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Painting Demo: Abstracted Seascape Using Limited Color Palette

By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com

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Painting Loosely

Painting Project: Limited Color PaletteImage: ©2007 Marion Boddy-Evans. Licensed to About.com, Inc

I've included this photo to show how loosely I'm applying the paint. It looks a real mess right now, but remember it's only a step in the process, it's not the final result. I have a picture in my mind's eye of how I ultimately want the painting to be.

The dark patches of green in the sea may look particularly odd, but I put them there intending them to serve as a lower layer of dark peaking through the final layers of sea. Like rocks showing through shallow water.

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