PAINTING TUTORIAL Acrylic Ocean Waves for Beginners | Debbie Avoux

hi I'm Debbie welcome to my studio today we are going to be painting this crashing wave design I'm gonna walk you through every step along the way I have a list of supplies down below so grab those and please join me and if you haven't already please consider subscribing if you hit that subscribe button there's going to be a little bell that pops up next to that hit the bell and you will get notified every time I upload a new video [Music] [Music] okay so we're gonna start off just sketching out with your pencil waveshape so you're just gonna do a little scoop up yeah this doesn't have to be exactly like this but something similar and we're gonna just skip down and go up again for our colors we've got our cadmium yellow magenta primary blue or brilliant blue and white we always use just these basic colors when I'm doing a tutorial because I want to make it as easy as possible for you to mix your colors so I would highly highly recommend I'm working on a color mixing video right now I'm gonna put the link above as soon as I get it finished and watch that video and practice mixing colors if you're not familiar with mixing colors especially especially when you're using acrylic paint because it's so important to know how to mix the exact color that you want because acrylic paints dry so fast you're gonna have to go back in and remix your colors a lot so with oil paint the colors last wait longer they don't dry they take forever to dry so if you mix a color it's gonna stay wet for quite a while but with acrylics you have to be great with mixing your colors okay so we're going to start off using my five-eighths angular brush and we're gonna do the background part first so this is gonna be kind of a blueish green color let's start with a scoop of blue it's Google what yellow and let's just mix that together we're gonna make a little bit of a greenish shade and let's just see what that looks like that's a little bit too turquoisey so the way we're going to neutralize it kind of tone it down a little bit we're going to take a little magenta and let's mix it [Music] I'm still a little too turquoise we take a little more magenta and it kind of helps when you spread it out if you're using one of these pallets paper pallet Pat's it's like wax paper so if you spray or if you're using a styrofoam white plate this will work to kind of spread it out and you can see the colors in there if it's too turquoise once you feel it on there you can kind of see that it's gonna be really turquoise we don't want to go quite that turquoise let's take a little more yellow a little more magenta we want to get kind of a deep greenish blue [Music] let's take a little bit of white when you add a little bit of white you can really see what the shade truly is and that's a little more turquoise than he wants but some more magenta in it and that's toning it down a bit because we want we don't want this part back here to be stand out too much you want that to kind of fade back because the main focus is gonna be on the wave so that'll be good for now we're gonna do a lot of layers of color so go ahead and get that on there this base color isn't that important because we're gonna be doing so many layers of color so you just want to get any color they're blocked in and it will add to it gradually [Music] [Music] I'm sure you paint the edges of your canvas too if you're using a gallery wrapped canvas like this for the slides will show you want to paint all the edges so that is definitely a wave more turquoisey green than I want it's beautiful but that's not really the color I'm going for so I'm going to take some more blue just mix it right into that pile a little bit of white and let's see what we get so now it's a little too bright blue we wanted to tone it down a little bit let's take a little yellow and a little magenta [Music] okay we're going to just add some streaks keeping these horizontal we're just getting some more variation in the water just lots of streaks you want some of those other colors to show through that's what we're gonna do lots of layers so it gives them a lot more depth because if you look at the ocean you see tons of different colors in the water without realizing you look out there you just think it's blue but you'll see hundreds of colors okay let's take a little bit of white and we're just gonna answer the streaks of white we don't want them to stay this white because we want that background to fade out so we're gonna blend this in but again keeping it very streaky horizontal streaks there can be some short streaks some long streaks keeping it as horizontal as you can if we were doing very close up if we wanted this to be more in the foreground you'd be doing big swells and big curves and waves but we're not doing that I want it to be kicked back as if it's way for the back so keep it keep it as horizontal as you can wait don't blend it all in so it's solid you want to see different shades different colors this is still a little too turquoise looking for me so I'm going to bring in a little more of a grayish greenish blue so let's take a little more blue and some yellow and I'm not even cleaning off my brush so that way we have a little mix of that and this mixed together never get more of a greenish tone it's been a little magenta to neutralize it mute it down no it's a little too purpley I'm going to take a little more yellow now we're getting kind of a deep greenish shade tomorrow yellow you can see some green in there now let's do some streaks of green I'm just lightly brushing my dragging my brush across so it's kind of feathering that color in to the other colors yeah uh-huh a lot more of this dark deep greenish color in here okay we're gonna take some of that we're gonna take a break from that for a little bit let it dry a little bit take some more of this dark greenish mix that we did and we're gonna bring a little bit of this down below the curve of the wave I'm just gonna go up a little bit and we're just blocking in some color right now and I want this more of a deeper darker green so this is a little too bluish green for me let's take a scoop of yellow big scoop of yellow mix it in let's take a little bit of dark blue the primary blue and a little bit of magenta start with just a tiny bit no way to add more later that's really gonna darken up that green that's more like it okay so we're gonna do a that stripe right right hold it under that curve and learn across just get that color on there get your edges don't forget your edges [Music] and then I'm doing brushstrokes coming up like this because we're gonna have the water sort of flowing up like this and then it's gonna fold over so I'm applying the brushstrokes in the direction that the water is gonna be flowing so this is going to be part of a deeper shade like the shadow and then we're gonna get lighter and lighter and lighter and then it's gonna fold over and then down here it's gonna be lighter because the sky is hitting this surface so this is like flat here and then right when it curves up it'll start to get darker so just take your brush and sort of swing it in the direction of the way of going this way now we're gonna get a little lighter green so let's take a little bit of white and we'll just take our dirty brush and a little bit of that dark green we had now this is too minty looking just adding white so we want a little more yellow brought in because the water when the light shine through it's gonna have those greens shining through since that's about good more of a yellowish green and we're just gonna add going in the same direction just where the wet part ends right here or where that dark green ends or that wet paint is we're gonna blend right into the bottom edge or the top edge sorry from the dark green and we're just gonna pull in so we're picking out picking up a little bit of that dark green as we're swiping upwards and go up not quite to the top cause we're gonna go even lighter up there almost to the top it's your hedges and then let's make sure this has a little bit better transition transition so don't have too much paint on your brush wipe off bunch of it wipe off as much as you can and then just very lightly you're gonna feather your brush just for the light touch I'm just dragging it back and forth it's okay if it's not perfectly smooth and blended it's actually a little bit better if you have a little bit of dark and a little bit of light mixed in on those two parts because when you see that wave folding over you're gonna see the little thing is floating in the water and so seeing those different shades will just add to the realistic feel of it then we're gonna be going back in on this too so pretty much nothing we're doing on these first layers is gonna be the final look that we have so don't worry too much if it doesn't look exactly like you want it to look okay now we're gonna go a little bit lighter so it's take a little more white and a little more yellow and notice how I'm kind of working my way this way so I'm not mixing up the old pile cuz you kind of want to be able to go back and remember what colors you mixed so you can see where you were and how you mix that shade that'll help