cricketdiane09 - Night Sea - 2007 art card - original acrylic ocean painting with computer effects added
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“Night Sea” – Ocean waves painting of the sea at night. This ocean waves art card was created in acrylic paint and then scanned and photographed to put it into the computer. Filters from several computer software programs were added to change the overall look from the acrylic ocean painting style to watercolor effects.
A painting can be created using watercolor that would convey this look by using flowing open white areas and translucent washed ochre in small touches which are then removed – these washes must be very light to prevent the ochre pigment from fixing to the paper and destroying the overall flow of the night sea image.
The placement of successive washes in ultramarine, prussian blue, and small touches of cobalt fill out the picture plane. Each wash becomes successively darker and deeper with mars black or payne’s grey added toward the end of the process. It is possible to protect some areas with frisket but that isn’t necessary if the work is staged to dry between the addition of the very darkest elements.
The depth of the ocean’s night sky over the sea waves can be achieved by a mix a black and prussian blue with a depth of hue not usually reserved for watercolor paintings. Touches of this blue-black mix can be coordinated in the picture by underlaying some shadow areas beneath the waves and especially in the foreground to detail the flowing, fluid essence of the ocean which will bring these elements into enhanced focus.
Although I didn’t create this painting in watercolor originally but rather in acrylic paints, the effects can be generated in layers of watercolors to re-create the emotion, the essence and the elements of the ocean waves in the night sea.
Painting the ocean waves of the Night Sea -
by Cricket Diane C Phillips, Cricket House Studios, 06-21-09
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June 21, 2009 at 3:51 pm
It is an image that shows movement waves pushing around.I like the style
July 2, 2009 at 2:02 pm
esta raro, ¿ el documento represente el mar ? Porque no he visto del mar, hay el color azul pero parece como un mar.
tiene que hace con lapiz.
July 2, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Sí, es el mar. Yo vivía en el océano frente por un tiempo y me parece que cuando alguna vez me falta ese magnífico lugar pinto otro. Tan real como que no son nada comparado con el real.
Usted debe tratar de una visita algún día …. traer crema solar, aunque si lo hace.
Please forgive me, I was trying to write a reply and accidentally did something wrong which attributed this comment to me. It won’t let me fix it because I’m a moron apparently and don’t know how to do it. Durn.
- cricketdiane
July 2, 2009 at 6:18 pm
The ocean is spell-binding when I am there. Lakes, waterfalls, little lilting streams are all the same way. My spirit is awakened and renewed but I stand so completely enthralled that nothing gets done beyond that. I put my toes in it. I run my hands through the water. I play in the foamy thin water that plays along the shore at the beach and cup my hands in the sparkling water flowing over the rocks in the creeks and streams when I visit. I’m completely lost in it with every sense alive and awakening to a new-ness of everything around me.
You know, the time just before sunset or at the middle of a sunrise, when the surface of a lake is filled with little dimples that catch the colors of the sky in one direction and the colors of the night along the other side? That is what I love to watch trying to figure out how to paint that feeling which comes from it in that moment. Not photographic realism, not precisely rendering a painting from a photo, not flowing colors of paint structured to re-create it, seems to capture that moment of fluid oneness with the entire universe from the surface of the lake through me and my place in it – to the greater universe whose colors are still being created. It is amazing and the last thing I want to do is to paint it while experiencing that feeling trying to savor every nuance and hold it forever.
Thanks for your comment – it reminded me. Now, I feel like I’m there in that place at the ocean, at a lake, at a sunset or sunrise, at a wild gentle stream again. Didn’t even have to leave home to get there. (no lost luggage, no fee to get a pillow, no surcharges, no customs, no sunscreen necessary – I’m such a cheap date anymore.) But, you are right – as soon as I can – I’ll be standing in one of these wondrous places again in person with my feet in the wet sand or standing in the stream picking out pretty rocks from under the edges of little waterfalls . . .
- cricketdiane, 07-02-09