Clean the brush in
water and wipe. If
A you want clean colors
without muddiness
then it comes from
This means to allow
the wash to dry. For
large washes allow to
When dry, stand
painting upright,
walk back about 10
4 feet and take a
careful look, What
1. PHOTOGRAPHS
Flying Seagull
There are the reference photo’ that
T selected from my library to make
up the composition. You will use
these as your basic reference in
ing the painting A big poine to
remember about photo’ is that
THE ELEMENTS
Standing Seagulls
shadow areas in photo show asa
darker value than in reality if
‘yor use the same waluesas shown in |
the “Mix Mustrations” then yor
shouldnt go wrong!
doing just this. Also be
sure that you have a
clean area to mix your
next wash,
dry naturally, for small
areas carefully dry with
a hair drier.
may look wrong up
close, may be just right
at the distance a person
normally views a
painting.
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THE COMPOSITION
14 inches
This isthe shesch that I used to trace and place the girl in the
make my composition. Its not position shown above. Then trace
exactly the same as the raced cand place the other full sized
x thiages that I have produced, but images as shown, by referring ta the
Le that won's affect your results. Just finished paintingOver the years I have built up a
library of photo’ and sketches of
what I consider to be the main
elements of a beach painting. These
fall basically into the following
‘ategories,
@) Sties
(@) Waves
(e) Rocks
(@) Sandand shoreline
(0) Shore details suchas shells, stores,
seaweed, sticks and footprints ee,
(D Headlands and mountain
backgrounds.
Gerrits animals and
From this library Uslect the elements
Teed 10 malke up my composition.
‘Background and Rocks
To transfer these images to your paper
use any of these methods:
(1) Tracing
a > (2) Grid method
&) (3) Graphite transfer sheet
Details of these methods follow