you just put a little more yellow in here and you can see how we start darker and then we get lighter and lighter and then let's add a little bit of that lighter right up to that top edge there and just go right up to the edge for now [Music] and then again do that little feathering technique when they get into that darker shade of green there this really light touch just got to make that sound effect when you do it it else and I want to bring in a little more light and a little more yellow take a little more yellow a little more white and go really light just among the top edge that's really yellow that's okay let's start with that we can always go back in and just want a little bit right along that top part fade it down [Music] we're gonna be going back in and adding more to this lighter wave also okay I forgot we should have done this while we had the colors that's okay let's start with the lighter and we're gonna add that lighter color oops got some dark on my brush that's okay add that lighter color right along that top edge [Music] it's okay we got some of that dark in there or I did hopefully you didn't but no big deal it's acrylic paint so when it dries we could just paint right over it or just blend it looks like it's gonna blend in just fine let me do opposite will work lighter to darker now I'll take a little bit of that next green kind of rub it into so don't leave a little bit of space don't go all the way down to this edge just leave a little bit of space showing so we'll know where that way it's gonna go and again just feather it back and forth now for this direction so this water is going up up like this but then this is gonna curve and come over so doing your brushstrokes in this direction is what you want to do for this part of the way--the let's bring in some of that darker just a little bit of that darker along this edge because the paint's wet it's blending in and getting it a little bit lighter than we want that's okay so we'll go back in afterwards and darken it up if we want just lightly feather it up and again if you use your brush very lightly and just kind of fling it up you'll get these nice streaks and it'll look like the waters flowing over so I'm just lightly lightly flicking my brush up and you're getting all these little lines so you want to let your brushes do the work for you if you can and I'm holding my brush so the pointy part of the brush is down I'm just using that tip of the brush to create a few extra streaks going again in this direction [Music] and again we're gonna be going back in adding a lot more detail to all the parts and you can see the canvas showing through the dark green here you don't want that canvas showing through so we're gonna go in and do another layer of that dark color I'm going to clean off my brush and dry it off so it's not too wet if your brush is too wet then you're gonna have really see-through paint it's gonna be very transparent we don't want that one a little bit thicker so we're gonna probably need to mix more of this dark green color because I am just about out of it right here yeah let's mix some more so let's take a scoop of blue and scoop it yellow some more blue than yellow and then a little bit of that magenta to darken it up and you mute it down yeah it's really dark that's a little too dark stick some more yellow and that might be good there let's just bring a little bit of that it's even a little darker and it's gonna look a little bit darker when you paint on top of the layer because here the ping was that canvas was showing through so it looks lighter so let's just do another layer that dark Ryan on top of there and a lot of this detail along the edge it's gonna get it all covered up when we do the big splashing wave so don't worry about that little more dark up into the wave again keeping your brushstrokes in this direction and now the problem is this is dry so it's not gonna blend in there and that's the thing with acrylics a lot of people hate that about acrylics that they dry so fast if this was oil paints this would be wet so you could keep blending but acrylic sir I like them because they do dry fast but when you're trying to blend that's when it gets a little frustrating but that's okay let's just take a little this is why it's important to know how to mix your colors really well we're gonna mix up a little more of that lighter green shade so we're gonna take a scoop of yellow and just a little bit of white take out a little bit of that darker you mix it in there and then we're gonna do a little bit of that next shade of green and actually this time I went a little more yellow but I like it and if you want to just dip your brush in the water just a teeny little dip just to get a little bit wet you don't want it really wet then that's gonna drip you don't want it to drip but the I think a little bit of water will help you blend a little better okay baby that just flicking it up in that direction we talked about a little bit over here you can also use a glazing medium which is great for when you're drying or when you're blending into a dry paint just like we were doing right there the glazing medium it will make your paint a little bit more transparent and flow better so you can go right on top of the the medium green and it'll be sort of see-through in part so you can it's just easier to blend it we might pull some of that out later I'm not sure yet and you can learn about that on I have a video where I talk about it's a two minute tip video so it's a really quick video and I explain how to blend acrylics so be a good idea to watch that if you're unfamiliar with it and there is a explanation of the glazing medium and I do a little sample so I'll put a link up above you can click on that and watch that it's really helpful okay so now I need to do then lighter color but you might have a little bit of that wet paint on your palate still do the next shade lighter we're just gonna go right along this edge and this actually it doesn't bother me this is a little bit dry because some of this I barely have any paint on my brush and a little bit of this dry brush running on top of that green the medium green it will actually add a lot of cool detail and I'll start to give your wave a lot of depth and look like there's things floating in there and a couple shades of that lighter green mixed in see how it's kind of patchy looking that'll be cool and let's take a little bit of white and I move it yellow more you get it and add just a little bit on that top part you want the very lightest part to really look like this sun shining right through there you can just do little smudges here and there along the top give it look like there's stuff floating in there and shining through okay we'll be going back in there again I'm sure of it get your brush a little bit wet you put some of that light light yellow white and yellow now I'm having my brush a little more wet here and I'm wiping off most of paint so I just barely have any watered down paint on my brush just barely any and I'm gonna hold my brush so the pointy part of my brush is facing to the left and we're gonna come along the top here and we're just gonna fling you can curve your brush we're going in this direction kind of curving over so it looks like that water is just cascading over and very lightly I'm just flinging my brush down a little bit from the top see I'm just kind of flicking it so go along the top edge and then fling it down I'm curving it while I'm doing it I'm just doing it fast so it gets this pointy wispy edge to it inaho my brush and you want this nice and light and have it come down about halfway and some points you just want those little pointy parts and then again a few after you do it with the brush flat use the pointy part of the Russian you can do a few longer streaks just to get some of those feeling of the wave really crashing forward like it's see-through like you can see right into it we'll be going back into that later to add another layer of a lighter lighter shade of that okay let's work down here now we're gonna take let's take a little bit of that dark green again and add a little bit down along the bottom it's just a thin layer of its kind of watered down more water on my brush let's don't so take a little if you hopefully you have some of this that bluish color we made it's kind of a grayish French blue look let's add some of that down here too and I have it thinned out scuff bunch of water mixed in so it's gonna flow across the canvas a little easier yours gonna be thick it doesn't matter this doesn't have to be thinned out but that's what mine's got going on right now we're gonna do a lot of layers of color down here we're starting with some of the dark green and some of the bluish gray color [Music] [Music] catch fire okay so now we're gonna take a little more of that blueish gray color that we made let's just add a little bit of that streaking that into some of that dark green keep it streaky and take a little more of that dark green and we're going to start to curve it up a little bit like in this direction so this is going to be flat and it's going to curve up curve up dark green okay we're gonna go back up to the top you don't need to have to clean off your brush