By Caitlan
Time to create your own relaxing beachy scene! This tutorial is just a guide, feel free to make it your own! Be sure to share you finished creations in the Arts & Crafts Shed!
Supplies:
Paint – White, Black, Blue, Brown, other colors for umbrellas (You can mix colors!)
Brushes – whatever you are comfortable with using (You can finger paint if you want!)
Canvas – any size you’d like
To start out we are going to make the water – for this you will need to mix your blue. Mixing blue with white in various shades. ( think 1 drop blue, 1 drop white, 2 blue 1 white, 2 white 1 blue, etc.) Make as many shades as you would like. (to make darker shades mix in black following the same pattern.)
Pick a point on your canvas where the water will meet the sand. Starting from your lighter blue shade at this point working to your darkest. Squiggle your way across making those rippling waves. Repeat this slowly adding in your darker blues till you get to the corner.
Your sand! On the opposite half place your sand color (I mix white and brown with a hint of black.) You can blend the water into the sand using white. While the paint is still wet, slowly blend it into the sand. Like the foam on the beach!
Making the shadows for umbrellas. Using a darker brown from your sand we are going to mark out the shadows for our umbrellas (and people walking on the beach.) Make some rough circles to mark these shadows.
On top of but slightly off to the side (leaving only some of the shadow showing) we will start the umbrellas. Put a white coat down in a circle to mark the umbrella out. Once dry, using the colors of your choice color the umbrellas in. (Use stripes, solid colors, rainbows, whatever you like!)
Adding in people and footsteps. Using the black you can put down the people. It doesn’t need to be fancy, just some dots will work! (I like to think of this as silhouettes – But make sure you put them on the correct side of the shadow!) To add in foot prints you can use your shadow color and add foot prints leading up to them!
Waves! If you would like to add waves to your water, pick points out in your squiggles where you’d like to add them and following the squiggles you made add in some white. (I like to use small tiny circles to build up different levels of waves/foam.) Make sure to get where the water meets the sand to help smooth out that area if you haven’t yet!
