I just noticed my A5 drawing book of cloud studies, done from my landing window since 2010, is crammed full.
It's come in handy this past few months, particularly in dealing with a major problem in any landscape painting, to whit, painting a convincing sky. Those generic fluffy white cotton wool balls just don't hack it when it comes to making your sky look right.
Leaving a book open on the landing window sill with some art materials next to it turned out to be a good move. Every time I went upstairs and happened to see some particularly fine cloud formation, I could spend the next ten minutes getting it down on paper without having to hunt for paper and paints.
I used a watercolour from it as the basis for the cloud study featured here:
The drawback is that since my landing faces south, all I have is back or side-lit clouds. Time to start a new book facing north.
It's come in handy this past few months, particularly in dealing with a major problem in any landscape painting, to whit, painting a convincing sky. Those generic fluffy white cotton wool balls just don't hack it when it comes to making your sky look right.
Leaving a book open on the landing window sill with some art materials next to it turned out to be a good move. Every time I went upstairs and happened to see some particularly fine cloud formation, I could spend the next ten minutes getting it down on paper without having to hunt for paper and paints.
I used a watercolour from it as the basis for the cloud study featured here:
The drawback is that since my landing faces south, all I have is back or side-lit clouds. Time to start a new book facing north.
