#Realistic ocean painting windows

If the light is pink, the whitewash will appear pink.

Whitewash is not white!! Being predominantly water, it is reflective and casts a shadow.

Sunsets will affect the colour of objects in the distance in a different way than broad daylight. Make sure that the colour is altered in relation to the predominant light.

This is a great way to create the illusion of distance and depth.

Things in the distance appear less distinct, and the further away they are, the more their colour is altered.

It’s definitely worth drawing this shape half a dozen times with a pencil and paper before you throw paint at anything. Get these shapes wrong and your painting will crash and burn. This is possibly one of the biggest traps when painting ocean landscapes.

#Realistic ocean painting windows

Waves will create little windows which will reduce the amount of sky reflected. In other words, the smoother the surface of the water, the more likely you are to see more sky reflected. Whatever’s happening on the surface of the water, will also determine how much of the sky is reflected. Whatever is happening in the sky will be reflected on the ocean. Sunset, sunrise, mid-morning, cloudy or stormy, will have a profound effect on your ocean.

This is even more important when you’re dealing with large bodies of water. When painting any landscape, the light is probably the defining factor when choosing colours. Having a strategy for painting water is vital in creating convincing seascapes. The biggest difference however, is the ocean part of the equation. We’ll go into them in a little more detail later. One of the keys to creating a good ocean landscape is in the very title of this page! Most of the rules that you can apply to your landscape paintings, will apply to a seascape - but with a few minor variations.