Painting small waves No. 2
PAINTING LITTLE WAVES No.2
In the detail of the wave shown opposite you may
be convinced you are looking through the wave ...
but this is mere illusion. My steps in painting were
as follows:1) Paint the whole canvas a thinned mix of dirty
sand colored raw sienna mixed with a little raw
umber and white. Adjust for a approx value 5 or 6.
Let dry to the toutch.2) With a nice runny flake or lead white with a little
ultramarine and cobalt blue and using flowing figure
eight horizontal hand movements create the wave
tops.3) Add some white to the raw sienna/umber mix and
paint the pattern into the verticle wave surface
making sure thet the lighter more intense pattern is
in the shallower wave's forward edge as I have
shown.NOTE: Don't begin the painting until you see the
finished article and understand all the steps ...
particularly that to make something look as if it were
behind someting else does not necessarily mean
painting it that way - as in the sand 'beneath' the
wave.http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/lessons/waves2.htm (1 of 3)1/13/2004 3:45:20 AM