Summary: Learn how to draw a blue sky using aquarelle pencils in your watercolor painting in this free video art lesson.
Sue Gill Rose is an accomplished artist and teacher. She has a BFA from Southern Methodist University and a MLA from Louisiana State University. She has also studied under renowned...read more
"And we're going to begin to use our painting using our aquarelle pencils this painting I'm using a persian blue and a light colbalt blue. And I'm going to mix these 2 I'm going to show you briefly how to do this first of all I'm going to put my lighter color in on my sky here. Often times you may get sharp, fat aquarelle crayons sticks that you can use when you have a large area to cover and a lot of people will would like to use our frequently use both aquarelle pencil and either regular color pencil, drawing pencils or regular watercolor paint and combine the two. So we're going to start here with this dark blue for the sky here or the light blue excuse me, for the sky and I'm going to go down to my trees here again as your doing watercolor you go horizontally across your page. And then I'm going to add my darker blue to the sky one thing to remember in painting our drawing when your doing to your sky it always gets darker towards the horizon line, so this time I'm going to start here with my dark blue and with a little heavier pressure on it and then lighting the pressure as I go upwards. Next I'm going to start with the green for our buildings and as this was a painting on like union of the duck dodge races so this is gas works parks in the background here, please watch the next segment and we'll show you how to do the water in the background."