Beginner Friendly Seascape Acrylic Painting: Super Simple Steps

1. Welcome to another wonderful class: One, welcome to another wonderful painting course. In today's course, you will learn how to make this seascape with beautiful waves and rocks. This artwork might seem complicated. However, you will have step by step encouragement and guidance to be able to create a successful seascape. Hi, my name is George, and I've been a professional artist for over 11 years. Five years ago, I fell in love with teaching both online and in person classes. With more than 20,000 students, both children and adults, I've developed this interesting way of teaching that focuses on the project and on having fun. In this class, you will learn how to play with interesting colors, creating textures and wonderful reflections. Don't worry, if you don't have any experience painting, this class is specifically designed to walk you through all the steps in order to achieve an amazing result. And have a great time learning about materials, mark making, perspective, and even beautiful reflections. Focusing on the big picture, as well as the small details, you will be able to create an amazing painting by the end of this course. If that sounds like something you want to do, let's jump into the course. 2. Materials needed: When welcome to another beautiful course. In today's course, we will be painting a sea scape. It will have some beautiful reflections on the lower side. And we will take some shortcuts to make this easier to paint. And for that to be the case, you will need some materials. This is a canvas, 30 by 40 centimeters. You will need a big brush, and you will also need a medium flat brush, a big flat brush. And a small flat brush. You will need some water, and of course, a mixing plate, as well as acrylic paint. This is Amsterdam acrylic paint, titanium white, brilliant blue. This is brilliant blue, Carmine red, Burnt umber, also known as brown and yellow, this is Azo yellow medium, but you can use lemon yellow as well. This is just a yellow that has a bit more red into it. Okay. 3. Fast brown wash: First step, we're going to do a, a brown wash everywhere. This is just so we stain the canvas because the white of the canvas is way too strong and it makes us paint darker. So if we have some brown and the big flat brush with a tiny bit of water, We can add more water to lubricate this beautiful color. It's too intense. You can add water onto the canvas as well. And just take all of this beautiful paint and spread it around quickly. You don't need to be very careful when doing this. You can go with side to side motion, top down. It doesn't really matter. You can go with swirls. And I like to go with something that doesn't make a lot of sound and also doesn't leave a lot of these hairs onto the actual canvas. A bit more water, water it down. It will absorb very fast into the canvas, and plus, you don't have to wait for it to dry. You can either dampen it with a paper towel. I forgot to mention that you also need some paper towels. Okay. And now let's go from side to side, just to spread some of that water to the side. So it drips down, so it paints the edges as well a bit. Okay. Perfect. Once you do that, you will need to start drawing like a painter. 4. Erasing like a painter: And drawing like a painter means taking some beautiful napkins. And let's delineate a beautiful horizon line. Well, that's curved. I'm going to need to make it a bit lower on this side. And it is a bit crooked. So I'm just going to make it a bit more like this. Perfect. Now you can indicate some clouds by adding a bit of this. And in case you took all of that brown over. You can get some from a wet part and add it over just to indicate this beautiful horizon line. You can do it once again if you want. Okay. It's still crooked. You need to fix it with the brush. It's way better to fix it with the brush. Perfect. You can add more clouds if you want. Don't worry about this stain over here. You can go over it. This stage is very playful and easy to do. Let's clean up the table a bit just so it doesn't stain. Okay. Let's add some more brown at the bottom. 5. Drawing like a painter: And picking up the medium brush. This time with a bit more color. It still has some water over here, but a bit more color. And let's start making some rocks. And we're going to basically have a rock right over here as a line. You need more color in case it's too transparent. This is a very good concept in painting, which is thick over thin. The more color you have in your brush, the easier it is to paint over wet areas. I'm going to focus a bit on taking off these hairs, just so they don't end up in the finished painting. It's way easier to pick them up with the side of the brush like this, especially a brush like that, a big flat brush that is from the hardware store. And start with a line just over here, and then another. We're basically drawing the bottom of the rocks. Add another line as if it's a step like this and another smaller one just over here. So it's a triple step. Make this one longer. Of course, let's start making the beautiful rock. Use the brush on its side and start carving out very geometric shapes. Just like that. And then going and adding some di Notice that these are two equal. So we're going to need to rise this up a bit more adding it a bit more angular and cutting this one a bit. Let's make it pointy. Okay. You can also trick your brain into making more organic things by just going and adding different lines in different places. So that your brain doesn't have the time to really focus on the whole situation. So notice this one is tall, maybe a bit taller, and then you can go ahead and combine these with some beautiful lines, geometric lines. Notice how these ones are way better only because I tricked my brain into making these shapes. So these are basically like three rocks, and you can also fill them in just to have a bit more color. And this is a time to add a bit more to the bottom. And also, you can refine some of the edges. Okay. 6. Understanding reflections: Going to learn a bit about reflection just now because it's a cheap and easy way to learn about reflection. You've added this color here if we delineate the reflection side of the beach, we're going to actually go on a diagonal. And we're going to also delineate the waves just about here as a straight line, and maybe they curve a bit over here, just to add more interest to that point. Now, to add reflections is very simple, and it's easier to understand with brown. You added some brown. This is the area where it will reflect. So you will need to just drag some brown, add more, drag some brown just until here, even though the reflection ends here. You've dragged some brown, these are smaller reflections. Notice how they end up about here. But reflections are very long because you are looking at a plane that is going that way. Okay. Let's add some more rocks now to the side, just over here, and maybe a shadow casted. Maybe it's a shadow just being casted over here because the light, we're going to set the light to go from the right side this time. And let's make a rock behind this one. Just going out. Let's make it go out of the whole situation, the whole thing. Remember to add angular things. You can also start to make bigger shapes. Don't touch the other rock just so you know where it ends. You can make bigger shapes and longer lines and then add some wibble wibble or some angles afterwards, some more angles. It's easier that way. Okay. And maybe it has a shadow just over here on the left side. And to balance out the composition, we will need a rock