Things You'll Need:
- Acrylic paint (black, white, blue, red, orange, yellow)
- Paint brushes
- A canvas
- Water
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Step 1
Paint two inches of the sky a dark blue. To do this, mix your black and blue paints together.
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Step 2
As you descend down the canvas, paint the sky lighter and lighter. The blue eventually needs to fade into a bright yellow right at the horizon, so add a bit of white every half inch or so as you paint strips of blue down the sky. Use your water to mix the paints so it truly looks like it's fading.
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Step 3
Once your blue turns almost white, start adding in yellow. Add less and less white to the yellow as you go down to the horizon so the yellow gets brighter and brighter.
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Step 4
Let the background dry. Once it's dry, start adding in your clouds. Take a look at actual sunrises or pictures of sunrises to see what they look like. Some will be bright reds, some will be pink and yellow. Some will be a bright purple.
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Step 5
Once you decide what you want your clouds to look like, paint them in, using light strokes, with a different brush than you used to paint the sky. Your new brush should be smaller and look more like a brush used to apply makeup. To make the clouds look even better, take your original color and add a little white to it to lighten the color, and apply it on the edges of the cloud to show the effect of the light coming through.
