Cloud Painting Technique

Video Transcript

"Hello I'm Sherie Tengbergen here at the Education Network in Palm Beach county, and we are here to learn about watercolor painting. In this clip I'm going to show you how to make easy clouds. We will begin with wetting our paper very lightly with a very soft blue wash of Windsor blue. Just very lightly you don't want to use a whole lot of water here. And now I am going to start loading up my brush with different colors of blue. This is Windsor blue again. I like to use Windsor blue, and I paint that very gently across the sky. And then I am going to use some ultramarine blue, which is more of the purple blue. I am going to mix those two colors together, and again paint a little bit of the sky that way. And going across to add a little bit of depth, and you can actually lift your paper and you can tap your paper like this, and that will help the sky run just a little bit. And the last thing I like to do is use again one of my favorite colors permanent rose, and add some purple colors to the sky. And now comes the fun part. You are going to take a Q-tip, and you are going to lightly move the Q-tip onto this wet pain, and actually form clouds by removing the paint on your surface. So I am going to do at least three clouds here. Another trick that I like to use is I take a piece of paper towel, and I blot very lightly. And you see how the clouds start forming. Now make sure you use odd numbers of clouds thee, five, seven, nine not two, four, six, eight. And then at the bottom of the clouds to make them puff a little bit I take a darker version of the same color I used, and I start painting very small images of line wiggling my brush, not going all the way across, but in certain directions. And allowing that to form and puff those clouds right out of there. You see how I can do that underneath just following the form of the cloud that was made by the paper towel and the Q-tip. Once again this has been Sherie Tengbergen, and I thank you for watching."