Large Acrylic Seascape Painting for beginners Big canvas

1. Welcome: Hi, my name is George, and in today's course you are going to learn how to make this wonderful seascape and acrylic. You are going to play around with different brushes, as well as a paint roller and the palette knife to make beautiful textures and colors. This might seem like a big canvas, but don't worry, you can downsize the canvas as small as you want or as big as you want, whether you choose to make it on a small canvas or a big canvas. This is a very easy to do painting. You'll be guided all the way through and you will be amazed at your own creation by the end of the course, what a beautiful day to paint. Let's go into the course. 2. Materials: For this painting, you will need a canvas that is 60 by a 100 centimeters. This a very big canvas. You can use a small one as well. When it comes to colors, you will need white, this titanium white made by Amsterdam acrylics. You will also need some yellow. This is as o yellow medium. And of course, you'll also need some blue. This is cobalt blue light. The red is called carmine and some burnt umber. You'll need a big flood brush, a small flat brush, a palette knife, a paint roller, and of course, plastic plate. And that's all you need for this course. 3. Sky and water background: For this step, you will need the paper plate, or in this case the plastic plate, the paint roller, and some blue and some white and a touch of yellow, okay, starting with the blue, opening the jar and putting beautiful amount of blue onto the mixing blade. And just like that, as you can see over here, start by pressing width the roller into the paint. Nice, sleek, getting it quite wet. And at the top of the canvas, you can start to roll with the color, rolling and covering the edge without touching the wall, getting some more paint and dragging down. In case your blue is a little bit darker, you can always add more white going forward the corner, making sure the edges are completely covered. The paint roller is a beautiful tool to paint with, since it covers so much ground so fast and it leaves behind such flat color. Of course, this will need a little bit of texture in order to look completely perfect. Going and moving a little bit down and covering that edge. Once you have laid down a little bit of blue, you can go in and add some white to the mixing plate. When painting what the roller is best to go from dark to light, okay, with the palette knife, start mixing in with the blue. If you don't have enough, you can always take a little bit more. This will be a very, very light blue. And with the blue onto the roller, it will create an even spread of blue. And as you can see, the roller is still quite blue. It's still has a lot of color inside it. Start right at the border and press just hard enough to pick up the other color and blend it together. Don't go too far in just yet. Stay with a few passes until the roller starts to make a gradient. And once it has made that gradient, you can move a little bit higher, up just a few centimeters. As you can see, it becomes quite smooth once you go slow enough and then you can go higher to lighten up that blue, going back to the white on the plate and grabbing a little bit more to add another layer and move in the same way, higher and higher this time, don't go until the end. Just move from edge to edge without painting on the wall. Whoops, yet again, adding some more white to cover the rest of the canvas down. This color will cover almost 90 percent of the canvas. Some more white. And mixing it in over the color you already have on the mixing plate. Make it very nice and homogenous, perfect. Scrape all the color from the palette knife onto the plate and grab the beautiful roller once again, doesn't matter if the canvas is crooked a little bit. It will straighten up. And with this white, continue doing the same motion. Moving a little bit down just to lose all the paint and then go up higher centimeter by centimeter and just inch by inch go up and up until the gradient is formed. It doesn't need to be perfect. However, it should look something like this. Once you feel happy with it, you can go with another layer just lower. And now leave a little bit of a section and then go even lower. So the top side is the sky and the bottom third of a white down is the C, adding the first layer of the sea, the gradient on the C will go in the opposite direction of the sky. So it will become from the lightest color to the bluest colors. So the other way around, in order to do that, he will need some blue on the mixing plate. This can also be done with a brush if you're using a smaller canvas. But for bigger Canvases, it's always good to start with a roller, okay, and get some beautiful blue on that roller and start from the bottom. Work your way around the edge, spreading that color slowly this time onto the lighter color covered the edge. Once the edges are covered, just move a few more times until the gradient starts to form. Don't go too fast. Try to blend that edge in between and then move slowly up so you can create the gradient higher up, taking some more color to cover the corner. And since the color is quite dark, It's also needed to be blended in by just going with