1/16/2024 0 Comments Sunset easy landscape paintingTaking more of my orange and yellow I tried to blend my sky a bit more into the area closer to the area where the sun was going to be. I still had a number of patches on the canvas that I hadn’t totally covered that I needed to focus on first. In step 2, we want to refine our first layer a bit. Add Your Sun and Begin Refining Your Gradients So if at this stage of the painting it looks sloppy or you make a mistake that is something we can make better with each successive layer we add. Keep in mind with every successive layer and step we do the picture will become more refined and more into focus. I brought my water gradient up from the bottom of the painting making the area where the clouds meet the sun much darker. Next I mixed my Light Blue Permanent with a tad bit of Prism Violet to get the slight blue-purple color of the water. I started at the top with an orange-yellow mixture and brought the blend down into dark orange as it transitions over to the magenta area. Creating the bright orange sky reflecting the beautiful luminescence of the sunset. I decided to lay my painting out vertically and aimed for the top half of the painting to take up roughly 2/3’s of my surface. The basic layout and composition is the objective of this step. It doesn’t need to be perfect we just need to get a basic representation of our colors, shapes, and gradients. We are laying down the foundation of our painting. Start With Your Background Colorsįor the first step, we are just going to try and get the gradient and major areas of colors down on the canvas. It also may not be needed on other types of canvases that don’t quite have the depth of texture this one does. If you like the textures you get from the canvas for your painting or it’s just not something that bothers you at all then this step isn’t really needed. I likely would have been better off with 4 to 6 layers to get the smoother surface I wanted. I only did two layers of gesso but still had some difficulty getting the paint to flow across the canvas smoothly. Gesso is a primer one can use to add texture or in this case smooth it out. So I decided to use Liquitex Gesso to try and fill in some of that texture and smooth out the surface. It is far more coarse than most of the canvases that I have experienced painting on so far. Optional First Step: Apply Gessoįor the first step, I took on this painting I decided to prep my canvas with a few layers of gesso.Įven though the Blick canvas comes primed it has a very coarse texture to it. I also had to experiment with several additional reds later in Step 7 too. It wasn’t in the above picture because I didn’t realize I would want or need it. One thing I had to add to my palette once I got going was Primary Red. I don’t always use everything I think I am going to and sometimes I have to get other tools I didn’t know I would need. The gallery profile canvas has a thickness of 1.5 inches.Īs for my paint brushes I’m using different sized square headed brushes.Įvery time I start a new painting like this, especially when it is something I have never done before, I just gather up an approximation of what I think I might need or use to complete this image. That’s the beautiful thing about art! You as the creator have the choice of how you want to represent what you’re seeing.įor me, I want to get close to what we see in the picture in this one.įor my canvas, I’m using a 5″ x 7″ gallery profile canvas from Blick Art Supplies. It’s totally fine if it isn’t perfectly accurate. If you are going to use the same one as in this example just try to select a palette of colors as close to what you see here as you can.įor our paints we have today, from left to right we have all Liquitex Basics paints of: The colors you will need for your painting depend on the reference you are using. How To Paint a Campfire With a Soft Glow.How To Paint Water (A Step by Step Guide).How To Paint a City Skyline (Textured and Abstract Style!).How To Paint A Galaxy (Easy Step by Step Guide).I wasn’t able to figure out who the photographer was but the image is used on full wall sticker murals which is what the company Stickerbrand sells.īefore we dive into the steps I took to create my painting lets look at the colors and tools used first. For this example, I will be using this photo here.Īfter finding it on Pinterest I tried to figure out its source to make sure I was giving credit where it is due but it originally comes from a company called Stickerbrand. I generally go to Pinterest when looking for a reference to use. Look for a simple photo or image of a sun setting on a watery foreground. We can do a mountain sunset, a beach sunset, or even a desert sunset!įor this painting lets do an ocean sunset.
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