Student Jackie Davies has been studying skies for an assignment on her Landscape Painting Diploma Course. Jackie has not only been working in her sketchbook creating sketches and colour studies of skies, she has also been creating some finished paintings in acrylic, watercolour and pastel. You can see seven of Jackie’s paintings below.
John Constable also studied skies during his life as a landscape painter and you can see his Cloud Study from 1822 below. It shows a superb understanding of the moment of the clouds as well as their structure. It can be tricky to describe their three-dimensional volume, however Constable has achieved this beautifully…as has Jackie in her work too. Clouds and sky were a big part of Constables landscape work and it only sees right to continually practice the different and ever changing sky scenes as much as painting trees, hills, hedges, ponds and rivers.
Jackie’s Sky Paintings…..
