#clouds study

cloud studies!! I'm more used to doing clouds with watercolours/gouache so this was quite the fun challenege!

Ice Clouds studies    -     John Ruskin,  1880

British 1818-1900

cloud study. I love staring at the sky a lot but somehow still not capable of drawing the majestic view nicely but i hope i'll be able todo it someday

no fancy brush, just these some gradient tool+airbrush and basic watercolor brushes on clip studio paint

John Constable (RA), 'Study of Clouds', 1822.

'Study of Clouds' England 1822 Oil on paper

In 1822 a fast-moving cloud would have been the very fastest thing a man had seen: faster than a horse, a ship or even Richard Trevithick's new steam locomotives. John Constable had an ecstatic approach to nature, but it was also a scientific one. One of the very first painters to distinguish cloud types, he worked in parallel to Luke Howard whose 1802 lecture 'On the Modification of Clouds' began the serious study of the sky. Constable's written notes reveal both an artistic liveliness and a technical precision (some of it borrowed from Howard), but when he said 'I have done a good deal of skying' he suggests an almost supra-natural mysticism. To Constable, painting was an intensely emotional activity: its beauty at first in the mind, then in the hand and lastly in the eye.