Start With A Sketch, Finish With A Painting

In this lesson, we start with a completed two-minute sketch and develop it into a finished seascape painting.

We’ll develop the unfinished sky and foreground, show light and form on the rocks and create reflections in the water.

If you want to follow along but don’t have the original two-minute drill painting, click the button above to view that video.

In continuing our quick-sketch, two minute drill, we’ll be using a limited palette of color in an Cool Analogous With Complement scheme.

What you’ll need:

• Finished Sea, Rocks and Water Quick sketch 
• Colors: Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet, Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue
• Brushes – Medium Round, Small Round, and Cotman #3 Rigger .
• Colors – Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Daniel Smith Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet, WN Cerulean Blue, Winsor Newton French Ultramarine Blue , Burnt Sienna