The first thing to remember about clouds is that you are painting air. Air has no real form and although your photographs may show a hard edge of white, I am here to tell you that photographs lie! If you want your cloud paintings to be believable, every part of the sky needs to be wet with paint in order to achieve that wispy elegance of water vapors in the sky called clouds. Also, colors will vary and be very subtle. Try using a variety of closely relate tones in your clouds. For example if you see gold, vary it in places to a little warmer vermilion and pinks. This will keep it painterly and not boring. The sky transitions from the horizon line up and depending on the time of day, will never be the same color or value at top as it is at the horizon.

 

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