Pastel Seas. Painting #82

After a relaxing day at the beach you decide it’s time to pack up and head out for dinner. As you’re walking along the path, you turn around one last time and catch the moment as the sun is going down producing stunning colors in the sky. You are looking at pastels.

Hers is painting 82. This is an original painting meaning I didn’t follow along with Bob or anyone else. This didn’t even have a reference photo. I did have some general references I had available but this is my own composition as general of a composition as it is.

When I first started this painting, I had planned to do it on an 11 x 14 inch canvas. The reason I was going to do it on that size was because I had a bunch of paint left on the palette from my last painting. I covered it up with plastic wrap to try to preserve it. My plan was to try to paint a general seascape with whatever was on the palette. Between the last painting and this one, I had some repair work done in my house. AT some point the workers moved the palette and the paint got uncovered so my paint became dry and unusable. Therefore, I had to call an audible and decided to do this on my standard 16 x 20 inch canvas.

Colors

• Alizarin Crimson
• Bright Red
• Cadmium Yellow
• Dark Sienna
• Indian Yellow
• Midnight Black
• Phthalo Blue
• Sap Green
• Titanium Hwite
• Van Dyke Brown
• Yellow Ochre
• Don’t forget the Liquid Hwite!

Equipment

• 2 Inch Brush
• 1 Inch Brush
• #6 Fan Brush
• Large Palette Knife
• Script Liner Brush

I like this painting a lot. There’s not much to it. It’s a basic seascape. There’s not even a big wave or anything. That’s what I love about it. The simplicity of the painting. I love the colors and how they all come together.

Tips for doing a seascape without the wave. It’s easy. I’m about to blow your mind. When doing water, the color of the water is the same color as the sky. Well, mostly. The trick is to put in the sky color where you want the water to be. Then you add the color of the water on the sides of the painting. That color can be brown, sea green, or any variation of blue. Once you have the water color in there, take a fan brush and sort of bring them together. Intertwine them if you will. It’s that simple. Hope that makes sense and you can see what I’m talking about when you look at the picture.

The sand is a bit tricky with this one. The beaches around where I live are sugar white. It almost looks like snow. So it was tricky to capture that color. I had the same challenge with my White Sands painting. I learned from that one though. This time I put some under color and a bit of shadow in first before I put in the main color. It didn’t turn out completely how I wanted it but not bad at all. It will be even better next time.

I thoroughly enjoyed doing this one. Hope you like it. Remember, I have an Art Store where you can see all the paintings I have for sale.
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Happy painting!