Seascape Oil Painting Sky

Video Transcript

"Alright now, we've taken some Titanium White, Cerulean Blue and some of our media. We're going to start mixing these guys because the sky's going to be a very thin layer but it's also going to be a very pale layer. So, take your palette knife and grab some blue, put it down here. Grab a really nice thick chunk of white. What you basically want to do is keep mixing it until you get a very pale blue. Imagine a sea of white with a drop of blue in it. Then once you get this very pale blue take some of our media and mix it in to further thin it out and make it very easy to spread on the canvas. And this pigment here is going to be the beginning of our sky. So take your biggest flat head brush and apply a lot of this light blue to it. Then it's up onto the canvas. Apply in a side motion with a little bit of squiggle to make sure that your pigment is making good contact with the canvas. Now, related to the charcoal, sometimes people will treat the canvas or even spray seal it between the charcoal layer. Actually, I don't prefer doing that because I like some of the extra gray pigment that you're going to get in here. So, I just use the charcoal as another media and just go with it. You're going to spread this blue layer all throughout the sky area using a side to side motion and making sure you get plenty of pigment. We want that layer to be faint but definitely present. That is, except, up in this region which we're going to leave empty to do a little more of a cloud effect. But, you'll fill in this side and you'll also fill in this side entirely with the sky blue once you're done."