How to Paint Sparkling Ocean – Sea Waves in watercolors – Cats and Boats – Abstract Nautical Sailboat Sea Paintings and How to

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Reply and Comment on my blog – 08-01-09

milan

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Submitted on 2009/07/31 at 9:23am

am trying to lern to paint ocean water, transparent water with little waves on a beach .Do you have any DVDs that I can buy, or suggest some to me,that would be good, and where I can get them,Thankyou, MILAN CVJETIC.

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My Reply – 08-01-09

cricketdiane
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Submitted on 2009/07/31 at 5:26pm

I’m sure there aren’t any I would watch – but that’s because it would be easier to get out some paint and play with it until it does what I want. Today, there isn’t a dvd that I’ve made about creating ocean waves in watercolor, however try this –

Imagine what the finished piece will be and the moment that you want to capture.

Everywhere there is to be sparkle, foam or waves – don’t put any paint there. Don’t wet the entire watercolor paper, but instead paint with limited areas of wetness across the page from side to side where the foam, sparkle and froth of the waves will not be.

Sounds pretty backwards, doesn’t it? In essence, paint everything in deep hues where the sea is getting deeper away from the viewer until it nears the horizon while leaving the irregular shapes of the wave crests near the viewer and where there are hints of building waves in the middle behind the detailed areas in the foreground.

CricketDiane “painting” of the ocean waves at sunset as my spirit is renewed – 9″ x 12″ (sold) – created in pastels on art paper, 2009, 1991 – Title: Serenity

There is a dry brush technique that works great for sparkle in watercolor – try it first on a separate piece of watercolor paper. Fill the dry paintbrush (stiff bristles have one set of effects, soft bristles have a different look done this way) with paint by gently, lightly dragging it across the top of the paint so it doesn’t fill the bristles completely. Then pull the color across the page drifting it across the surface in one smooth motion. Each swipe across the surface will fill in some of the color under the sparkle. This isn’t white paint in the brush, although you can do that with acrylics or oil paints.

For watercolors, the paper provides the only pure white in the painting, so when the sparkle happens – it is literally the paper showing through the other colors that convey visual information beneath the foam, the spray, the breaking wave froth, and the sparkly little bits that to the viewer seem to be on top of the water. It is easy to fill the brush with several colors of the water and sand to drag across the paper in front of a breaking wave to convey the sparkly foam in the shallows where we would splash and dig our toes into the wet sand.

cricketdiane 2009 – sea glory – ocean waves painting art trading card – Baby Crickets Ocean Series – 2.5″ x 3.5″ – original painted in acrylic 2007 – 2009

There is a little shadow beneath each wave’s crashing froth – it can be created with a light wash with only a hint of wet pigment slightly darker than the sea water and depending on the time of day in your painting, the frothiness of the wave can be captured with swirls of very, very thin prussian blue washes blended gently into the areas of white or using lightly wet soft bristles partially filled with a very, very thin wash of payne’s grey. Try it on another piece of paper first.

The clouds and sky will be the same thing – where there are white volumes of clouds must be left unpainted because where the white paper is ever given a tint, it will never be white again. The horizon at certain times of day and in some weather conditions will be almost invisible and lighter than the surrounding upper sky or deep ocean areas. And, at other times it is well-defined and occasionally, deeper in color. What looks right in your mind’s eye? Clouds can be defined from the white surface of the paper using light thin washes of blueish purple, grey, or cobalt that develop the curving forms of shadows beneath their fluffy round forms.

CricketDiane ocean waves painting 2009, 2007 – “Gone Swimming” created in watercolor beach surf and sunset – 2.5″ x 3.5″

Sunsets and sunrises, afternoons and dusk, all have particular tints to everything. As long as the tints match throughout the painting, it can be believable as if your viewer is standing at that place at that time of day.

The best thing to do is to have some fun with experimenting to find the different effects that can happen, but the basic rule for painting in watercolor is that white areas are left clean and lightly developed, lighter values go on first and each layer of color builds to the darkest which is painted last, rather than first as in acrylics and oil paintings.

Great fun painting – can’t wait to see the results!

