How to paint clouds - realistic towering cloud painting tutorial

This Video is available as a full time real time tutorial WITH VOICEOVER on my Patreon (and also for single sale on my website).
I will show you the whole process of the different layers of colours that I apply, from the underpainting to detailing ot the final layer. You will get lots of information hearing me explaining what I do while you see me painting, always seeing the colour palette that I`m using, too!
In no time you will be able to paint like that.
Link to my Patreon page: / brennerfineart
Linkt to my website:
www.brennerfineart.com
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Painting material that I use
Artisan water mixable oil colour (Amazon US link) -
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Artisan water mixable oil colour (Amazon Europe link) - www.amazon.de/...
Liquitex acrylic colour for the underpainting (Amazon US link) - www.amazon.com...
Liquitex acrylic colour for the underpainting (Amazon Europe link) -www.amazon.de/...
Painting medium for the oil colour (Amazon Europe link) - www.amazon.de/...
My main easel (Amazon Europe link) -
www.amazon.de/...
Canvas on a stretcher (Amazon Europe link) -
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Equipment for filming/editing
Main camera
Canon M50 (Amazon US Link) - www.amazon.com...
Canon M50 (Amazon Europe link) - www.amazon.de/...
Second camera
Panasonic Lumix GX 880 (Amazon US link) - www.amazon.com...
Panasonic Lumix GX 880 (Amazon Europe link) - www.amazon.de/...
Microphone
Rhode VideoMic (Amazon US link to a full set) - www.amazon.com...
Rhode VideoMic (Amazon Europe link) - www.amazon.de/...
Light
Geekoto Softbox Studio set (Amazon Europe link) - www.amazon.de/...

[@aurelienlinnenkamp9885]

Like a photo. Really so good, it is incredible 🎉 Really bravo GREAT 🥳 👏🏻

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you so much :-)))))

[@leojablonski2309]

What I admire about your technique is small steps then connecting to the whole. This is how nature forms clouds...random molecules , continually building. Can watch this all day

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you :-))) Yeah that`s right...adding tiny things that become large over time, really a good comparison, nature works more or less the same.

[@SnoozerIIVMMXIV]

You're the best cloud painter ,👍🏻 well done I'll try this one ☁️☁️☁️

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you :-))) And enjoy the painting process :-)))

[@yvainwalker4504]

This is wonderful! I can see two angel faces in your painting! Whether it was intentional or not it's very beautiful! 🤩

[@brennerfineart]

Thank yo so much :-)))) It was not intended to work in some angels, I can assure you :-)))

[@penguinproductions7014]

I don’t paint and at 43 I’ve been inspired to give it a go, thank you very much 👍🇬🇧

[@brennerfineart]

Wow that`s great :-)))) Yes, give it a try, it is soooooo much fun and gives a ton of satisfaction when you just finished a good painting :-))) But please take it easy...learning to paint is not done in two weeks...it takes years of building up the skillset and the experience! But it truly is worth it :-)))

[@aliyanikkam9900]

You are the best teacher i have known. Thank you so much for teaching in so much details 💙💙

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you - so glad that you like what I do here on my channel :-)))

[@IIIFIIII]

Painting with you is much easier 👍🏻👍🏻❤️

[@IIIFIIII]

And fun 🤩

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you :-))))

[@sofiaan710]

ΤΕΛΕΙΟ!!!!!!!

[@brennerfineart]

Ευχαριστώ!!

[@2xdeadshot654]

Amazing sir

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you!

[@Alexa_j_alday]

you are great at this :),

[@brennerfineart]

Thanks a lot!

[@joypinturra6151]

Beautiful clouds....your cloud and water works are amazing....tfs

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you so much :-))))

[@karenl4634]

Best clouds I've ever seen! You're amazing!!

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you so much Karen :-)))

[@aminahussain1170]

U r so good I jus love the way you explain each step when u paint . Thank you so much for techniques u apply when u do the tutorial🙏🏻

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you Amina :-)))

[@agnieszkahercyk3149]

You are so talented! Thank you for these lessons. 🤩👍

[@brennerfineart]

You`re welcome Agnieszka :-)))

[@romartrommoabit]

Wow! Super Video and nice Tipp's!

[@brennerfineart]

Thanks! Glad that you like it :-)))

[@EveHarveyArt]

Your tutorial is amazing. By the way you have a really cool accent and it's always fun listening to you talk! Great video this is amazing as per usual!