about let's say here. A simple rock, just a simple, easy rock. You can do it with angles, just like this, one, two, three, four, five, and six. It's like a hat, but this one is a shadow, actually. Let's add a bit more texture to it, a bit more working on those shapes. I don't like this shape over here, so let's cut it. You can also cut this one. Let's add more brown over here, and also because this one has it's tall and it has a reflection as well. You can do that as well. Let's also indicate some rocks in the lower part, just about here in the water and make them as a line, just to break that monotony monotony. And let's add another one just about here and the shadow, and let's go with the lines with a beautiful line that goes that way. And let's redo the reflection line, which will be about here. Okay. One thing to notice and to really pay attention is that usually, large objects have the deepest shadow right where it meets ground or the contact. So this will be the shadow, and the light will be on the left side, just a sliver of light. I will be very interesting to draw these. And you can accentuate that the fact that these are other rocks by making that staircase once again. And let's make another smaller one here. Perfect. Now, in the next step for the next step, you're going to need to really let this dry completely. You have the drawing now. And it's going to seem like you're going to go over and ruin these drawings. But it's not going to happen. You're just going to paint a sky, a beautiful sky. And try to get over it a bit just so you have enough space to make these rocks over the sky. Because when you paint something over, it looks better, it creates edges, and it seems like it's closer to us because the edge is the paint just goes over the background. So you send the signal to the eye to the viewer that this is in the foreground, and that is in the background. 7. Stormy sky: Basically use a hair dryer to dry it faster. Don't worry about these signs. It's just water that was going away from the air dryer. So basically, you can use an air dryer to dry certain parts. This is what happened over here. There was a lot of water and it just spilled everywhere, but it doesn't really matter. We've lost the reflection line and a few of these rocks. So let's paint them again. Just going. Maybe yours are not. Gone. But mine are. So I'm going to add them again. And the shadow side. I shouldn't have done that because I'm going to paint there. Let's erase it. Let's take a paper napkin and take out some of that color. For the sky color, we will need some blue, of course. So white. Purposefully leaving some space in between them so I can mix them together. Be careful not to mix a lot of the color. At once. You need to gradually add more as you go. Let's actually use the small brush and taking some white. It has a bit of brown because of the water, but that's good. And let's create a blue and add a tiny est amount of yellow, and then some brown. L et's add more brown. Notice how I'm slowly picking up some white and some blue and then taking some brown. And I don't go into the blue completely, and I don't go into the white completely, so you can use it later if you need it. I think that's almost ready. Let's add some more brown. Just needs to be a very misty sky. So it's not so powerful. That's just about perfect. Maybe it's too dark, so let's add some white to it. Add some more brown. Misty Misty colors more brown. You can basically test it if you want like this. You can test it onto the middle part of the sky. I think that's good enough. Let's take a tiny amount of water just to make the color glide a bit better. And start with some line right in the middle adding this color. Go over the drawing. You can also take your finger and scrape some of that color from the middle of the shape. Take some more color and continue to add it right in the middle. You need to go over the shape a bit, and then scrape it in the middle. That's why I was saying that you might feel like you are ruining the drawing, but you're not. You're only creating nice edges in between those shapes, and you can still kind of see the whole drawing, and you have the lower part, which is good. And let's now continue over here, and over here. Adding a bit more color. Now let's create a different color for the top side, which will be a bit more yellow and a bit more light. We'll also have a bit more brown into it. So let's add a bit of brown. Let's take some of this blue, and now white from the side, taking some white. Test it out. It's fine for the line over here. Let's take some water just so it blends a bit quicker. Not a lot of water, and start doing a beautiful line over here. 8. Reflection of the sky: This point, you might want to just add some lines going down as a reflection. Now, be careful here to create that edge just like the whole rock is doing. And maybe we have a reflection for this rock as well. Just clean up the brush on the lower side. Don't worry too much to make the perfect reflections yet. Just clean up the brush, just going with lines straight up and down, and then take some more white and a touch of yellow. And more white to make this color more white and yellow. And let's add some swivels, some little swivels, to create some interesting cloud shapes at the top of the canvas. Maybe on this side, they are a bit more calm. Okay. Be careful to paint let's erase some of that. Can also take some water with another brush and brush it over to have, but don't brush it to the edge. You still want some of that edge. Let's take some of this blue and add it over here and maybe over here to create a bit of variety. Now, cleaning up the brush, go a bit higher than you need. Even though the line might be around here. Let's take some water to make it glide. Take some blue, some of the original blue if you still have it, if not recreate it. And if you cannot recreate it completely, you can also add, let's actually do that. Let's add some more blue into it and a touch of brown. And it's not perfectly the same, so you need to add it to the sky as well. Let's check if this horizon line is straight. Kind of. It needs to be a bit lower over here. Okay. Can also erase some of this color if you want. It's not really needed. And then clean up the brush to just add some of this color over. Don't blend it too much. It's very good to have these lines going down. Leave a little bit of a space over here for this rock to be reflected and go a bit lower as well below the line of reflection. This will be very important by the end. Also go a bit inside of the reflection of the rocks. Clean up the brush, take a bit more color, And now a bit of this lighter color. If you don't have it, you can recreate it. Also, you can add it at the top if it's different. In my case it is. You can add it at the top. Let's add some textures to the sky. Let's add a bit more white. That's super easy to do, adding a bit more white just to add this color over here before you put it into the reflection. Okay? And maybe over here, making some beautiful dabs of paint and then brushing them over, making some dabs of paint, taking some more of this color and starting to add some of these lines. You can also do a bit of a finer line by going to the side like this. And I forgot to leave this. You can also trick the viewer into thinking that things are a bit more interesting by having a bit more of a lighter color near the reflection of the rocks. Let's go a bit higher here. And let's go down, add a bit of water to blend it a bit and make it a bit more glider. And over here, let's add a bit more. Let's take some of that blue. Just play