Skyscapes under a cloud

The first class of 2013 focused on clouds. But darker clouds hung over the class. Our class only had three students and unless any others turned up, the evening class would be cancelled.

We practised cloud formation and with a heavy use of sponge and paper towels, we could manipulate the paint in quick studies from photographs.

As with any study, selecting your colour palette and pre-mixing the pigments is vital to working fast. My usual problem of over-wetting the paper continues to cause me problems and controlling the areas the paint travelled to proved to be a tense and somewhat frantic affair.

This was indeed the first and last class as the course was closed for the term. This will mean I will have to set my own exercises until such time as the class returns with better numbers.