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you Eve :-))) Yep...my funny german accent ;-)))) German people talking english sounds not so nice very often (I mean myself, too of course)...very...germany like ;-)))) But perhaps it will improve over time...hopefully ;-))))

[@Asmin281]

This is incredible.

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you :-)))

[@troygulbrandsenHistorienBak]

Vizual ASMR :-) Great videos!

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you Troy :-))) I had to google "ASMR" - learned again something new today, thank you for this input :-)))

[@danm94]

So nicely done! 💙💜🤍 Also as a suggestion, you should do a series of short water-mixable oil colour tips and tricks; how to pick different types or colours, brushes, preparing the surfaces, etc. Would be nice in the future to see that 😊

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you so much :-)))) I plan on doing a whole mulit-video series on oil painting for beginners concerning all of the necessary aspects. But this is SO much work that I don`t know when I will start to film this not to mention when I will be able to publish it...but there will definitely be coming something like that sooner or later :-))))

[@dogwhiskers8]

@@brennerfineart good!!

[@brennerfineart]

@@dogwhiskers8 not sure yet when I will be able to work on it...so much to do at the moment though :-/

[@dogwhiskers8]

@@brennerfineart I know that feeling well:)

[@pierpaolo3551]

Sei fantastico mi dispiace che non capisco un acca h ma ti seguo lo stesso 👏👏👏👏👍

[@brennerfineart]

Grazie per le belle parole Pier :-)))

[@reveillusoire3853]

You are talented the best clouds ☁️ painting that I see here thanckfull love 💕

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you Sophia :-)))

[@roselhie3791]

Magnificent!..I keep learning..Bravo!

[@brennerfineart]

That`s great :-))) And thanks for your praise :-))))

[@becca-creationartworks]

Realistic!

[@brennerfineart]

Thanks :-)))

[@kanchangupta2038]

Thanks for getting us to learn minute tricks.

[@brennerfineart]

No problem, you`re welcome :-))))

[@MrMessinese77]

Stunning 👏👏👏👏

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you :-))))

[@andrenikolaev1714]

Sumptuously !

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you Andre :-))))

[@gloriasantana9710]

Muy realistas sus nubes. Me encantaron.

[@brennerfineart]

Muchas gracias :-))))

[@dogwhiskers8]

Stunning clouds

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you so much Lou :-))))))

[@menaakslifeartcrafts9925]

Amazing♥♥♥♥

[@brennerfineart]

'Thanks a lot :-)))

[@GNA1986]

Bravo ! 👏

[@brennerfineart]

Dankeschön :-)))

[@zacktaylor5402]

just found your channel, its great. can you make a video showing the ratios of paint used when blending colors to get the different shades of blues, please and thank you

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you Zack :-))) I have the whole mixing process on my patreon channel - bascially the full time version of the youtube videos here. Ranging between 2 and 11 hours of in detail painting including the colour mixing process. Even though I have to admit, there is no recipe that I use...all colours are custom mixed kind of, I just keep on adding tiny amounts of my basic set of 7 colours to end up with the colour I am aiming for.

[@brennerfineart]

Join my patreon for in detail lessons on how to do a realistic painting. 4 new lessons each month! www.patreon.com/brennerfineart

[@carladesignswiss6261]

Thank you for showing us your talent here on KZbin. For us in face painting, blending is more difficult, as are the subtle nuances of colour. Where there's a will, there's a way, your tutorial helps. Thank you :) Habe erst jetzt in weiteren Kommentaren gesehen dass du aus Deutschland bist :) hallo Nachbar. Ich finds gut, dass du dich im Video auch selber zeigst, das schafft Vertrauen. Viele Grüsse aus der CH.

[@brennerfineart]

Dankeschön Carla :-)))) Ja, wir sind global gesehen tatsächlich Nachbarn ;-))) Und schön dass dir die Tutorials gefallen!

[@carladesignswiss6261]

@@brennerfineart genau das macht es aus.. einander helfen.. ich bedanke mich.. werde sicher noch weiter Tuts von dir anschauen, aber eins nach dem anderen ;)

[@brennerfineart]

@@carladesignswiss6261 Jo, keine Hektik :-)))

[@carladesignswiss6261]

@@brennerfineart sure ;) ;) ;)

[@marcioluizdeoliveiraolivei9302]

Já sou seu fã 😃

[@brennerfineart]

Sim maravilhoso :-))) Estou muito feliz :-)))

[@muallabiber9323]

O kadar begendimki anlatamam. Harikasin tebrikler

[@brennerfineart]

Çok çok teşekkürler!! Ve videoyu beğenmene sevindim :-)))

[@minu-joseph]

Awesome,👍👍

[@brennerfineart]

Thanks you so much Minu :-))))

[@healthyheartymeals6541]

Incredible ,marvelous .....you are using oil paints without using single drop of oil....how can we apply oil paints without oil ?

