Add more white if needed to make it more of a gray color. 1 part brown, 1 part white, 1 part turquoise. You can add a bit more white in there if needed. On your palette, mix about 1 part brown, 1 part titanium white and 1 part turquoise. Next you will paint the shadows of your sea foam. Paint the bottom sand area below your bottom line. Then load your brush in unbleached titanium (you don’t need to rinse the brown off). This is the shore area where the water overlaps the sand. It’s okay if some of the turquoise water color gets blended down in this sand area. Then gently blend some of the sand with the light turquoise bottom area of the shore. Paint the sand area in between your two pencil lines. Mix about 3 parts unbleached titanium and 1 part burnt umber. Load burnt umber and unbleached titanium on your palette. Blend the white with the teal and go down to your top line. Then wipe your brush off and load it into titanium white. Blend the turquoise up into your dark teal color then paint about halfway down the ocean with the turquoise. Then wipe your brush off and load it into just the turquoise. Then go down about an inch and a half to two inches with this “dark teal” color. Try using just the tip of your brush for that horizon line. Start below your horizon line and carefully paint a straight line across the canvas. You will get a really pretty dark teal color. Mix equal amounts of the turquoise and phthalo blue. Load your palette with turquoise blue and phthalo blue. Use a clean, slightly wet, 3/4″ flat wash brush. I made my shoreline go kind of diagonal, however, you can make yours go straight across if you want. The bottom line is the bottom edge of the seafoam. The top line is where the blue will start blending with the sand. There will also be a point where the blue will blend with the sand. I recommend lightly drawing your shoreline with a pencil so you know where to stop painting your “blues” down to the sand color. Try not to get any white at the top of the sky so that it stays a little darker. This will create a “gradient” of the blue that blends to a lighter blue at the bottom.Ĭontinue to blend the blue and the white so the blue is lightest along the horizon and darker at the top. Paint left and right strokes that gently blend into the blue. Load the tip of your brush in titanium white. Then wipe off the excess cerulean blue but do not rinse the brush. Paint left and right strokes across the canvas starting at the top and working your way to the mid point of the sky. Next, load your color palette with cerulean blue and titanium white. This does not have to be exact, simply select where your horizon line will be! I recommend that it is above the center point of your canvas so you have more ocean than sky in your painting. Place a tapeline at about 9″ from the bottom of the canvas. Position your canvas in a vertical format.

A beach landscape