Acrylic Seascape Painting Techniques | Sunset at the beach

Hello and welcome, my name is Chuck Black and today we are going to do a waterscape with a

sunset

, a beautiful sky, we will include some waves and a nice coastline, so stay with us, we will use gold fluid

acrylic

s on a Stretch Canvas of 16 by 20 inches and of course I give away a hand signed art print every week and all you have to do to find out more is click on this card right here, well let's start with the

painting

right now, the colors that have. We're going to use titanium white carbon black cerulean blue primary yellow cad orange and cad red and what I'm going to do to start here is just grab a round brush and a smaller one, the size doesn't matter.

We're going to mix a little bit of black with a little bit of white and we're going to take a little bit of blue, a lot of water in there and this will just give us a sketch and our sun will be somewhere right in the middle. and what we want to do is have a little idea of ​​what our clouds will be like. I want the clouds at the top of the

painting

to be much wider, much larger in diameter because then it will look like they are a little bit closer and I have some clouds that are starting to get a little bit smaller as we go down and I could put one up there, so this is just a very subtle outline just to give us a good idea of ​​what we're going to do. everything is going well, we will have some smaller clouds a little further down, these will make things seem very far away and that sun will be somewhere right there and I think we are going to have our coastline emerging somewhere right around here and that horizon It will be somewhere right there.

I'm going to take some white paint, a little bit of water there, we'll start right where the sun will go around those clouds just a little bit. a little bit and I'm going to grab a little bit of yellow this little bit we're going to start in a circular motion grab a little bit more now like go to the edge of that now grab even more yellow go around the edge of that now we can start blending this, feathers, that a little bit, very gently, trying to blend it a little bit closer to the sun. Now we're going to take a little bit of orange, a little bit of orange and a little bit of white and we'll get started.

Like the outside of that color turns yellow, so I'm going to choose to surround these clouds. Sometimes I can paint on them. I want to make sure that you can actually see that underline, so there will be plenty of light in those areas. and just go out going this way and then going back this way just trying to soften that, mixing it a little bit with the yellow, mix the two together now I'm going to take what I want to do is bring these colors closer to grayscale as we move away. , so now I have some gray and I took a little bit of orange mixed with our gray, now I have red and it's a pretty dull color, very neutral, but it has some pretty gray red in it and that's the color that will be furthest from the sun.

We're going to try to keep that same color and wrap it up and up you want it to be lighter on top, so eventually we're going to get a little bit of blue here so you can see there's not a lot of paint, it's very thin, we're coloring the canvas a lot, so to speak, right now, but I want to cover the canvas completely, so I don't want to leave any white areas, it's kind of like in the middle just that perfect touch takes a little bit of time, okay, and blend it in here. I need a little more orange in this area, grab a little more and we'll put it in. here we're going to cover some of this with a little bit of dirt, but maybe we'll take it a little bit further over here that dirt will fall somewhere right there, okay, I'm just going to make it a little bit more gray, just get a little bit. black and white, I'm going to try it real quick, it's pretty dark, we don't want to go any lighter, it's probably closer to the gray we're looking for, maybe we'll take a little bit of orange. a little bit of yellow as well and we mix it with that reddish gray, we just fade it in, we'll probably do the same thing, we continue with that pattern now, I think we're going to fade it into a little more blue, put this place right here.

I think we'll go for some cerulean blue, mix it with white, it also has some gray in it, maybe even a little bit of yellow, okay, we're mixing some of these colors together, that's a good start. I'm going to continue with this. I'm losing that paint now, but that's a good thing since it will blend into that gray a little better. I must say it's not that hard to screw up. Okay, take a little bit more of that color and get this area. I'm going around those clouds like I said now just blend those colors by pressing pretty hard throughout this whole process.

