I have pretty limited experience painting the ocean, so I watched some youtube videos to try to understand what makes a wave. I was working very quickly (because it was getting late the night before the beach), so each painting only took about 20 minutes. They're loose, and not fantastic. My least favorite is the one with the boy digging in the sand because it's not very good AND because I accidentally gave him a great big sad frown. My favorite is this first one, because it's the first time I've done reflections. They were a lot easier than I thought they'd be and I think this one was the best of the bunch. (It was also the best youtube tutorial.)
This next one is the painting I did at the beach. There was a kite flying competition that day, and someone was flying a kite right on the part of the beach I wanted to paint. It didn't come out that great, but it's one of the only paintings I've done where the person didn't come out looking kind of oddly scary. Instead the scary part is the kite, which looks like a strange, giant bird about to attack the helpless little girl on the beach. :)
I need to spend some serious time practicing beach paintings since I live so close and will probably have lots of opportunities to paint ocean scenes. One fun part was having so many people come up and compliment me. They were probably just being nice, but someday I'd like to paint something I think deserves the fuss.
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