Creations, Breaking Waves
Let’s paint today. Painting is not a mysterious magical process, but rather just a series of steps and layers of colors and shapes…
I usually paint with a very limited palette and mix my own colors. This helps keep the finished work uniform and cohesive
For this painting I used Titantium White, Cerulan blue, Hanza Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow Medium and Naphthol red light. I used black gesso for the underpainting
I always paint the entire canvas with an underpainting, either a complementary color of the main color in the painting or black as for this painting
I slowly added layers of color and shapes, working from a reference photo of the ocean
this canvas is 30″ x 40″
I generally try to complete a painting in one session, to keep the flow and the colors consistent. The worse thing you can do is overwork a painting. If you get stuck, walk away for a while, an hour, a day, but not too long or you’ll loose your feel
After laying in the exaggerated colors, I tone them down so just little highlights of them will show
This painting is for my daughter [by far my pickest client] who wanted an abstract landscape, to remind her of the coast, mostly gray, to blend in with monochromatic gray decor
It became a little too lavender, so I made some further adjustments
That’s better
This painting took about 3 hours
Let’s take it off the easel and see how it looks on the wall
Below you can see some details
Up close you can still see lots of colors peeking through
which helps create interest and depth
Thanks for painting with me today!
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I love the little splashes coming off of the upper breaker:@)
Lovely!
I am in awe of your talent. I love this painting!
This is a beautiful painting Jenna, your daughter will be thrilled. Love the colors you chose, I think this will look fabulous with her gray decor. Lovely…………..
Beautiful, Jenna! I love it!
Oh, how beautiful! I’m enjoying your lessons. Have a great rest-of-the-week!
Oh my gosh Jenna…this painting is stunning!!!….Your daughter is so very lucky to have a very talented mom who is able to enhance her home with original and beautiful artwork!
thank you Shirley, I really hate posting my own paintings, so scary! >
Jenna, I hope your daughter realizes how lucky she is to have an artist for a mom! I know she’s thrilled to have such a large custom canvas to match her decor! Thanks for the painting tips, it’s been years since I took a paintbrush to a canvas 🙂
I love it! I’m all for grey and its shades lately 🙂
ha!! Thanks MIla! >
Gorgeous painting! Popped over from The Scoop. Now a fan! I actually loved the painting even when you thought it was too lavender for your daughter! So pretty.
I can’t believe you can sit down and create such beauty so quickly! You are truly an amazing artist.
Thank you so much for sharing.