I'm not using much paint. I want the mix to be very nice. It's very easy to mess it up when you have too much paint. on your canvas, this is just a good way to build it up slowly, you'll make less mistakes, that's why I like to do it right, so it's pretty good, it might be a little dark or we might want to do it. darken this area up here, but it's definitely too dark here compared to this area, but we can work on that, let's set up some clouds. I'm going to take black and white, just mixing in a little bit of gray and I could have included just a little bit. a little bit of red we're going to get shadows we have to be careful because as we get closer to the sun we want these shadows to be a little bit lighter so we're going to take a little bit of orange a little bit of orange a little bit more white for these clouds closer to the sun, so we could brighten these clouds a little bit more, but we're just going to place them there, I'm going to take a little bit of white and a little bit of yellow and maybe even a little bit of orange to get some highlights. in our clouds I need to get a little bit more white on my palette pick up some of that white and set some highlights let's get started right now I think now that I've got some shadows on these clouds let's darken the sky a little bit more I'm going to do a little bit of gray, I'm going to add a little bit of orange to it or I'm going to try it a little bit darker, I'm going to get a little bit more gray that's a little bit more towards the gray scale and I'm going to fade that into this orange and go around like we did before , something from there a little around here.

I'm going to take some cerulean blue, just mix that in right there, this will be a lot richer. be a little darker I think it's more of the color I was expecting we can work on this mixture later maybe we can do something with it right now try it with your fingers it's going to be quite difficult to mix that in However, because we don't have much paint , not a lot of water there, also a little bit of glue here will mix, as well as a good combination between the blue and the gray, and try a little here, you might want to leave it. that's how dry it's going to work too much after a while it gets sticky and hard to change okay I'm going to wash my brush we're going to change to a clean brush and this is the same round blender brush or draining brush but It's artist loft and it's the largest size, I think we're going to work on getting these clouds a little bit.

I think I want them bigger here. I'll cover some of this. I want more clouds in this area specifically, so we may have to cover them. that white now I need a small amount of black maybe a little more that might be too dark we'll come back to the other side that's better so this is a little thicker and also darker it all depends on the shape you want your clouds to be Inside I get fussy sometimes I can't let it go so I keep poking at these clouds I keep poking until I'm happy we'll have to work on them a little more if we wash our brush we'll take Take out another one now and this one is just a hazelnut about a quarter of a inch.

We'll take a little bit of white and a little bit of yellow. I want these reflections in the clouds to start appearing and the color is not as important as the values ​​but the contrast we have. We are achieving that we can glaze a different color on these clouds. We're really worried about getting closer. We want to get as close as we can, but we just want those shadows, those blends, the highlights. We want everything to be correct. so the color itself don't forget this cloud up here I want some highlights and I know there's a lot of things I don't like about this painting so far and it happens with almost every painting, but I know it's kind of a process where it has to get through this painting, it's an ugly phase and it always happens and that's a struggle because I know at least it's something that I've struggled with for quite a while, so just pay attention to the brush, no.

Don't look at the painting as a whole, just keep trusting the process. You have to trust the process. Just keep poking at it. The more we poke at it, the more it will come together. You just can't worry about it, so that's watching. Well, I like it, I like it, I'm just mixing a little bit of gray, this is a darker gray than what's there, it's just black and white now, but I'm trying to make it a little bit darker. I'm being very controlled with what I'm doing at this point, so I'm using the smaller brush.

You don't have to use the smallest brush. I want some dark clouds in the distance on these edges, maybe here, that could help us with some blending. I have some of these dark clouds, maybe they are just hiding behind another cloud and not getting any sun. Okay, that's much better. We can keep going like this and I'm going to go back to that original round blender brush and squeeze out some water. we're going to change to a gray with a little bit of red and that gray is going to come through here maybe we want to make it more gray maybe not, we'll have to see, we'll take a little more red, a little more black.

I want this to be darker than that, so I want this hill to go up right there and then I want this to be even darker and I'm going to go darker than that. Better to stick with it for now, they're sure. it's going to have some orange for sure, just very small amounts, this is pretty much gray that I've mixed in here, but little hints that it's orange and some reds, I'll make it a little bit darker in the corner, okay, I'll do it. wash my brush, I'm going to need more white, clean my brush, switch to that other newer brush, we're going to take white, we're going to start somewhere up there and mix in the yellow, we're picking up a little bit of gray.