the roller from side to side. This will create a hazy, nice effect on the canvas. And there you go. The step is done. 4. Brushing the second layer: After about 30 minutes, the paint has dried as well as the roller has been completely cleaned and the plastic blade as well. You can wash them a few times, even 20, taking some white, quite a big amount of white, little bit of blue just over here on the top side of the plate and some yellow, okay, the beautiful yellow in order to create very beautiful light color for the sky. The second pass-through, mix the yellow with the white and with a little bit of blue. Just mix them together. First, focus on the white and the yellow, and then add a little bit of blue at a time until the color looks bluish enough. As you can see, it's still yellow, so it needs more blue, just a beautiful and gorgeous color. It's quite blue. So if it's too yellow and a tiny bit more blue, so it's still, Let's say a pastel, teal, blue one stay are perfectly mixed and you have your hands clean, clean off the palette knife, and add just a tiny bit more white if it's needed. In this case, it is quite needed to make the color a tad more light. You should have the flat brush handy as well since you will use it on this layer, mix the two colors together. The white end, already existing, bluish, yellow, bluish teal. Look at how beautiful it looks. Mixing them together and scraping all the paint from the palette knife onto the plate. Going with the glean roller lips without dropping the plate, making a mess, and then start adding the color to the roller. And then bro, your way into the middle section of the Canvas, adding another layer, you can start to see the teal color and you can move a little bit lower as well and higher. Perfect. Once you have done this from side-to-side, almost at the half, making a big, nice, beautiful line. You can move a little bit higher without damaging the walls, reposition the canvas, and you can start to go a little bit higher and now leave it just like that and grab the beautiful flat brush with some water. It's has some water inside it and you can blend that color in, just as you can see here. The color underneath is completely dry, so the color that you have laid on top can move freely and you can pick it up with the brush and move it around so it becomes thinner and thinner. So it reveals the color underneath. So it blends together with nice textures, nice fluffy, atmospheric perspective. As you can see, just move from side to side in a meditative way, very calming and relaxing way to paint a beautiful sky, you can pick some color from a little bit lower and brush it up just a tiny bit. Grab a little bit more water from your beautiful cup n. Once you have done that, you can move on since the brush has more water now you have to spread that water first into the color underneath until you can't see the droplets. And the lines showing, okay, Moving and diluting that color can start to go up, letting the cup down, and also cleaning the brush a little bit tiny amount because it has too much paint and once you move up, it will bring too much color. Clean it up as best as it can on a paper towel. Grab some more water, just a tiny amount of water without spilling over, still has some color. And you can start from the middle of the Canvas already on the top. This time, it doesn't have too much color. It only picks up what has been brushed in the section where it meets the outer color. This will create a very thin film of color on top, and we'll bring to life the gradient. As you can see, the color on the brush is almost completely absent, but Once it's dry, it's going to dry a little bit more transparent since you are using so much water and so little paint, this will give the impression of more detailed sky and more worked, let's say painting overall, more water and going higher and higher with every fast through, fairly slowly inching your way up, It's better to use a smaller brush since it will create more interesting lines in the background and it keeps you focused and attentive to details. Okay, just going in for the last few steps, the last few brush strokes like that from side to side and in areas just cover it. Covering the corner and the sides as well, making sure that everything is completely beautiful. Once you move down, you need to add also the same water we colored layer on the bottom, but this time tried to go on a slight angle, diagonal just to create the sensation of a sea of something just a little bit wavy, grabbing some more white, that beautiful color you have created for the top side. And this time brushing it on top of the layer already created from side to side and going in a diagonal as you approach the horizon line, the metal line, you can just go a little bit more horizontal, hence the name horizon line. Once you have done that, you can go into the water and brushed those two layers. The one with the watery stuff and then with the more pasty stuff with the water, you can be a little bit more loose than what the sky, since it is usually a little bit more textured, brush them together with more water and start to go with some lines from side to side near the horizon just to push it a little bit deeper so it reveals more of the paint