Exercise 1 - Cloud formations

So every time it was daylight I looked out of the window and there were cloudless blue skies (lovely) and more commonly uniform white cloud, but at last today there were clouds.

Initial pencil studies

Trying to be a bit bolder with my pencil and adding water to the bottom two pictures which are blue Aquasoft stick and water-soluble graphite

Experiments with a graphite stick used on it's side.

Pastel studies, I think this is the best

I wanted to do some more drawings with different sorts of clouds but today we're back to white skies and rain....

Lovely skies on the way home from work yesterday so I grabbed a few photos with my phone and drew from them with coloured pencil

Not as good as the pastel studies