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you :-))) Because oil paint already is premixed with some oil in it. At least the colour that I use (Winsor&Newton water mixable oils) is "wet" enough to be able to paint really thick but still fluid enough for parts on a painting that need really thick colour to make sure the background is covered up well enough.

[@dionealiguori5181]

Ciao artista, come stai? Sei sempre bravissimo!

[@brennerfineart]

Grazie mille, sto benissimo, il sole splende e ci sono 28 gradi - FINALMENTE!!!!! E grazie per i complimenti :-)))

[@marialpmaximo4604]

Maravilhoso

[@brennerfineart]

Muchas Gracias :-)))

[@marcofuga2414]

Che bravo che sei

[@brennerfineart]

Grazie Marco :-)))

[@Asmin281]

Payday tomorrow I need to sign up.

[@Asmin281]

I just signed up can you tell me what month this one is under please,

[@brennerfineart]

Hope you gonna like it :-)))

[@Asmin281]

@@brennerfineart I've never signed up to Patreon before. I can't see this video is it still there? It's insane I need to try it tonight.

[@brennerfineart]

@@Asmin281 Yes, all of the videos that I uploaded are still there. I wrote you an email just a minute ago that explains wherer you will find the videos :-)))

[@Asmin281]

@@brennerfineart thank you so much! I appreciate that.

[@tinaroystudio]

Thank you for this amazing cloud video tutorial! I have a question- if the sun is high in the sky in the reference photo, why do you paint the sky gradient blue with darkest on top? Thank you so much for all your help!!

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you Tina :-))) I follow here the air perspective - on the ground we have lots of small particles that are between the viewers eye and the blue of the sky. A lot more than furhter up. Therefore we need to make it a bit "foggy" the closer we come to the ground.

[@fromenti28]

The way you do your clouds is fantastic, it's so realistic. I like it so much that I listen your video many times. Thank you so much to share your work. I would like to ask you some questions. What is the medium are you using ? Is a mineral essence with refined linseed oil is good ? What about walnut oil ? do you use Liquin somethime? How long are you wating betheen layer ? When you are using colour when you do your clouds, do you take a lot of oil or just a small quantity at a time ? I see that you have taken Winsor and Newton oil colour, what's the difference if is written water mixable oil colour ? The one I have is not written, is it make big difference ? Excuse me if my english is sometimes not to well, I'm french so I don't have always the right term to express my idea.

[@brennerfineart]

Thanks a lot :-))) I use here water mixable oils from Winsor&Newton but I thin down the colours solely with linseed oil. I would not use any harsh medium (turpentine, white spirit etc.) because this stuff is highly cancerogen and therefore REALLY bad for your health especially as you sit for hours in the fume of this stuff. Oil is all you need! Really! I wait until the layer is bone dry...and this takes a few days in summertime and up to 10-14 days in wintertime. Therefore I do work on several paintings at the same time so that I can work on the next while the others still dry. Usually I paint opaque, thick colours so I thin down the colours only a slight bit to give it a better flow...but really only tiny bits, too much and you have a glaze...that is ok if you like to change the dry layer a bit but for the main layers I use pretty thick colour. Water mixable oils do thin with water - but as I do not use water any more to thin down the colours there is no realy difference between the water mixable oil and the "normal" oil colour from Winsor&Newton. And your english is pretty good, don`t worry :-))))

[@fromenti28]

Thank you so much to response so rapidly. You are a good person to share you advise like that. It means a lot for me. I did a lot a paintings may years ago et now, I retired from teaching and I realise that I have a lack of understanding painting with oil. You video help me a lot. thank you. I saw one of your video that you begin with acrylic for the first layer. Do you us it often ? Is it good to begin that way ? @@brennerfineart

[@brennerfineart]

@@fromenti28 you`re welcome :-))) I do not use acrylics any more...just don`t like that they dry sooo quick. I rather work on 3, 4 paintings at the same time so that the oil colour can dry without any problems and I have always something to work on :-))) I would also recommend you to underpaint with oils...acrylics are dry the moment you put them one more or less...no real blending possible...therefore the oils are WAY easier to work with as they allow a far longer time to push the colour around, blend and do corrections to the wet colour. WAY better :-))))

[@fromenti28]

Thank you so much for your advise I will follow them . I like so much working with oil. When I was young it was my first love ... so I return to it and it's makes me very happy :-)))@@brennerfineart

[@vonkunstler884]

Do you ever improvise your clouds? Meaning not exactly like the reference but dictate your own highlights, shadows, midtones, etc? I’m in the beginning stages of my clouds but not going verbatim to reference photos. Just wondering if you’ve had success creating your own clouds forms from imagination and getting a realistic result. Thanks in advance and great vids!

