Challenge for March, Clouds

This month's challenge is to create artwork of clouds.

This is a small sky painting, worked with a palette knife.

" A Touch of Blue"
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This was a sunset over the Indian River Lagoon. A sunset can be beautiful, even when facing East.

 Lagoon Sunset

Carmen Beecher

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This is an exercise I often give my students because it's simple and a great way to have success in watercolor. It gives experience with masking fluid for the white reflections, washes and changes in value. We paint the sailboats last. Like the icing on the cake, they complete the picture. 

Sails and Clouds

Watercolor by Jean Thomas

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This oil is from a photo I took right in Palm Bay.  It was at a secluded little park right on the river with lots of trees and shade.  A great place to relax, read, enjoy the water, breeze and paint.   I used both brushes and a palette knife for this painting of a little outcrop of trees and those big, beautiful clouds.

Along the River

8x10 oil

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Clouds are fun in watercolor, and much less work than in other mediums. This painting depicts early morning in San Francisco Bay.

Mary Warnick


Titanic Cloud

Kathy Garvey

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This is 18 x 18 on cradled board, The Perfect Storm, oil

I started with a photo of a storm rolling in while the sun was shining and then let my imagination go wandering.  I love looking at this piece and some days find it relaxing while other times I see it as turbulent: The Perfect Storm. 

Cindy Michaud 

Sky Painting, Small Oil Painting, Daily Painting, 8x8x1.5" Oil Painting

An early morning beach photo shoot was the inspiration for this piece.  Thank you to Pat Garvey for sharing his image with me.

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 One of the biggest problems of selling art online, is representing your art with correct colors.  I didn't realize how big a problem this would be.

I tried for over an hour to edit this piece correctly, and was only partially successful.    Blues seem to be the colors that always give me problems in my photography.

The image above is washed out compared to the actual piece, which is sitting here next to me.  My problem was trying to get the blue gray on the lower right corner to read correctly...which is right on with my monitor.  But that means I have lost some beautiful warm rust and mauve hues in the dark cloud.

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In this detail, the mauves and orangey rust shades are correct, but the blue on the right side is way too strong. Also the pale yellows are not warm enough.  What to do?  I have no answers.

Even if I am able to get the colors correct on my monitor, they may not be what you are seeing on your monitor.

So I do my best to represent what I see and offer my customers a full refund if they are unhappy.

I think most buyers understand this issue as fortunately, I have not had a painting returned in almost 10 years.

If any of you have a solution, I would love to hear it.

After writing this post, I tried again to edit my image, and finally have settled on this as the best representation of the painting.  It is better, but still does not reflect all the color variations.

Still missing mauve and purple colors in the dark cloud area and aqua tints behind the pelican.

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Clouds in Landscape, 24x18 Original Oil Painting by Carmen Beecher

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This is the finished painting from the demo I did for the Pieces of 8. We all painted clouds that day, and it was a lot of fun. I am on a cloud kick right now; they are as varied as waves in the ocean. Their colors, shapes, values and textures change constantly.

Carmen

Cloud Demonstration

SMALL OIL PAINTING, DAILY PAINTING "BIG STORM BREWING" by Carol Schiff , 6x8, OIL, SOLD

Storms can be very scary...when you are driving, when the sky is full of lightening,when the wind gets crazy, when that loud house-shaking thunder fills the air.

But, I love to paint storm clouds, the bigger and blacker, the better!  It gives me a chance to throw paint around and get wild!

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