Casey portrait in progress 6 - The skies made me do it
Skies are the reason I started using other mediums in my Colored Pencil art. There is just no way to make a sky as smooth, or as bright, with pencils. I have used pastel, watercolor, and acrylic, for skies. On colored paper I use an opaque medium (pastel, or acrylic paint) to completely cover the paper color. This sky is watercolor wash (a transparent medium) on white paper. I masked off the butterfly and the line of trees before I started. They were masked with friskit film,
