15 Days of Summer Sky - Acrylic Painting for Beginners

Learn two acrylic blending styles— textured sky with visible brush marks and smooth gradients— by mixing blues (Prussian blue, ultramarine, permanent blue light) and building dark-to-light transitions.

Learn basic cloud painting techniques in acrylic through six steps, blending on wet and dry backgrounds, using flat, round, and liner brushes to create varied cloud types.

Learn to paint dramatic summer clouds in acrylics by layering flat and feathered brush textures, adding light and dark shadows, and finishing with bright highlights and crisp edges.

Explore a blues color study by swatching Prussian blue, ultramarine, turquoise, pale blue, bright aqua green, and light blue permanent; mix with white to reveal diverse sky shades.

Explore a green color study using Viridian hue and four main colors, then mix blues with warm and cool yellows to create diverse greens for landscapes and seascapes.

Engage in a color study of burnt umber and an accompanying earth tone, then mix with white, black, and yellow to craft landscape hues.

Cultivate calm as you observe blue sky and white clouds, then translate that mood into your acrylic painting from your creative corner.

Discover day one of 15 days of summer sky, a beginner acrylic painting guide that covers color choices, sky blending, cloud texture, and signing your work.

Master the sky by layering blues and whites with ultramarine for shadowed clouds, then paint distant mountains and green fields using multiple brushes and visible brushstrokes.

Use a flat, round, and liner brush to paint a light blue sky with clouds, then block greens for the background. Sketch a lighthouse with minimal detail and add flowers.

Learn to paint textured yellow flowers with a liner brush, balancing distant small blooms with bold foreground petals. Create clusters and add subtle shadows for a finished acrylic scene.

Learn to paint a moody sky and textured landscape with a limited acrylic palette, blending blues and whites to form clouds, then add greens, distant trees, and a signature.

Learn to paint a summer sky with fluffy clouds over a meadow and distant mountains, guiding a flowing stream with a limited Prussian blue, green, and yellow palette.

Continue day 5 in the 15 days of summer sky acrylic painting for beginners course, guiding beginners through continued acrylic painting practice.

Learn to paint a soothing summer sky landscape in acrylics by building soft cloud shapes. Blend blues with white and greens, add distant land and grasses to finish the scene.

Paint loose, feathery clouds over a calm summer landscape with hay bales on wheat fields, using layered blues and greens to reveal distant mountains and gentle color transitions.

Use a mid-size round brush to build a sunlit field with yellow, white, and blue highlights. Dry-brush hay bales with burnt sienna, cadmium yellow, and black to add texture.

Learn to paint a summer landscape with cumulus clouds and a road receding to infinity in acrylics, starting sky bottom-up and building a vivid, sunlit field with dry brush techniques.

Master cloud formation with white using a flat brush and dry brush techniques, then shape mountains with burnt sienna and burnt amber, adding shadows and highlights.

Learn to paint a summer sky landscape in acrylics on day nine, mixing ultramarine blue with light blue, building a soft gradient, and adding textured clouds.

Learn to paint a simple acrylic landscape with clouds, sky, and a small hut using a step-by-step process; mix prussian blue, cadmium yellow, viridian, burnt sienna, and red.

Create a simple acrylic landscape: paint a blue sky with turquoise shifts, then add clouds, a green field, and a road with light and shadow.

Master a calming acrylic reflection of clouds on water using a limited blue palette (blue, ultramarine, white, black) and learn horizon placement, cloud textures, and highlights.

Create a soothing summer sky landscape in acrylics by blending ultramarine blue with light blue and white to form loose feathery clouds, a soft horizon, and textured fields.

Paint a summer sky over a wheat field with blues, greens, yellows, and hay bales. Use a flat brush for clouds and a thin brush for texture and highlights.

Day 15 guides you through painting the sun, sun rays, and sunflowers set against a bright sky, with abstract bottom strokes and a dry brush technique for textured depth.

Mastering acrylic painting for beginners through perseverance and practice, finishing a final project that turns a personal photo you clicked into a landscape and captures the sky.

Join a beginner acrylic painting class project for the summer sky course, guided by a simple, hands-on approach that encourages personal artwork creation.