Blue Sky Thinking

Skies are such a big part of landscapes and obviously turn up in most plein air paintings. This post records the result of an afternoon just painting skies for the fun of it. They're all 16x12" on Bockingford 140lb paper and mostly using just two colours - French Ultramarine Blue and a touch of Light Red to produce the greys. With two of paintings I added a bit of a foreground just to see what impact it had on how the sky looked, these appear immediately after the bare sky version.

Happy painting! :o)