Moving on to the sky area. Now you're going to mix two portions of blue. Taking some white over to the left hand side on your palette, add some ultramarine blue, this is going to be the lightest blue. And then you take some more white Remember to wipe your knife texts and more white underneath and a little bit more ultramarine blue and making this slightly deeper. Remember again don't over mix your colors on the palette because this is what gives the painting its character, especially when you're painting with a knife. Now taking the lightest blue, as you can see, we start on the right hand side here and spread this light blue color fairly evenly.

But don't worry if some of that light under painting shows through. Really at this stage, it's a matter of getting the paint on the canvas. Now working your way down to the horizon there which is the top of the funnel Next to the bushes on the right. Now you can start to also fill in around the the darks of the bush there. Don't worry too much about obliterating as you paint around it because you're going to actually reestablish the the shadow area of the bush. So don't worry too much about going over it and just continue painting in the area.

There are always going to be times throughout the painting when you need to correct certain areas. So you have just put a smudge to have lifted some of the original color, that dark color. So just paint over it and don't press too hard with the knife so that you keep lifting that color and just continue and that'll be fine. Now adding a touch more blue to the mix to make it slightly deeper. And then we finish off with this mix on the left hand side covering the remaining area. And you can see quite easily how you have the three tones there that quiet distinct at the moment, the slightly deeper one here and then going towards the right to the middle slightly lighter and on the right slightly lighter still and now just finishing off taking the color down to the line where the top of the distant Hill is going to appear.

Now taking some light into that mix going to be slightly lighter and the touch of the blue. We're going to indicate some clouds here on the right. Again, not pressing too hard with a knife, but just letting the paint fall off the knife, taking it over to the right there and giving the impression of some lighter clouds.