Another cloud study

I wanted to swish some paint around and paint some clouds today. I think these clouds are not as bad as the ones from a few days ago :-)

Here is a sunset sketch painted from a picture I took from the train. Most of the picture was gray except for a little sliver of red around the horizon. 

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sunset in watercolor

Here is another sketch quite a bit early in the sunset, where there is that warm glow at the edges of the clouds, but the colors are still muted and cool for the most part.

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And with this one, I chose a reference picture of some stormy clouds and enjoyed painting the gray sky in payne's gray. 

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stormy sky in watercolor

I really like looking all three of these together. They are all paintings of sky, but they all look so very different! Still a long way to go in my sky practice, but this is a good start I would say :-)