From the Artist: I have completed (to my eyes) a monochrome seascape in acrylic to carry out the exercise given. The color used is Phalo Blue with a touch of white to give contrast. The under painting was done with about a 50 percent mix of the two, with a lighter glazing for the sky and a darker for the sea. The rocks were done in pure blue with slightly lighter highlights. There is no pure white in the painting.
I am an amateur who had some training about 20 years ago but have not painted for 14 years or so, but having now retired at age 69 am wanting to have another go.
From the Painting Guide: The great thing about painting is that picking up long-neglected brushes is a bit like riding a bicycle -- you never forget how, you just have to get the muscles back into shape. Sure you may wobble a bit when you start again, but now you have, nothing can stop you!
In terms of composition of the elements in your painting, there are two things I would look at. Firstly, the horizon is nearly in the middle of the painting (in terms of vertical height), which tends to cut it in half. Moving it up or down allows either the sea or the sky to dominate the painting. In this case I would opt to move it up, so there was far more sea than sky.
Then the dark rock on the left just tops the horizon, what's known as 'kissing'. In composition terms, it's preferable to have elements must either be definitely apart or definitely overlapped. Take a piece of paper and block off part of the left-hand side of the painting to eliminate the 'kissing, and see how you feel about it (or take a look at this cropped photo of your painting).
See Top 10 Tips for Painting Composition and Composition Class: Dynamic Lines for more on this.
I am an amateur who had some training about 20 years ago but have not painted for 14 years or so, but having now retired at age 69 am wanting to have another go.
From the Painting Guide: The great thing about painting is that picking up long-neglected brushes is a bit like riding a bicycle -- you never forget how, you just have to get the muscles back into shape. Sure you may wobble a bit when you start again, but now you have, nothing can stop you!
In terms of composition of the elements in your painting, there are two things I would look at. Firstly, the horizon is nearly in the middle of the painting (in terms of vertical height), which tends to cut it in half. Moving it up or down allows either the sea or the sky to dominate the painting. In this case I would opt to move it up, so there was far more sea than sky.
Then the dark rock on the left just tops the horizon, what's known as 'kissing'. In composition terms, it's preferable to have elements must either be definitely apart or definitely overlapped. Take a piece of paper and block off part of the left-hand side of the painting to eliminate the 'kissing, and see how you feel about it (or take a look at this cropped photo of your painting).
See Top 10 Tips for Painting Composition and Composition Class: Dynamic Lines for more on this.
