When the sky is partly overcast, sometimes the sun is penetrating the cloud cover. It creates a halo effect that cam be quite interesting to paint. I started with a circle of yellow, I made the circle bigger than it needed to be because I always adjust it to be perfectly circular but with each adjustment it gets smaller. When satisfied with the shape, I added a second ring of orange, with more water in the mix, then surrounded by a purplish grey. The purplish grey paint has to have less water then the yellow-orange, so that it creates the feathered-halo effect. It takes awhile to master this technique because the amount of moisture in the paint layers is difficult to judge accurately. To paint a nice sky in watercolour, it is best done in one pass without any fussing or adjustments. The rest of the scene is pretty standard by now, in fact, I have painted the autoshop dozens of times. The new paint on the autoshop is dark magenta, made with magenta (PV19), a touch of blue (PB60), carbon black (PBk6) and water.
Overcast Sun Autoshop, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, November 2023 (No. 3583)
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