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Painting an overcast day: Gail Sibley, "View from Calella," Sennelier pastels on UART 320, 9 x 12 in. The few tweaks I made were: to tone down the blue in the water, to tone down the lighter green highlights on the tress (remembering the diffuse light of an overcast day), and the addition of the sailboat seen a little while before.

Tips On Painting An Overcast Day

Although painting an overcast day is not something I generally do (I definitely have a preference for sunny days!), while in Spain teaching a plein air workshop at the beginning of May, the weather was more often overcast than sunny. So what could we do except go with what we had? Painting an overcast day

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