around with some colors. I picked up some white, but that's fine because the water makes it blend a bit better. Be careful to have some lines. Like, notice that this is blue, this is white, this is green. Well, the green. It's not really green, but go a bit higher than you need because you need those edges to come over the reflection sides. I'm just cleaning up the brush onto the sides of the canvas and also noticing that there is a bit of white still showing here. So let's blend that color in and in case you don't have it, you don't have to do this. Blending it in. Perfect. Now, a deeper color, a deeper blue color with brown and blue. Blue and brown. In case your colors don't look like this, you can add another, ask yourself what color would bring it more to this kind of a color? If the answer is blue or brown, which is usually the case, you can just add a bit more blue, a bit more brown. But also, you can add some white. Okay. And now, right here, we're going to add some shadows just to make this sky a bit more interesting. Notice how it really pops and some lines at the bottom. The further it goes, the lines become a lot more fine and small. Dabbing your finger to create some textures here as well, create some beautiful skies and lowering making some lines on the lower side. And we're basically needing to make this area a bit more busy because it balances out the whole composition, because we have these rocks here, and we need a bit of something here, so the weight of the composition is perfectly aligned. Think of it as a scale. If you have a lot of things here, you need to put some things here or take some of these away. Perfect. Now, that's all for this step. Let's fix some of this. And for the next step, you don't need to let the paint dry. You just need to clean the brush by swirling, taking a paper napkin and doing not a great job. You don't have to completely clean up the brush, and let's go into the next step. 9. Central rock: For this next step, you will play around with some red and some brown and some yellow to make the rocks once again. It doesn't need to be dry. In fact, it's way better if the sky and the reflections are still visible. Okay? Taking some red and some brown I know it might seem to red, but that's fine. Let's start in the middle of the shape. It has a bit of water, so it glides a bit better. And now focusing on the shapes, the outlines, and it's good because in case you didn't like something that was like over there, you can do them. Make them nicer. Perfect. Just fill in the shape and focus in a bit more on the edges. Okay? Since you added this color over here, you might as well just do some reflections, just going down with some lines, and over on this side. Doing some lines, and then brushing it with your finger just to bring it a bit into the blue. Okay? After you brushed it, you can add a bit more color on top, and let's do some more color over here to make this rock and this one as well, and this one. These are not connected. There are three different rocks at three different heights. So to indicate that, add some blue to this color to make it a bit darker and some brown to make it even darker. And a touch more blue. The blue will really make it a bit more dark, especially if you have a different type of blue, it can make a really, really deep dark. Remember that the darkest area is right where the rock touches the surface of the water. The object touches the surface of the water, also on the left side a bit since the light comes from here. Let's add some more of this color over here. Indicating this beautiful rock, and let's touch some of this rock as well. And this line over here just to have it more visible. And since we have this color, we might as well just add it over on this side of the reflection. 10. Creating distance: Now, for this color, for this rock, if it's further away, it's more misty. It's more bluish. It picks up more of the sky color. So you're going to need to take this color and add some of the sky color into it. Just that blue and mix it in. Add a touch of white just to make it even more misty. And you can start to add it onto the If it's too blue, don't worry, you can always add more brown later. Let's recreate it. Like this. You can add some of this blue as a reflection on the underside onto the shadow side of this creating more color variety and picking up some of that brown so you can add it over here. And because this is a different color, you can go and edit some of those edges a bit more interesting. Notice how the whole situation with the edge is much more interesting now, because you are painting over the sky. Okay? And let's add a tiny amount of white to this some red and some yellow. Okay. Once you do that, you can go on to the left side just a bit. It picks up a bit more of this sky color onto the left. Don't worry if it's too blue. It's fine. Okay. And of course, you can add this color onto the left side of this rock as well. Perfect. 11. Sandy colors: Now, let's create some sandy colors. We are going to do that by adding some yellow and some red, making an orange, quite a bit of it. It's a greenish orange. It's fine. Let's take some water to make it glide a bit. It's a beautiful yellowish color. And let's paint over this area with this color. And as you go, you might want to take some water and a touch of red, just a tiny amount of red to make it more red or a tiny amount of yellow, if it's too yellow or too red. It changing the hue a bit with some beautiful red. And we're going to actually change the hue with some yellow and some white as well as we go along and add some water to make it glide a bit better. The bigger brush is better here. Okay. Let's take some more of that color and add it. It creates better textures, the big brush. It creates more sandy textures, focusing on just covering up all the wash that you did with the brown. You can notice that this seems so dark, even though it has a wash and just focusing on that line. That's why you have to go a bit lower because now it has some of that blue underneath, which is nice. I covered this rock. So let's paint it again. But that's fine because it gets some of that yellow back in in this line. Okay. Let's add a touch of yellow. Maybe that's too much. Touch adding a few dabs and a touch more red. Red is more powerful than the yellow, so you need to be careful a bit. Let's drag some of these textures down over here just to make them more interesting. Drag slice. Drag, s, drag. Well, drag, slice and it creates a bit more interesting texture. Don't forget to paint on the edge. It's really important if you don't frame the painting. I picked some of that blue, so that gave me a beautiful idea to just add some of this blue into the color, making it a bit more muted. Just a tiny bit more muted and greenish. Okay? And now it's time for the white. It has a bit of blue into it, but it's fine. Let's add some white over here and over here and start just blending it a bit. Don't worry if it's too white. Just try to keep some of the color that's underneath, and then take some more yellow onto the edge and create it. Create this beautiful color. Let's take some of that sand color, put it over top. Some of that red, too much red. Definitely too much red. Let's clean up the brush, and L et's blend it in a bit, and then take some yellow, get over it, paint over it. And let's pick up some of the hairs. You pick up hairs by going like this. And if you need to not damage the area, you just go like this. Okay. And once you do that, you can add some water just a tiny amount of water to blend the edges. Blend the edges a bit into the blue. With this water, it