we're gonna take a little bit of white mix it into some of that blue if you still have it let's just go ahead and make a little more in case yours ran out take a scoop of white a little bit of blue a little bit of magenta mix that up and let's take a little bit of yellow so we're going for a lighter version of this darker blue color well we don't want to be too bright so right now this is a very turquoise II blue so let's take a little more magenta and a little more yellow yeah there's nowhere near the color we want but it's kind of a muted down grayish mauve color which will be a good start take a little more blue whenever you mix all three colors that's gonna tone it down kind of gray it up a little bit so it won't be so bright and since that's in the distance that's what we want to do okay take a little more blue you know we're gettin closer so this is kind of a grayish blue color let's check that out that would be good okay so I'm going to wash off my brush because I have so much paint on it right now I get a fresh clean start nice clean brush and then with just a little bit of water on your brush you're gonna mix a little bit of water into that color and we're just gonna again doing horizontal streaks and you want this watered down a little bit so that way it's not going to get too too bright it's gonna tone it down a little bit it's very thin layer of paint and we're just gonna add streaks long and short streaks keeping them horizontal she's kind of spread out all over because you want some of these dark tones to still show through you don't want to cover all of that dark base up you just want to add streaks of some lighter and again by adding the water it's not going to get too bright it's very watered down and I'm using kind of the flat side of my brush sometimes that gives it a little more texture you don't want to look like perfect stripes you don't want perfect lines so we're doing some skinny lines some flatter parts of the brush so you get a lot more layers and dimension back there and then fading in so I'm kind of blending it together I said I wanted to look to texture II otherwise it's going to draw too much attention to it so we want it kind of subtle and blend it and if it's wet enough now you can come over it and blend it in a little bit a little water and if we get too many streaks and it's too busy we'll just go back in we'll add a little more the dark it's okay so don't freak out if it's not looking just like mine hopefully it's looking better that's that's cool you do a better version that I'm doing that's great I would love to see pictures I would love when people send me pictures of their tutorials that they've done okay so right now I wanted a little more blended I'm gonna take a little more of this be careful getting up to that edge of your wave there I'm gonna do some more layers so it's not so many darks and lights standing off so much little bits of the dark shine showing through but not such a contrast we're getting there [Music] and here my dog snoring in the background that's poet [Music] holy cow your love this one he's very lazy he pretty much sleeps all day [Music] it's very funny [Music] you still down over there okay it's looking pretty good I think I want to bring it a little bit of the green though just take a tiny bit of some of your green the dark green if you have it I'm watering it down a little bit I'm just gonna here and there add a few streaks of that but you want it to blend it you don't want to stand out right now it's really standing out because I used kind of a brighter green which I wanted to find the dark green but I don't have any left on my palette here so that's okay I'm just gonna blend in a few little bits you're in there actually I'm gonna make the darker green this one's a little too bright so I'm taking some magenta some blue and some yellow again same mix we did before the dark green there's a dark and just wear some of those darker spots are and take a little bit we're gonna blend it in though don't move it make dark spots like that to have a few areas parish I'm drying my brush off and then so my brush is just a little bit damp and I'm just gonna drag my brush over the wet spots of green paint just because I want to tie in a little bit of that green since we have so much green here just a little bit [Music] I'm just doing a very thin watered down green shade you want to swing off my brush [Music] that's doctrine the more layers of color you have back here the more depth that's gonna have and the more realistic it's gonna get you don't want to just have blue and a light blue that would look very amateur that's why we've got some green in there some dark blue in there some greyish blue but you also don't want the colors to be too many different variations of brightness there all right now very much in the same range of tone so if you squint your eyes you're not gonna see a huge contrast if you look at your opinion right now squint your eyes you're gonna see major contrast between the white and the green you don't want to see that back there because that's supposed to be in the distance further back you're not supposed to really notice a whole lot of detail back there and that's why by keeping all those colors in the same muted tone that's gonna help kick it back it's gonna give it lots of depth when you look closely but it's not gonna stand out from afar okay so I'm gonna get my brush wet again I'm gonna take a little more of that lighter color we did that light French greyish blue color and I'm gonna go back over and add a few more bits of that here and there since we did some of that green go back in with this after this go over some of those green areas a bit serum again keep these streaks pretty flat and horizontal not away being Kirby [Music] [Music] and then every once in a while step back take a look at it oh it's good to step back often because you get so busy and you're up close on your painting I've done that before I'm painting for like four hours straight and I forget to step back and look at something and when I do find my step back and look if there's certain parts that are so obvious that I didn't catch when I was up up close on it so you need to step back it's really important and you'll notice way more imperfections and things you want to fix early on which is better than after four hours of into it so these again these lighter grayish blue tones over adding these are just going to help kick it back send it into the distance and add another layer [Music] and okay that's good for now we can always go back into it later clean off your bench and actually you don't need to clean off your brush we're going to use that same color waters down if you didn't already I'm starting to run out of if at all try to get what I can out there so again you want this to be very watered down and we're gonna come down here we're gonna add some of that seafoam stuff that you see at the base of the shoreline and I'm holding my brush with that pointy part facing in the to the left again and I'm holding my brush kind of flat right along flat against the canvas using like the this edge this edge of the brush holding it flat and I'm gonna do some swervy how do I describe this like flat streaky lines that are very watered-down I'm going horizontal but also a little bit of curve you're gonna do some of these picture like an oval stretched out if you were to look straight down on the water you might see some like kind of circular oval patterns but we're looking at it at an angle so it's gonna be very flattened out and so like if this was a circle kind of stretched stretched out you want some of that going on we don't want it to look too shaky and obvious that we're making big circle patterns I'm just going to keep it really loose and you're gonna do streaks along the bottom some fat some skinny just sort of not being too worried about it and by using the flat part of the brush you're gonna you won't be so concerned with making these perfect little lines it's gonna kind of do what its gonna do just adding streaks along the bottom we're going to do a lot of layers of this so don't worry too much on this first round just dragging my brush across horizontally you don't want to go up yet you want to keep this very flat [Music] and you wanted to the reason why I added quite a bit of water to it is you want some parts of the paint to stand out a little more some to be a little more faded out and by having that water in there as you're dragging it out it's going to lighten up in part it's going to be a little bit thicker paint in other parts that's going to give more variation and interest [Music] okay now we're gonna start to curve it up a little bit let's take a little more of that color and I'm gonna take my brush and I'm just gonna lightly go up like this [Music] [Applause] and then you could do a little bit of veining and again keep this fairly watered down so you want this to be really subtle so with the veining I take the tip of my brush sort of create just like things like a little branch growing off the other one we don't want this to be too bright because you want to be kind of faded back later on we're gonna just see a hint of it it's not gonna be a strong detail so let's and watering