One of the best-narrated painting videos that I’ve watched. Your explanations are very clear.

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Mud (aka brown) only results when you mix all three primaries. As long as you stick to two primaries, your colors will be clear. Not everyone knows this, but EVERY primary-color paint contains at least a small amount of a second primary. The trick is knowing which of the other primaries is in the hue. For instance, Permanent Rose (Quinacridone red) has blue in it. Cadmium Yellow has a touch of red in it. So if you mix those two colors you will dull down the secondary color (orange) you are mixing, because all three primaries are present. To make a "pure" orange, you need to mix, for instance, Cad Yellow and Cad Red. There is no blue present.

Hiya Im in Scotland where wehave beutiful Sunsets which is why I am so interestied in your tutorial I want to do our sunsets justice

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

Thank you so much for your precious advice! This lesson was quite a revelation! ☺When you said, that it can be very tiring, making so many decisions during a day spent with painting, I felt that you addressed one of my major observations. Most of the time when I put down my paint brush and call it a day, I just realize, that I am quite exhausted, which - until now - was surprising to me, since many people are talking about painting as a relaxing activity. I was wondering, whether I was doing something the wrong way 😄So thank you for your reassuring words, that this is quite a common effect☺

OMG this is the best sky demonstration. Can't wait to try painting this. I love that you take the time to explain everything. No matter how experienced you are, there is always something to learn from your videos. Absolutely stunning painting. So glad I found your channel

Thanks for great teaching!

I’ve been working improving on sky and sunset landscapes lately. This is a perfect project to try. Thank you for your tutorials!

The most important thing I heard you say in this video was that even YOU couldn’t figure out how some artists get the whole sky done in one go! Trying to do that has caused me more heartache than it was worth. I suspected that layers and resetting could work, but had no idea how to approach it. I’m so grateful that you share your techniques. Thank you!!

I’ve learned the value of having patience with the paint, paper and myself. Thank you for this tutorial

Your tutorials are wonderful! I am glad you take so much time to explain each process. Thank you!

Shelley, you are my favourite teacher. As you know, there are many good ones too but you are the most genuine and generous one. Thank you so much!

Superbe !❤❤❤❤

you are realy good teacher... you know how to paint and your differences from other artists is you know how to teach. please go on your videos.

Fantastico!!

Thank you so much, Shelly. This is the best tutorial I ever watched.

Thx for taking the time to explain the process in real time. I really felt like I was in a private painting class being guided through the layering process.

Thank you! I’ve learned so much just watching and listening to you. I get intimidated with watercolor but also I like the challenge of getting intimidated!

Another excellent Wed lesson, knowing when to stop and let it dry. Thank you!

You make it look easy.

I have learnt so much from this tutorial. I have followed other teachers and have been so frustrated that I could not replicate the subject. I really appreciate your description and guidance on how wet the paper was and how to work with that is a game changer for me. Thank you

Holy crap you are wonderful! I’m a person who usually learns best by a little reading followed by a little experimentation. That said, I have watched a lot of KZfaq art demonstration videos. I learned more in One of your videos than all the other demos I’ve watched put together. Easily. You have a knack for mentioning all the “little” pieces of info that others move past without discussing. But it’s these same nuggets of information that make ALL the difference between disaster and success when a person goes yo try this themselves. Many ( not all) other KZfaqrs consciously or unconsciously are more focused on showing off what they can do than actually teaching. You are a natural and excellent teacher. Thank you so much!

I love your videos, cause you explain all the details which help me learn more. Please don’t ever stop doing theses videos. I hate it when someone fast forwards when painting cause they are actually skipping steps.

Amazing to see you create! Beautiful!

Love seeing the reference while you paint.

Watching the replay and can’t wait to try this! Thanks for the excellent teaching on re-wetting the paper to continue working on soft layers.

You are the best teacher Shelley that explains the plan on making a watercolor. Thanks for sharing with us, great tips!

I really appreciated the detail to explaining how different paints ie transparent and opaque work and how we can come back many times after we dry. Game changer for me! Thank you!!

I discovered you on a Facebook post about the best watercolor tutorials. I’m so glad I checked you out. Right away I was excited to see all four screens! It’s soooo much better seeing all of the actors involved in the play. I wish more artists did this. You’re a wonderful teacher🙌

Watching from Woodbury New Jersey USA...first time watcher

I love your practical and easy teaching style and am so appreciative of the tons of watercolor techniques you showed about color theory, brush strokes, water control and more. Thanks for sharing so much with us!