makes it glide a bit better, and it makes it blend with the blue right on the edge. This will make the reflections look way better in the later stages. Okay. Let's add the beautiful rock, once again, this time, a bit more careful, simple little rock, and a simple little line. And there you go. That's all for this step. 12. Light on the rocks: Til now you've learned how to draw with a beautiful wash with a napkin, make some horizon lines. You've learned how to make a simple, beautiful sky and go over the objects, just to build better edges, more clearly defined edges. And the fact that if you build the object last that is closer to you, then of course, the edges will make it seem like it's closer to you. So if you go back with the sky color, it's going to seem as if the sky is over the object. Now, in this painting, you've also learned about reflections, how to make them very simple and easy by adding the colors that are above the reflections on the water, but this applies to every object that reflects things. You can add the colors around it to make it reflect. And you've learned how to draw with the brush on these rocks. You've learned how to make rocks. And you cheated a bit the whole composition by making almost half of it just this sandy color. So you don't have to paint this area, and you basically don't have to paint this area as well. That much is just lines, and this one is just lines like this. And then just a few reflections will be great. And we're basically forcing the viewer to look in this area over here, and we're going to make some beautiful waves around here. Okay. So for this step, you will need the brush, the medium brush, you will need to clean it a bit. And you will need some area where you can make a beautiful orange color. Just a beautiful intense orange, a bit more yellow. It's a bit more towards the yellow. Okay. And these will be the highlights on the rocks. Like, let's start with this rock over here. And every highlight will be on the left, except for some on the right. And let's add just some cuts going around the shape of the rock, being very careful to edit as we go along just on the left side. Don't worry, these are not the final reflections. Let's also add in the middle just over here as if this rock continues onto the lower part dividing it up. Okay. If you are not comfortable with this big one with this big brush, you can use the smaller one. Let's add some reflections here. Well, some highlights over on this side. Okay. Now, clean up the brush a bit. You can also add some of this color onto the sandy beautiful things. And remember, if you put some of this color here, you might need to put it over here as well as a reflection. Just a tiny bit, just barely touching to clean up the brush. Take a bit of water on the corner, and let's start to make this highlight over here as well. Slowly adding some highlights and on the edge connecting them. Okay. Let's take some more color and add a bit of a more intense highlight. You are using transparent colors, so you are using this color in conjunction with some water to just make it blend a bit more with the rock. Notice how this is too straight. So to break that, you can go a bit inside over here and a bit outside over there, and notice how instantly it became very nice. And also inside of the shape, we can go a bit nicer. You can also dab with your finger to create some textures. And of course, let's add some highlights to bring forth this rock. So we're basically now adding some rocks over here and building the actual outline of this brown rock. So these are just rocks in the distance, and they are You are basically fixing the edge of this rock. Notice how much more beautiful it looks now. Let's add some blue and some white to this color. This is just going to reflect the sky. It's going to make it much nicer and reflect the sky. So basically, some of the faces of the rocks that are just hitting the light from the sky from above. So over here, it's too yellow, too orange. It needs more blue. This will integrate the rocks a bit more because it will have a bit of the sky color. And you can go over a bit of that highlight a bit of that interesting highlight. Maybe there is another one here and another face just going like that. And over here. And maybe this one has a bit more. And let's add some of this color over here. And on this rock, you can go a bit more intense with this turquoise highlight. It just integrates the whole rock a bit more onto the background. Just harmonizes the colors because it's a bridge between the sky color and this color. And just because we have this color, we might as well just add it as lines wherever we see some of the exposed canvas, If it's too much of a orange color, you can add some blue to it and add it over And then clean up the brush with some water, put the edge of the brush onto the cup, and then you can blend it a bit to make it more integrated. And just because it's fun. You can also add it over here. And if you have the wasah, you can also go a bit onto the orange to cut it out a bit. Okay. And once you do that, you can also take some water Oh. Take some brown, just a bit of brown. And like you did in the beginning of the course. Let's make a wash over this area just to make this beautiful rock a bit more dark and brown. Let's add a bit more brown. And add a tiny bit more brown. It integrates it more into the whole. It makes it more brown and more different than the sky. Don't worry about the textures. You can go like this and add some more textures as well with the finger. Okay. 13. Stronger highlights: It seems like we need some stronger highlights now, cleaning up the brush, taking some yellow, and adding some tiny amount of red into it. Once you do that, you can pick some white, just a tiny amount of white. Be careful not to pick any of the blue. If you need, you can clean up the palette. Okay? This is a very intense highlight. So going over these colors, if it's too white and too light, that's fine. You can always go with a wash just like you did with the brown to change its color. And in fact, that's actually very purposefully good. You can do it to add just a few touches. Notice how this is over the orange trying not to cover all the orange. Let's add some of this color over here. Not too much. Just a bit. And then try to blend it a bit, so it's more hazy. Okay? Now, let's do some beautiful reflections onto the shadow sides. Let's take some red and mix it over this yellow to create an orange. This is going to be an orange wash. Let's clean up that water from this. You don't need a lot of water. And let's build some reflected light onto the beautiful rocks right over here. Okay? It's going to dry a bit more transparent, so it's going to look better and better. Now, for the next step, you don't need to let it dry. You only need some brown, a touch of water and go over some of these reflections, just a tiny bit, and maybe over here to build that brown once again, make it darker at the bottom. And this one as well, a bit darker on the bottom. Clean up some of that brush onto the reflection, and also take some water onto the brown to just go down. And build this reflection of this rock over here. Take a bit more brown just to be able to make this different reflection onto this side as well nicer. Since we have this beautiful brown, you can go over this rock and this rock again and maybe create this line once again, let's create some rocks over it. I know it seems like you've painted this line like five times, but that's fine. And let's make some smaller things just around this area, just over here. And this will build a lot of detail just with the corner of the brush, first making this shadow, and then adding a small little divot and maybe another one. Just about here that's bigger and one next to it over here. Maybe there are some sticks or something like that. Let's add another one here, flat on the bottom and rising up. And you can also add some shadow to it. Just a tiny amount of shadow. Okay. And let's go to the side and make some more over here. A pile a little bit of a pile of rocks and sticks and something like that, that is on a beach. And over here, let's create some more lines. Don't make them perfect. This is a beach, needs to be a bit more organic, and I need to not curve it this way, so let's create a line here that indicates that this goes this way. Perfect. L et's actually blur some of these. We can also paint over them at some point. Okay. And that's all for this step. You can let it try completely. It's not needed. We're going to focus on the beautiful waves in the next step. And then going back to the reflections and everything else to finish up the painting in just about a few minutes. 