I have now been painting in oils for six months (since I was a student 40 years ago, painting hard-edge abstracts) and this is my first summer as an oil painter! So far, I've been doing small still-life daily paintings, and huge vases, with a tulip interlude. But summer beckons with the big skies of Oxfordshire and I just have to paint these vistas of clouds. Where do I begin? I've never tried to paint clouds before (other than a brief watercolour flirtation last summer). So here is my … [Read more...]