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Seascape

drawing with gouache with children


For drawing a seascape we will need:

  • A sheet of thick Whatman paper A3 or A4 format;
  • Gouache in blue, white, green and black colors;
  • Large soft brush (eg squirrel #6)
  • Brush with stiff bristles;
  • Old toothbrush;
  • Palette for mixing paints (just a sheet of paper will do);
  • A jar of water for rinsing brushes;
  • A cloth for wiping brushes.

How to draw the sky in a seascape. Draw a line with a pencil, dividing the sheet into two unequal parts - 1/3 will be the sky, the rest will be the sea. This line will become the horizon line. Take white and blue gouache, mix them to obtain the blue color of the desired intensity. Paint over the sky, making horizontal movements with the brush from one edge of the sheet to the other. Since the sky at the top of our picture should be darker, to create the effect of “depth”, you can first apply a dark blue stripe, and then paint the sky with blue paint, shading the dark blue stripe.


Draw clouds in the sky. Apply dotted strokes with white gouache or completely paint over the cucumber clouds. While the paint is still wet, press the crumpled piece of paper onto the drawing. paper napkin. This will give the clouds a “fluffiness” and blur the clear boundaries.


How to draw the sea in a seascape Take blue paint and cover the bottom of the sheet with it, moving the brush from one edge to the other of the sheet.





Drawing details of the seascape Write on the horizon line in black or dark blue paint stone island. Its shape can be completely arbitrary. Draw black checkmarks of seagulls in the sky.


To draw a ship, put a black dot - this is the stern of a retreating sailboat. Dots painted with white paint are sails.



Our seascape completely ready. All that remains is to dry it and hang it on the wall. .


In this world it is quite difficult to imagine anything more romantic than a sailboat sailing alone on the waves towards the unknown. Of course, traveling by sea is romantic in itself, but a sailboat is simply the pinnacle of all romantic dreams.

We dream of sailboats with early childhood, reading Jack London, Vladislav Krapivin or Jules Verne. But sailing even on a tiny sailing yacht will definitely not leave an adult indifferent. When a large real sailboat with several masts and a full set of straight and oblique sails appears on the horizon, it is simply breathtaking.

Long before the Titanic sank to the seabed, people mostly moved on water on ordinary boards with sheets attached. The unique tradition of sending sheets into the sea has remained to this day, albeit as entertainment. Nevertheless, the topic is interesting, so in today's lesson you will see how to correctly draw a sailboat with a pencil. A sailboat is a watercraft that uses wind power to move. Brilliant and simply angry and cheap, but in complete calm it is extremely inconvenient.

The whole truth about life:
— A sailfish is also a fish that for a long time lived among ships and her upper fin simply mutated into a sheet.
— The best way The famous way to catch seasickness is to run backwards on the deck during a storm.
— Black labor force appeared when the first ships sailed to the shores of Africa. There were real problems with the wind, but the ship still had to move. Therefore, the peoples of Africa were given oars and the meaning of life.
— A sailboat usually does not float on land, but when it does, we can expect a lot of casualties among civilians.

Drawing a sailboat is easier than building or buying, but it will still look beautiful.

On this master class Together with you we will learn how to draw the sea in gouache with a sailboat. So, the drawing technique is gouache.

Haven't held a brush in your hands since school? It doesn't mean anything at all. Gouache drawings are a great start for beginners.

Why this particular technique?
Gouache is the optimal material to start with.
First of all, it is very affordable and can be purchased virtually at every step (compared to acrylic or oil).

Secondly, the water base of this type of paint makes it possible to easily vary the thickness of the paint, the level of its application, as well as the formation of textures on the canvas.

Thirdly, the fact that gouache is a completely non-toxic paint is very important. Thus, gouache lessons are completely safe for children and people with certain diseases and various allergic reactions.

Fourthly, this paint quite flexibly combines some of the qualities of watercolor and, in some cases, even oil paints Therefore, painting with gouache will provide an opportunity to develop practical skills in other techniques.

The thick consistency of the paint allows you to layer different layers on top of each other, while painting light areas with darker ones or vice versa. This allows you to make many changes to the image before it dries. At the same time, it is also possible to blur the paint, dilute it more transparent layers, which gives the drawing realism.

It is in connection with the important advantages described above that this lesson we will use gouache type paint.

Place the paper you are going to draw on vertically and divide it roughly in half. Let the top of the sheet be a little larger. Using a large brush, start painting the sky.


Use white gouache to draw a small moon. It is necessary to outline the border with bright yellow. You can also add a little orange.


While the gouache is still wet, add more dark color around the edges. To do this, simply mix black and blue paint on the palette.


Draw the outer edge of the clouds.


