Thank you for being part of the workshop - Skyscapitos: Mastering Cloud Shapes and Sky Colours. I had so much fun journaling the skies with you! I’ve included some information on this page to integrate everything we learned and help you bring skyscapitos into your everyday journal practice.

Here are the skyscapitos I created during the workshop.

Below is the information about cloud types and abbreviations that we discussed during the workshop. You can download these as a PDF here: Cloud Types and Abbreviations.

Sky Colours

I hope that you took away from the workshop that you don’t have to have the perfect sky colour to make a wonderful skyscapito. Any blue will do! However, if you want to practice matching sky colour more closely, try mixing a cool blue or cyan (manganese blue hue, cerulean or phthalo blue) with a warm blue such as ultramarine or cobalt. You can achieve the same colour by mixing cyan and a touch of magenta.

For creating cloud shadows, my favourite mix is ultramarine and burnt sienna. You can achieve a warm, cool or neutral shadow colour by playing with different proportions of these two colours.

For the pink/peach blush of a sunset sky, I like to use alizarin crimson with a touch of quinacridone gold.

Play with the colours that you have on your palette and see what works for you. Colour mixing is a whole adventure all on its own!

What Next?

It was my hope to give you some concrete ideas about how to regularly bring skyscapitos into your journal practice. Here is the list of ideas I showed during the presentation:

• Cloud genera symbols in your metadata. Create symbols that work for you!

• Create a cyanometer and use it to note the sky colour on your journal pages.

• Try a series of skyscapitos during one journaling session (every five minutes, for half-an-hour).

• A skyscapito from the same place, every day, for one week.

• Play cloud bingo and see if you can spot each of the main cloud types (see template).

• Send a week of skies to a friend on a postcard (see template).

You can see the two templates that I created for you below. You can also download both of these templates as PDFs here:

• Cloud Bingo

• Send Someone The Sky

Resources For Further Learning