I have never painted clouds before and I am having a heck of a time trying to learn!!
I have watched many YouTube vidieos on "How to paint clouds", and it looks so easy.
My clouds come out looking pastry with too many brush lines/strokes.
Any advice??
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It's ok to have brushstrokes visible in clouds providing the value of each stroke is correct. People often fall into over-blending clouds and they lose the vibrancy of the brushwork and individual colours/values.
This is pretty much straight forward painting. One thing that you need to observe is the plane that the clouds are in the vertical sky depth. Are they all on the same plane or is the atmosphere churning at different levels?
The same is true of the blue portion, it's lighter in value and much paler in chroma than it appears.
My naïve take to to treat the blue, cloudless background as a variegated, graduated vertical plane ...but the clouds as objects-with-height resting on a horizontal plane or series of stacked horizontal planes receding into the distance...
Clouds are the only place I think hue-value-chroma in terms of "warm colors" and "cool colors" contrasting. Often the textural subtleties are in hue and not value. Red-grays, rose-grays, blue-grays, creams and pale yellows. Even touches of purple and greens.