14. Adding vibrancy: Now you've learned about reflections, reflected light, and we're going to build upon that concept a bit more in this step. And for the next step, you will need not for this one, but for the next step, you'll need either a clean pellet or a new one. So just to save a bit of time, I'm going to use a new one and clean both of them at the end. Okay. And let's take the medium brush, take some blue, mix it over here with some white. And a bit of yellow. Look at this beautiful color. And now you can use it right around here to build some of this beautiful sea foam and create an edge around the rock, making it a bit more nice. Add some of this color over here, and just because you have this color, you can also create some beautiful reflections with it. Don't worry if it's too intense. You can also add a trick, which is to add some of this color right next to the dark areas, just a little bit onto the darker areas. Clean up the brush, and slice with the brush on the water container and just soften this edge over here by adding some of this reflection light, and be careful not to go into the sky. If you did, you can just add it like that. And then blend it in to the rock. Once you've done that, you can go ahead and add more blue to this color more blue and start adding some lines with this newly found color and over here onto the reflections and add some water. Slice it with the brush onto the side of the cup. And you can start to add some of the color at the bottom this wash at the bottom of the beautiful sky. You can also take some more water and some more color from here and add a bit more into this to bring up more vibrancy and create more harmony in the painting. You can also go and wash some of these reflections. And now let's recreate the sky color with blue, brown, yellow, too much yellow, and a bit more brown. Now, white Is that good enough? I think so. Yeah. And let's go over some of these reflections so that we dampen them up a bit. So they are not so intense the white ones. And you are also creating some interesting play. You can add some of this color as lines over here and on the sky color. That's to brown. Let's mix it. Let's add a bit more white, and let's add it to the sky color. And now let's go back to a vibrant wash of blue, yellow. A bit more blue, and the touch of white. Maybe a bit more blue. And let's add it first over here. It's a bit darker. And let's add some more lines going into the reflections. Let's add some of this reflection color onto the actual side of the reflection. You can go a bit lower as always and then go back and forth. And to the shoreline, we're going to do the shoreline a bit more intensely. Okay. So more blue and a bit of white, just to make a bit of a more interesting bluish color, add some water, and let's go over this brownish color to just blend it in to the whole situation, the whole sky. Not everywhere, in a few spaces to bring some of that vibrancy. You can also take with the corner of the brush and then brush it onto the mixing plate and add some of this blue up again and add some of this over the washes, so the washes are even more intense. Let's blend a bit more of this into the sky, just going over the edge to blend it with this wash. And over here, there is a bit of a bit of the canvas showing. Perfect. Now, for the next step, you will need a fresh pellet and a clean brush. This brush. Let's just clean it beforehand. You don't need to wait for the paint to dry. In fact, it's way better if it doesn't dry. 15. Sea foam: Okay. And for this next step, you will need white, just beautiful white, and you're going to start with this white, just building that horizon line, raising it up a bit. Don't be afraid to put a lot of paste, not at this point, but now, for instance, you need to build a lot of textures over here and pick some of that color that beautiful turquoise colors. And notice how once you pick up some of that color, you can go in other areas and add this color as well. So that's why you don't need other colors over here. Okay. Now, when it comes to the edges, add a bit of water and control the movement. Be a bit more controlled with your marks, and then going on this side. As you go along, you will build the confidence to just add a beautiful line, and then going a bit like this and add more textures as you go. Build some of that textures. Use the brush almost parallel to build more textures like this. Notice how beautiful they look. Just cleaning up that edge of the rock, making it a bit smaller, and going and building that horizon line once again, pushing it a bit further into the sky just because the sky has a bit of canvas showing. Okay. And this curve. Now, clean up the brush a bit of this white, just a tiny amount. Can also pick up the small brush and do this with the small brush. So basically, what you're going to do is pick up some water and slowly inch your edge, like, slowly blend it in, making that edge a bit softer. Just go back and forth, making it a bit softer and more transparent so that it's not such a harsh line. You can go a bit higher. Okay. And once you do that, go back to the big brush, add some textures over top. These waves need to be bigger because they are closer to you. Don't worry if you're making it too white, but still keep some of those wonderful turquoises. And blue of the that you put earlier. So go around them and also sometimes build some more textures like this. As you pick up some of that turquoise, you can go a bit lower and make some nice edges. Now we're going to control this edge and make it more interesting. Just make some lines and some dots. You can also go with the side of the brush and then smooth it out, make it more linear. This is too much of a line, so it needs to be broken a bit y. And on the bottom, we can add another beautiful line and take your finger and make it more transparent. Okay, and over here, and these waves will go near the rocks. This is a time to really build that staircase. Go thicker on the paint and just build a bit of an edge. Notice how they are much more interesting. And going with the staircase and building some more texture over here. As you go along, and you can also build it and make it a bit more of a line like this. You can go very parallel to the waves or just indicate the lines a bit more by creating some more lines that go this way. Let's add more texture. It's important to add texture at this stage by adding more color. Don't be afraid of adding a lot of thickness. This will make the waves even more interesting, and it will make you