Thunderstorms

Lightning
Watercolour on Paper
12cm x 16.5cm (4.75"x 6.5")

Thunderstorms is the fourth topic in the Skies and Weather chapter of Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor by Claudia Nice.

I haven’t seen lightning in ages and I don’t have any photographs. This picture is based on Claudia’s example, memory and imagination.

Claudia suggests drawing the lightning with masking fluid (frisket), so you can paint clouds over it, rather than having to carefully paint around it. This worked reasonably well, but if I paint lightning again, I will make the lines thinner and more spidery (is spiderier a word?). I was glad for the prod to check my bottle of masking fluid because I am planning to use it soon on a bigger picture. I don’t use it very often and usually when I reach for the bottle, I find its all dried up, rubbery and unusable.