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Published: 2008-07-23 05:50:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 550; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 16
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Oh dear... this is a disaster. The sky was suppose to be with vibrant colors... and that went kurplop. Ugg...I am proud of the sea itself. The colors were just the way I wanted them. However, I am still having difficulty painting the little streaks in the water to show foam. Not too sure what to do about that nor understand why I am failing at it.
Good think I am not attempting my mini canvases. I would hate to know how hard those would be compared to these larger ones.
Art (c) me, Martin J. Owen
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What the holy flipping donkey disks are you TALKING about??!!! I ENVY you and your usage of colors to blend with !!! MY paintings of ocean waves never turn out NEARLY this lifelike!
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Well, I screwed up and tried something I should not have done.
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yeah but still... this pwns!
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very nice. u are right about the foam is hard. and i dont know how but i would think to make little circles.
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Well, the foam is actually rather easy but I have to do it right on the first try, otherwise it fails. Lots of pressure. D8
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I've got really mised opinions about this one. As to be completely honest with you, the foreground is absolutely fantastic. That rock.. and the nearest wave hitting it and splashing against it is absolutely fantastic. Reaaaaally good job with that. I think the problem's to do with the ocean nearer the horizon... but being honest, its quite hard to place. Still though I really love the foreground. This is a really good attempt at an ocean scene.
Stampy
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Oh, I see. On the right side of the picture. Yah, I did mess up there. Hmm.. well, I do plan on redoing this picture.
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Wha? Really? Do you think you would want to buy it?
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Well If the sky was improved then yes :3
I love the water ^^
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Ok, maybe when I do another picture like this you might like it. Unless I do something radical on the next try with rocks, I would probably charge something like $20 plus shipping. Is that too much for you?
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okay :3
I will have it in mind ^^
No not thinking of the time you probably spend on them ^^
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wow, that is really awesome actually...yah..the sky did go a little wonky, eh? looks a tad moody...but the water is amazing! was this oils? maybe you can paint over it? Or keep it as a study, and start another one...
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Yes, I do plan on doing another one. The sky looks the way it is because I did a black base over the back of the sky, thus prevening the paint from having the vibrant colors shown in the tutorial that I used.
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hmm...you should use a complimentary color for your background wash *nods*
like...blue sky? a light orange wash...light blue sky? a light yellow orange *shrugs* trying to remember from highschool days XP
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Background wash? You mean the base color? I was thinking maybe a white to get a more vibrant color. Anyways, does not useing complimentary colors darken and gray?
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yes a base color which is on the entire canvas before the actual painting begins...
white is usually not used because then that is your lightest value on a painting, so nothing you paint will be as bright as your canvas..
To draken it just a tad, use a cloth/paper towel, with terpinoin/tempintine and a little paint I think for oils, I use acrylics and I use a dab of paint and alot of water, and only put on a light layer...it's just to get the white of the canvas to go away, then your white paint will be your brightest value.
Well, if you let it dry completely before painting on it, then no, you won't get grey/mud 
(if you use a paper towel be prepared to have lint things all over your canvas, found this out on my most recent painting)
Hope I made some sense o_0
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