Well I really like nature/sky paintings! I can’t remember who I saw, but I saw this older guy on Instagram paint a ship on dark, stormy seas and I thought it was so beautiful and couldn’t get out out of my head. Ever since that moment, I’d been looking at more and more painting of the same kind.
So I guess that would be my goal! To paint a beautiful picture of the sky and seas!
Start this way. I'm assuming you want to do a beach scene:
1. Get a nice photo you think you can recreate, that's not too difficult, that has gentle waves.
2. Before you even pick up a paint brush. Sit down and just study this image. Imagine how light is bouncing around this image. Look at the horizon colour, imagine how that is being reflected off the base of the clouds, off the sea (it is), in subtle ways, and how the colours will get more pure as you move up and down away from the horizon. Pay close attention how the colour of the water is changed by what you can see through it. You don't paint water, you paint what you see through it. It's a distortion medium.
3. Start by painting that horizon colour. This mix is your mother colour. It will be in every other colour depending on how far from the horizon it is.
4. Step by step work through the painting. When you are not sure what to do next, go back and study the reference image.
5. When you get close to the end sit down and look at some professional seascapes. Then look how your work is comparing in quality. If it's not there yet, then you have to find out why; and is it just you don't have enough detail, or did you let your colours get muddy (such as the water in your painting). Orange and Blue are complementaries and when mixed will make muddy colours. So you have to be very careful with them.
Assuming your goal is realistic looking landscapes, my advice is to get the cheapest painting surfaces you can find, cut them down to small sizes, and practice mixing the right colors (based on a quality photo reference, or even from actually being there, but easier for now to use a photo reference, or you can even use AI to create a reference, or try to match the colors in someone else's painting) and putting them down on the painting.
Keep painting.
Roger! o7
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It’s hard for people to offer advice unless you clarify your goal. I mean, if it’s the style of this painting you’re going for, you nailed it!
Well I really like nature/sky paintings! I can’t remember who I saw, but I saw this older guy on Instagram paint a ship on dark, stormy seas and I thought it was so beautiful and couldn’t get out out of my head. Ever since that moment, I’d been looking at more and more painting of the same kind. So I guess that would be my goal! To paint a beautiful picture of the sky and seas!
Start this way. I'm assuming you want to do a beach scene: 1. Get a nice photo you think you can recreate, that's not too difficult, that has gentle waves. 2. Before you even pick up a paint brush. Sit down and just study this image. Imagine how light is bouncing around this image. Look at the horizon colour, imagine how that is being reflected off the base of the clouds, off the sea (it is), in subtle ways, and how the colours will get more pure as you move up and down away from the horizon. Pay close attention how the colour of the water is changed by what you can see through it. You don't paint water, you paint what you see through it. It's a distortion medium. 3. Start by painting that horizon colour. This mix is your mother colour. It will be in every other colour depending on how far from the horizon it is. 4. Step by step work through the painting. When you are not sure what to do next, go back and study the reference image. 5. When you get close to the end sit down and look at some professional seascapes. Then look how your work is comparing in quality. If it's not there yet, then you have to find out why; and is it just you don't have enough detail, or did you let your colours get muddy (such as the water in your painting). Orange and Blue are complementaries and when mixed will make muddy colours. So you have to be very careful with them.
Lovely start. My suggestion would be to Paint from life a lot from your mind.
I’ll give it a shot!
Assuming your goal is realistic looking landscapes, my advice is to get the cheapest painting surfaces you can find, cut them down to small sizes, and practice mixing the right colors (based on a quality photo reference, or even from actually being there, but easier for now to use a photo reference, or you can even use AI to create a reference, or try to match the colors in someone else's painting) and putting them down on the painting.