Share your work! For your class project, paint this loose acrylic seascape with me! Play around with color mixing and brush marks and also try out the exercise of building dimension and form.

Once you are done take a picture of what you’ve created and share your projects with us here and upload it to the “Your Project” tab.

*** Follow this class up with another WATERCOLOR OCEAN WATER - https://skl.sh/3nIsJIE

NOTE : Project cannot be sold or reproduced in any way. Any work you create from this class is meant of educational and learning purposes only. All of my work is copyrighted and that is a violation of the copyright.

Reference photo : right click and save image (free download from pixabay)

TOPICS I COVER:

Prepping your canvas and materials – I will show you how to prep your canvas before painting and all the brushes and paints you will need for this project.
Brush marks – I will demonstrate basic brush techniques that will be used in today’s class project.
Color mixing - will show you variations of color mixing to get darks and lights.
Dimension / Form – I will teach you the basics of achieving form in any shape based on color and value.
Waves - A quick exercise on on how to break down drawing waves.
Painting process and details – I will teach you how you can layer and build your colors to add definition to you painting.

MATERIALS I USED (but use whatever you have available.)

1) Paints:

Arteza Acrylic paints (premium 60 set) - https://bit.ly/3dhihCo – phthalo blue, cobalt blue, lemon yellow, white & black

2) Brushes: large, medium, and small flat brushes + 2 thin fine brushes

3) Strathmore Acrylic Paper (8x8") - https://amzn.to/3Am28J5

5) Glass Palette - https://amzn.to/32w9BWI

6) Glass scraper - https://amzn.to/3mjIWo9

7) Bowl for water

8) Paper towel / rag

9) Gesso - https://amzn.to/3j48nXY

10) Pencil

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