Life’s a beach - Contemporary Landscape Painting lesson
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Preparing your canvas (or surface)

Preparing your canvas
What to use if you don't have a canvas
Choosing your image + photos to paint from

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

Get to know the blues
Mix 3 blues to match your sky
Painting your scene

Creating a blend with your 3 blue tones
Painting your clouds
Adding shadow to your clouds
Clouds continued
Adding high lights to the clouds
Adding shadow and colour nuance to the clouds
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
Adding the finishing touches to your waves
Finishing details

Mixing the colours for any figures on your beach
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

Preparing your canvas

Lucie shows you how to prepare a yellow ground on your canvas or alternative surface.