not need to go over it again to make it as wide as possible. As you go into the further distance, the lines become very small and fine and refined. And be careful not to go over the edge, the soft edge. The textures should be concentrated around here, so let's add more, pick up some more color and add more texture, pick up some more color and add more texture. You can also dab, take it out and add some more. Now here, there is a bit of a line. Notice how this is a bit curved, so it needs some things over here. Okay. Now, let's soften some of these edges, some of these waves at the bottom here. Just a tiny amount with a small brush and some water. Some of them, okay? You can also pick up some of this turquoise, softening some of them up, and you can also extend some lines just going like that. With this newly found color that you have with some white and some beautiful things, you can start to learn how to make some reflections over onto the reflected side. Like, notice over here, we can go with a line just like that, and erase it's a tiny bit. Let's imagine that it is going from here. You erase it a bit, and then a bit lower, maybe just a small little line and on this side. They are much more efficient on the darker side of the reflections. Now, let's build this area as well with some textures. Not a lot of them. L et's build them up with some textures to delineate that edge and also continue this horizon line over on this side. Let's see if it's equal. Needs to be a bit higher. Even though there is a bit of Canvas, we're going to add some more sky color or not, depending on the situation. Let's add more of this, slowly controlling the edge of the rock in the distance and adding some more waves. Just adding some white and now some textures like right over here, adding some textures and over here. Perfect. Don't worry if it has no blue into there. 16. Going back to the blue: And now, let's add some of that blue back in. I have the outer plate. So I can use the colors from this one. Let's add some of the turquoise. You can make it by adding some blue and some yellow together, a bit more blue. And clean up the brush a bit, just to have some beautiful lighter color, just creating some nice finer lines into the distance and some over on this side. Just creating a bit of depth. You can also change it to a bit more blue color. It also picks up some white, so it's going to be nicer, even more blue. So it blends a bit with the colors underneath with the white. Don't be afraid to just go like that. And you can always add some more white over it. Like, for instance, this area will need a bit more white. So you're going back and forth from the white and the blue. Now, this side does not have any blue, so it needs some of this blue. And with the color, you can also go on the edges just over here to blend some of them perfectly. And this is too much of a straight line. So you can also dab a bit to create some textures, pick up some of that white, bring it over here, to create some more textures and over here. Don't go overboard with the textures. And now this area is wet, but you can pick up some of the white from over here. Make sure that the brush doesn't flare out. I've cleaned it, so you need a clean brush and carefully make some waves in the back over here. Add more texture. Perfect. Let's actually go a bit lower here just to control that edge. And then going and making these a bit like that. You can also turn back the brush and make some lines if you want. This will create some beautiful ridges onto the waves and over here as well. And you can go back and take some more white. I took some more white off screen, and add some more dabs to just make those lines a bit more curved, a bit more wobbly. Perfect. 17. Crashing waves: I'm going to teach you something very nice and interesting. Let's imagine that here there is a wave just crashing. You put three dots, and then with your finger, You add some spots, and then you add a bit more color, and you go around slowly adding this beautiful foam. And then at the end, pick up some thick paint on the corner of the brush and make some small little dots. That's how you make a crashing wave. Also add a bit of a wave behind it. That's how you make a beautiful crashing wave. And let's say something like that happens here, but a bit softer. Okay. So misty, beautiful lights. This we cannot do the same here because there isn't the sky color. We don't have the sky color. Let's make it a bit more like that. And unfortunately, I have went into the sky, so we're going to have to fix that. The way you fix that is by adding some water. And with the paper towel, just press and take it out. Just because the water is wet, the water. The canvas is wet, it really makes it nicer. You can also add some dabs of water just to create some of that foam. It will dry out more transparent. Perfect. And that's just about it. For this step. Let's create some watery textures over here with some water. Okay, that's just about it for this step. And the next step, you will learn how to go over the reflections once again to build them up a bit more and the lower side and fix up some of the rocks. 18. Darker tones: Now, with the clean palettes, let's add some beautiful blue. Just a small amount, small amount of red. Next to it. And a small amount of brown. This will create more contrast. You're going to use the big brush. Well, the small brush, actually. You're going to use the small brush. Let's clean up the medium brush. Clean it up with just water. Let's take the small brush, clean it a bit. Squeeze it out. And then let's start making a very beautiful purple, dark color. That's just about right, has a bit too much blue, but it's fine. This is a very important color. Let's add some more red into it and make this beautiful purple. This is for the underside of the rocks, and let's add it onto the reflection as well. Let's blend it in a bit, add it at the edge of the reflections as well. This will look very nice because on the edge, we're going to go with a bit of the sky color once again. And you can use it to build some of this rock texture on the actual rocks. And right here, it will accentuate that line, that light on this rock, and that difference, and here as well. You can also edit the highlights a bit. And now let's add the shadow of the rock 19. Reflection lines: And also, let's add a bit more red into this color. Add a bit of water and clean the brush on a clean surface. And now the waves actually have a darker area underneath. That's why you added some water. So underneath them, start adding beautiful lines like this. Don't be afraid to pick up some of that white and then go back to the color and place it over. And let's do a small line here, and then going further. Onto this to build that difference. And over here, there is a bit of a reflection, so we're going to need to add some more of this darker color. And once you've picked up some light, some white on the brush, mix it in with a bit more add a touch of red and a touch of blue to make it more colorful. And you can go and blend just a bit with the white here. To create this wonderful, maybe it's too blue, so add a bit more red. Touch more red to make it to bring some violets into the actual shadow. Let's bring some of that white. Mix it in. It's still wet, the white in case you don't have it, just build another layer of white, and you can go and add this shadow now because you have this lighter purple color. And it's a good color to just add it onto this side, just cleaning up the brush. So you add the reflection of this rock. Can also add it on the rock itself, and on this rock as well, just