it down it's gonna help also if it's watered down you're not going to be so committed to it so if you don't like what you did once it dries if it's very watered down it's gonna sort of disappear into the painting a little bit so I just created a little bit of a circular shape there and you can connect some of these veins to each other they want to do too much of this when I keep this kind of subtle but just keep and make sure it's curving it's gonna make it more and I'm kind of creating like one of those open ovals sort of spreading open as this curves up look at pictures of ocean the ocean water when it hits the shore if you're not really understanding what I'm saying because I'm not describing it very well look at some pictures of the foam that hits the shore or go to the beach and really observe it and you'll see these shapes that get made that'll help I always have pictures of photos next to me when I'm painting so I can have good reference it's really important to have good reference when you're painting you want to even if you're not doing a realistic painting you want to use a real photo you want to see exactly what the oceans doing and see how it reacts when the waves are coming in and how the light of the sky affects it and how that foam hits the shore and the shapes it makes that's gonna help you don't fake it ever you can tell a painting when somebody didn't use real reference most times because the people try to fake it it just doesn't look this wrong you might think you know but sometimes you're surprised how things actually that's it for now so it should be very subtle because we thinned it out and we used a shade of this French gray that was just a little bit lighter than the base color is gonna keep it subtle we're gonna go back in brighten up some of the areas now okay and we don't wanna bring that all the way up but just kind of want to fade and it just sort of disappears now let's take a little bit of white and mix it into that French gray blue that we had and I just ran out so I gotta make some more some it take a little bit of blue a little bit of 20 bit of yellow a little bit of magenta way too much blue take a little more magenta mixing about white and see when you add the white then you can really see if you're at the right shade or not mmm sticks more white and that's very bright see when we add the white you can see how bright that blue is so let's tone it down a little bit let's mix the rest of this in there yeah well to blue let's take a little bit of yellow [Music] okay so I think we're at that we're pretty much at that that gray French gray kind of color now I will take more white more light we just want to go a little bit lighter than what we had last time okay now I have way too much paint on my brush it's gonna be way too thick if I pay with that somebody clean out my brush and with that wet brush mix that water into your lighter gray so we thin it out again it's very thin you don't want to too much water where it's gonna drip see how that's really wet it's gonna start to drip mix a little bit more paint in there if it's too too too wet but we do want it fairly wet and out okay so we're gonna just go over the same thing we did before we're just gonna do another layer just a little bit lighter than the last time and this is gonna start to create a lot more layer and depth to this part doing the same technique just kind of keeping it loose draggin your brush across reading that foamy look [Music] keeping it very horizontal horizontal or a zonal horizontal horizontal sorry I don't know I can't talk [Music] okay so just do it another layer with the lighter and then blow it up a little bit keep this very subtle you don't need to go over everything if you can't see your first layer of that foamy stuff going up then you can add a little bit with this but if it's really bright already don't don't do too much let's just keep it very subtle at first we might go back in later and brighten up some parts but for now we're just gonna leave it very subtle [Music] turn it up a little bit there you can just top a little bit here and there on some parts [Music] okay now we're gonna add a little more light to that mix again keeping it watered down and we're gonna do it again a little bit brighter we don't want to go bright white you never want to go pure bright white until the very last step right now this might look white but it's not you can see here it's very blue I'll put some white next to this there's white you can see the difference so in the end this it's gonna be it won't look bright white right now it looks pretty white but trust me it's not and then again by using the this edge of my brush I'm getting a lot of texture here and that's cool that's gonna add a lot of cool detail kind of like using a palette knife getting texture that you don't really plan out just find out pops in there and you don't have complete control over it but it it looks cool then you can have some thicker areas pop in here and there you go the beach that's what you're gonna see you guys see some areas are gonna be really thick some are going to be little drizzles of that [Music] be patient what this takes time [Music] if you mess up don't worry it should be light enough and subtle enough that when you do another layer you won't even really see this part this is just one thin layer and if you hate it all you can paint right over it and start over that's okay I do that all the time no shame and start nope but I encourage you not to start over because you can probably add to it and fix it in most cases that's what you could do oh right big that's about good for now and now because this is a little bit brighter we don't want to bring that brighter up that brighter color up in here anymore cuz we're gonna keep this in shadow so I think that's pretty good for now all right I'm gonna add a little more water to my brush and I'm gonna add a little more white we're gonna go one shade lighter and then with each layer that you're doing this do less and less of this each time so the first layer you want to have the most of those little shapes and smudges all over when you go the next shade lighter you'll do a little bit less then you go lighter a little less and now we're gonna go even lighter and this is just gonna be fit in a few areas so it looks like the Sun is just kind of hitting a few spots here and there same technique just gonna do a little bit less than we had before keep it kind of squiggly and don't compare yours to mine they're all gonna laugh I redid this whole painting mine will look different too because you can't really get this exactly the same each time and that's okay keep it loose [Music] all right a little more on that side maybe a little more down here okay I think that's good for now why not a brush let's go back into this add a little more of that lighter that technique we did here we're gonna go a little lighter now so let's take a little bit away and let's take a teeny bit of yellow do you need to use a teeny bit so it's mostly why it's just gonna be a warm white that's a tiny bit of yellow and water this down again you want this pretty thin and watered holding the pointy part of the brush to the left start at the top wipe off for that paint you want barely anything on your brush because you want the bristles of the brush to really work for you okay so light touch and you're just gonna fling fling it down fling it down going in this direction just along the top so we went further down that last time with these lighter shades coming down now we're gonna go not quite as far down so you're gonna start to see layers building on top of each other I'm gonna go on the top edge filling it down flick your wrist again you don't want it to water this just takes a little practice of exactly how much water you're gonna have in it because you want to be enough water where it's gonna flow easily for you if it's too thick you're not going to get this streaky look with your brush that's why the water really helps thin it out and get you that streaky look and then again you can use the pointy part of the brush and add a few little skinny streaks here and there I would come down a lot further okay go well put them down very little further it's thin enough you'll still see some of these other streaks coming down [Music] [Music] okay let's bring a little bit that the same color very thin and watered down right up here it's breaking this up a little more I'm doing it very subtle just a little bit right towards the top and then I'm just gonna kind of Pat in that color that lighter color a little bit I'm gonna dry my brush off so wipe your brush off on paper towel or towel whatever you have very dry brush and I'm just gonna kind of smash blending in a little that little bit of color that we got it it's kind of adding some texture just smashing a little bit just want to blend it into that second shade of green we have there nice right let's water down your brush a little take a little bit of that yellow and I'm thinning it out so it's very very thin gonna take a little bit that very thinned out yellow and spreading it down a little further and a little more of this light color the way I did a little too much drying your brush off really really