Summary: Match you painting colors to those of your photo. Learn how to blend colors for a painting of a sunrise in this free oil painting lesson from our experienced painter.
Matt Cail is an artist who works in oil, water color and acrylic paints, among others. Over the years, Cail has used a variety of styles in his paintings, ranging from realism to...read more
"Now sunrises are not like rainbows where you have you know, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, etcetera, etcetera. They colors kind of hop skip over each other in certain instances in life. And you can see that because look at what we're going to do here. We're going to build back in some basic pink into our painting. Going to start off very, very bold and we're going to also blend this guy in. Because you can look back in the photograph, you have a lot of intermix pink, in with the in and among the yellow. Now this is going to be challenging in making sure we both blend it in here, but we also do not overwhelm the yellow. Because yellow is still definitely present here. Now we're going to finish, we're not going to leave these looking like a stripe sunrise. We're actually going to be blending these in with our round brush. We're also going to be bringing in the occasional white highlight, like we did before, as well, to temper the intensity with the blending of our brushes."