Acrylic Painting Tutorial How to Paint Sky and Back Light Clouds in Basics by JM Lisondra

In this video you will learn how to paint a backlight clouds in the sky in a step-by-step painting tutorial using only three colors hello everyone my name is John Minisondra and today i'm going to demonstrate on how to paint a backlight clouds in the sky and this will be a very basic guys for beginners and for also advanced artists okay but before that i'm going to introduce to you first the materials that i'm going to use in this tutorial so i'll just be using limited colors in my palette guys which is which i have here the three colors only the the titanium white the towel blue and the brilliant red so just these three colors guys you can have a very nice um painting okay and i'll be using these four brushes which are this is the the first one will be the the number 11 nylon flat brush number eight nylon flat brush short long handled number eight nylon flat brush short handled and okay and of course we need water guys to paint the paint and here's my canvas it's eight by ten inches it's the three colors prime white acrylic you can also use gesso and you can use any size of canvas guys and water spray if ever we need to wet our canvas so that we can have a smoother surface yeah okay so i think we're gonna start now with the painting okay so we need to paint this with uh sky blue first before we're gonna paint the clouds anyway this tutorial is all about the sky and the clouds um painting and first we need to dip our brush into the water to make it a little wet so that we can have um a smoother um brush so here i'm gonna use the blue color so i think when i mix it first with the with the white okay to make a to make a light blue color yeah just blue and white here guys there another blue and white so i'm using tallow blue guys so i want to be uh i want to have a darker a darker sky so that you can you can create a very contrast contrast clouds guys which is the white so here i'm going to add more i think we're gonna need more white i think i'm gonna need more white guys so here's some some blue color and some white so all you have to do guys is just blend all the colors here there another light blue color here so again guys the bottom should be lighter than the than the top here for me guys that will be the norm when you paint the clouds oh no the sky i mean okay so i need more blue here so it's gonna make some more sky blue there so it's very the the paint is very thick and i'm using i'm student grade acrylics guys that's why sometimes i need to double coat and so that i can have a thicker paints or thicker or much more solid solid colors okay so here you're gonna need to blend the colors you can spray it with water guys so that you can have a better blendings so here guys just follow what i what i'm doing just just brush it from left to right and do not push it too much so that you can have a better blendings okay so that you will blend the colors uh really well so here there okay so that's it i think i am contented with my blending guys so here i want to blend a little so you need to do it softly guys and you need to do it lightly so that you want and have a better blending yeah so we have the background and next we're going to going to add the dark tones first on the sky or on the on the clouds okay so i think i'm gonna do a wet on wet technique now guys because um if i let it dry i'm gonna wait for another five minutes so i think i'm gonna do a wet on wet technique now okay so here let's see what will be the result guys so i have here the the blue and the red to create a violet color and some more white here i'm going to add more red to make it more violet okay and some more white here let's get more let's so i think we need to have a lighter lighter violet color or purple there so so i think i'm going to start now and you can it will be a cumulus clouds guys and you can actually create your own firm so i'll be creating something like this so just do this kind of strokes guys that's it so this part should be darker i think i'm gonna add mountains later guys so it will be a complete painting not just clouds okay so all you have to do is just blend the colors here that's it so our paint becomes lighter because our our paint or the first coat is still wet yeah it's a wet on wet technique guys okay and now i'm going to add more white i do not have white on my palette okay so here i have white and we need to mix it a little here and let's add a little red there so it's a little light violet guys it's lighter than the other violet here and i'm going to add some white or light of a lighter bluish color here there and also here guys i'm going to add some more white this will create a transparent effect guys on our clouds that's it you can use a smaller brush guys if you are having a hard time using this brush that's it okay okay so the paint is now really thick i think here i'm gonna put there and also here and i just add more red guys to make it um more grayish there later guys we're gonna add more darker tones okay now i'm going to add more white here so that we can have a little lighter color here but this time guys this this part is a little grayish the color is at least not grayish it's but it's a little purple but it looks like a gray color there is a wet on wet technique guys white there okay now i think we're gonna need to uh add more add some details guys using this brush okay using the number eight flat brush handle a short handle i'm sorry i'm not sure guys if we're gonna use the long handle one okay so here we need to create some lines this will create a backlight backlight effect guys make sure that the paints you have in your in the tip of your can if your tip of your of your brush case is solids so that you can have a lighter color but i think later guys i'm going to add more and also here you can have a tapping technique guys so that it will the paint will stick on the on top of the paint wet paints okay and here actually it's a backlight effect so that that's why we have uh like an outline um white this will create a backlight effect guys okay so as you can see guys you can you know clearly see there's a backlight color there's a backlight light on the on this cloud so more white i'm going to add a thicker white guys because our paint is still wet and let's also add more light here so that it will add the transparency of our of our clouds guys it will look like um a very thin clouds so you can add a lighter color here colors here like this it will add um the feeling that this part is um very thin yeah so you can add something like that and also here yeah and also here and i'm going to add a little here so that it will be very very thick it will look like a very thin paints here also there okay yeah yeah i like that and let's add more let's add more white i think here more black backlight white or backlight highlights so i think i'm gonna zoom zoom in so that you can see clearly okay that's it so here let's add more white here so again guys just do it carefully yeah and also need to add a little white here so that it will create a transparency effect and also here is that more white there and i'm going to add more white guys here more here yeah okay i think it's really nice yeah it looks nice and here guys with a little here so that so that it won't look like lonely clouds here and with a little here a little light there yeah i think i'm gonna add more guys i'm gonna add more white okay so all we have to do so that it will look like uh there what else so yeah and i'm going to add some clouds guys on the top here and also here and of course i'm going to add more it'll be some small clouds guys and it's just a pure white okay and i think i'm gonna add more dark tones here guys and i'm gonna use this brush so that i can i can use this brush finally and i'm gonna mix for a violet color here and some red blue and red there and i'm gonna add more clouds guys here on the back of the in front of us yeah so here so you'll need to be careful guys i'm adding these clouds yeah okay this has a few um dark colors guys i'm adding now to create more transparency in this there and also here okay to light to make it a little lighter okay yeah that looks way realistic now i'm going to add more okay and here so again guys we're just just like um you're adding um some some outlines on the clouds but this one is a little darker than the background so that it don't look like it will look like a dark part or the shadow part of the clouds okay there so here i'm gonna add more there and i'm going to add lighter okay how about that yeah i think that looks way realistic now and i'm going to continue here and also here i'm gonna add a little okay and i think i'm going to add some mountains guys so i'm going to use this violet so blue and red so let's add a little mountain here i think this will create a landscape feeling of this painting oh it's too wet it's really really wet yeah okay yeah so what i think i'm going to add more white here so i'll just retouching this guys more white here actually guys i am done with this painting so you can you can stop you can stop right there but i'll just add more white here so that it will have more effect okay i think i'm gonna add more white guys here just add more white this will be my final steps guys is retouching so i'm just retouching guys okay okay that's it guys so i think i'm done yeah and hopefully you get something guys out this simple tutorial on how to paint clouds with backlight or backlight clouds so okay so what i'm gonna say just enjoy while painting and hopefully you'll learn something after this and my advice guys is to keep practicing keep on painting the more you do it the more you know how to use your brush the more you know how to mix the colors that's why i'm using limited colors me palette because you want to learn how to mix and get the exact colors you want you guys please hit like add some comments and subscribe for videos in the future thank you guys have a nice day and god bless you all