well really really well and then I'm just gonna if you went down too far like I think just gonna learn that it because this is all dry having a slightly wet brush shouldn't affect it if it's wet at all it's gonna wipe it away we don't want that and I'm just blending that in at all well now it's starting to lift up so that can be an issue starting to pull up some of the other paint so I'm gonna take a little more of that yellow and drag a little bit of that in there I'm gonna leave that alone because it's starting to lift up some of that paint I'm gonna go back over here I'm gonna take a little bit of that really thinned out watered-down yellow so it's very translucent and I'm gonna add a little bit of streaks of yellow just very thin layers just blend it right on top very very thin water down whoops I got some wine in there okay little bit this is just going to add a little sunshine peeking through there that's okay I actually got tapped a little bit of that white you're like what that's doing there don't you make little mistakes in their happy little mistakes I may end up working out really well okay all right let's clean off your brush now we're gonna add some of these waves crashing all right so for the waves you would think it's just white paint Whitecaps but it's not we're gonna mix kind of a blueish lavender shade so we're gonna take a big scoop of white take a little bit of blue and a tiny bit of magenta just mixing that to the side at first okay now there's that white in there there we have kind of a light blue shade a little blue tiny more blue so we're gonna do we want the shadow of the wave to be the first part that we do and then we're gonna build a lighter and lighter onto that see what we got I think that'll work so it's kind of a light blue there's a tiny bit of magenta in there use a brush that is not a nice doing good one take your messed-up brush for this part because we're really gonna mess some things up here so I probably needed to mix more of that that's okay well mix more later so you just want to smash your brush around and we're gonna smash right along that line that we have there with it waves gonna be so for starters just go right along that edge just smashing your brush you want the bristles of the brush to be kind of wacky and crazy so they'll make a nice textured effect now up here keep this really skinny so you're just gonna tap your brush really lightly because we want it to be very thin and then it's gonna get bigger as it folds over I need to make more of that make a big pile of this because we're gonna need quite a bit so again big scoop white little blue tiny bit of magenta yeah that's even better okay smash you don't want too much paint on your brush because you're not going to get those bristles of your brush sticking out if there's too much paint on your brush so make sure you have barely any paint on your brush because you want to get all that cool texture and you can have some parts kind of sticking out lower some parts popping up a little higher start subtle and we can grow it bigger let's start kind of small like meaning this kind of small and then let's get this part let's use just a tip of the brush make this kind of skinny you know want this to be too thick I should have painted the green further up there I'm on the screen real quick go right up underneath there so this is nice and skinny okay then it's gonna get a little fuller and you're just smashing smash your brush and then smash it on your canvas get it very texturing then I'd like to rather than you don't want to keep it all perfect and contained maybe have a splash coming up here maybe there's another splash kind of popping up over there you want little random parts flinging up you can maybe have this shoot up higher but use the very tip of the brush so you want to make sure you're smashing your brush see the bristles see how they're kind of wacky looking yeah that's perfect you want those little and so just lightly lightly touch on the canvas and you'll get that type of texture see how I'm just barely tapping and then you're gonna get more of that texture so you want little tiny bits because you want little pieces of water flying so really lightly tap over here I was doing it hardcore smashing it cuz it's gonna be a little thicker but when you want those little bits of water kind of doing their own thing you just want little taps very very light tips again you're just gonna look different than mine that's okay just kind of depends where you smash your brush down and everyone so I'll just step back take a look don't go too crazy at first because it's gonna be really hard to erase this if you do mess up and you want to wipe it away you need to make sure this is really dry on the background first so you can take a wet brush and you're just going to rub it and scoop it away with a wet barely wet brush just a damp barely wet brush you couldn't wipe it away while it's still a little bit wet but it's also gonna wipe away your background if it's not really really really dry so take your time with this because you go too far too much it'll just make your wave look bigger but if you do something you know like and then it's really hard to go back and fix it so just work on this slowly do some smudges step back and decide if you want to make it bigger maybe a bigger piece right here if you have that come up higher got a little more solid there okay so you want the center section to be pretty solid you don't want to see that the ocean come in through because this is gonna be like a big thick wave crashing down so do this pretty solid we're gonna do the next layer now I think that's pretty good for starter so this is your base and then we're gonna get a little bit lighter and a little bit lighter as we add more texture and depth to this I think I like that yeah okay so now you're gonna add a little more white I'm gonna do a lighter shade of this you can just mix it right into a little section of that we're going to get a little bit lighter now smash your brush and now we're gonna think about where the light is so I'm gonna picture the light being the upper right corner here so you want the light hitting on the edges so we're gonna go with that a little bit next lighter shade and I'm gonna hit like the right side the right and the top side I'm just gonna smash make sure when you're doing this texture your brush isn't making the exact same pattern you know like back in the 80s when people were doing sponge painting on their walls and you'd see the sponge pattern repeated repeated repeat it you don't want that look you don't want to look like a fake amateur sponge painting bathroom you want to turn your brush different directions so if I was to go like this boom boom boom boom it's the exact same pattern but if I turn my brush different directions I'm gonna get different patterns of the brush you know want to be obvious that we used a brush for this so we're gonna add a little bit's all around keeping it darker on the bottom edge that's where the shadow is the bottom part but you're just basically doing the same technique kind of picture maybe look at pictures and waves to picture when a waves crashing there's like little groups almost kind of like like a bush so if you were to do some lighter areas on this side this would be where the lights hitting it and I'm gonna be shadow on that side maybe you have another little group of the the wave a little wave bush here's maybe a little group a little session of bumpiness I'm not describing that very well again keeping that light touch I need to make a little more of that light touch smash and then texture and this stage kind of like how down here the first darker shade you're gonna have most most of that then when you do the next lighter shade you're gonna do a little bit less and you're just adding texture you don't want it to grow too much bigger keep it in the same area where you did that first layer but we're just adding little bits of lighter texture keep it real subtle here you know what to get too thick just kind of adding a little more texture all over you can do a little bit down here but don't cover up all that dark area you want some areas to be a little bit lighter okay now we're gonna go a little bit lighter take a little more weight not pure white yet we're gonna do a very light but not pure white so you have that shade getting a little lighter and now a little later smash it up that smash it and we're just gonna do you might have too much paint on your brush you might you just clean it off and start fresh dry it off first though and just little bits of this we're gonna do a fewer of less of this then with that second shade we did and now you want to add more to the tips and the tops where the light would be hitting it who is that my daughter's texting me okay go on to her friends okay and just a little bit along this top edge here because the lights that have you hitting it this way be real subtle don't get too thick here see how I'm not doing it everywhere I'm just sort of creating some little sections I'm getting a little brighter on the edges you're starting to see some shape form there's like little groups of water bushes okay now you can do a little bit with this color smash it