Learn How To Paint a Seascape and understand how to look at the whole scene and then break it down into small parts of color and space. Warm colors against cool colors and dark against light. You do not have to paint every bit of foam on the sea. If you do, why not use a camera to capture it? Always choose a scene that stirs your emotions. Don’t paint a scene that lacks any excitement. When you get excited about a scene, it is amazing how beautiful the finished painting becomes. So how do you start the seascape painting? 1) Your Subject. First, a “field of view” has to be chosen to paint a Seascape. This means that you have to restrict your view to the Artist View Finder Artist View Finder scenery you want to paint and exclude the rest. A good way to use a view finder is by cutting a 3″x 1″ opening in a piece of cardboard and holding this at arms length explore the seascape scene you want to paint. 2) Lines. When you begin your painting the first line is that of the horizon. Place the line of the horizon at three fourth a distance from the top. Loosely define the lines to bring out the basic contour of the Foam or Spray in your Seascape Painting. 3) Backdrops. Paint large areas of colors such as, the sky and the land, in your Seascape. These elements define the sea and bring out the contrast. One important point to be taken care of is that the sky is more or less of the same hue as that of the sea. The land that brackets the sea in a seascape painting generally contrasts with the color of the sea. Ocean Foam Ocean Foam 4) Foam. The foam wave spray of the sea is the defining part of a seascape painting. The most common mistake that occurs while painting the Spray (especially with oil paints) is to define it very strongly with closing brush strokes. These calculated brush strokes give a very heavy appearance to the Waves and they look like puffed cotton. The trick to avoid this mistake is to look closely at the direction of the spray and not the volume. Use your brush to “spray” while coloring in the direction of the wave and not being too firm about it. 5) Practice. It is advised that you try numerous water color sketches or pencil sketches of the waves before you begin painting your seascape.

1. Learn How To Paint
a Seascape

2. Understand how to
look at the whole
scene
and then break it down into small
parts of color and space. Warm colors
aganst cool colors and dark against
light. You do not have to paint every
bit of foam on the sea. If you do, why
not use a camera to capture it?

3. Always choose a scene that stirs
your emotions. Don't paint a
scene that lacks any excitement.
When you get excited about a
scene, it is amazing how beautiful
the finished painting becomes.

4. So how do you start the seascape
painting?
1) Your Subject. First, a "field of
view" has to be chosen to paint a
seascape. This means that you
have to restrict your view to the
scenery you want to paint and
exclude the rest.

5. A good way to use a
view finder is by
cutting a 3"x 1" opening in a piece
of cardboard and holding this at
arms length explore the seascape
scene you want to paint.

6. 2) Lines. When you begin your
painting the first line is that of
the horizon. Place the line of the
horizon at three fourth a distance
from the top. Loosely define the
lines to bring out the basic
contour of the foam or spray in
your seascape painting.

7. 3) Backdrops. Paint large areas of
colors such as, the sky and the land,
in your seascape. These elements
define the sea and bring out the
contrast. One important point to be
taken care of is that the sky is more
or less of the same hue as that of the
sea. The land that brackets the sea in
a seascape painting generally
contrasts with the color of the sea.

8. 4) Foam. The foam wave spray of
the sea is the defining part of a
seascape painting. The most
common mistake that occurs
while painting the Spray
(especially with oil paints) is to
define it very strongly with
closing brush strokes.

9. These calculated brush strokes
give a very heavy appearance to
the Waves and they look like
puffed cotton. The trick to avoid
this mistake is to look closely at
the direction of the spray and not
the volume. Use your brush to
"spray" while coloring in the
direction of the wave and not
being too firm about it.

10. 5) Practice. It is advised that you
try numerous water color
sketches or pencil sketches of the
waves before you begin painting
your seascape.
Now let's watch Australia born
artist Jason Bowen as he paints a
seascape before our very eyes.

11. “Remember It Is Not
What You Know, But
What You Do With
What You Know!?
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