How to Paint the Ocean on Canvas

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Ralph Papa for papagallery.com, and today we are learning about acrylic painting. In this clip I am going to show you how to paint the ocean using acrylic paint. And here I am just going to drag my brush across where I have the horizon line, and it is okay if I don't have all the canvas covered. But I am just now leaving a little break in the canvas to sort of separate where some white caps would be. And now we will sort of just stroke some of that in. Now I'm going to sort of come back on the water, and just put in some highlights where some waves would be. And usually when I am going to do waves I will go up about right at the surface where the wave might be breaking here, and just suggest the white caps in a couple of spots. And we can sort of just drag like that, and in between here, and as the horizon line we can take half of that again, and sort of put another wave in out here. And then also split between here and the horizon line again, and sort of suggest that way out, and that distance is going to give us a perspective of distance. Here I've got my sky done, I've got a semblance of the ocean here, and the sand. And overall what I emphasize with the ocean is up at the toward the horizon it does get darker as it gets to the horizon where the ocean level is. And we've got the separation showing waves, we split the difference in half for each one of these, and that gives us the feeling of distance what we would see on the ocean. And we can come back with other colors and mix them in. We could use a lot of other things that accent the waves up in the front. Bring in more white in, highlighting where the waves would be breaking, and some of the other colors of the sky we can bring in to even it out, and balance it out as well. Once again this has been Ralph Papa, and thank you for watching."