– cricketdiane, 07-31-09

CricketDiane 2009 – “Caveat” (title) – 2.5″ x 3.5″ Baby Crickets Ocean Series Sailboat Nautical Abstract watercolor 2009, 2007 – how to paint ocean sea paintings – step by step how to paint watercolor sea paintings / ocean waves –

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 – caveat 1 – cdcp07 wc-wcpaper

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 – caveat 2 – cdcp07 wc-wcpaper

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painting ocean waves, how to paint ocean sea waves paintings in watercolor,

Cricket House Studios Stuff – ocean paintings and how to paint ocean waves

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 – caveat 3 – cdcp07 watercolor on watercolor paper ocean sea paintings nautical abstract sailboat

6-30-07 CricketDiane 2009 – caveat 4 – cdcp07 ocean paintings in watercolor – nautical abstract – Baby Crickets – sailboats ocean waves paintings

[And the final work – ]

CricketDiane 2009 – caveat (title) – 2.5″ x 3.5″ Baby Crickets Ocean Nautical Sailboat Abstract watercolor 2009, 2007 – how to paint ocean sea paintings

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And, just for fun – one of the other cricketdiane pocket art card original paintings from 2007 – this one with a cat and a sailboat titled:

“Playing with Mama’s Sailboat”

7-12-07 CricketDiane 2009 – playing with mamas sailboat – cdcp07 watercolor on watercolor paper 2009, 2007

In this watercolor pocket art card that I created, a snuggly kitty is doing what dittling about that happens when cats are in my life – playing with my toys . . .

– cricketdiane, 08-02-09

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CricketDiane 09 – Sonata by Cricket dcphillips 06 – watercolor on Arches wc paper 2009, 2006 – 2.5″ x 3.5″ ocean waves painting Baby Crickets pocket art

Note – this painting above may be watercolor and acrylic or china white watercolor paint riding over the transparent watercolors for the white of the surf and foam in the foreground. I experimented with a lot of different techniques and tried different ways to get the ocean to look the way I remembered it. If it feels like I could splash my feet in it – then, it works as far as I’m concerned.

– cricketdiane 2009

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ADDED – April 2012 –

If you would like to see the things I’ve been doing with my paintings of the ocean – you can find them here at a Zazzle store called, CricketDiane, of course –

This page has the small things with some of the ocean images that I’ve painted and I’ve figured out that if everybody buys one small thing – I will be able to fund starting my business properly – so I’m asking – please do . . .

A little magnet costs about $4 and it would help me to really get started making this into a real business with some appropriate startup funding. Thanks so much for wandering over to my blog and reading the things here and I do appreciate your interest – its very nifty.

http://www.zazzle.com/cricketdiane/gifts?cg=196578798576118101&pg=2#products

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Ah, and the actual store is here – but there is a lot of things on it besides ocean waves art and the category “Small Things” has a lot of images that I’ve created and put on products which would be very little to own, less than $10 for any of them. so everybody go buy one – — LOL, but definitely, yes please do.

Hearing the Waves Crash – CricketDiane Ocean Art by CricketDiane
More Cricketdiane Keychains

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Winter Sea – Save the Sea CricketDiane Button Pin by CricketDiane
Create buttons at zazzle.com

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“Elegant Seascape” CricketDiane Ocean Art by CricketDiane
Create custom refrigerator magnets at Zazzle

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Soft Light Save the Sea Ocean Sticker by CricketDiane
Browse Cricketdiane Stickers

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The CricketDiane Store at Zazzle –

http://www.zazzle.com/cricketdiane*

 

The CricketDiane Website – (which I just reworked and I’m still working on it, but some of it looks pretty good . . . )

http://www.cricketdiane.com/

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About CricketDiane –

I’ve been creating nearly every day since I was a kid and that is over 50 years. I’ve created in numerous ways in a range that moves from art to problem-solving to inventing, creating music, sculpting and painting to writing and doing various computer / online based projects.

“It is better to make the effort to move forward and release the flow of ideas to work with them and do things creatively, create things and invent and write and make – I definitely know that by experience.” – cricketdiane, 2018

 

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You can find more of my art and designs here –

CricketDiane and Cricket House Studios Store on Zazzle

 

and other blog writings by me here –

https://cricketdiane.wordpress.com/

https://cricketdiane.com/

On YouTube –

CricketDiane Phillips

 

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The website for Cricket House Studios Art and Design is found here –

http://www.crickethousestudios.com/

And see my current efforts on GoFundMe to make a board game I created into a video game that I’m working on right now –

The Scared Donkey Mine Money Game by CricketDiane on GoFundMe

 

Thanks for checking us out!

The Cricket House Studios Team and CricketDiane

 

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