New Artist - 2016__

St Ives Bay: a step-by-step guide

Experiment a little and enjoy building up layers, creating texture and adding detail.

Mixed media painting

Roughly sketch the

composition in

watercolour pencil

With the composition in place, I add interest by gluing

collage pieces and texture using resin sand applied with

a palette knife on the houses and parts of the bay.

I apply coloured paper to create the boats and, using the

edge of a credit card dipped in black gesso, add detail to

other elements. I loosely paint the hill in the background.

I tone down the pinkish colour in the foreground and

introduce shadows beneath the boats and on the quays.

Further finishing details are added at this stage.

I block in the sky and beach by spraying the canvas with

water and applying paint with a scrunched-up damp paper

to wel. Then I block in other elements and tone down the sky.

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