Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will paint a small sketch
of a seascape.
We begin by sticking a tape down here [laughter] that will
be the horizon line.
We can use that to block the lower area
which will be the sea.
And then we start painting the sky,
which will be pretty gray, as you see.
I´m using a mix of blue black and titanium white.
And as a medium I´m using about 80%
odorless mineral spirits, and 20% linseed oil.
In this area we will have The Sun, as it is cloudy, we will not see it
directly, but that area will be really light.
So we add a lot of white to it. And to modify my mixture I may
add a little bit of a ultramarine blue, to make it more blue, or to make it more
gray, some ivory black.
Good!
We smudge the line between these two tones, with light movements
as if we were dusting.
And I may add a new tone, which is in between the two that I am mixing,
and add it where they meet, because this makes it looks even cleaner.
Cleaner that just mixing one with other one.
Right here on the canvas.
And now let´s add some clouds.
We basically add the paint and then lightly smudge it.
I´ll darken this area a little bit more
so as to have the lighter area contrast better.
The darker area will be on top.
By the way, the list of materials is in the description below the video.
We soften the clouds by very gently brushing over them.
Good!
Now we can take the tape off to start painting the sea.
The border by the horizon may have some white, because of the reflecting light.
And at this point we may add more blues such as cobalt blue, to get the right
color of the ocean.
Generally speaking the areas closer to us will be of a lighter blue,
while the ones in the deep, further away, will be darker.
And we will have some nice light reflections, especially in the areas
below the Sun.
Like here.
Good!
Sometimes we can have whole areas like a whole line that reflects more
than the rest.
Let´s make one here.
Like all the way from this side, to this side and see how it looks.
I may take it away if I don´t like it.
We extend the white area by the horizon, add some little waves
… of a darker or lighter tone,
and then we add some pure titanium white, for The Sun.
Which we smudge a bit.
And we add many of those little sparkling lights.
Especially by our big, white areas.
I love painting seascapes!
They are so refreshing!
We add some thin, lighter and darker lines.
to give it some wave movement and feeling.
We reestablish the clouds,
and smudge them a bit.
And now let´s paint a couple of birds… flying all the way
over here.
One and the other one.
Very good!
¡Excelente!
I soften the clouds a little bit more!
And it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo