Welcome to our Sky Clouds Course
Painting Clouds in watercolour. Learn techniques to paint clouds using washes and reserving, mixing colours. Then practise these on a big sky with simple landscape, add detail and atmospheric effects with white gouache.
Using the pre recorded video allows more time to really grasp the fundamentals of a subject, giving your painting the opportunity to progress to another level! In addition you have access to our Basics of Watercolour reference video, with lots of useful advice and info on materials and technique demos, and also high quality reference photo to work from. So whether you’re a beginner or more experienced, this complete course has everything you need to create beautiful paintings in watercolour.
Please use the following passwords to access your video content, please note they are case sensitive:
Sky Clouds : BigSky (Video Length: 80 mins)
Basics of watercolour : Colour1 (Video length: 48 mins)
Don’t forget to watch the video on full screen! Enter your password then click on the square icon (bottom right) to enter and exit full screen mode.
You may need to turn the sound on – roll over the top right of the screen and the sound button will appear.
We hope you enjoy your painting course! If you have any queries please contact us via email. We’d love to see your creations, feel free to send your paintings in to us to feature on our social media!
Many thanks and happy painting!
Jessie, Discovery Art Clas
Sky Clouds
Basics of watercolour -Techniques
This reference video has lots of useful information, explaining and demonstrating watercolour paint from the very beginning.
MATERIALS
- Pencil - HB ( for light sketching)
- Rubber and ruler - any ordinary pencil rubber and ruler
- Watercolour paper
- Watercolour paint
- White gouache paint
- Watercolour brushes
- Board
- Masking tape
Downloadable Materials list - a list of good quality materials and suggested suppliers. Please note that the links will take you to another company’s website, which is outside of DAC data control.
Please click below to download:
Watercolour Mini Course Materials List
REFERENCE IMAGE
A copy of the final painting for reference, feel free to choose your own!
To download image:
Mac users: Hold ‘Control’ Key down, Click on Photo. Select ‘Save Image as’…, then ‘Desktop’ – Save.
PC users : Right click image, select ‘save image as’, choose location.
