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In our final backdrop painting installment, artist Jay Smith shows you how to add clouds to the sky of your model railroad. To complete the scene, he also provides tips for painting simple birds. Look for Jay’s other backdrop-painting videos on MR Video Plus.
That was the best vid I have ever seen absolute best backdrop ever thank you godblees
Thanks all, I hope to be dong more in the future. I'm glad I could be of help and you are enjoying the videos. Thank you William, that is good advice. Normally the clouds would be painted before the trees or hills if you would intend to have them rolling in from the horizon behind the hill but I did not intend to do that with this backdrop in which case I felt it was fine to save them for last. Respectfully, I have tried to simplify for the sake of attainability for the average person.
One could put in contrails from passing plains. Or an approaching storm.
David
As an artist, one should always start a scene at the top and work down.
First do the clouds, then the distant hills and work forward towards the foreground.
Some times clouds get covered up by the background. Same as in nature. And the base of clouds should be level as if they were sitting on a shelf. One can think of the shelf as being a shelf of air. I paint with oil paint and paint the basic shape of the cloud first with shadow colors. Then figure out which side the light is coming from and highlight the white of the clouds on that side. Most distant clouds are near the horizon where the closest ones are near the highest points of the sky. And always remember that near clouds can and often cover up partially the clouds behind.
I wish Jay had more to show us. I feel relaxed after watching each of his videos! Thank you for this series, Jay.
Nice wrap up! I thought the hawk was an especially creative touch