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Message: <blockquote data-quote="colleenc" data-source="post: 1754774" data-attributes="member: 76425">Adam if you are using oils, it's actually easier than acrylic. Take one  of the sky tones or a grey blue as Tim suggests, no darker in value than the light sky, then take a bit of medium, not plain turps, and mix with the paint and brush over the dry lighthouse and parts of the sky by the horizon....just keep spreading it thinner and thinner with a stiff brush, don't make it soupy with the medium, if it's too much you can take a cloth and wipe off parts of it until you are happy,( a great way to do fog) if nothing much happens, then you can do another layer when it's dry. Maxfield Parrish used to do 60 to 70 layers of glaze on his work which is why it is so luminous. It really helps make the painting seem full of light and more atmosphere. If you google "glazing with oil paint" you'll probably get a dozen different ways to do it. I use something more complicated, but what I gave you will work just fine.</blockquote>