Beach Painting: Easy Beginner Tutorial
Looking for an easy beach painting idea with acrylics?
(YouTube video is coming soon!)
Lets get to it!
Darker sand color
How do you paint an easy beach?
Beach paintings are easy landscapes for beginners to paint.
And the best part of beach paintings are you dont need many colors to paint it.
All you need is 5 basic colors.
If you want to add a cute starfish all you need is a bit ofcadmium red mediumand youre set!
How do you paint ocean waves for beginners?
Waves that are crashing down have a reverse triangle shape.
Using a small flat brush and titanium white sweep down from the line and create an triangle shape.
The middle of the wave will have the longest sweep down.
Rinse and repeat wherever you want waves!
Waves that are further away in the distance (or further from our eye) are smaller.
Keep that in mind when painting your waves to create an illusion of depth.
How do you paint seafoam on the beach?
Seafom on the beach makes a beautiful lace/web like pattern.
To replicate this pattern first draw the edge of your waved on the sand shore using titanium white.
This will create an illusion of depth.
Next connect these diagonal lines by painting in more squiggly horizontal lines.
This will create small wavy pools of water.
These pools of water will be bigger at the shore and smaller as you move out into the ocean.
Keep that in mind when painting in your horizontal squiggly lines.
What colors make a sand color?
Save yourself some cash ($$) by mixing sand color yourself with colors your probably already own.
Sand color is one of the easiest colors to mix too!
Then slowly add small amounts of titanium white to lighten the mix until youre happy with the color.
Cheaper paints usually dry a shade or 2 lighter compared to when theyre wet.
Keep adding small amounts of titanium white to the mix until your sand is light enough.
Can you mix sand with acrylic paint?
Darker sand color
mixing sand right into your acrylic paint is an easy and inexpensive way to add texture to your beach.
What to add to paint to give it texture?
There are a few different ways to add texture to your acrylic paint.
The first way is to mix in a coarse pumice medium in with your paints.
This will give a sandy, bumpy texture when dried.
This beginner step by step painting tutorial is simple to follow and fun!
Lighter sand color with titanium white
Did you make this project?
Sand texture in acrylic paint
