Tidy St/Life’s a beach - Contemporary Landscape Painting lesson

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Life’s a beach - Contemporary Landscape Painting lesson

Contents

Preparing your canvas (or surface)

Lucie explains how to prepare a canvas, as well as takes you through some other alternative surfaces to paint on.
Preparing your canvas
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What to use if you don't have a canvas

Choosing your image + photos to paint from

Lucie explains how to choose an image.

She's also included a selection of photos she's handpicked for you to paint from to help you get started. 
Choosing your image
Photo option 1
Photo option 2
Photo option 3
Photo option 4
Photo option 5
Photo option 6
Photos to paint from

Understanding your colours - a focus on blue

Lucie helps you understand different blues, and how to mix them to match to sky in your beach scene.
Get to know the blues
Mix 3 blues to match your sky

Painting your scene

With your image chosen, your canvas prepped, your blues mastered, Lucie walks you through the next steps to build up your beach scene. 
Creating a blend with your 3 blue tones
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Painting your clouds
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Adding shadow to your clouds
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Clouds continued
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Adding high lights to the clouds
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Adding shadow and colour nuance to the clouds
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Mixing your sea colours
Using Masking tape to create a horizon and painting on your sea
How to mix your sand colours
Painting your beach
Adding high lights to the waves whilst the sea is wet
Blending your beach with your sea
Adding waves wet on wet
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Adding the finishing touches to your waves

Finishing details

Mixing the colours for any figures on your beach
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Painting figures onto your beach scene
Second demo with slightly dodgy camera work
Creating waves on shallow water that look like lace part 1
Using a rigger to create details on waves
How paint grass in your beach scene