[@brennerfineart]

As I try to teach people how to paint an existing scene (wheter photo or real life does not matter) I never tried it on my channel. But I tried it on my own paintings and I always think, they look somehow a bit off in places...we all have the habit to repeat things in life to make us feel safe and this also applies to painting. Your imagination NEVER will match up to what nature is able to do so faking up a painting, no matter if clouds or just a tree, is in most of the cases never as good, as exe-catching, as "real" as when you use a reference photo. You do not need to stay as close to them as I do here on my channel (I do this for teaching purpose) but as kind of a guide, to give you new ideas, a reference photo is invaluable for really realistic painting :-)))

[@vonkunstler884]

@@brennerfineart Thank you!

[@caspar3152]

Did you let dry the blue background before painting the clouds or is this wonderful picture done alla prima in one session?

[@brennerfineart]

I let the blue background completely dry for a couple of days so that I had no interference with the layer that I put on top of it. Would not have been necessarey to underpaint THAT much but I planned on doing another cloud painting first but ended up using the reference for this painting - but it still worked fine :-)))

[@marcioluizdeoliveiraolivei9302]

Simplesmente top de mais

[@brennerfineart]

Muito obrigado :-))))

[@sandytheviolin]

wOw 🤩

[@brennerfineart]

thanks :-))))

[@DreambigGabriela]

Of course, thumbs up. This is incredibly realistic. Too bad the best clouds painter does not show us the mixing of his colors, which I think it's the base of the painting.

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you!

[@lopevega5992]

Молодец!+++

[@brennerfineart]

:-))))))))))

[@PatriciaOliveira-qg4oj]

🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you Patricia :-)))

[@karthikeyan-sw7zu]

I had painted clouds many times by I didn't get the result what I expected. What to do? Pls reply

[@brennerfineart]

As I have not yet seen a painting from you it is impossible to give you any advice on what to do/what to do better. Can you post a pic somewhere? Then I could give you advice what to improve. Otherwise, just stick to the tricks and tips I give in my cloud painting tutorials here on KZbin. If you want a full detailed tutorial with comments you could join my patreon - this weeks lessen is a 6 hour and 20 minutes video of how I painted the painting from this youtube video.

[@karthikeyan-sw7zu]

Sorry I couldn't post the pic but I can paint the base of the clouds but I don't know how to add the twist and turns in the clouds. I have seen all of your cloud paintings but I can't

[@karthikeyan-sw7zu]

Anyways I will try until I paint it as like you

[@brennerfineart]

@@karthikeyan-sw7zu it requires a lot of practice AND you need to understand your reference material to get the volumes of the clouds in where they need to be. This is not an easy thing - learn to observe well. Really understand your reference before you start to paint. And be patient...its not like you start to paint and are able to paint like that within a couple of weeks or months.

[@brennerfineart]

@@karthikeyan-sw7zu i truly like your spirit - thats the exact thing I did back when I started to paint. I never gave up...although there were a lot of times I thought I would go crazy because I could not replicate what I saw in real life. It take a LONG time to really get well in this craft.

[@TheRealFeechLaManna]

I need to change to oil. Every video about Clouds in Acrylic Paint basically ends in clouds that suck. It seems this can only be done in oils, no?

[@brennerfineart]

You can use a drying retarder for your acrylics, but I use oils only and the main reason is the time I have to "toy around" with the colour on the painting surface when I work in oils...acrylics are nearly dry the moment you put them on, so there is no real possibility to blend them properly without any additional drying retarder.

[@susieb149]

@@brennerfineart do you need to finish the painting in one sitting? With oils I imagine you can come back to it. Is that correct?

[@whatifgamer2443]

can this be done in acrylic?

[@brennerfineart]

It`s more difficult than with oils but it should still work if you have the right technique :-))))

[@minu-joseph]

Can you explain heavenly type sky pls

[@brennerfineart]

Not sure...what do you mean by heavenly type sky?

[@myfavoriteplanet3247]

Artist's voice reminded me of Eckhart Tolle a little bit.

