Sea & Sky in Acrylics

YOUR GUIDE TO ACRYLIC PAINTING: Create your own stunning seascapes with this acrylic painting book featuring expert technical guidance and 3 step-by-step projects.

Acrylic painting expert Dave White introduces the simple but effective techniques he uses to paint stunning, dramatic seascapes with beautiful and realistic skies. In this acrylic painting book, you’ll receive Dave’s clear, step-by-step guidance on:

• Spattering, blending backgrounds, painting horizons, and finger painting clouds and foam
• The anatomy of waves—how they rise and collapse, creating ripples, surf, foam, and spray
• How to paint effective reflections and beaches to improve your seascapes
• How to paint all types of cloud—with a variety of innovative methods
• Capturing the moods and dramatic beauty of sunsets

Dave’s method of creating depth in sea, beach and sky using lines projected from the vanishing point will radically improve readers’ seascapes. Finally, 3 step-by-step acrylic painting projects show how to paint a beach panorama with a rolling wave, a spectacular sunset over a calm sea, and waves crashing on rocks.Introduction
Materials
Colour and opacity
Techniques
SEA:
The splash zone
A rising wave
A falling wave
Surf and ripples
Reflections
Beaches
Wind direction
SKY:
Selecting a vanishing point
Clouds
Moods and Sunsets
PROJECTS:
Beachcomber
The Heavens Declare
Barton CornerAfter 30 years of being in finance, Dave White discovered he could paint, and recognising that we all have creative gifts inside us, bursting to get out, he embarked on a new road of painting people's animals and teaching students how to do it. He exhibits annually at Crufts Dog Show and the New Forest Show, and has done numerous commissions all over the world. Living in the New Forest in England allows an up-close encounter with a variety of animals, including horses and dogs.