Clouds: The Impressionist Approach

Colourful, bold, Impressionist cloud painting in watercolours captures the mood of the day near Warwick, Queensland.

A limited palette of three tubes of paint and mixing them has provided more than enough colours to create a lovely sense of aerial perspective.

Notice the warmer orange browns are in the foreground and the cooler colours, grey greens are further in the distance. This is a great tool to help you obtain a sense of depth.

This is just one of the many charts I’ve done using the 3 tubes of paint: cobalt blue pb28 permanent rose pv19 winsor lemon py175

Have a look at post on materials and the post on depth for additional information on the colours chosen and obtaining more depth.

To paint with freedom and boldness – I chose to work on dry paper. I find I make much more definite, free, confident and sure brush strokes using dry paper than wet. (Most of the time!)

With Dry paper it allows me to use the white of the paper, for the lovely white edges of the clouds. I swept the cobalt in a diagonal direction to help lead the eye into the painting, making sure the cobalt was darker on top and lighter at the horizon.

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7 thoughts on “Clouds: The Impressionist Approach”

wonderful composition and colors

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debiriley says:

04/02/2015 at 8:26 pm

Thank you again for your lovely encouragements! It is helpful to receive feedback, both kinds, to try to see how and where improvements in ‘blogging/posting’ etc can be made. I’m sure you’ve been at this probably a quite a bit longer than I, seeing as I just got going end of November! You’re more aware of the posting ‘ropes’… So, thank you so much for taking the time to comment, like, and Follow 🙂

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1. taphian says:
  
  05/02/2015 at 4:58 pm
  
  It was a pleasure. I have a lot of ideas always. Have a wonderful day, regards Mitza
  
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Debi,
Like it. Thank you.

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debiriley says:

06/02/2015 at 5:42 am

Hi Leslie! Very glad to hear from you and good to hear that this post went well! Thank you for your comments and kind words 🙂

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Really like this artwork, great sense of expansive space

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debiriley says:

08/02/2015 at 9:23 pm

much appreciated 🙂 and thank you very much for coming by and stopping to look like/follow my posts!

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