Thank you so much for the abundance of info on clouds, water amounts, color mixing, paper drying, mud avoidance, and so much more. This was so informative and useful especially for a beginner. I really appreciated thinking about keeping transparent colors available especially when doing these type of skies. It will go a long way in my next watercolor selections.

I have just discovered your amazing videos!! I’m from London UK !

Thank you for the fantastic details required to achieve the brilliance of a sunset. I’m so glad and grateful to have found your fantastic channel.

You're reading my mind! I also had a picture lined up that needed a sunset sky! It's All coming back to me now LOL thank you!

So thrilled that I found you. Thank you for your thorough explanations color, mixing edges, drying, amount of water on your brush,etc. I realize that a beautiful sky doesn’t happen in 5 minutes! Not sure if you are still doing live demos but I hope I can find you. Beautiful sun set.😊

You are an excellent teacher!!! I love your commentary and skill. 😁

This is the second sky video of yours. Fantastic! I’ve learned so much. I look forward to more of your lessons. Thank you.

Thank you Shelley for this marvelous tutorial. I didn’t catch it live but I’m so happy that I could pause and take in all you wonderful information. You are absolutely the best teacher I could hope for. I live in Florida, Palm Beach County, and we get hundreds of sunsets this beautiful and I had no idea how to tackle a project like this.! Thank you thank you!

Fabulous demo, thank you, I love how you have done this in layers, definitely will try this 😊

Thank you for explaining the various processes Shelley. Hampshire UK

Thank you so much for this terrific tutorial. What a great lesson. I really appreciate you taking the time to teach. I have learned a great deal from this, love your explanation, of misting and keeping your brush and paint at the same wetness. 👏👏👏🤩

I’m in Texas and this is my first time watching your video.

Thanks Shelly, you are an amazing teacher! I learned so much from this video. I am from NL, spent many years living in Edmonton, AB and now living on Vancouver Island. I am retired now and have lots of time, and inspiration here. I certainly know what you mean about thinking and planning taking a lot more time than painting! And I believe the only way we learn is by making all the mistakes! But perseverance pays off! That was a beautiful cloud. I'm so happy you made this tutorial.

Shelley thank you! This is just what I needed. I live in Taos, NM and have the most amazing sunsets.

What a nice demonstration! I know exactly what you mean about feeling tired after a painting day (my husband doesn't get it, either--lol). Loved all your tidbits of information. Thank you!!!!!

Thank you very much for this tutorial. I really learned a lot from it. Especially that I now know that it can be re-wet the paint.

So painstakingly agonizingly, meticulous!! I am usually trying to paint in a hurry! I have to slow down. Love the results you achieve

Thank you so much Shelly. Wonderful demonstration and explanations.

Looking on from the Caribbean. I’m a newbie and luv learning from professionals like you. ☺️

Im watching from Cornwall, UK. Love to watch you working.

Hallo from italy i like so much your cloud😊

Thank you Shelley! You're inspiring. I look forward to launching into the sky ; )

Wonderful lesson, I missed the live streaming yesterday but very much enjoyed it this morning. I learned so much and I thank you for all the great tips and explanations. I now realize the many mistakes I am making and hope to correct them in the future. Please continue to do these wonderful tutorials!!

You are my favorite teacher. Wow. I am in new Mexico and things dry extremely fast here.

this was amazingly concise and useful. I have a sunset photo from a family member that has these same colors and water in the foreground... I thought it would be impossible to paint in watercolor, but after watching this video I may be able to tackle it. You show how to capture the glow. Thank you so much.

Thank you...watched the replay. Very creative way of producing beautiful results. I will give it a try.

Hello from northern Alberta :) Thank you so much for your content Shelley. I've been painting water-colour for a few years, never formally taught in high school art classes but I love it. This is inspiring and greatly informative for me. Happy painting!

Thank you for doing this! So informative. ❤ from Texas

I love your videos Shelley. Feeling very inspired. Thank you Deb from Melbourne Australia

thaank you for being such a great teacher. First time I have followed along. Love it

Thanks so very much. I really enjoyed following along with your tutorial. I think you described the process so well. Happy New Year from Brisbane Australia.

i have been fascinated by he sky water colour. I'm a beginner and didn't realise I could keep wetting, drying, adding and moving. Reassuring. Thank you. Sandra in Saltash, Cornwall UK

Hello from London. Thanks for all your great tips.