We're going to have to clean our brushes a lot after this painting underneath, so to speak, is complete. We'll just include a little bit of orange in that color. I'll take some black. A little gray. Just add it to the color. It has a mostly gray yellow filling. that area in we'll pick up a little bit more gray at the bottom, that bottom part is complete now I'm going to continue with this gray, we'll grab a little bit more yellow, this will be a little bit darker, I'm going to drag the indication of some waves like this that that gave us a base layer just looking at the shadows for these waves just trying to establish that take a little bit of orange a little bit more white I'm going to take a little bit of white we want under that sun we want this to shine right in that area where we're going to have some of these waves breaking in some spots we're going to switch to another clean brush now this is the same brush just another one I'm going to pick up a little bit more of that white and just under that sun just looking to get the base for all of this you want that there's a little bit of foam in this area, okay, let's let this all dry and then we'll come back, okay, so we let this dry and what I'm seeing is I think we just You know we need more contrast, of course, but where is the key?

So I think we're going to go around the clouds and darken the sky and then we're going to work on darkening some of the earth tones. We could also reshape some of the water and then things will start to get tedious. We'll probably speed it up after that, but I'm going to take some black and white, we'll get a gray and I'm going to add a little bit of orange to it, I might add a little bit more white and a little bit of red, try this color which is quite dark , I think we could continue with it, although, as I said, we are worried about the tone, not so much because the color still has time. to work on that now look at how this will dramatically increase that effect around the sun, blending in a little bit more, I think we're going to take a little bit of blue, add a little bit of blue to this mix, remove some of that moisture, it's just a little bit . a little too fine, that's a little better.

I want to darken those blues and I'll have to go back to the top. I'm just continuing to work on smoothing out these color transitions, adjusting the tones a bit. I'm going to change my brush. take a clean one, wash a clean one and look, I'll take a little bit of white and a little bit of orange just white and orange, take it a little more orange, it'll take a few layers around the sun to get it the way I want, we'll take a little more yellow, how much brighter it is and then I'll fade it out.

I'll let it dry. I'll stick with that same color, probably rich in that area later I'll go back to the sky right now. I'm just picking up the same thing. gray color, uh, grab a little bit more water, pick up a little bit of red, just smudge a little bit of red in there, maybe we want to do that more around the whole sun. It's getting to the point, although we will let it dry again, it will help us. Could check. Again, maybe a couple more times, I want to show you this layer so you get the idea of ​​working around the sun.

You could even take a little bit of white, mix a little bit of white away from the sun in the opposite direction, that's pretty good for now we can work on that a little more. I'm going to grab a smaller flat brush right now. This isa quarter-inch flat paintbrush. I'm going to pick orange, some red and white. and black, get some thick paint, this is going to take a little bit of time to get this foreground how I want it to be, but I'm going to have to work really slow and just add texture, add contrast, more importantly, I don't want . that coast would be down I decided a little more that's somewhere right around here I try to have really thick paint I like to get thicker when I get to the foreground I keep it thin blending the sky because I want those nice soft blends but this part of the paint I want texture that texture will make it look realistic it will make it stand out from the sky we have a little more black from that mix we can indicate some trees to work on this horizon the shape that has a good start I like it a little further down here we are going to want a little more orange in our mix take a little more thick red paint again you have to start really thinking about how you're going to define these waves the waves The foam requires a lot of imagination.

I think we'll take some blue. We'll add some blue to that mix. A little black. Think about that wave that just crashed there. Think of another one right here. Another one here. Look how nice it is to have. This painting below is just a guide, we don't have to stick to anything, it just helps us, we take a lot more red and orange and mix it up, it's very rich in the background, that's the only area we want to be rich in as well. on that, a little bit more, good start, it's red, put a little bit of water on that brush, just thin out the paint, now we have a little bit of red, a little bit of white, a little bit lighter, this is where it gets more difficult, it just requires patience and try to imagine where these waves are going.

I just want to make a little bit more white with that, now that flat brush makes nice waves back and forth, so we want some waves to be on the sun or the reflected sun, so I just try to use that bounce that the hairs on my brush. creates waves automatically just by pushing it against little by little movements, some bigger ones from time to time, okay, I'm going to wash that brush, grab my hazelnut brush, which has a little sharper tip, dip it in white, get a bunch of white and that sun you can also put a little bit over the sun, that's got a good start, so that's a good way to start so we're sure where that sun is going to be and directly below these whites directly below just go to shine on the water, shine in the sand, that gets us started, we don't worry about the color, we worry about the contrast, of course this will be a little foam, some bubbles, it will take a little time, little corrections like this will be necessary. and eventually we get there and our water is going to need color, so we're going to go over the water by mixing a little bit of yellow and orange into these grays, we're going to add color between our shadows.

I have to have some oranges. over here really color that water, make that reflection shine too and of course I have a little bit wider brush here to mop, we glaze the sky a little bit more and I can take a little bit of red, get a little bit of red, get much water. In that, we can add it by just glazing that red over the top, brushing it and rubbing it in a clear coat, so we're going to do that slowly and see how that just intensifies that area we're going to work on to do that and the last thing we're going to do.

What we're going to do, of course, is we have to fine-tune these clouds really well and that's going to take a while too, but if we take some orange, yellow and white, we're going to need to go over all the clouds with some highlights and some color. We could add some darker shadows to enhance those edges as well. We want to be sure of our edges with the clouds, so we're going to keep putting this all together and then slow it down. I'm ready to finish. Well, I know they're good, so overall I'm really happy with this and I wanted to bring you back to this, just to show you how I'm starting to finish this off, so what I've been doing just taking this liner.

I saw myself travel all over the sky. I used the liner brush and really softened the clouds by simply rubbing transparent layers of color over the top of the highlights. I added some more blue ones. Well, now I'm moving a little more towards the water. I'm still using that liner brush and I'm trying very carefully to fluff out all of these details, just using the texture of the canvas, that allows that to automatically do that for you and the tops of these waves. looking for areas where a little bit of gray just a couple stands out a little that continues right there a little bit out there varying my new details is tedious I worked on this for probably a good hour of just you saw me going all over the water like this a little bit of gray very well now I'm going to finish off the sun by taking some pure solid white just trying to intensify that sun as much as I can this is thick I'm very confident in where the sun is now so we're making the white as thick as possible and If I take a little bit of paint off the brush I can fluff it around the edge, it's just going to create an even brighter glitter effect around it. that sun and I want there to be some more white highlights in the water very thick paint on my brush very very tedious very demanding at this point but any point where I can achieve a highlight I like to include it because that just makes your eye it drifts all over the place and it becomes very attractive when you have all these little details and I think this wave is probably a little too dark if I just take a little bit of orange, I have a little bit of white on my brush I can cover that back up brighten it that's not as harsh anymore it's not distracting well before I finish this painting I'm going to take some Prussian blue and I'm going to take my biggest mop brush and that round blender We're going to start with and I'm going to use the mop brush and I'm going to put a little water on the brush.

I'll dip my finger in water and then rub it on the brush. I'm going to take our Prussian blue. You can see what liquid. That's it, let's collect some, put my finger in some water and I'm going to touch that water. This is going to be a Prussian blue glaze, we're going to go around the edges and We may not need that other brush and go around the edges. We'll take that other very soft brush and spread it out really well. This brush has a much stiffer feel, so I can push that paint around us. We'll get a little bit more of that color, we'll go down the edge, you see, it continues there and we can just push it out with this brush, blend it in, what this will do is bring our eyes closer to the center. make the sun look a little brighter add a little bit over the cloud very soft that of course we'll add a little bit on this side that goes right over it still see everything underneath it's just a glaze we'll pick up a little bit more of that color e we'll even put a little bit here and dump it there, smooth that out and I think we'll call it a full painting, thank you so much for watching, remember all my paintings are done by me.

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