9 Night Sky Painting Ideas
I love painting night skies, and wanted to share some night sky painting ideas with you! Painting night skies is more than just painting a black sky. You can infuse your night sky paintings with clouds, stars, moons and colour to create a really interesting painting. Here is a list of night sky painting ideas to try for your next painting!
Night Sky Painting Ideas
Materials Needed for Night Sky Paintings
Cup of water
Palette
Number 6 round brush
Round detail brush
One inch flat brush
Rag
Titanium white, mars black, cobalt blue, cadmium yellow and cadmium red paint
Can add an iridescent pearl for stars or a silver paint
Galaxy Sky Paintings
I love painting galaxy skies because it is a great way to experiment with colour and texture in a painting. You can watch any of the following painting tutorials on YouTube by clicking on the videos below. Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel so you don’t miss out on future night sky painting ideas!
Galaxy Sky Painting #1
Galaxy Sky Painting #2
Moon Night Paintings
Moon Painting
This is a great moon tutorial to start with so that you can capture the details of the moon. I will also show you how to paint clouds at night and details like stars.
Moon Over Water Painting
In this painting you will learn how to paint an abstract moon, trees and reflections over water at night time.
Winter Moon Painting
This is a more technical painting as you will learn how to paint more realistic trees and paint snow at night time.
Sunset Moon Painting
This is great painting to learn about colour mixing and colour blending as well as painting trees and stars. It is a great and easy beginner painting tutorial.
This is a campfire painting by someone who tried the tutorial!
Campfire Painting
This is a fun summer painting to try and it is easy enough for kids age 9 and up to give it a go! In this painting you will learn about highlights and shadows, how to paint trees, how to paint a campfire, colour mixing and colour blending and painting small details like embers.
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