Great lessons Shelley. So inspiring ans excellent explainations of what you are doing. Thank you so much for doing this.

Thank you for this video! I have been wondering why I sometimes end up with the hard lines and now I know. Also, I've sprayed into paper that wasn't quite dry and ended up with the spots. This information is not offered on very many instructional videos, so thank you so much for explaining it!! I also have a photo that is similar to yours and have been wondering how to paint it, so thank you for showing me how. You're a great teacher!

G'day from Australia I'm just learning and haven't even done any painting yet but I love learning all these techniques from you. Thank you for sharing your skills with us.

Excellent lesson! Really enjoyed this!

This is super useful information about maintaining the right level of dampness in your brush and on your paper. Seriously, this is the best cloudy sky watercolor painting info I've seen on KZfaq. Thank you so much, Shelley! Subscribe!

I am impressed that you can think and talk while you paint! What a challenge Great job

Hi and thanks for this descriptive tutorial. I take so many photos of skies just like this from our house and never know how to achieve getting it on paper. You are an excellent teacher with such diverse subjects that I am interested in that I now am in tutorial overload in a good way. Very good way. 👍🏻😊🎨

Thank you so much. This was very helpful to me because I live in a dry climate. Your video has taught me that sometimes it may be best to just stop and dry the whole thing and then wet and keep going instead of getting frustrated with that in between stage

Just what I was looking for. So helpful. THANK YOU!

Gorgeous painting!

Your work is simply amazing and absolutely beautiful and your ability to teach is the best. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful skill you have developed and your soothing, inspiring and intuitive teaching method. Thank you so much

You're an incredible teacher, Shelley. I've watched a few of your videos and have already learned so much. I would love to see a painting done with cadmium/student grade paints versus more translucent, artist grade paints, as you mentioned in your video! I am an intermediate-level painter, and the only items I haven't upgraded to a professional level in my artist kit are my paints... I think it's time to make the change, but it would be lovely to see a comparison beforehand :) Thank you for all that you do for the art community!

Thank you Shelley. Loved your video. So calming and not rushed. Very helpful for this newbie sunset painter. I took 3 pages of post it notes 😅😊.

I cannot believe I am just now finding you! I had been pretty stagnant in my painting and feeling discouraged, this gives me the motivation to get back out there. So beautiful, thank you so much for sharing!

Beautiful

I LOVE

Wow! Just Wow! I'm so grateful that I found your channel. We have the most spectacular sunsets and my camera is full of them! I try to paint them but they always end up in the "watercolour gone wrong" pile. Thank you for explaining in detail how to successfully produce a beautiful watercolour painting that captures the composition, atmosphere and those stunning colours.❤️🇨🇦👍🏼😃

Yay! I just found you and I’m so excited! I’ve always wanted to do a sky like this but because of all the layers of color I couldn’t figure out how not to ruin it. You just answered my question… dry in between! Good grief, this is huge! Thank you from Boise Idaho😊. Hot here in the west but cooler days soon!

Love your tutorials, I am just learning, from Kenora Ontario Canada

What a great tutorial! Thank you!

I just found you on utube while searching how to watercolor clouds. You have exactly what I wanted!! I am from a small town, Lowell Indiana. I think you are jaw dropping amazing!!! I love your presentation!! Your explanations are so easy to understand. I’ll be busy following you!!!

Thank you

The sky is gorgeous, but I think I’d add the land in the picture to go with it👏🏼😊

How nice to see an Artist from Canada, well explained

This was a masterclass. Thank you so much. I have learned a lot. Had been trying to do a watercolor sunset and nearly gave up and went to oils, but wanted the transparency of WC.

How underrated are you. Happy to find you.

Greeley,Colorado,USA

Thanks!

Shelly soo invaluable insights to watercolour & beautifully explained. Thank you R❤️🙏🏽

I loved this tutorial. At the end of the video you said that the finished painting was on facebook and instagram. I scrolled through facebook and found the announcement of the tutorial, but never saw the finished painting. Not as familiar with instagram, so didn't look there. Where would I be able to see the completed painting? Thanks so very much. I think I'm addicted to watching you!

I very much appreciate your valuable demonstration thank you so much

From Worcestershire UK. Loved this 🙂

Very amazing 😍 Totally loved it Thankyou for sharing 💕

Hi Shelley, painted with you at HADA. Thank you for sharing. I love this.

Speechless. Amazing demo with so much detail I will watch it again, and again and then try it. THanks soooo much Shelley. I will also watch you with Eric Rhodes.