How to Paint Clouds and Skies with Watercolor

Watercolor painting is difficult enough all on its own, but there are some objects that people find particularly difficult to paint.  This post will hope to remedy that by showing you several videos that teach you how to paint believable clouds and skies with watercolors.  I found the videos below while searching this topic on YouTube and believe these to be the very best videos there on this topic  I do hope you find these landscape and techniques helpful.  Enjoy!

How To Paint A Blue Sky With Clouds in Watercolor

Watercolor Sky For Beginners -- How To Paint a Variegated Wash

How to Paint a Watercolor Sky with Wilson Bickford

Simple Skies in Watercolour

Terry Madden’s Watercolor Workshop Painting Easy Clouds

How to paint clouds the wet on wet way

Landscape painting on Location on the Blue Ridge Parkway with Roger Bansemer

Acrylic landscape painting demonstration of a mountain scene on the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina with artist Roger Bansemer. In this wonderful video, artist Roger Bansemer demonstrates his techniques for painting outdoors, plein air style, using acrylic paint.

Watercolor Trees Tutorial – Painting Cypress, Cactus and Poplar

Here is a great little watercolor trees tutorial video from artist Bob Davies on how to paint cypress, cactus and poplar trees. Enjoy.

Watercolor Pencil Techniques by Tim Fisher

This is a very informative watercolor pencil video lesson by artist Tim Fisher explaining the variety of techniques you can utilize while working with watercolor pencils.  In this video, the artist demonstrates techniques like cross hatching, burnishing, how to create highlights using and electric eraser, how to create washes using water or turpentine, and more. Enjoy!

Oil Painting Video Lesson – The Spring House

Enjoy this three part :

Part 1

Beginning a new oil painting of a Spring House in rural Pa. Here i am blocking in the sky and foreground underpainting:

Part 2

Underpainting the backround elements of “The Springhouse” oil painting.

Part 3

Unfortunately i had to skip videoing several sessions as i was in between cameras at thte time. So we’re here at the final session ;detailing in the foreground. Thanks for watching!!

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