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Have Fun While Learning How to Paint A Whimsical Beach Scene
Lately all I can think about is Spring and the beach. So, I decided to hop on Facebook real quick to show my followers how to paint this whimsical beach scene using acrylic paint on canvas. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to paint waves, flowers and a palm tree! Before we get started with tutorial I have a quick tip! If you want to continue through the painting without stopping make sure you grab a blow dryer so you can quickly dry your paint.
To Paint Along with Me – Watch The Video Below
First things first, let’s get some waves on the canvas. I love doing really, really fun simple waves. I paint them on murals, canvas and even porch signs. Using a one-inch brush and a true blue paint. Keep all of your paint bristles on the canvas, and just kept following the original wave line to thicken them up a bit. Using the same brush and some metallic turquoise paint follow the inside of the waves to add a little bit more color. Next grab a chip brush and put both blues on the brush to fill in the waves. You can even add a little white to lighten up the edges.
Step 2 – Palm Tree
Now it’s time to add the palm tree, it is not going to be realistic, at all. Remember this is a fun, whimsical acrylic painting. Take some brown and green paint and paint what is almost like a stack of triangles and fill them in with brown paint. Add a bit more green to your brush to add the leaves at the top of the tree. To add a little dimension to the trunk of the tree grab some gold metallic paint. Take a one-inch brush and add the gold just to one side of the trunk, almost as if the sun was shining on the tree. You can also add a lighter green to leaves to add dimension.
Take some bright pink paint and just squirt a bit on the canvas. Next, get a chip brush to fill in the background. To help dry the painting and add some texture grab a paper towel and just dab the background. Just a note, I should have painted the background first. So, if you are going to paint this then you will want to do that.
Abstract Art Ocean Painting Tutorial
As promised, I created a tutorial to show you how you too can paint a giant abstract ocean painting. The easiest way for me to show you how was to share the video of the process. If you are viewing this post in your email, you will need to click on the link to view the video.
Materials:
- Giant canvas (tutorial to build your own here)
- 2″ – 2.5″ paint brushes
- 1″ paint brush
- Small flat paint brush
- Latex paint: White paint
- Peacock blue paint (matched to Valspar Everglad Deck 5011-3)
- Aqua paint (matched to Valspar Betsy Ross House Blue 5002-8A)
- Sea Foam Green paint (matched to Valspar Heartland Frosty 5008-5C)
- Gold metallic paint
- Spray bottle with water
- Damp rag
- Drop cloth
Instructions:
A summary of the video:
- To start, you’ll want to spray the canvas with water.
- Add random stripes of peacock blue on the canvas. Allow some of the stripes to be full concentration paint, and other stripes can be a water diluted peacock blue stripe.
- Don’t forget to paint over sides, top and bottom of the canvas.
- Slowly add white to the paint, mixing with the peacock blue.
- Evenutally adding straight white paint.
- For more dimension and visual interest, add stripes of bright aqua and sea foam green. Mix them with the peacock blue as you lay them on the canvas.
- It’s easiest to work quickly so your paint mixes with the existing wet paint strokes.
- For good artistic composition, place your lightest stripes 1/3 of the way from the bottom of the canvas.
- After you are happy with the painting, add some small spots and dashes of metallic gold to the painting. Think of these as small highlights from a setting sun.
- Let dry and hang it on your blank wall!
Or prop it on your mantle.
What do you think? Is this something you could do? I totally believe you can!