up really well and we're gonna pop up a little bit here and they're just little tiny bits of texture smash that brush so it looks like the water is flying up a little here and there I like how that texture was looking smash to rush and lightly tap get them in brush right here test out your brush make sure it's making a cool pattern that you like okay ma'am little bits pop in here so now if you do a few down here it's really gonna stand out because this dark background yeah I'm just you real subtle with this you don't want this to be too crazy but you just want like a little spray of water pop it out here there again keep it subtle you could always add more later let's do a few up here okay that's good for now cuz we're gonna do the same thing with some pure white okay I said that's good and then I keep going yes that's what I did okay I think I'm done like it go to war here okay coming off your brush come on we're happy that I ended up really really really well because we're gonna do the white now so watch your brush very clean and dry enough because you want your brush to be completely dry for this part because if it's not dry and you dip it in the white and we do the technique that we're doing the same texturing technique if your brush is wet at all it's gonna thin out that white and the whites not gonna be pure pure bright way so you want it to be nice and bright bright way okay so very quick dry brush dip it in your white and then smash your brush you get that texture texture EULA oops there's some white paint on my toe okay so smashing it down now we're gonna do the brightest part of the wave so again picture where the lights hitting the lights gonna hit the edges just the tips and the edges so you're just gonna smash a little bit on start very subtle don't do too much white smashing brush and we're just gonna do a little bit see how that really stands out and you don't want too much of this because you want this to really be special and standout if you do it everywhere then it's not gonna seem special so take your time just kind of spreading it around in different areas to start with and you want it to be right on the edge not in the middle I mean some of it'll be in a little bit right on the very edge so it looks like the lightest part is being hit by the Sun the lightest the edges are the lightest part didn't hit by the Sun now because the paint is a little bit wet still the white is gonna blend in a little bit but that's okay we're gonna do another layer if it's too blended kind of feeding that down into the lighter shade and you start to run out of paint on your brush you can just tap it down further and it'll blend into that medium shade and I'm gonna do a few little few little taps down here so it looks like it's the spray that was a little too much smash your brush barely any paint on your brush little taps again just like we did these little sprays here do a little bit of that with the white around here and there change the pattern of your bristles smash your brush up [Music] [Music] stand back take a look make sure you're heading in the right direction I feel like it's to a texture II my personal preference so I'm gonna smash my brush around and not do such so much texture I feel like it's so so texture I want it a little bit softer I'm gonna blend in a little bit not have so much texture yet you're just smearing my brush around just sort of blend it up make it a little softer and you know what else I want another shade I want to bring in a little bit more of a purpley shade into this darker so that's okay sometimes you change your mind after you've already gone a few steps ahead so let's take that same blue color that we started I'm gonna take a little bit of magenta and mix it into that so the same colors blue with a little more magenta and white so we're gonna make more of a periwinkle kind of a shade instead of soso blue and let's add a little more white to that it's subtle it's just a little bit more of a lavender periwinkle shade and I'm going to just sort of tap that into the darker areas just lightly tap it's good to have a couple different shades so it's not all it's gonna give it a lot more depth having that bluish tone and then a little bit of this periwinkle move it over there too and we'll add more of the light layers on top of it and I'm smashing it around a little bit Jim pouncing on it but then I'm also sort of doing a little bit of a smeary blend so it's a little softer and I kept adding a little combo tap smudge technique okay yeah I'm like a nut better already this is just gonna the more layers you add the better it's gonna get so don't look at look at it like oh I messed up and I have to redo things it's actually gonna end up being much better if you get real far on a painting and then you hate what you did and go back into it and start over certain parts it's probably going to end up looking even cooler because you'll be able to see some of those other colors coming through underneath that you might not have planned on doing but it ends up being even better imagine that around a little bit see how that's a little more soft and blended but you can still see that texture coming through so it actually worked out better because we had so much of that white texture and now you can kind of see it coming through so when I'm this layer that I'm doing I'm not doing it really really solid there's barely any paint on my brush and that's adding to it it's just kind of smudge in here it's kind of creating a misty look because I barely have any paint on my brush so that's kind of creating a little haze and mist which is cool I wasn't doing planning on doing that but now I like it okay already like it that better light taps texture here and there okay I'm adding a little more white now to the lighter areas where the lights hitting less of this less each time you get lighter and keeping it a little darker along the bottom edges for the shadow of the waves all right even though I have pure white it's blending into it a little bit because the paint's wet and that's okay just adding even more depth by tapping into the slightly wet paint it's kind of blend in with it naturally but create more depth to I'm kind of smudging it also again so it's a little softer and again don't just do it everywhere because then it's all going to become one big sheet see how I'm kind of doing like little sections so that you see some of those darker parts in there and some lighter parts so you have lots of shape to it because you want to see some of those different shades within little sections okay more white now I'm gonna lightly tap with the pure white so I'm not smudging it any more just gonna tap so you get those really bright spots and you don't want a ton of them you want those to be special so it looks like the sun's really hitting some of those really bright sections do a few little bright smudges and then stand back and you'll see what I'm talking about you'll really see that you want to keep keep these subtle you don't want to do this everywhere and your painting will thank you for it later okay take a little break on that for a second oh my gosh and now you're gonna use I'm gonna use a nice nice brush though the five eighths angular brush I'm gonna use one that's not all beat up and I'm use the very tip of the brush you could also use if you're worried about using that big rush you could use this little tiny number two round brush I'm going is just the very tip of the brush put a little bit of white and I'm gonna do just a teeny teeny bit of white not much just a little bit's right along the edge not like a solid line just some little smudges not even on the whole thing just a little bit around the edge and then you have it dipped down just a teeny bit oh you're so loud of an after supporting J's Louise okay just a little bit there I'm gonna add a little more that white see how this faded back so much it can barely see it see I ran out of white paint let me get a little more on my talent okay so take your 5/8 angle brush and you're gonna water it down a little bit put some white on your brush and wipe off most of the paint so you want it very thinned out but not too too water you don't want a drippy and we're gonna do that same little flinging technique I've got too much paint on my brush I'm gonna wipe off the extra actually it was too much water it was so much water that it was just coming out solid I'm gonna just find the right mix so a very light touch and just a little bit you're just kind of flowing it make sure it's curving a little bit right along that very top edge and you can use the pointy part again and just do a few little streaks coming down make sure it's slightly curving wipe it off my brush too much little more white top edge you know one it to to white I got a little too light gonna clean off my brush and dry it off do you want the brightest white to be the edges of the waves there I'm just cleaning up a little of that edge I came up a little bit above so I'm just taking a damp brush I'm just slightly wiping away those little smudges then jumped over the wave you know I'm just gonna drag this out a little bit just spreading out what I did streaking it it's gonna tone down the white a little bit too but I