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Summary: Start by painting the watercolor sky. Learn how to watercolor paint a river scene sky with tips from a an art teacher in this free painting video.
Cody Davis is an artist with over 35 years experience in oil, watercolor and acrylic painting. He has a fine arts degree from the University of Texas and 12 years experience teaching...read more
"First thing we're going to do is the sky. With most landscapes putting in the sky is probably the first thing you should be doing. The reason that you want to start with the sky is because it's behind everything and you can cover up areas of the sky as necessary to work the rest of your composition. So we're just going to put some violet blues into the sky here on the right hand side. That looks like a pretty good cloud structure, see how simple that was. Carry over a little bit of the violet right here and then blot up some areas."
eHow Article: Watercolor Painting a River Scene Skyline