Mix your lightest shade of blue with the sugar, as you’ve been. Then paint it onto the last section left, making sure to take the paint up to the sand so there is no canvas seen. Then bring the light blue paint up to the medium blue so they are touching.
PAINTING A BEACH WITH ACRYLIC
Discover how to paint an easy beach landscape with acrylic and learn to create effects using collage gel and colours in our video tutorial with artist Diane Benoit du Rey.
HOW TO PAINT A BEACH USING ACRYLIC?
Prepare the sky colour using with Veronese green mixed with primary blue and titanium white. For the beach, mix pink ochre with Veronese green and a hint of white. Paint a coloured background by creating areas of gradient, starting at the top with a light green tone, working towards a chrome green colour, then a sand tone at the bottom for the beach.
PREPARING THE TEXTURE
Create the coloured sand by mixing the collage gel and sand tone paint with fine sand. Knead everything well with a painting knife to obtain a homogeneous paste.
Supplies
To make this sugar painting you will need the following:
- Canvas, cardstock, or other thick painting paper
- Tool for mixing and spreading paint (ex. butter knife, cheese knife, pallet knife)
- Acrylic paint (3 different shades of blue, brown, white)
- Granulated white sugar
- Pencil
- Paint brush
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Step 1: Sketch Scene
With a pencil lightly sketch a diagonal squiggly line across the bottom right corner of the canvas. About 2 inches above that, draw a straight line also coming diagonally from that same side. Finally, about 3 inches above that line draw another straight diagonal line.
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Step 2: Paint the Sand
To start, do not mix all of the paint colors you will be using at one time. I found that the paint was hard to work with after it sat for some time. Mix approximately 1 part paint to 1 1/2 parts sugar. You might need to add more sugar depending on the consistency of paint being used and how thick you want the paint to be. Now use your mixing tool to mix the paint and paste it onto the lower corner of the canvas to create the sand portion of your masterpiece.
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