Video: Sky Highlights in a Seascape Oil Painting

Sky highlights in a seascape add dimension and interest to your oil painting. Learn which colors are best to highlight skies with expertise from an experienced artist in this free oil painting video.

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Now another effect you can do outside of clouds is by using a bit of a color called Permanent Rose. This is basically like an intense pink. Of course we're not going to be, it will not be pink by the time we're done with it on the canvas. Observe. Basically, apply little swatches of this pink down along the horizon line, like so. And then mix them in. And mix them in by kind of using a slight back and forth brush technique. And go higher as you mix it in, because you're going to see the layer will become thinner and thinner. This is a very strong color, again, so make sure you do not use too much. Otherwise, you're going to have an entirely pink sky. Blend these in as follows keeping it lighter at the top but also darker and more defined towards the bottom. And then basically extend this blending across the canvas until its right about at the same level as the other one. Now, don't make your blending too perfect. If you look at nature there are areas of concentration. You just don't anything to look to patterned, too predictable. So, sometimes I like to go back through and just add a couple of little nicks. Just to make sure that I'm not horizontal and equal in all my lines. There's a little bit of that natural chaos in there. Now once you have a nice defined border here, what you than essentially have done is added either a dusk or a sunrise coming out to your lighting here. At the same time, though, it's not so intense where everything has to be reflecting pink. I haven't put actually any extra pink up here in the clouds. I'm going to keep that white for the time being. But it's a nice little effect and it makes your sky a little more interesting just than being a high noon sky.

Sky Highlights in a Seascape Oil Painting

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