Master Ocean Waves in Watercolor: 3 Easy to Intermediate Exercises

What You Will Learn?

• Today we’re going to talk about painting ocean waves in watercolor. What I love about painting in loose and expressive style is that it’s focused on bringing out the essence of the picture rather than creating a duplicate.  .
• Ocean waves is a subject that can seem intimidating but once you break it down into the basic steps, painting principles and techniques, you’ll realize it’s actually easy and fun to paint. .
• In this class, we’re going to start with the essential materials from the right paper, brushes and colors to use. I’ll share helpful tips to work with colors without having muddy mixtures. Next, ill teach you how to plan your painting in order to have a clear and effective game plan before diving in to watercolor..
• I will be taking you through 3 different exercises that you can do to practice all the techniques that I will be sharing in the class..
• We’ll start with a simple exercise on painting wave on the shore..
• Next, we will explore painting soft and hard textures with sea foam and cliff rocks..
• And lastly, we’ll apply everything we’ve learned and create this picture of ocean waves crashing on rocks..
• By the end of the class, you will have a better understanding of the behavior of watercolor and ready to take your artworks to a higher level..