Mix blue, white and a little black paint. Add it to the clouds so that you get a very smooth transition from the light part near the moon.


From the inside of the picture, you should draw lighter clouds, since they reflect the light of the moon. While the paint is still wet, mixing colors is fairly easy. You can take a clean brush and use it to mix two colors in which you want to get an even and smooth transition.


For the stars, first mix some bluish paint on your palette and draw a small circle. When the paint is dry, use a thin brush to make a small dot of white paint.

Then you should carefully sketch out an image of a sailboat with a pencil.


We draw the sea with gouache step by step. The sea should first be painted over with uneven, long horizontal strokes, alternating dark blue, light blue and turquoise paint. Draw in the foreground big wave blue-green paint.


Continue drawing the sea. Use bright blue paint to paint small waves near the ship itself.


Use white gouache to paint highlights on the waves. Paint the sailboat with gouache. Please note that the sails should be drawn with a very smooth transition from blue to white, from left to right.


All that remains now is to paint small wings of foam on the waves, and also apply highlights of light with a thin brush. I sprayed the foam with gouache using a hard brush. First, it is better to practice on some piece of paper.


The result is a work like this - a sailboat sailing home through a mysterious moonlit night.

Drawing waves

We have already drawn the waves in the example with the sailboat, but we want you to look again step by step at how they are drawn.


Draw the sea, accurately convey color and power water element Only an experienced artist can. An artist who paints the sea is called a marine painter and paints various types and the state of the sea and learn this all your life. Painted pictures of the sea with paints, gouache or watercolors, and better with oil very accurately convey the entire range of shades and depth of color of the sea. The sunset on the sea looks especially beautiful in its colors. But let's start step by step draw the sea with a simple pencil.
Drawing the sea is not easy, especially with a simple pencil. It is difficult to convey sea waves and surf with a simple pencil. With a pencil this can only be done using the stroke technique. You will need to constantly rub the strokes with your finger or a stiff eraser.

1. First, let's highlight the main contours of the sea


To begin, select the horizon and main contours coastline our composition. On the shore, immediately draw the outlines of the coastal stones. Then we will separate the horizon line of the sea and draw the line of the beach and draw the sun. You can also draw the outlines of small waves around the stones.

2. “Scatter” the sea waves over the pattern


Now we need to draw initial contours waves throughout the entire space allocated for the sea in our drawing. Make pencil strokes over the entire surface of the sea, but you should not do too many of them, otherwise the waves will not turn out large.

3. Shade the water surface with strokes of a soft pencil


At this stage we need to draw and shade with strokes the contours of the waves near the stones. To soften pencil marks, you can rub them with your finger or a hard eraser. The shaded part of the sea can also be rubbed with a piece of paper or your finger.

4. Sand on the coastline


Now we will pay attention to the sea coastline. In our picture there is a sandy shore by the sea, but you can draw another one. Just like the surface of the sea, the sand needs to be shaded with pencil strokes, lightly rubbing them. If necessary, you can remove excess blackness in some areas of the sea, again using an eraser. After this, you can “color” the stones, heavily shading them, and draw small clouds.

5. How to draw the sea. Clouds


At this stage we will draw not the sea, but what is above it - the sky and clouds. If necessary, in some areas of the sea you can lightly erase the strokes vertically with an eraser, this will give the sea additional highlights. But first, add a few small free-form clouds with faint strokes to emphasize the movement of air. Draw the sun, such a “trifle” always makes any drawing more attractive and realistic.

6. Drawing the sea on a graphics tablet


Now you know how draw the sea with a simple pencil and you can try to make another drawing and color it with paints, as in this color picture of the sea, which I made especially for this lesson on a graphics tablet.


Of course, the drawing of the sea will look much more beautiful if you can draw a sailboat in the distance. In this lesson you will learn how to draw both the sea and a sailing frigate.


Wandering the seas on sailing ships, pirates made caches of looted treasures, many of which were never found. Perhaps these treasures never existed. But not only were maps used by pirates to indicate the location of a treasure island at sea, they were used primarily for navigation.


If you decide to draw a picturesque seascape, draw dolphins. These sea animals will definitely turn out beautiful if you draw them step by step. Draw the outlines of the sea and dolphins with a simple pencil, and then color the entire drawing with paints.


The turtle lives in the sea and this is probably the most ancient inhabitant seas. Over all the years of evolution, turtles only learned to go to land to lay eggs, but did not leave the sea forever, like other animals. In this lesson we will try to draw a turtle by the sea ourselves.


A mermaid is half fish, half human, so you need to draw the mermaid not only a tail, but also fish scales on it. Required condition For a picture of a mermaid there must be a body of water, because they live in a river or on the sea.

