Welcome back, fellow artists and art lovers! 👩🎨I hope this one's helpful for those of you starting with skies/clouds or looking to learn new sky painting techniques. If you have any questions, leave them below and I'll do my best to get back to you. For immediate access to my sketching and watercolor real-time tutorials, classes and workshops on Art Fundamentals (Color Theory, Composition, Form, Perspective, etc.) monthly livestreams and much more: patreon.com/erika_lancaster_artist🎉
This is going to sound really silly, so I apologize in advance, but others may feel this way too. Since I have never taken any lessons or classes, but have dabbled with various things (mostly dry, like pencils), I never knew whether I was doing things correctly, but I stumbled onto methods by accident sometimes. I have done something like this when I have used watercolors to make skies, which I enjoy a lot. I have the absurd, relieved feeling that this gives me kind of permission to work further this way. Do other wild, untutored people feel like this too?🦁
Not silly at all! Thanks for sharing your thoughts/experiences. Glad to hear you enjoy painting skies! There's a certain looseness and more of an intuitive approach when painting skies, water and other organic elements. Maybe this is why it feels freeing? 😬🖌 Whatever the case may be, enjoy it! That's what it's all about. 💙
Hi, Mark! Thanks for watching and for your question. You could work right on your watercolor block, if you'd like. I've done that before and, if I want to keep a white "border" around the study, I just place my tape right over the block, around the edges. This said, you will likely dampen the bottom sheet as you're working. So, once you're done, you can remove your sheet as you usually would (I use a knife), and allow the bottom sheet to dry before using it. Hope this makes sense. :)
Welcome back, fellow artists and art lovers! 👩🎨I hope this one's helpful for those of you starting with skies/clouds or looking to learn new sky painting techniques. If you have any questions, leave them below and I'll do my best to get back to you. For immediate access to my sketching and watercolor real-time tutorials, classes and workshops on Art Fundamentals (Color Theory, Composition, Form, Perspective, etc.) monthly livestreams and much more: patreon.com/erika_lancaster_artist🎉
You make everything look so easy! I am new to watercolor painting. Thank you for your videos!
You're very welcome! Glad the videos are helping. Thanks so much for watching and for taking the time to leave a comment. It means a lot. 🙌
This is going to sound really silly, so I apologize in advance, but others may feel this way too. Since I have never taken any lessons or classes, but have dabbled with various things (mostly dry, like pencils), I never knew whether I was doing things correctly, but I stumbled onto methods by accident sometimes. I have done something like this when I have used watercolors to make skies, which I enjoy a lot. I have the absurd, relieved feeling that this gives me kind of permission to work further this way. Do other wild, untutored people feel like this too?🦁
Not silly at all! Thanks for sharing your thoughts/experiences. Glad to hear you enjoy painting skies! There's a certain looseness and more of an intuitive approach when painting skies, water and other organic elements. Maybe this is why it feels freeing? 😬🖌 Whatever the case may be, enjoy it! That's what it's all about. 💙
Hi, can you wet the paper like this if the paper is on a block or do I need to remove the top sheet to use?
Hi, Mark! Thanks for watching and for your question. You could work right on your watercolor block, if you'd like. I've done that before and, if I want to keep a white "border" around the study, I just place my tape right over the block, around the edges. This said, you will likely dampen the bottom sheet as you're working. So, once you're done, you can remove your sheet as you usually would (I use a knife), and allow the bottom sheet to dry before using it. Hope this makes sense. :)
If you don't want to dampen the bottom sheet(s), I'd just remove it and tape in on whatever you're using as a backing board.
Thank you Erika, loving your channel 😎