I’m getting behind on the cloud paintings, and remembering to post them! Here, for Week 3 of Dianna Shyne’s “Cloud Challenge” at Acrylic University, is my effort. The reference photo for this class was a sunset over a body of water.
Today, for Week 2 of Dianna Shyne’s “Cloud Challenge” at Acrylic University, the reference photo was a Tuscan sunset.
I repurposed a 6×6 canvas panel for this. My orange is a mixture of Pyrrole Red and Cad-Free Yellow Medium.
The other day I was on Instagram, and something came up in my feed about Acrylic University, an art site I wasn’t aware of until that moment. I checked it out and signed up for an 8-week “Cloud Challenge” class taught by Dianna Shyne. This painting was done today in that class.
Overall, I like the colors, but this looks more like a stained-glass abstract than puffy clouds.
Driving home last night, I was struck by how yellow the sky was, in contrast to the dark trees. So I decided to paint what I remember seeing. (Didn’t bother with taking a photo with my phone, even though I was the passenger.)
I did this quick study from memory and on a 6×6 canvas panel based on one of my own photos. I had previously underpainted the panel in an Ultramarine Blue-Titanium White mix, which seriously affected the magenta paint.
For this study, I used another of my own photos — this one taken one evening in early December of 2021 from my backyard. The Moon was actually a crescent at the time, but I had a cheap smartphone at the time with a lousy camera, so it looks full, and I carried on with that in my painting. Jupiter is shining above the Moon, and Venus is near the silhouette of the chimney.
This was done on a 4×6 piece of 300 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper. The house silhouette is blue-black, and the sky was painted in tints of dioxazine purple. The Moon, Jupiter and Venus are painted in a yellow-white mix.
This painting was done in acrylic on a 4×6 piece of 300 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper. It’s based off of a photo I took of the waning crescent Moon one morning back in November 2021.
I felt the original image of the sky was too gray and blue, so I changed it up at bit. The sky was painted with Liquitex BASICS blue gray; the pink is Cadmium Red Medium Hue from Golden, and the Moon is Titanium White mixed with Hansa Yellow Light (PY 73).
This 4×6 painting in acrylic on 300 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper is based off a photo I took in Dec 2021 near sunset.
Colors used for the tree and roof silhouette: Chromium Oxide Green, Alizarin Crimson, and a touch of Cerulean Blue
Colors used for the sky: Cerulean Blue, Phthalo Blue, Cad-free Orange, Cad-free Yellow, Titanium White, Blue Gray
This painting was a quickie, from imagination, after having browsed through images — photos and paintings — of the sea and sky.
My primary focus was the clouds.
This is 4×6 done on 300 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper, so I could wet my acrylics a bit.
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