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Payoff Skies! - Easel Talk #26

Your Permission to Paint with Emotion! Welcome to a deep conversation about skies—specifically what I call "payoff skies." This is where amateur paintings often fail, and it's also where you have the most freedom. So let's talk about using that freedom. Skies are your opportunity to inject pure emotion into your work. They're where you can bring color, support your composition, and make viewers feel something. Stop painting them as a backdrop. Start painting them as the emotional heart of your painting. In This Episode: • Why skies come first (and why they're the last thing most artists think about) • The golden hour: your easy route to built-in color and drama • The reality check—what to do when modern life blocks your sunsets • Building your sky library (I have 2,500+ sky photos; you should too) • The counterintuitive truth: the most dramatic skies usually don't work • Your license to interpret—you don't need perfect golden hour light • The miniature rainbow inside every cloud (why gray isn't just gray) • Cool grays vs. warm grays—how to push color without going garish • The HDR trap: when saturation kills luminosity • Learning from the masters: why tonalists nailed it (and why Corot's skies are boring) • Practical questions: What emotion do I want? What mood? What drama level? • Execution: always darker at the zenith, lighter at the horizon (aerial perspective) • Critical tips: avoid 100% white, no continuous highlight bands, inject diverse hues • Compositing reference skies into your paintings • Making paintings of just skies—pure study Core Philosophy: "The payoff sky doesn't mean a maxed-out sky. It means a sky that serves the emotion of the painting. Don't paint them as a backdrop. Paint them as the emotional heart of your work." SUPPORT THIS TEACHING: ☕ Ko-fi – Quick one-click support: https://ko-fi.com/mfrancismccarthy 📰 Substack Studio Pass – Weekly newsletters & expanded content: https://mfrancismccarthy.substack.com/ 📖 The Book – Landscape Painting the Tonalist Way ($65 US, ships worldwide): https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/th... 🎬 YouTube Members Area – Full-length 4K painting sessions, no ads: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC... [your channel link]/join 🖼️ Mike's Gallery – Available paintings: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/ Supplies Page – Recommended materials: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/su... 🎵 Music – https://abyssm.bandcamp.com/ #skies #oilpainting #tonalism #landscapepainting #paintingtips #skypainting #emotion #mfrancismccarthy #easeltalk #artisttechnique