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Dramatic ocean waves painting11/3/2023 I let the painting dry so I could add more details to it and so I could build up the waves to make them pop. Where I need to make the value of the colour darker I used less titanium white in my mixes.įor the shadows in the breaking waves, I used more ultramarine blue and less burnt sienna in my mix.Īdding Details and Finishing The Painting I started this painting by blocking-in the sky, cliff shadows and the shadows in the breaking waves using varying mixes of ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, titanium white and a little alizarin crimson. It also makes it easier to add the areas in light and to get the saturation of your colours correct once you have painted your dark values. Value refers to how light or dark a subject is and by painting in the dark values first I personally find it is much easier to create atmospheric perspective in my paintings. Whenever I start a painting I always identify where the dark values and shadows are first in the scene I am painting. I am using Liquin as a medium to thin the paint and it also has the advantage of speeding up the drying time. I sketched the composition using a No.1 round brush with burnt sienna mixed with Liquin Original (Liquin). I painted this artwork on oil primed, medium-weave Belgian linen that is mounted to a panel.
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