11/9/2023 0 Comments Easy ocean wave paintingIn the upper image I mix a slightly darker color for the middle portion of the sky. Usually a sky gets gradually darker the further away one gets from the horizon line. With the initial bottom part of the sky done I now transition into painting the upper portion of the sky. Therefore adding a very small amount of orange to the mix mutes the color just enough to make the color more natural. ![]() If I were to mix just the blue with the white then the color would be far too bright. Then, I mix a very small amount of cadmium orange to mute the blue colors (since blue and orange are complementary they mute each other when mixed together). I begin by mixing a small amount of ultramarine blue and pthalo blue with a good amount of white. The great British landscape painter John Constable once said, “…The sky is the source of light in nature and governs everything.” The sky is what determines the kind of light the rest of the seascape will have. Therefore, we start our painting with the sky. ![]() The sky is the most important part of any landscape or seascape painting. ![]() Something that will make ocean painting easy for you is to start with the sky! If you don’t have a canvas to paint over be sure to create an imprimatura on your white painting surface. It is always good to reuse painting surfaces of paintings you would normally throw away. For my seascape painting I use canvas from an unsuccessful previous painting that was wiped and scraped out.
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