Purple Sky Watercolor Painting

After completing my last watercolor, I wanted to try something relaxing. So I tried Let’s Make Art’s Purple Sky tutorial. Although my sky turned out to be more blue than purple, I liked the blue tones I was getting so I decided to go with that. I also added a layer of stars between the background sky and the foreground trees. Painting a circle of trees was definitely relaxing.

The Subscription Box

The monthly subscription box arrives from Let’s Make Art with all the supplies needed to complete 4 projects. Each box comes with a surprise item with the regular supplies. This month it was a Fan 4 brush. I used it to paint the branches in my Purple Night Sky watercolor and to splatter stars.

Purple Night Sky Watercolor Tutorial

The Purple Night Sky project supplies:

• 2 pieces of watercolor paper
• Step by step written instructions
• Completed project photo

You can see the Let’s Make Art- Purple Night Sky tutorial I followed on YouTube here.

It was completed in 6 steps:

• taping border
• purple wash
• star splatters
• tree trunks
• branches
• removing tape

Using 3 paint brushes:

• Princeton Heritage size 2
• Princeton Heritage size 4
• Fan 4 Brush

And 4 paint colors:

• Magenta
• Berry Blue
• Dandelion Yellow
• Deep Blue
• Bleed proof white was used to splatter stars

The tutorial I followed did not add the stars to their sky. After the wash layer had completely dried, I created stars by splattering some bleed-proof white using the new Fan 4 brush that came in the box, and waited for it to dry completely before moving on with step 4.

I used these same paint colors creating my Pink Peony watercolor.

Unfortunately the paint did bleed under the tape a little where the paper had been more saturated with water. I can try to cover it with bleed-proof white, but at the moment I’m ok with it just the way it is. Here’s a photo of the painting after cropping.

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Thank you for following along with me while I learn how to paint with watercolors. But you can do this too! Are you ready to try it? It doesn’t cost a thing to follow the Let’s Make Art with Sarah Cray videos if you already have watercolor supplies. To visit their website, click the link in the left sidebar.

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Which watercolor do you like better, This Purple Sky or the Night Camping watercolor? Or maybe this Diamond Night Sky?

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