Another wonderfully mellow day with sunshine at Treetops.
Today, Claire showed us Acrylics with texture.
We painted a seascape taken from Porthmeor Beach in St Ives, with the waves crashing against the rocks.
Having painted the sky, sea and sand with only flat brushes, we then used texture modelling paste to create the rocks and swirling frothy waves that crash onto the beach. This can be done with either a palette knife or fingers.
The paste takes a while to dry, so we left it to work it's magic whilst we had lunch.
To achieve a lovely smooth finish, especially on our skies we used another product called liquifying medium, this gives a really good fluidity to the paint.
We used some great colours, and did alot of mixing, if you look carefully amongst the rocks, you will see aubergines, reds, yellows, greens. They may have been rocks, but there were parts in the sunshine, parts covered in seaweed, mussels and limpets, we really needed to give them some texture.
Towards the end we went back into the sea to create some waves and colour, which really brought the paintings to life.
Then for my favourite part, flicking with toothbrushes!
Perfect for creating spray at the crashing wave moment!
This gorgeous blue painting was done by one our ladies of the beautiful sea in Madeira.
I need a trip to the seaside now .....