adding some textures, making it more purple. And now let's take some of this darker color to accentuate the shadow here. Make it a bit longer. Picking up some of that white. With some of that white, you can also add some lines here. Once you've picked up some of that white and light color, you can start to add a beautiful reflection line here. Add some water and to another reflection line, just going like this. Take some of that darker color. And you can add some reflection lines over on this side and over on this side, just connecting them almost, Well, in fact, let's erase some of it. Now, add some blue just to create some more variety. And with this blue, you can add over these purple lines to make them a bit more interesting. And you can go further adding these lines like this. Not too much. In case they are too strong, you can pick up some of the water on your finger and just brush them just like that. Here, as well. This is good. The water will make it seem like there is a bit of haze. Perfect. Now, add a touch of white into this color. Not too much, just a touch and go from this side. Onto this reflection, and maybe add a bit of this color onto the shadow side as well. We kind of lost the shadow here, so we need to clean up the brush, take some of this strong color, and build it back up again. And as you go along, just dab it and go into the white a bit. If it's too strong over here, take some of that water and take some of that paint off. And once you have some white on here, you can go ahead and add some more on the end of this and over these lines a bit, smudge them a bit, and over here, Perfect. And over this one, just because it's too strong, and let's add some of these white lines just around here. Notice that it is a lot of water in the brush. So you can go over some of the lines and build some reflections. Don't go overboard. You don't need a lot of lines to indicate reflection, but they can be transparent. So you can do this and then pick up some more color from the waves and add it over to go back and forth with the white over the purple, extend this line. And let's go with a line like this. So we add more of an interesting look and coming from here. And over here, 20. Back-and-forth: L et's add some of that brown of the rock just going down and add some darker areas onto it and a bit of a shadow. Let's add some of that red. And then you can dab with your finger to really make it look nicer. And let's blend this color, this brown down. And you can do the same over here, just to blend some of those. Even though you go over the lines, you can always recreate them. Let's go over here. Let's add some of this bluish color, just to blend it over this whole area to make it more of a I lost a bit of the footage. The only thing I did is took some blue and some white, mixed in some of this blue color with a bit of brown, just a watery down, and added it to the side of the beautiful reflections, and then added some darker spots recreating the waves. And I was saying that it's a back and forth between going in between dark and light colors. And now let's add some of this blue over the darker lines just to create some more beautiful, interesting shapes. I've noticed this area over here, that should be a bit more dampened. Shouldn't have that much white. Still keeping some of that white. You can add some of this wash over the white and add it over the shadow areas over here as well. And doing a reflection here. And let's add some of this over the dark lines. This blue wash, some of the dark lines. Don't go overboard with the lines, the dark or the white lines. Let's add some lines with the white. Let's create some beautiful bluish white wash to just add a beautiful line here, and then smudge it, and then continuing this line over on this side. Maybe that's a bit too much. Let's smudge it over a bit and go once again with a finer line. Over here, right where it meets the rock, Perfect. Right here, there is a bit of a purple just showing through. And now it's time for the next step where you will learn how to create some depth and some of the reflections with the sky color and the browns and the purples. You're going to play around on the sandy shore. 21. Sand details: Step will be very, very simple. All you need is to add a bit of yellow to the palette, not that much. And with the medium brush, let's create a beautiful orange right over here. So yellow. Add a bit of water just to make it glide and a little bit more transparent. It needs to be a bit more towards the yellow, so continue adding yellow until it feels a bit more yellow. Add a touch of white. Just a touch a smidge of white. And you can go ahead and add some beautiful reflections, some beautiful lines. These are not reflections. They are actually sand. If they are too intense, it is good because you can take some water, go with the brush on the side of the cup and then start over here, start blending them a bit. F Just a tiny amount, go over the blue. Can add a bit more white just to accentuate just a few areas over here. And then add some water to the same on the cup and start blending just a bit of this color underneath to create some more textures. Let's add some more of that lighter color on top over here. Okay. 22. More waves: And now it's time to clean up the brush and recreate the blue of the sky. This is a very good exercise to just be able to replicate colors. So blue, a touch of brown, some yellow, and some blue, once again, I think that's perfect. It's a bit lighter, but it's fine. And now you're going to go over the yellow and create some reflections that go this way and go over here. That's why it's important, and it's good that it's a bit lighter. You can go over the yellow now creating those edges like you did with the cliffs. Now you're building them here, so the reflections stay on top. Okay. Go over some of the darker areas, and you can also go with some lines that go down. This is a good time to just get rid of some darker lines in case you have too many of them or some lighter lines. This is just almost the same color as the sky. Now going over here. On these darker areas, these reflections will seem perfect. Will seem just the right amount of blue of the sky that it reflects. Go a bit lower over here. And over here. Now cleaning up the brush on the side of the cup and blending some of them to make them more transparent. Just a few of them. Maybe blend them with your fingers as well. Go over here, make this one darker, and just over there. Perfect. Now, take some more of that color and accentuate this line a bit further. And make it a bit lighter so that you can create some small little indications of waves. These are some nicer waves just like that onto the shoreline. They shouldn't be this thick. They should actually be something like this and then go a bit higher and over here over there. And this one, notice how there is a space right over here to make one and a space over here to make one. You can also go on the shore itself and then clean up the brush just so you can blend some of these lines a bit on top of them. Okay? 23. Going more detailed: Once you do that, you can switch to the small brush, and take make a bit of a darker color with red and blue and a bit of brown to cut it a bit. You need some water, a lot of water. Mix it in a bit over the yellow, over here the orange, or just add some yellow and red into it. This will be just make sure you don't have a lot. Add a touch of water, but not too much. Clean it on the side of the cup. And then you go underneath these waves, creating that shadow like you did over here. Maybe a bit more dark. It's too watery. That's