just sort of dragging it out but it won't probably drive bright white because if you watered it down it's not gonna be that pure bright bright white that you have on your waves okay I think I like that maybe a little more right here okay okay now we're gonna add some little sparkles in the water so you can take your little tiny brush your 2 inch round brush and you can either use just the tip of it and we're gonna do some little tiny dots just here and there you don't want to go too crazy but there's gonna be like little sparkles of this sun's no thanks okay or you can use the bottom end of your brush the wrong end of your brush and you can tap the bottom end and you can just lightly do little taps with the end of your brush if you're not comfortable using this end I'm gonna use the right end of it little tiny dots little sparkles like I do little groups of them you're in there so it could be closer together don't go too crazy just start off kind of subtle you just want a little tiny taps [Music] just kind of spread them around randomly like on where the water is you do some on the fall metal it'll appear like there may be little bubbles or like that these are just like little sparkles from the Sun just do a few and then stand back and look at it and then you can add more and you can do a few of these around your wave to it just look like little splashes of water I don't like that way I didn't like that so I'm gonna take a damp brush and I'm just gonna spread it out and blend it into the background just one right get back take a look okay I'm gonna do a little more with that texture II brush I was gonna do a little more spring [Music] this is all just personal preference where you want to have little bits added [Music] right okay pink we're almost there and a little more I'm just using a dry brush a little bit of white on it and I'm just smudging in little bits into this lighter section barely barely barely any paint on my brush I'm just using the side of my brush smudging in a little bit of texture right in there and just a little smudges just want to see some some something going on in there look too plain to me okay very subtle but all right so now what I always like to do when I think I'm close to being done I like to you know what wait I'm not done I'm gonna add a little more of this right now this looks like it still needs a little bit of something so I'm gonna take some of this dark green and make it a little more of that so let's take a little bit of yellow a little bit of dark blue blue blue only glue and tiny bit of magenta no more magenta okay so we gotta no more yellow okay then I'm going to take a tiny bit of white to hang a bit more I'm gonna add a little more of this veining but I'm gonna do it with a lighter shade of that dark green so it's gonna be really subtle there's the dark green so I just added some white to it little water my brush mix some water in there so it's gonna be very subtle and I'm gonna got too much water on there wipe off some of the extra and I use the very tip of the brush and I'm just gonna do some of that veining the squiggly lines right over some of those other parts just adding some more of that so it looks like there's more going on than just what we had before don't cover up your wave it's adding something squealy its cleaving the lines it's gonna be very very subtle I just want to add another layer a little more weight to it I'm just a very tip of the brush now we're just gonna do some really skinny skinny skinny little lines and I'm barely barely pushing down on the canvas just using the very very tip of that brush [Music] you don't have to do this part if you don't want if you liked how it looked just leave it I just felt like I needed a little more something in that area [Music] cleaning off my brush I'm just using a damp brush kind of spread out some of this when it dries it's gonna be even more subtle it's right now it's a very watered down stand back look at that [Music] so connect down into this section here a little bit I put a little more light I'm just gonna do a couple little skinny little details I'm just gonna hit a few little parts by doing this just like how we added several layers or doing the foam down here I think we did about four different shades we started with a darker that went a little lighter a little lighter a little lighter and adds so much more depth because you can see all the different shades and all the different layers same thing here it just we didn't really add any more layers besides that first one so by adding several more layers it's gonna make it feel deeper it's gonna make that water feel like it has more depth to it so again just taking a tiny bit more of the white using the very tip of the brush we're just gonna add a few little streaky veins here and there not a lot the lightest part should be the most so just like how we did the least amount of the bright white on the waves because you want it to be a little more special and standout same thing here just a few little touches here and there those veins like squiggly lines [Music] [Music] tone that back a little bit once they click damp brush and it's gonna dry a little darker I won't stay that bright because we watered it down so much by we I mean me all right so then what I like to do hold on a little more I'm probably gonna say okay I'm done about ten times and I keep finding other things just be prepared [Music] this could go on for hours sometimes I just gotta know when to stop think I'm dead I don't know you might have done too much there I might be going back in darkening that up in a second okay let's see my son just texted me are you picking me up or am i walking [Music] these were walking okay so I think I'm done but I'm not quite sure yet and this is how I'll know what I like to do at this stage is take a photo of it because I've been staring at it so much there's things I'm probably not noticing so I always just grab my phone oh no did my phone just died of course Ryan isn't getting ready to take a picture I'm gonna skinny up this part a little bit so it's not so fat all of a sudden so it's a little more of a subtle turn of the white cap of the weight and then I'm gonna add a little more white here just a little bit and maybe a tiny bit of shadow and a little bit of shadow under here what's some of the darker green I'm also going to tone this down I went to crazy this got too busy now it's standing out too much to me so I'm gonna bring in a little bit of dark green and tone that back and let's see what else yeah that definitely and I might even bring a little more of a thin watered down white a little more of the foam here to make this a little more foamy and then we'll check it out we'll see where we're gonna go from there okay so let's start off we're gonna need to mix a little bit of this lighter green color here to trim that down so let's take our white just put it on top of there cuz that's dry a little bit of yellow blue and some weight to that a little more yellow see that's too bright tiny bit of magenta we got to tone that down let's see how bright that is we do I think I'm tiny bit of magenta will mute it down the touch gonna warn yellow [Music] still a little bit bright but I kind of like that it's going to add another another layer let's put a little bit on that side too and we'll blend that in clean off your brush if you got too bright like I did dry rush off really well and they're just gonna kind of blend that right into the rest we need to cover up a little more that one's take a little more any more yellow red one blue no more yellow let's just cover up most of it and I can add some more of that white wave into [Music] swipes than that let's do a couple little subtle swipes of that color because that's a little bit brighter but I like it it's just a swipe a little bit here and there it looks like the lights popping in some of that bright color and this is a good tip if you ever have a struggle getting the exact color you're trying to mix I didn't try very hard to get that exact color cuz I liked this extra layer but if you ever do that and you just can't get that exact color and you're touching up a little area like we're doing here take a little bit that same color and just touch a few other areas in your paintings so it looks consistent so it doesn't look like you just have this weird random spot of color that doesn't match anything else you can just do a few little touches other places so it looks like you did pull that in from other areas okay so let's clean our brush and take a little bit see if I have any of our dark green left on here no need to make it I mix some of this deeper green little magenta or a lot oops blue yellow blue more magenta oK we've got that deep green I'm gonna take a little bit for this part you could do actually let's finish this first focus on one thing in time sorry I just like to get involved up let's take a little white and I'm gonna make a little bit of that kind of medium green shade that we had there now we're gonna put just a little bit right under where the wave is so we're gonna create a little bit of a shadow it's gonna give a lot more depth to this we're just gonna blend that in it's a dry brush like a dry brush actually I'm gonna