underneath and it creates beautiful lines and textures. Speaking of water, the canvas is moving like a boat. Very nice. Slowly making some more straight lines just to smooth out any inconsistency is looking a little bit, see if it needs more retouching, taking some more white, that light color and adding it to the top of the sky just above the horizon line. Just to add some of those beautiful marks with the brush. Since that was just put down with the roller, it needs, as you can see, them lines and some textures as well with the brush. Because the brush creates a different kind of paint application. Near the end. Just creating some more of that atmospheric perspective, beautiful. And there you go with this wonderful step as well. 5. Cloud lines: Once the last layer is completely dry to the touch and you have cleaned your plate, you can now add some red to the plate, as well as some beautiful blue, creating a wonderful blue that has a purplish tint. And with the clean knife and a plate in hand, you can start slowly mixing the two colors together, adding some more red to make it quite a bit more purple ish. But it still has, its dominance in blue, is staking and mixing it together to create a more violet, purplish blue. Mixing them very good together. And as you can see, it's quite dark. And of course you can add some yellow in order to cut that chroma down, make it a little bit more grayish in tone since its complimentary color, mixing it all together nice and thoroughly to cut that chroma down, that intensity of color and making it a bit more balanced. It's quite a lot of color and width. The big flat brush, It's a painter's brush. You can buy it at any hardware store. You don't need to buy the fancy painters shop ones, the ones in the Hobby Lobby. You can buy it from the craft store or even at the hardware store. Going and starting from the right side with a simple cut with the brush over the outer paint near the middle of the sky, living a little bit of gap on the right side, as well as in the middle trying to make almost very, very angular lines just going through, now going and connecting it from the left side. As you can see, it's sort of like a curve. And then it becomes one in the middle, making it a bit thicker in the middle and just like that, and putting some more paint in the middle section just so it's a one block of clouds going lower and creating some more distant clouds. You can just barely brush onto the canvas and create some more clouds. The lowered they get, the lower sides of the clouds are a little bit more straight and the top side is a little bit more fluffy. So keep that in mind. Whenever you are drawing clouds, they tend to be quite flat on the bottom. As you can see, quite flat, taking some more paint and going lower, breaking down some more clouds. Flat on the bottom and a little bit more fluffy on top, a middle cloud, this time, very, very long and thin. For the lower section, you can add on the right, just another beautiful small cloud. Would a few dabs of the brush, as well as build up a nod or line of clouds just above the white area. Perfect. And building them up a little bit more with the brush is going from side to side. They might seem like mountains, but soon enough they will look like clouds. And finishing off the edges of the clouds on both the big ones and small ones. Super simple to do, adding more red to bring out the richness of this color and have more variation. Just mixing it together and making it quite a bit more purple, very dark purple, mixing it quite well on the plate, just to add a few more drops of paint on the clouds and at tiniest amount of yellow just to cut that beautiful dark purple down a little bit. As you can see, creating fun looking color, quite neutral and towards the red, brownish, but on top of the blue color, it will mix quite well together. Very nice color. Once it's thoroughly mixed, you can grab the paintbrush, don't even clean it and start layering in some of this purplish brown color onto the middle of the clouds here and there to just give it a little bit of color variety, brush it over into the blue. And there you go with this step as well. 6. Mountains block in: Now, for an easier step with a little bit of brown, put it onto the mixing plate, straight up brown on top of the blue you'd have created previously and add a tiny bit of blue just to make it quite dark. And black mix them well together, creating this beautiful brown black color. Using the brush as a knife, start cutting in to the white at the bottom. Some mountains. Be very angular with your brush. Don't make them too round or two triangular. Try to keep the shapes simple and very straight. As you are working your way down. You can also add the same mirror image onto the sea and going a little bit until they touch each other. Course and going and brushing in some more color so that it feels like a line. It can start to see how it's mirroring that image above. And as it goes lower, you can start to put a little bit of land as well with the same color, Just going to words the right brushing in some more land. And very interesting edge at the end, going a little bit lower onto the left side as well. And of course, that is it for this simple step. 7. Orange sunset: