Clouds no doubt provide us a peace of mind which we often aspire to have in our living room but not knowing how to paint clouds spontaneously we remain deprived of magical effect of the clouds. You may prefer to paint beautiful clouds for kid’s room as well seeking to learn the effective tactics of drawing absorbing sketches of clouds. But what you are needed to do is learning the techniques of painting the clouds in a room so spontaneously that each of the gazers should find it difficult in making a distinction between natural clouds and the clouds painted on the walls of your room.
As self painting is needed a pre-planning and pre-arrangements you should follow the tips on cloud painting techniques that has got to keep you always under the refreshing clouds be it a day or night without triggering a fear of rain. Before proceeding to bestow a heaven-like cloudy scene to the interior of your living room what you should do at your best is getting yourself equipped with essential tools and the paints required to be used in painting the clouds spontaneously. Some of the conspicuous colors or paints required to be used in creating natural clouds over the walls of room are glossy sky blue and white satin emulsion paint. Some other things needed to be arranged are paint tray, glaze, measuring mug, sea sponges, piece of cheesecloth (18″ x 24″ inches), piece of board and a few photos of beautiful clouds.
Though oil paints are used widely by the nature-loving people, the water-based paints like acrylic emulsion paint are much beneficial, for they let the moisture be absorbed within the walls which doesn’t cause a suffocation, common problem to be encountered by the inmates of oil-painted rooms.
- Start with the sky blue color- As the sky has light blue you should develop a natural sky on the walls before you create salacious clouds. As your sole motto is to learn how to paint clouds naturally, you should not leave any stone of your efforts unturned in creating the natural clouds in your room. If you engulf your entire living room ostensibly with the engrossing clouds you will never miss the natural clouds in your life. Self-created clouds though have got to make you feel fresh and energetic, they will keep you free from worries of heavy rain shower as well. So for creating lively scene of cloudy atmosphere you should contemplate on the spontaneity of cloudy sky before creating a sky with sky-blue paint. As you are painting the walls of your room for fantastic clouds, paint them with sky blue color as a part of rudimentary painting. Just after painting almost all the walls of your room with a sky blue color leave them to dry for twenty four hours in order to develop a natural blue sky.
- Mix the glaze in white paint- You should prepare another paint mixing the glaze in white paint in 1:4 ratio. It also is one of the indispensable colors needed to be used in painting the walls for developing clouds. As innumerable pictures of the clouds can be availed easily, you should keep yourself acquainted with some preferred pictures of the clouds. Although clouds to be painted on the interior walls of room are not to be imitated these pictures can help you in mooting out painting ideas.
- Now start painting the clouds with sponge- Dip the sponge in white paint kept in a tray and after absorbing plenty of white paint start applying over a board with vigorous to gentle pressures to see how a sponge can work in creating natural clouds in your room. Let me make you aware of the effectiveness of sponge in creating natural clouds with specific pressure, twists and movements. You can create different textures of clouds with vigorous to gentle pressures and twists. In order to maintain spontaneity of natural clouds you should make centre of the clouds denser.
- Create denser clouds- In order to create a scene of denser clouds you should create silvery streaks that will turn your living room into a cloudy atmosphere solving your problem of how to paint clouds in your small room.
