Step-by-Step Painting of an Acrylic Seascape!!!!

Well today is the day . I am going to show you a step -by- step painting of a Impressionist Seascape.

You will need in materials:
Cadmium yellow    Cobalt Blue       Ultramarine Blue

White               cadmium orange      Violet         Dark green

black                 red cadmium

All acrylic paint and a canvas , preferably 16 X 20

Brushes: Conical 1/2 inch, 1 inch Flat brush and a fine piont

Also you will need water in a container and a couple of 
Styrofoam  plates.

Step One:

on your canvas divide it into thirds. Use your Flat brush, Paint the top third a mix of cadmium yellow and white. and the bottom.

Step two : Paint a pure white streak maybe two on the top part in the middle. blend in slightly with your flat brush.

Step three: Mix yellow ochre with a little cad yellow and paint this under the white blended streaks. do the same on the bottom. Just some strokes.

Step four: Mix your cobalt blue 2/3 with white 1/3. Paint the entire
middle with this color. still use your flat brush.



Step five: Let the cobalt blue dry for 3 minutes . It needs to be 
tacky to the touch to begin the next step.
Then you will take your conical brush and begin making back and forth brush strokes to create waves with the pure ultramarine blue.

The Back part should be darker ,and as you get to the beach or bottom yellow the waves should get less and not as many to leave more cobalt blue.

Step six: Let this dry for at least five minutes then take a mixture of your cadmium yellow and white an make some sporadic  brush strokes of yellow  cadmium  waves.

Step seven: Go back and add a little light value of cobalt blue and white. Sporadically paint  waves under your darker waves. Use your conical brush.Two more minutes later mix violet 1/2 and white 1/2
With a conical brush make some light violet purple streaks for waves under the yellow waves.

Step Seven: Notice a light color of ultramarine blue at the bottom of the canvas for a shadow of the tree we will paint later. 

Also, paint a light orange above the  blue  with some streaks . Still use a conical brush.

Let this dry for at least 20 minutes.

Step eight: Mix up three values of black and white a light gray, a medium gray, and a dark grey close to black.

Paint a tree line with you medium gray . making in thin at the top and spread out at the bottom like the image below.

 

Also paint a dark grey almost black line on the right side of the tree.

and make a line at the bottom of the left side.

Next paint some white, pure white  waves . please leave some space in between the waves so the beach can show through.

Step nine: Make some horizontal lines on the tree and create a white line on the right hand side.

Step ten: Clean brushes and use your conical brush with dark green to begin the leaves of the palm tree.

Find the middle of the trees trunk at the top and begin by making short downward  brush strokes in the shape of a triangle. underneath the triangle make more triangle strokes.

Go ahead and paint the boat black . Make a light grey line on the bottom and side of the boat. Next paint the sails white like triangles let dry.

Step eleven: mix  your dark green with yellow to make a yellow green. Then paint the palm trees this yellow green every other one on top of the dark green.

Step twelve: Clean conical brush and paint red  cadmium  sporadically  on the  palm tree. Let dry two minutes and then paint white strokes on the palm tree.

Notice the boat is not final until the black lines are  painted on

the sails.

Step 13: Finish the white waves by painting another coat of white on them. Make sure you do not cover the whole top beach.

Well I hope you enjoyed this step -by-step on the seascape.

Don't forget to sign your name to the painting.

And if your picture does not look exactly like mine. 

Remember you have made this. your painting with your artistic style.

keep painting and creating. see you next blog.

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