take my number eight filbert brush if you have that we didn't really use that the whole time we didn't need it but I'm gonna use this just to tap it in and blend in this shadow color and then I'm gonna take out lips fine him into that I'm just gonna go right under where those little white bits are and that's gonna create a really subtle little shadow [Music] it's gonna make that really pop that's a little tiny little bits of the weight that I'm gonna fold over that little shadow in there see already you can see it give it a nice shadow effect just a wiggle your brush around it's kind of faded out I got my brush up teeny bit wet because this was so dry it wasn't blending very easily and just a little bit of paint on your brush and just fade it out okay now let's take a little bit of white I'm gonna dip down I come up a little bit and dip down a little bit just to create just a little extra fold you don't need to leave it so I'm leaving a little bit of that green pop it through cuz it'll make it look like the the waters peeking through there let's do just a little bit more tiny dip down here there to this very subtle little addition but sometimes it's a little tiny subtle things that really add a lot to the finished piece and it's little things that sometimes just make you happy with the painting just little things that you need to do I know it would have bugged me later if I didn't do that so okay and teeny bit more this white little subtle you need thin line right there okay that's a little too perfectly there you go okay so now if you did do a little more work right here so we're gonna need some of the periwinkle color take some white tiny bit of magenta a little bit of blue mix that off to the side first and then you can bring the white into it okay take your brush mash it up a little really subtle because we want to keep this skinny whom we don't want to get too fat again so I want this to really take her in and get a lot skinnier so I'm just gonna tie any little taps you don't want to get too wide [Music] no it's not that big of a change but to me this okay I'm gonna take some white pure white and add just a little bit of I like there and again you don't need to do this this is just it was bugging me I just thought it needed to be skinnier here wasn't like it looked horrible before but it's just a little subtle thing that would have driven me crazy do a few little sea spray popping up here and there I need more white again and out wait there's love it couple little spots over here a couple more sprays over there okay I think I know I'm gonna say I think I'm done and I'm not going to be [Music] okay okay hmm almost okay all righty um kickin off that brush and we're gonna add let's go ahead and add some of that white down there before we do the darker green I'm taking my angular brush again this water it down a little bit and just put a little bit of white very thin water down white and I'm just gonna do that same thing we did before if you remember and again you don't have to do this if you're happy with yours leave it I just want to tone down a little bit and add just a little more on this white foam but it's watered down so it's not pure white edge [Music] to me there was just a little too much of this contrast with these green holes popping through here but then layer of water down [Music] [Music] okay I think I think I like that better now we're gonna tone this down so you can use your glazing medium now or you can use white if you don't have glazing medium that's okay this is what the glazing medium looks like and it's just a thick clear liquid then let's see mmm let's fold over a little section so you can see this it's just that it looks white but it dries clear now when you mix in this glazing medium with your paint you can use as much of the glazing medium as you want and it's not going to affect it if you're using water if you do too much water you can get drips and it can start to wipe off some of your layer below so since this is pretty dry but it's not completely dry cuz we just painted it not too long ago I'm gonna use the glazing medium but again just use them if you don't have this use the water it'll be fine so I'm gonna take some of that dark green that I mixed up halfway there still okay it's not completely dry I'm gonna get some of that glazing medium in there and I'm just gonna go right over the top of all of this and this is just gonna tone it back a little bit I need to make more of the green because I didn't do enough I'm gonna make some more of that some green some magenta and make a deep dark green yeah that's pretty good put the glazing medium in there put a little more yellow and we're just gonna brush right over just this little darker section here and it's gonna lightly I don't want to work it too much because the paint's not that dry I don't want to start to lift anything that's gonna be a little bitter for me again if you I don't even know if you added your extra veining if you did and you're just got a little too bright too you can do this same thing if you're happy with what you got just leave it I'm just very anal and I know that if I don't fix it it's really gonna bug me later and again don't come down where this flat part is because this is the shadow you can go a little bit underneath the weight tone that down so there's a little more of a shadow there that'll be great but then keep this bright but that's where the sun's hitting the top of it okay let's take a picture let's check that actually let me add a little more of this I'm gonna add a little bit of this green here just a little more shadow this is my finger and a little bit about there to just make that wave stand out okay wait I see something else oh yeah it takes a while the last finishing stage there's always so many little things you can add I'm going to take my number 8 filbert and I'm gonna take a little bit of that darker green and I'm gonna just add a little subtle bit of darkness try not to get it on the white part of the waves but I'm just gonna add a little shadow around those edges just to make those white white parts of the waves pop even more just a little bit darker right along this edge here and just blend it up [Music] yeah that's a little too texture II so I'm washing my brush off and just with a clean damp brush I've just got to sort of fade it out blend it in I don't want to mess up my wave all right let's take a picture okay take a look at that [Music] so you can zoom in on parts and analyze it so he scarred people say how do you know when your paintings done well it's done when you can live with it and not critique every little detail of it if it's hanging on your wall and you're sitting in front of it you don't want to be annoyed by it and staring at every little part that drives you crazy that's when it's done when it stops bugging you okay this is bugging me this little section here it's just a little too street I want to see a little more of the spray right on the edge so I'm gonna take my roughed up brush make sure it's really dry I'm gonna dip it in the white smash my brush up a little but not too much because I want to get that again just a little bit more splash just a tiny bit okay that did it for me that's good and brighten up a little bit these whites I smeared some green into okay am I done whoopsy let me stand back and look at it I think all right and wait one more little thing I am so picky a little tiny bit more of the ocean sprite here it got covered up when I did that dark green just a couple [Music] sprays very subtle white maybe a couple dots of white here cuz that's got toned down I'm gonna add it more white foam I should probably be using my tiny brush for this but that's okay [Music] [Music] okay now I think wait hold on just oh my gosh it's never gonna end I could do this forever sorry I don't want to it just happens I've no control my hand just does it [Music] [Music] okay really think on that last time let's take one last picture check that out let's see [Music] [Music] all right last step sign your painting [Music] and then each of my paintings a little signature thing that I do I always add to lay but the size of each of my paintings they're always in a different place they represent my two kids my kids are with me oh thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoy that if you did please give this video a thumbs up and if you did complete this tutorial I love love love love to see your penis so tag me on instagram or facebook at debbie of the studio I hope you have a great day and we'll see you next time bye [Music] what's under there [Music] sorry my buddy I mean interrupt [Music]

Channel: Debbie Avoux Studio

Views: 77,024

Keywords: how to paint a wave, step by step painting, how to paint ocean waves, crashing wave, acrylic artist, mom artist, step by step paint tutorial, paint a wave, paint with me, beginners paint lesson, easy paint tutorial for beginners, art tutorial, katie jobling, chuck black, color by feliks, lena danya, jim reno, how to paint with acrylics, painting for beginners, acrylic ocean tutorial, debbie avoux, easy ocean painting, painting with acrylics

Id: WSqLdTjvK4o

Length: 142min 15sec (8535 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 28 2019