Now for an extremely fun step using yellow, red and a pallet knife and some white and later some blue mixing orange with the red, of course, and the yellow, just bringing it together with the palette knife. You will tend to see that yellow's have this effect, that they are a bit more transparent. So you might need a little bit more than usual, for instance, orange or even green, as opposed to the red and the blue, which have a very high staining power and straight on putting them just below the line of clouds and course above the mountains. This is a very good area to edit a little bit more of the mountains with the palette knife, since it has such a straight edge, it can go very, very nice and cut into those mountains, some ridges. This will be the base of a fiery distant sunset or sunrise. So if it doesn't look just right now, don't worry, will by the end. So try to lay in some textures. Textures here are very important, so be very open about chest. Taking some more paint on that palette knife and playing with the textures, making it very rough and textured. Once that is done, you can start laying in a beautiful line, maybe just a distant puddle of water in the distance in the landscape just below the mountains, as well as a touch of this orange over by the ground, as well as more cuts into the brown over in the middle. You can also go a little bit onto the right side, just creating some more lines, keeping them very, very straight in order to have it seem like it goes very far and then grab some white and start putting it on the plate. Okay? Once you have a good amount of white on the plate, wrap your palette knife, you don't have to clean it. You can just mix it in with the little leftover, a yellow and orange, and straight on top of the textures go in and add just barely touching the surface. Add this orange as a small, beautiful texture on top of the existing color. Don't forget to leave the colors showing through. So you don't have to cover all the orange and all the textures. Just go in some areas, just going and making some more lines at the bottom in the reflection of the lake and some more textures just on the ground. Perfect. Okay, grabbing a little bit of reds from the plate and mixing it into the lightest color to give you more pink color, to use, just as a color variation on top. Use it just sparingly over the clouds, giving the impression that some light from the beautiful sunset is hitting the top clouds on the bottom edge. And some of them are hit from below as they come in front of the viewer and grab some of the same color and add it close to the mountains, closing that gap of white or blue that you still have since the color is quite powerful and it shouldn't be. As you move higher, take some blue and cut that chroma down with red and blue, mixing it all together, giving you a little bit of a gray or orange, mix it quite well. What a little bit more blue to create darker and deeper shade of this orangey brown. This will serve very good on just barely touching the underside of the line of clouds, as well as making some more distant clouds in the sunset, touching the clouds a little bit more to make them become unified. But don't worry, the landscape isn't over. So if it doesn't make sense until now, it will by dN. So you can just work on the top clouds on the right side, on the underside, and then go in with the middle. Just a small ridge. Don't forget the middle cloud. This should have some light, some orangey light hitting it as well. You can also create just a small little cloud with the orangey red as well as some more distant clouds just above the line. As it goes down onto the left side, you can go further and add some more of this red. You can also add maybe this cloud in the middle comes out and some of the rays of the sun hits it quite nicely. Just breaking the shapes down, wonderful and a little bit on top as well in the corner. It might look very weird and crazy right now, but it will look amazing by DNS. So this is the step. Let's go into the next one. 8. Integrating the clouds: For this next step, you will need the blue you've used for the sky just added to the mixing plate very nicely. Once you haven't done that, you're going to also add some of the red. Of course, adding it to the mixing plate with the palette knife, you can start to mix them together, obtaining the same purple you have used for the clouds, for the shadows of the clouds. Okay. Just putting the red side so it doesn't get in the way so you can work on the color. You can also add some yellow just to cut a little bit of the chroma of the colors, just making it a little bit more gray. Once you are done mixing those colors, you can start adding a little bit more white to the plate. And you can start mixing it on the side, making a beautiful purplish color, but a lot more light than the shadow color, adding a little bit more yellow to make it tiny bit more gray, a beautiful purplish gray. And just to make that color more beautiful, you can add some blue in order to make it closer to the sky color. And this is how colored theory works. In order to integrate the clouds into the sky right now and they're foreign objects. You can start with this bluish, purplish color that is a mix in between the