[@brennerfineart]

Wow - thanks a lot :-))) I know him (by the way, he is a WAY better narrator than I am) and this is a big honour to get compared with him - thanks again :-)))

[@mammedovaaysu3932]

Oil?

[@brennerfineart]

Yes, water mixable oils but I use solely purified linseed oil to thin down the colours.

[@salvatorecau1837]

Sempre ammirabile il tuo lavoro e la tua inclinazione direi vocazionale a trasmettere complesse tecniche pittoriche. Pur avendolo segnalato a chi aveva già posto la medesima domanda gentilmente chiedo dove precisamente devo andare nel sito Künstlerbedarf von boesner - Professionelle Künstlermaterialien per l acquisto dei pennelli che utilizzi per i tuoi lavori. Cosi come ho specificato in altri miei commenti da questi video non sono ben comprensibili le mescolanze dei colori e mi consigliasti di andare a visionare i video su patreon. Ecco, in merito scusandomi per la mia ignoranza informatica, ti chiedo come ci si iscrive e in che modo avviene il pagamento e se in questi video potrò avere la possibilità di cogliere più esaustivamente i processi di mescolanza dei colori e in che modo ottenerli rispetto all oggetto fotografico che si intende riprodurre. In un certo qual modo come in altri commenti ho avuto modo di sottolineare non capisco l'inglese pertanto non riesco ad avvantaggiarmi dei tuoi preziosi consigli vocali. Ti ringrazio lo stesso anticipatamente per la tua sempre immancabile cortesia e pazienza...

[@brennerfineart]

Ecco il link ai pennelli che utilizzo da Boesner: www.boesner.com/cosmotop-mix-f-aquarellpinsel-16086 www.boesner.com/serie-5217-pinsel-set-21823 Uso anche altri produttori di pennelli, soprattutto per i dettagli fini, ma puoi facilmente acquistare set economici su eBay, dalla taglia 0 alla quadrupla 0, io lo faccio in questo modo. Su Patreon puoi vedere in dettaglio come mescolo i colori, tutto in tempo reale. Quindi puoi mescolare i colori insieme a me. Lì puoi anche vedere tutto il materiale che ho filmato, la maggior parte in tempo reale. Non commento tutte le parti del video, solo quelle più importanti. Il problema è che non puoi capirli perché sono in inglese. Ma forse un amico che parla inglese può aiutarti con la traduzione?

[@salvatorecau1837]

@@brennerfineart Grazie mille per le indicazioni sempre preziose e per le tue solerti risposte. Ora appena posso cercherò di accedere a Patreon per capire meglio quali potenzialità di apprendimento possono suscitarmi nell'ardua ma appassionante impresa di fare un passo in avanti nella comprensione e attualizzazione dell'arte pittorica. Certamente l'incomprensione della lingua costituisce un limite, nonostante tutto i tuoi video li considero tra i migliori che si possono reperire in rete. Ti chiedo ulteriormente dove posso reperire i pennelli un po più larghi per la realizzazione degli sfondi magari indicandomi il link. Grazie ancora di tutto....

[@brennerfineart]

@@salvatorecau1837 Grazie mille per gli elogi :-))) Sì, Patreon probabilmente porterebbe davvero qualcosa, anche se non capisci la lingua. Ma come ho detto, mescolo i colori lì senza time-lapse e applico anche i colori senza time-lapse. Per questo video ci sono quasi 6 ore di materiale, penso ne valga la pena. Ecco ancora il link per i pennelli larghi: www.boesner.com/cosmotop-mix-f-aquarellpinsel-16086

[@salvatorecau1837]

@@brennerfineart grazie.. Seguirò i tuoi consigli.. Per i pennelli intendevo quelli un po piu larghi con cui sfumi i colori per fare lo sfondo, tra i 5 e 7 cm di larghezza..

[@brennerfineart]

@@salvatorecau1837 ora ho capito: il pennello largo è questo in 1,5 pollici: www.boesner.com/serie-2123-profi-breitpinsel-22579

[@elmabutu5015]

You are really talented but u find it really hard to do as you are really fast

[@brennerfineart]

Thank you Elma :-))) Problem is that people apparantly do not have the patience to follow a really in detail long tutorial. I tried it and those videos failed miserably...therefore I had to slim down the videos here on youtube and they did much better. If you like to get an in detail overview of building up such a painting you might consider joining my patreon where you will get two new "lessons" a month (in detail painting process including colour mixing process, from 3 to over 10 hours of pure painting), here is the link: www.patreon.com/brennerfineart