Pick up some pure sand color on your brush and apply it to the bottom part of the canvas (all the way to the bottom) using back and forth strokes. Clean off your brush with water to make sure its clean.This will create a gorgeous warm green color (which will come below the waves in later steps). Blend the sand color up into the green portion of the ocean (using back and forth strokes). Without cleaning off your brush, pick up some of this sand color and apply it below the green ocean. Add more white to your mix until you are happy with the sand color. Mix sand color on your palette by mixing equal parts cadmium yellow, burnt umber and white.If you have a spray bottle with water, mist the green paint you just painted in the last step with a couple sprays of water to keep it from drying out.MAke sure to leave aa little less than 1/3 of canvas below it blank. The goal here is to green a slightly lighter version of green compared to the section above. Lighten it right on canvas with some white. Without cleaning of your brush paint another section of phthalo green below the blue.The goal here is to create a slightly lighter ultramarine blue compared to the blue at the horizon. Without cleaning off brush pick up some ultramarine blue and add a small section of blue below the green.Don't lighten it too much because we want to save a lighter version of this color for further down. Paint right over top the phthalo green to make a lighter seam-foam green color. Without cleaning off your brush, pick up some white on your brush.The next step we will lighten the color by adding some white over top it. Using back and froth strokes add the green below the blue. Without cleaning off your brush, pick up some phthalo green on your brush.Also we want to make sure the ocean is darker than the sky- this will give a beautiful contrast effect at the horizon Things are darker the further in the distance they are, so we want to make sure the ocean at the horizon is still nice and dark. Make sure to leave some dark ultramarine blue close to the horizon. Without cleaning off your brush pick up some white on your brush and blend the blue with some white.Pick up more ultramarine blue and paint in the top portion of the ocean using the same back and forth strokes.I'll show you a trick at the end of this tutorial on how to make a clean straight line at the end. ![]() Don't worry if it's uneven at this point. Using the chiseled edge of brush create a straight line at the horizon. Clean off your brush in water then pick up some pure ultramarine blue. The color at the horizon should be a very pale blue (almost white) Keep picking up white on your brush and blending in your sky with back and forth strokes until you get to the masking tape (horizon). ![]() Use back and forth horizontal strokes to blend the blue and white.
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