shadow parts and the sky color. You can start adding it on top of the cloud, starting with the middle and then continuing on the left side, just with the beloved knife. And you can also use the flat brush, the big one, just to add some boldness to the underside of these clouds, taking some more color. And you can also start working on the top side of the clouds. At the bottom, as well as adding some new clouds just Continuing either under or as a continuation of the clouds. You can start to see once you add this color to the clouds in the middle, you can also add on top of them just a few runaway clouds. Very nice. And you can see how integrated those tiny clouds above look. Adding some more blue in order to make the color just a tiny bit more blue, making it even closer to the sky color would adding blue and mixing in some white just to make the color closer and closer to the sky color, adding this color over top, some of the already applied colors in the middle, clouds. As you can see, you can be quite freely about applying the colors. You can also add some of the brushing technique where you just brush them, they're a bit and then just fan out the brush. Once you do that, you can also move on to the clouds below and touch them up a little bit. Just give them a little bit of love as well as on the sides. Taking a step back and seeing where this color fits a little bit more, making a lighter version of that color by just grabbing some white and in a clean area, you can start to work with this color sparingly over the top of the clouds and under them can also add some in the middle. Just so it feels like the clouds are even more blended with the sky. Looking a little bit at the painting and it feels just right, and the step is done. Let's go into the next one. 9. Horizon light and clouds: In this step, you will learn how to integrate the colors of the sky even more, adding some blue to the mixing plate, as well as some white and some yellow will be added to the mixing plate, thus creating the beautiful luscious blue as the sky. Taking the blue and mixing it with a little bit of yellow, create that teal color. Look at how gorgeous that color is and mixing it quite well together. This color will be applied with the palette knife just above the mountains. Just checking the colors from time to time to see if it's the right color. Once it's applied above the mountains, you can start to see how gorgeous it looks. You can just about see how nice of an effect it creates over that orange. And you can also take this time to edit the mountains a bit more. If they feel two triangular or they stick out too much, or the field to flat, you can always add a tiny bit of color with the palette knife a little bit lower or a little bit higher in order to create some beautiful mountains. And of course, just cutting with the side of the knife in the middle of the landscape as well as in the water. Putting some more over the orange, some more of this beautiful teal over the orange. And of course, on the left side, since there is a lot of orange over there, it looks much more integrated. That orange cutting a little bit of a section just over there on the left and the tiny one on the right. Once that is done, you can also add some of this color to the clouds, would let knife just mixing it in a darker version. Just to make it more interesting. Grabbing some yellow and mixing it in beautiful. Once the color is thoroughly mixed, you can start to apply it loosely with the palette knife on the underside of the big clowns a tiny amount and then scraping and leaving this beautiful texture on the clouds. It can be just as a reflection of the sky on the underside of the clouds in the middle. And now they feel even more integrated the closer they are to the color of the sky going in for some of the small glands as well, giving them a little bit of attention as well in the middle. And then you can also go just above adding some of this color to the Cloud in the middle of the big section of clouds, just a tiny bit. And then moving the palette knife around with the brush. You can also lose some of those very harsh palette knife marks by just brushing with a clean brush over them just to get some of the edges a little bit more fluffy. You don't need to overdo. It just keeps some nice crispy edges, but you can also just about touch and fluff the other Clouds as well. You can also do the exact same thing on the under line at the bottom. And there you go with this step as well. Super easy and fun. 10. Buttery light: In this step, you will add even more light to the scene, to the seascape with some yellow, some red, and some white, creating a very beautiful light, yellow, orange. Just adding the three colors to the mixing plate. And with the palette knife, the thrust, the rest, the palette knife. You can mix them very nice and beautiful. This taking some rent and mixing it straight on to the yellow, this mixture should have a little bit more yellow than reds. If you paid attention, then you will know that you don't need a lot of red to stain a yellow since it has a very, very high staining power. Once the two colors are mixed, you can start to add the white. And once the white is added to the mixing plate, you can start to mix them