How to Paint Skies: A complete guide to techniques, resources and painting styles (The Secrets of landscape Painting)

Revised and updated version featuring bigger images and updated text.The ultimate guide for learning how to paint all kinds of skies.This book is the most comprehensive and accessible guide for learning how to paint all types of skies: daytime, nocturnal, cloudy, rainy, foggy, stormy, dusk and dawn. Presented in a highly visual and engaging way in straightforward language, it is accessible and extremely useful for both beginner and expert landscape painters seeking to deepen their understanding of sky painting.Within its 260 pages you will find:Practical demonstrations of all types of skies, undertaken in oils, acrylics, pastels and watercolours, in a range of styles.Key tips for learning how to use colour, composition and different perspectives to achieve interesting and attractive skies.Straight-forward explanations of atmospheric and celestial phenomena and their influence on how we see the sky.A discussion of the evolution of sky painting from its beginnings until the present, aiming to explore what each artist and style has contributed to how we approach sky painting today.More than 400 examples, created by 15 world-class artists, and 330 practical illustrations ensuring the book is accessible and its techniques easy to employ.A wealth of digital content to accompany the text: 33 QR links to explanatory videos, 30 Pinterest boards created to accompany specific areas of information within the book and links to 23 websites.Though principally focused on opaque techniques (oil, acrylic and pastel), the watercolourist will also find very useful information to improve his sky painting technique within the book. Available both in paperback and in a handy Kindle edition, which features shortcuts to all the links.The author, José Payá, is a landscape teacher and director of “Gaia, Centro de Estudios de Arte y Restauración”, one of the most prestigious art schools in Spain. He has extensive teaching experience, including teaching landscape painting since 1992. You can see his work on his Instagram account “@josepayaza”, and on his webpage “www.josepaya.es”.As a result of his desire to improve the learning experience of amateur artists, and in response to the shortcomings he identified in the materials available to teach landscape painting, he created the series “The Secrets of Landscape Painting”; “How to paint skies” is the second volume in this series, the first, “Painting and composition of landscapes” having been a success, well recieved by both the public and experts. Read more