Energy of the Ocean: Creating a Crashing Wave with Watercolors

1. Intro: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the final lesson of our maritime series. This is our first and concluding session. Today, we will be drawing a C wave. This lesson is a bit more challenging than the previous ones, but it will solidify the skills you've learned and serve as a capstone to our C painting adventure. I wish you a pleasant view in experience and an engaging painting session. 2. The plot and materials: Welcome to another lesson on see painting. Today, I suggest we paint powerful large waves focusing on their color and stration. We'll try to make them brighter and more colorful than they are in reality. Color will be one of the main tools of expression in today's sketch. Let's start with materials. My set is the same as usual. A watercolor sheet or sketch book, whichever you prefer. I've secured mine to aboard with tape. For today's work, you can use either cotton or cellulose paper. The only difference is that it's easier to achieve white tones on cellulose because it doesn't absorb color as quickly and intensely as cotton. The paint ts on the surface, making it easier for us to achieve the desired effects. Ingest using two brushes. On larger soft brush, either squiral or sable, or possibly synthetic mutation. We'll use this for basic washes and weight in the paper. The second brush is slightly smaller, synthetic firm with a sharp tip. We can use this later for editing details. Let's make a small pencil sketch. Also prepare paints, tissues, a palette, and water. Regarding colors, I wanted to point out. You can take a ready made color close to the S wave color. But I decided to use colors I already had cobaltquis, and the dontron blue you already familiar with. Let's imagine we painting and plan air with the same small and limited palette. Also, we will add one green color for saturation and to achieve that sea wave color. I'm using green mist, but you can choose a color you like best and that suits you. I suggest you make a color swatch of your paints before starting to actual walk to understand how the colors and what shades you get. This will help avoid disappointment during the painting process. 3. Watercolor painting: Let's start with the pencil drawing. It will be small. The most important thing is to mark where the sky will begin and where the wave will be. All these lines will show where the center of attention will be. You can also sketch the wave you want to depict. After that, we'll let an take over and walk with what we get. We don't need the pencil anymore, so let's put it away and start the actual work. The first thing to do is to wet the upper part of the sheet just below the land with. We'll start with the sky, the clearest area of pure color. We'll mix cobble turquoise with dantron blue to get the sky tone we need. Actually, you could use a ready made color for this as well. Lightly and quickly pin the upper part, try not to go over the same line several times. You can even go a bit lower. Now let's wait a bit and let the pint absorb. Then we'll make clean water to create an interesting line between the wave and the sky to make an imitation of spray. As the upper part dries, I suggest first splatter in it. As the splashes won't hurt and we'll add variety to the sketch. Here, we lower a line of clean water. You can make it at an angle. We immediately remove any color we don't need cleaning up. You can show areas where slashes occur, but Donders is a long the tie line to what it looking to uniform. Showing it on one side will be enough. With this, the upper part of the sketch. Let's move on. At first, we we this area. Let's make the color we need. These are all the colors on the palette. We've got a rich, blue green color. We make it a bit darker here and start out lining the waves. Note that the paper dries faster at the edges, so be careful here. You can show them right along the waves movement line. This will look natural. Here, we can indicate the water, the ripples on the water, and with the same color show the evenes of the sea to make it look more interesting. I suggest Lutonate on this side. Let the clean water flow. Ever seeing blurs, and we don't have such a focus on the lower part. You can even carefully lower the water line from above. Let it help and add some spontaneity. We till to the sit and don't forget to remove accumulated drops, or they might flow back and draw everything. We've got this. Now we'll clean up a details and remove unnecessary parts. 4. Adding details with watercolor: At first, let's clean it up a bit here. And while the surface is still wet, we can add a few spots of more defined lines. Take the paint sickly, so it doesn't spread. You can zoom in and look where there are some ripples, maybe any dark spots, you can add them, but don't overdo it with these details. This area is very wet, and that's why it's spreading like this. The lower edge of the wave, Now let's take a synthetic brush. It will be easier to draw details with it. It doesn't take as much moisture as a natural ha brush. Now we're out the edge of the. The paint is an layer along the edge. You can add more details on top right here. Look at the photo. Clearly, we're not copying it exactly, but we don't need to. Add more specific lines in the lower part. The edge of the wave is uneven, and we can show this. Here is the darkest part. It's right under the breaking wave, and you can make it brighter. Here we'll be go to show the direction of the wave. It's very important not to overdo it. To keep that sense of something set, which is very attractive and doesn't the walk. It turned out blurry here, not in focus. This is the effect I was aiming for. We need to draw all attention here. Now we'll wet the space of the wave itself and we'll be drawing these falling streams of water. In the brash. We this a carefully. So there is not too much moisture, otherwise, everything will spread. Again, we take a natural hair brush, not as intensely and brightly this time, and we start drawing the w along the form of its f. Don't do this alone the entire wave, or it will look more like a childish drawing. Leave painted areas. Then make a denser in the upper part because these fallen places are more intense at the top. If you take too much paint, you can always blot it. You can also fluff out the brush to add special effects and show the streams this way. While it's still slightly wet here, I suggested in final touches. Along this falling edge, we can show shadows with a synthetic brush. Don't take the pain to saturated and bright and start painting. Don't concentrate too much attention on this. Just add more details. Make the waves more attractive. I want to darken the parts slightly and connect this falling part from above. You can show the edges, the darkest part, it's very important to stop in time with all this. Otherwise, you can add details endlessly and overload the picture, which we don't want. Now we quickly draw the sheet, and we'll look at the final version without the tape. 5. Drying and the result: It's ready. Carefully remove the tape. On Sally Law's paper, be even more attentive and careful because it's very easy to damage the surface. And the last one. The waves are done. I'm looking forward to seeing your artworks, publish them, and try painting what on different papers, using different techniques because there are many options, and each is unique and repeatable. 6. Conclusion: As we wrap up the final lesson, I'm delighted to have shared with you the world of Marine watercolors. It has been joy and great interest to record all these lessons. For those who missed the first three lessons, I strongly recommend watching them as they are not only beautiful, but incredibly beneficial. Watching the entire series, will enhance your understanding and skills, giving you a comprehensive gasp of various techniques that captures the essence of the sea. Remember, Mastering painting requires practice. Start now and be sure to share your artworks. I look forward to seeing your creations and hearing about your experience. You can find all the links below this do. Happy painting until we meet again, keep exploring and expressing your artistic side.