If you want you can apply the masking tape above the horizon line to get a crisp line for the water, however, you may risk pulling off some of the paint with the tape. If necessary, you may need to add a little more light blue permanent but for the most part it should be mostly white. Your blue should be very light, almost white by the time you get to the horizon. Keep adding more titanium white and paint all the way to the bottom of the horizon line. Then, without rinsing the light blue off your brush, load it in titanium white.īlend this titanium white with the blue so the color in the sky gets gradually lighter as you work your way down to the horizon line. Paint left and right horizontal strokes about a third of the way down the sky. Start at the top with light blue permanent. Use a 3/4” Wash Brush, Light Blue Permanent and Titanium White to paint the sky. I measured mine from the top of the canvas to the horizon line – approximately nine inches. Use masking tape to mark your horizon line. I recommend tracing the lighthouse after the sky, ocean and ground is painted. If you are working on an 11×14 canvas, this traceable prints on two sheets of standard size computer paper that you will tape together. You can grab the PDF for this over in my traceable library. Fan Brush (I used partially for the beach grass).#1 Palette Knife (I used for lines on the water). While these are the brushes/ tools I used, you do not have to use these exact ones and can even use different sizes depending on what you have on hand. If you are using Apple Barrels, here are my suggestions: I commonly get asked which craft paint colors would work, specifically they very popular Apple Barrels Paints. The rest of the colors I used were Liquitex BASICS. You can use any dark turquoise color or mix Phthalo Blue with Bright Aqua Green. Note: The Phthalo Turquoise I used was a Hobby Lobby Brand. Project Type: Acrylic Painting / Category: Ocean Colors
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