How to Paint Water On A Beach - Mural Joe

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so to start things off I'm going to do a basic seascape I'll start making my horizon and I'm going to try to keep things as simple as possible so I'm just going to use blue and white for my overall water color in this scene now on the horizon I'm going to mix some red with that that's the only place in this that I'm going to use any red because in the deep water in an ocean there might be a coral reef here that the light bounces off of the bottom it turns the water more green a bright turquoise green hue but in the deep water that that's not the case and so where there's less green there's more red now I'm going to speed through this so that I can do a good example for you and then I'm just going to kind of fine tune it off camera so don't get mad at me for that when you're doing a gradient this is a gradient where you fade from one color to the next you get here you do two colors at a time you get your starting color and you get the color you want to go to and then you blend them together so I want to use this color on the horizon and then I want to use a blue and white mix toward the middle I want it to get lighter and lighter as it goes down so let me show you I use this four inch roller I always roll this on at this 45-degree angle because it smears it and rolls it at the same time which causes it not to splatter and it helps to mix it okay so you see I have two colors once I have the two colors on then I can come back with my brush and blend them together all right so now I'm going to start putting this lighter color on here we're getting a lighter lighter lighter I have a few light spots in here I'm just going to leave them maybe I'll fix them later if I feel like - and I'm going to start up here on this darker water and just start making some waves and the key here is that I get nice feathered edges they taper out smaller smaller as they taper and I try to stay very similar with all of my angles I don't suddenly do one in an angle that nothing elses because that tells your eyes something's very strange is going on you no longer on planet Earth and I'm just doing these swooping motions now sometimes I do the frown sometimes I do the smile sometimes I build a frown out of smiles now if I just take this color and I just want a level spot maybe maybe this water isn't completely let maybe it's not even maybe the same thing is not going on on everywhere so if I just if I just make a spot that just has a lot of solid color that tells you that that's got very little waves going that's a level spot on the water so you see I'm using this color to communicate to your to your eyes what shapes are in this translucent water so now that I've taken all this time to make all these pretty waves in here I'm going to paint a big old wave right over the front of it okay so bright green right ruin it but we need to have more green in this because as this water is brightened by the Sun it's going to become more and more green it may not be a true green just more green than the water that's darker darker at the base you want it to drop right down into that into that blue color there and I think need to use more pink ooh I like that bluer tone it's greener than this bluer than this I like this looks good too this looks good too we'll do a compromise between the two the white water pure white but it's not going to be pure because I got all this green and blue in my brush but it's wider than anything else in the picture so I'm just going to start moving my brush in the direction that I want this to go I hope you swoop in my brush just like it's just piling over here we'll say that it's it's starting to break right here here we'll just a little bit now they don't have the same I've seen a lot of waves that were where the artist made it breaking evenly across the whole wave and I just I just don't think that looks as good it's nice if you make it breaking in some areas but not others so now I've established like four or five different rows of colors that I can systematically go through in order to make a breaking wave the bright white water the shadow of the white water the shadow cast on the wave that's not white water then the highly saturated bright color coming through the wave then the shadow that's cast on the surface of the water it's one two three four five stripes of color that you just kind of stagger across and if you just get those colors right it's amazing how quickly it starts to look like one of these crashing waves now I need to pay attention I made my waves I mean I don't need to but it's good if I do because then I can go with the shapes that I made so like this is a wave so maybe it comes down then up again down see so if you follow the shapes that you've made you stay consistent with this what you've created and it's going to look a lot better for you so maybe this ramps up and then down again right here maybe up and then down again because I have my shadow color established for white water so if I have this white seafoam then I'll just continue I'll just continue these up I'll try to connect it so that I need to find the lines and connect them right here we'll say that that I purposely made this curved so that I can make a wave kind of rolling back out or like a little one that just you know they overlap each other okay so you get all this white water right here this is where the shadow becomes a lot more important so this is coming up on wet sand so you can get both a shadow and a reflection causing a lot of times that real hard edge they're real defined little shadow maybe all what colors are use yeah one thing I can assure you is that my painting is wrong they always are what's fun is the little things that are right and the difference that it makes you know it's always a learning experience so feel free to paint a million wrong paintings and join the club one thing that can really help with the realistic quality of these four grounds waves breaking on the shore here is putting a shadow underneath these little strands of seafoam here I'm going to paint this wherever I see the seafoam I'm just going to leave maybe this amount of space under it and then bring that color all the way down to the top of the other of the other bits of seafoam that I made now this could take forever to do a real clean job so I'll do a kind of a messy job and then just come back to it and fix any way that I messed up the white making it flush with the little strands of seafoam on on the top edges but then leaving space on the lower edges so that it has the appearance in the shadows the point of this this video series is not to just load you up with a bunch of brush techniques I mean those I mean these are mine it's pointless to try to be just like somebody else you know you'll get the most value out of out of just gaining knowledge and ability and then applying it to your own preferences and techniques I mean invent something better than mine I'm going to change mine in a couple weeks I always do so I try to steer people away from just copying my techniques even though I always feel really proud when people say that they use my you know that something helped or it's like you know I try to encourage an adventurous approach a little bit of whitewater right here to finish this off just make this just a little list bit you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: muraljoe

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Keywords: Mural (Visual Art Form), How-to (Media Genre), Beach, Paint, waves, water, ocean, seascape, scene, Painting, Acrylics, Acrylic Paint (Visual Art Medium)

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Length: 11min 20sec (680 seconds)

Published: Sun May 25 2014