same way the second layer of paint. The contours of the clouds can be a little blur or shade of light gray or light blue color.
5. Dawn and sunset, the sky is bright, it has a lot of red and yellow spots. Initial fill, do the same with a sponge. Then type in the brush a yellow or pink paint and do the washouts. They may be on the horizon and across the sky. If you want to draw a sunset, make the bright scarlet or orange stripe right on the horizon. Cloud lightly paint in the same colour, but lighter and faded paint.
6. Drawing the night sky, the clouds not pre-planned. Cover the space with black or dark blue paint. This can be done even without pre-filling, to tone was more thick. Try to make the color more even possible. Night clouds are barely visible, so draw their contours barely noticeable silver paint. If not, make them gray. They have little to stand out against a dark background.
7. The stars in the night sky can be simply incised. Wait until the paint is dry, mark their places with a needle or stylus. Carefully protsarapat to white, trying not to tear the paper.