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Dive into Clouds & Skies Barns Landscape Oil Painting by David Dibble

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Dive into Clouds & Skies

☁️ Paint skies that elevate the entire story of your scene. In this 1+ hour lesson, David Dibble breaks down the essential behaviors of light as it interacts with clouds, atmosphere, and the curvature of the earth—helping you design skies that feel vast, believable, and deeply expressive.

You’ll learn how to:
🌤️ Understand cloud structure and how light shapes form, volume, and mood
🎨 Use sky design to imply weather, narrative, and emotional tone
📐 Establish convincing perspective by wrapping forms around the earth’s natural curvature
🖌️ Draw inspiration from master artists while developing your own voice

Perfect for landscape painters looking to transform their skies from simple backdrops into powerful storytelling elements. 🕒 Runtime: 1+ hour

  • David Dibble

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

David Dibble

Digital painting and its associated tools have been an artistic game-changer for award-winning artist David Dibble.  He improved his digital painting skills over years of experience in the animation industry, working on demanding projects such as Rio, Ice Age 4, Peanuts, and Ferdinand, followed by years teaching in academia. Now a successful gallery painter and concept designer, he has learned to harness the power of digital tools in a traditional workflow, particularly in the compositional and thematic development of large-scale canvases.

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