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Sep 26, 2023 · In this step-by-step tutorial, I will show you how to create a stunning acrylic sunset painting. Whether you have never picked up a paintbrush before or want to improve your painting skills,...
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- Aham Art
How to paint a super colorful and bright sunset with a reflection! This acrylic painting tutorial has easy and simple techniques.
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- AhmadArt
Discover the joy of painting with this easy acrylic tutorial. Learn to create a beautiful sunset scene, perfect for beginners. Relax and enjoy the soothing a...
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- NSM ARTS
- Tools and Materials Used
- Optional First Step: Apply Gesso
- Start with Your Background Colors
- Add Your Sun and Begin Refining Your Gradients
- Blend Sky Gradient and Add Light Clouds
- Add Brighter Clouds Around The Sun in Pink
- Bring The Darker Clouds Up and Blend Where Needed
- Darken The Clouds Further and Add The Horizon Line
- Adjust The Colors and Address Any Annoyances
- Use Horizontal Strokes to Add Waves to The Ocean
The colors you will need for your painting depend on the reference you are using. If you are going to use the same one as in this example just try to select a palette of colors as close to what you see here as you can. For our paints we have today, from left to right we have all Liquitex Basics paints of: 1. Cadmium Yellow Light Hue 2. Cadmium Oran...
For the first step, I took on this painting I decided to prep my canvas with a few layers of gesso. Even though the Blick canvas comes primed it has a very coarse texture to it. It is far more coarse than most of the canvases that I have experienced painting on so far. So I decided to use Liquitex Gesso to try and fill in some of that texture and s...
For the first step, we are just going to try and get the gradient and major areas of colors down on the canvas. We are laying down the foundation of our painting. The background. It doesn’t need to be perfect we just need to get a basic representation of our colors, shapes, and gradients. The basic layout and composition is the objective of this st...
In step 2, we want to refine our first layer a bit. I still had a number of patches on the canvas that I hadn’t totally covered that I needed to focus on first. Taking more of my orange and yellow I tried to blend my sky a bit more into the area closer to the area where the sun was going to be. Then I added the sun. At first, I made it a bit too wh...
For this step,I brought in a bit of Primary Red to help get my gradient between the orange and pink areas of my painting more seamless. Before I did that I began by adding some of the yellow-orange clouds we see in the picture. To do this I actually used a technique I saw Bob Ross use the other day. I don’t often watch Bob Ross but I happened to co...
In Step 4 we start to see the picture coming together a bit. I focused mainly on trying to add the glowing clouds that we see surrounding the sun in our picture. I haven’t yet achieved the brightness or vibrancy I want in this section and will continue to fill it out in our subsequent steps. I used my magenta, primary red, and orange all in variati...
For this step, we want to bring our darker clouds up to reach up around the sun a bit. As you can see, with step we are gradually going from the largest details down to the smallest details. To get some of the effects of the clouds you see here you will want to use your square-headed brush in a horizontal stroke. Be sure to mix a tiny bit of water ...
This is the step where we start to get down to the nitty gritty details. The part of the painting where it starts to become important to try and address the things that are bothering you. For this project, getting the orange-red glow around the sun right has been driving me nuts. It’s knawing at my soul right now. I fear that by attempting to do so...
In this step, do your best to adjust the colors you have where necessary. We are coming close to finishing up so we want to take our time with it. One thing you can do that might help if you’re having trouble with a certain color is to take a clean palette or paper plate and try to experiment with your mixes like you see me trying here. Unfortunate...
Now in step 8, you want to continue to use your square-headed brush to make horizontal strokes of varying shades of this aqua purple to create some waves. This is basically the same sort of stroke we were using to make our clouds only with less watered down paint. I just basically used my light blue permanent and my prism violet in varying degrees ...
- Marc Spagnuolo
- Create the sky gradient. The sky transitions from a pale yellow at the top, to a warm red at the horizon on the left hand side of the composition.
- Paint the light around the sun. The sun is the centre point of the composition. First I painted the surrounding clouds and brightest parts of the sky.
- Paint the sun. Dot in the centre of the sky with titanium white where you want the sun to go. I’m measuring halfway along the horizon to find the centre point.
- Outline the clouds around the sun. There’s variation in tones above where the light from the sun is passing through the clouds. The edges of the clouds are illuminated with a light yellow tone.
Jul 22, 2022 · Learn to paint a vibrant and bright sunset scene with acrylic paint. There are 9 simple steps & you can paint along with the video tutorial!
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So in this easy tutorial, we’ll show you how to approach an acrylic sunset painting, so that you can master the art of recreating the magic of last light. You’ll learn how to plan your sunset painting, how to blend the paint to create beautiful clouds and how to build up layers of paint in stages.
