It would be lovely to think of summer skies as endless expanses of perfect blue, but as we know the weather is very much more varied than that. However, this gives us huge scope for exploring summer skies in watercolour. Living by the sea, the sky will change many times just in one hour. Here, I will give several examples of how to modify your colours for summer skies. But please go outside or atpossibilities for this great subject. It would be good to spend at least a full week working on skies, as there is enough to learn about this to warrant studying and painting it over a long time. There is something very satisfying about fi lling two thirds of your paper with a watercolour sky and then waiting to see how it settles and dries. Experiment with the colour combinations I suggest and also try out different combinations from your watercolour box.
