Decide what you want the audience to be most taken with-it's the part that you will inevitably spend most time on-and which you expect a viewer to look at most intensely. Then determine the tonal range to use in the painting: the surf represented by a light turquoise and the rocks by the darkest brown.Ĭhoosing the is an important step in creating a painting. Once the general outline is drawn with a light-colored pastel pencil, identify the two main characteristics of the painting: the vibrancy of the surf as it entered the inlet, and the striking regularity of the rocks. This photo shows the lightest and darkest tones I would use in the painting. The paper used was a 'orange' Fabriano Tiziano which echoed the warmth of the sand/shingle beach and the lichen on the rocks. Medium Ultramarine blue, Unison Blue Violet 10.Light neutral gray, Unison Additional 25įor the sky and reflected color in the sea:.Very Dark brown (Unison Brown Earth 24).Medium burnt sienna (Unison Brown Earth 11) – roughly the same color as the paper.Light burnt sienna (Unison Brown Earth 10).Pale light earth green (Unison Green 4).Dark earth green, or a dark Hooker's green (Unison Additional 37).Dark blue, almost a Prussian blue (Unison Additional 49).Light violet-blue (Unison Blue Violet 15).Turquoise (Unison turquoise 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).The colors used for this seascape, including the Unison turquoise set were as follows. Unison pastels have become firm favorites the range of colors are perfect for both landscapes and portraiture, and they have a wonderful softness coupled with a degree of strength that softer pastels usually don't achieve. There were two inspirations for this step-by-step pastel painting: first the visit to the dramatic coastline at Tsitsikamma, on South Africa's Garden Route, and second the acquisition of a set of Unison turquoise pastels. The inspiration and the pastel colors used for this seascape painting.
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