Refine your Colour skills
Learn how to create accurate colours and realistic textures as we paint the sunset at Dee Why beach.
- About this session
- Materials
- Resources
- What will we learn in this session?
- Student Paintings
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About this session
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.
This is a great lesson for developing your skill with colour and the Chevreaux Colour wheel.
Other versions by myself. Repetition is an essential learning srategy. We learn a lot by painting the same scene many times.
Materials
- Provided: Canvas, paint, pencils, brushes & aprons
- BYO: Sketch book
Resources
Dee Why Beach and Long Reef - as Monet.
What will we learn in this painting?
Ech colour is found in one particular place on our Chevreaux Colour Wheel.
- Chevreaux Colour Wheel
- Colour matching
- Colour mixing
- Luminosity
- Water
- Chromaticism
- Scumbling
- Seascape
- Atmospheric perspective
- Painting from a photograph
An original Australian Landscape by Peter Inglis.
Look at the foam at the right of the scene.
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.
Student Paintings
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.
