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Below are the steps I took to create this painting. It is painted in watercolor on a half-sheet (15" by 22") of Arches cold-pressed 140 lb. paper. The paper was first soaked in a tub of water and then placed flat and wet on a slightly larger piece of "gator-board" and stapled into place. I allowed it to dry fully before attempting to make my light pencil drawing.
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1. Start with a fairly detailed but lightly penciled
drawing. |
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2. Mix a deep blue sky color. I mixed more than I thought I would need in a cup; then applied it very quickly with a large brush. I used a smaller brush to pull in color around the subject of the painting. |
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3. Now I can paint the sand. I use aureolin and cadmium red light, not mixed too thoroughly. I do this quickly too, and while it is wet, I tilt the painting to make the color run across it like sand sweeps the beach. |
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4. Mix a Cobalt Blue and Viridian ocean. Paint a clear light band across, but be sure the sand and sky are bone dry when you do this. If you leave white parts it gives the effect of glistening water. Also, a deep band of blue-green on the top will give the effect of deeper water in the distance. |
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5. Continually mixing different greens, I painted in the foliage. Sap Green and Viridian. Viridian and Cadmium Orange. Viridian or Sap Green with Aureolin. Be inventive, but limit mixtures to 3 or less colors. |
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6. Using various reds, oranges and yellows I mixed and painted the croton plant on the left of the beach house. Croton is a beautiful plant that has hundreds of varieties and grows all throughout the Caribbean. I painted a purple to sienna wash up the trunk of the palm tree. |
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7. The details, the details. I mixed a silvery purple for the shadows to suggest the architecture on this little beach cottage. I continued painting foliage and other minor details. |
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8. I like it. |
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