Care for a sample?

So for my story basically all of the shots are of the sky. I had not intended to be so exceedingly simple, since I quite enjoy backgrounds, but hey they're simple. Just so that I could spice it up a bit these will not be done straight in Flash. I will be photoshopping it up and using a great deal of textures. I feel like I'm cheating when I use textures and brushes, but lots of great artists do it.