Refine your Colour Matching & Mixing (Dee Why Beach)
This is a great lesson for developing your skill with colour and the Chevreaux Colour wheel. Learn how to create accurate colours and realistic textures as we paint the sunset at Dee Why beach.
An original Australian Landscape by Peter Inglis.
Look at the foam at the right of the scene.
We will use my colour analysis chart combined with the Chevreaux Colour System to get Accurate colours.
We know foam is white?
Right?
It turns out that particular foam is actually a light blue!
Even in the foam on the main wave there is very little white, we actually find a lot of warm tones reflecting the sunset.
Remember that each colour is found in one particular place on our Chevreaux Colour Wheel.
Part of Annie's palette.
Finding the colours in a wave (Painted by Annie)
Stage 2, blocking in the basic colours.
Painterly textures by Alison.
Other versions by myself.
The spectacular northern beaches of Sydney extend from Sydney Harbour at Manly to the Central Coast at Palm Beach. Dee Why beach is bordered at the north end by Long Reef Golf course, seen at the top of this painting.
What will we learn in this painting?
- chevreaux colour wheel
- colour matching
- colour mixing
- Luminosity
- Water
- Chromaticism
- scumbling
- Seascape
- Atmospheric perspective
- Painting from a photograph