too dark, very small lines defining the waves. And usually, you have to make them a bit more straight, and you can go over the waves as well, smudge them a bit, Okay. Since you have this color, this purplish color, you can also take some more water this time and add some lines and some dots onto the reflection. Let's recreate a bit of this color since there is a canvas showing there. So Brown, yellow, and a touch of red, too much red, and a touch of red, add water to it, go over here with a light wash and go. Don't worry. You need to be going down a bit, and then create some waves with this lighter color over top of them. Blend them with your finger, add a bit more white to it. Just to add the impression that these waves are really waves and not something else. And you build a bit of color variety in the process. Let's add another one here. And another one here. Let's blend them a bit. And maybe over here. And over on this area, Let's add a bit more blue over here because it's too yellow and too transparent. Perfect. Now, it needs a bit of a line over here. Le line, just a small and going this way, blending it a bit, make it a bit more organic, perfect. Still needs a bit of color over here. The purple is still too visible. The purple that was going down. And once you do that, you can basically go ahead and add some yellow. Well, let's actually do it in the next step where you will focus on the highlights. 24. Adding highlights and textures: For this next step, you will need a small brush, some yellow, a bit of white, a bit more white, add a bit more white. These will be for the highlights and a touch, just the corner of the brush, touch of red to make it more interesting. Now, make sure that you have a nice edge on your brush and start adding some lighter highlights on top of these without really taking all of these highlights off, like the ones that you've already created. Where you have the wave, you can go a bit lighter. And you can also build a bit of a highlight like this and then erase it a bit. And over here, we kind of lost some of that orange. So let's create a bit of a lighter orange with some red and some yellow. A bit more yellow. Since it has a bit of white, it will look nicer. A bit more yellow. The red is very strong, and the yellow is a bit transparent. Yellows are usually a bit transparent. Okay, clean up the brush a bit. Make sure you have not a lot of paint. You don't need a lot of texture. And right in between the dark sides and the lights you've just added, add some more textures, maybe some dots. To create these beautiful effects. Maybe in the middle of the shape, we can also blend it a bit and right here, and over here, and let's create these highlights as well. Let's recreate them actually going down and up and over on this cliff, just creating some textures, being mindful of the edge of the dark, adding some in the dark, some finer lines and details and blending them. Then on top, notice how soft these edges are. Let's add some of that white yellow into this color and add a few more highlights. Just over here and over here. And then maybe just a few touches over on this area and blend it a bit. 25. Complex reflections: Now, we'll need to take some of this orange and also add it as a reflection. Don't worry if you go over the whole situation with the waves. You can always just go back and forth, back and forth and recreate them. In fact, let's just do exactly that. Taking some of that dark color and smudging it. Plus, you have the added benefit of just smudging some of that yellow. In fact, let's take some of that orange, just a tiny bit of orange. Let's clean up the brush because it has some blue and some purple. So we need some of that orange with some water, as always, clean the brush on the side of the think and make some lines. Maybe some of these rocks reflect onto the waves themselves. You can also blend them a bit and maybe on this side as well. Also add them, and then Make a few lines. And then we can go back to a blue of the sky if you have it. If you're not, if you don't have it, it's simple to make maybe too intense and too light. But that's fine. We've blended it with the finger. Now going on this side and this side. Okay. And for the finishing touches, just a few more darker lines. Let's add a few more light ones first. Because this color is not found everywhere. All at once. Let's add some finer lines. Perfect. 26. Finishing touches. Thank you.: And making this one lighter. Now you're going to need to create over this dark purple, add some red, and a bit more brown than usual, and a bit more blue. Just to create a beautiful brown color. This will be used for some rocks that we've lost over here, make them a bit more textured. Maybe some lines, some dots. They look very good on the blue. And also, over here, let's complicate a bit, dab with the corner of the brush and over on this area, and some of them coming out of this area. Let's add another beautiful rock over here and one coming from the side. Let's recreate some of that shadow. And since we have the orange color on the plate, we can add some of this light onto this rock. Use your finger to just smudge it a bit and over here, just a few touches. And of course, we need some of that reflection of the sky into a bit of them. So let's add some of this bluish color, and a bit here and a bit here. Okay. And since we have a bit more time, let's add some orange reflections onto the sides of the beautiful cliffs, and you might notice that they are very, very light, so you need to take some of this newly found dark color brown and add it over. They will blend together because it's a watery texture. You can also add some of this over here to recreate those beautiful shadow parts of these cliffs, these rocks, and a bit of a shadow to the left. Let's make it a bit more bluish by adding a bit of blue. Okay? I don't like that. So let's erase it and make the whole color again with some blue and some red and now it's going to look good because it's the right purple. And here you can dampen some of the things and with the color, you can also go onto some waves or some areas, just smudging it a bit, maybe over here and smudging it a bit. Perfect. And just because we have a lot of white over here, we can clean this brush a bit, squeeze it out, take some of that white and build a bit more texture onto the waves, another round of textures, just around the cliffs as well. This will really make it pop. Will really make the whole painting look much nicer, especially around here. And you can go with the corner of the brush to build more textures and a bit lower with a bit of a bigger wave. And over here. Don't be afraid to put a lot of paste. Really makes the painting look nicer. And building on the left side some waves as well to build that texture and those differences like right over here. Notice how this just goes in. In fact, let's just go a bit inside. So it makes the shadow of these rocks more apparent, and let's go in the distance with another beautiful wave. And there you go with this beautiful course. You've learned about texture. You've learned about reflections, how to build waves, how to balance the composition. You've learned that you go back and forth for reflections, and you can smudge things with your fingers. You can build things up and do washes over colors. Most people do not use acrylics and wash color over the colors that they have already laid down. But that is a way to integrate more colors and have more vibrancy and more textures and more interest, and that's basically how you paint this beautiful seascape. Thank you for watching and see you in the next one.