very nice on the mixing plate, making the color gorgeous, very buttery, smooth color, wonderful. Adding some more white and some red to the mixing plate. Just to add little bit of a more interesting tint to the yellow, making it a tiny bit more pink. It will create a very rosy yellow. Once you start to apply it to the middle section of the painting, you will understand how light is this color. Look at how interesting it looks. If you have created some textures underneath, he already have a good amount textures so you don't have to apply too much color. You can just create the wonderful palette knife on the painting apps, the middle section, you can also add some more white to the mixture, making this even lighter and playing around with quite a lot of color, grabbing a little bit more just to make it to see and even more powerful, adding just nice amount of this color. And don't forget to add it to the middle of the landscape just below the mountains, as well as in the lake, in the sea, or in the link. Once it is added and fully integrated into the sea, you can add it to the top of the clouds, just above the clouds in the sky. This will serve you very well once you grab the small flat brush, very clean, a flat brush, and you can start to just play around and mix that battery color into the sky and the clouds, making them more fluffy and adding some of this color to the sky. You can also break a little bit of the line that has been created with the clowns. You can break them down into individual clouds. As you can see, it starts to work wonders to scramble tiny bit of color from where it has a little bit more and then brush it into the sky. And there you go. Look at how beautiful the sunset looks. 11. Seascape waves Thank you: Here you are at the last step of the painting. What's some yellow on the mixing blade, as well as some blue. It will start to beautifully create gorgeous turquoise blue, grabbing a tiny bit of red on the mixing plate and mixing it in as well as a little bit of brown. Once all of those are mixed thoroughly, making a beautiful turquoise color, not very strong. Just a tiny bit of the brown will cut the power of the colors. In case you have put too much brown, you can always add just more blue, making the color closer to the deep underworld of the sea. And with that, this is how dark it is. You can see it on the canvas. And with the small flat brush, you can start to make just as you made previously, some diagonal lines starting from the middle and working your way around the bottom of the painting. You can also add some more lines as you go up, but they need to be finer and the brush needs to have less and less color onto it in order to make some finer waves. So as soon as the brush is almost empty of color, you can move upwards. And then once you take some of that color back, you can move down again, as well as blending the bottom half with the brush clean and adding some more white to the mixture with the palette knife, just creating some lighter version of this deep sea turquoise. Mixing it a thoroughly, taking the brush straight on without cleaning it and over the top of the sea waves, you can start to create some more interesting sea foam or wave foam like that in order to give the lake little bit more roughness and character, just playing around with the brush over the top. The already created waves, as well as in the sections where there is no waves, tried to keep the color of the sky still on. And once you have completed the whiter layer of waves, you can go back and alternate with the darker color, going over the white bits and mixing the colors straight onto Canvas to give it a natural feeling. Once that is done, you can also put some more darker spots in the middle and onto the right side. Just for a few rocks. These will be the shadows of few rocks. And what the brown straight from the tube. You can start to add those rocks, making a very straight edge and then going and making another rock and adding some more brown to the banks of the river or the lake in this case, okay. And another rock exactly where the shadow is, as well as going with another layer on top of the mountains just to add some more texture and of course, some more interesting shapes. Cleaning a little bit of the edge of the mountains can also go and do the same in the middle section. In case you have those small little dots of brown that need to be straightened or ironed out. Making another beautiful upward motion for a mountain on the right side and a small little rock just going outside of the Canvas on the left, just to balance the composition a little bit, since there is a lot of brown on the right area, we need some rocks to add that beautiful color. Just taking some more of that blue, dark turquoise and adding some more lines and squiggles, just going around with some shadows on the sea, on the lake and bringing some of this color onto the distance Lake as well, going with the same blue color onto the brown chest over the right side, this will have the effect of bringing some blue from the left side on the right side. And there you go to painting is done. Congratulations, you have made your first big seascape. What a wonderful experience. 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