Today I want to show you how I painted this seascape from life:

The play of color on the surface of the sea, in reflections, always fascinates me. There's so much color there! It seems that this simply cannot be conveyed in a film. The photograph gives only a partial idea of ​​the real colors. The eye sees more...

We settled down in a quiet harbor, surrounded by red-red rocks, unusual for France. Their color, combined with the purest emerald water, creates a simply amazing combination. And when the sun peeks through, blue reflections from the sky still play on the surface of the water. And all this beauty flickers, moves, shimmers... In general, it cannot be conveyed in the photo!

View photo report from the trip

How to draw a seascape step by step:

1. When I started drawing, the sea was even calmer. Boats and yachts standing in the bay were reflected in the water ripples, creating an amazingly clear pattern on the surface of the water.

Therefore, I decided to use a reserve liquid in my work, which will prevent the watercolor from flowing into the lightest areas of the reflections of the yachts.

2. When the reserve has dried up, I start painting the rocks. Since they are not the main thing in this picture, I made their shapes blurry.

To do this, I first moistened a piece of work clean water, and then crudely introduced spots of illuminated and shadowed areas of the rocks.

Landscapes with water are simple and complex at the same time...

Master a number of watercolor techniques and you'll learn how to paint wonderful seascapes!

New video master class series “Water and Reflections” will help you with this!

3. I move on to filling the water plan. I also moisten the entire surface so that it is easy to write this large piece in one fell swoop.

First I apply light shades blue, orange, emerald. Then, using a thicker paint composition, I add dark green ripple spots.

If the themes are sea, water, waves

close to you - pay attention to

5. After the layer has dried, remove the reserve liquid. The areas underneath are kept white.

6. I prescribe small details yachts:

Art supplies:

  1. The original picture of a seascape and a lighthouse against some background from which you will copy. You can print the image from the link
  2. Watercolor album Arches cold pressed, density 252 g/cm2 (140lb), format 405x305 mm (16? x 12?)
  3. A sheet of scrap paper or sketchbook
  4. Two paper or cardboard L-shaped corners (as a viewfinder)
  5. Scotch tape (25 mm wide)
  6. Simple pencil HB
  7. Nag
  8. Palette
  9. Glass of water
  10. A towel or rag to place your brushes on
  11. A piece of cloth or paper towel

Pigment colors (from Holbein Artists' Water Colors set)

  1. Cadmium Yellow Deep;
  2. Cadmium Yellow Orange;
  3. Cadmium Red Deep;
  4. Permanent Alizarin Crimson;
  5. Permanent Violet;
  6. Ultramarine deep;
  7. Cobalt Blue;
  8. Cerulean Blue;
  9. Peacock Blue;
  10. Herbal greens (Sap Green);
  11. Hooker's green;
  12. Yellow Ocher;
  13. Burnt Sienna;
  14. Burnt Umber;
  15. Sepia;
  16. Payne's Gray.

Brushes:

  1. "Mop" flat one-inch
  2. Fibonacci Kolinsky-Sable: core round No. 12
  3. Escoda Kolinsky-Sable: round core no. 6
  4. Synthetic round No. 8
  5. Synthetic round No. 4
  6. Synthetic round No. 2
  7. Synthetic round No. 1
  8. Synthetic round Cotman No. 1

Stage 1

If you don't have a viewfinder, you can make your own using two L-shaped corner strips (Steve called them "corner strips"). Their width and length must be sufficient to accommodate the original image. Place the corners on it so that in the center of the formed rectangle there are only those elements that you will redraw. Attach the corners to the picture with tape. Think over the composition finished drawing and the way the lighthouse is depicted. Now you can take an unnecessary sheet of paper or sketchbook and move on to creating a tone sketch of the composition. To do this, you need to determine the light and shadow characteristics of each element of the picture and apply them accordingly. In our case, the clouds, splashes of water, the spotlight and the illuminated side of the lighthouse will have a light tone. The sky and rocks are dim. Images of falling shadows and deep seas will be dark. Use the original picture as a guide. This should be a quick sketch.

The picture below shows Steve's rough tone sketch.

Stage 2


Having thought through the arrangement of the elements of the picture on the sheet, transfer the composition sketch onto Arches cold-pressed watercolor paper. But this time, do not include the tones in the sketch. Just outline the main contours with light lines. Do not put pressure on the pencil so that you can easily erase it later. The sketch should not occupy the entire sheet; step back approximately 5 cm from the edge. You can draw borders under the ruler.

Below you see an example of such a sketch.


Stage 3


Using a #14 sable round brush, create a palette wash of Ultramarine, Cerulean and Peacock Blue with a dash of Alizarin Crimson. Then use a mop brush to apply clean water to the sky area, including the clouds. Treat the areas around the lighthouse and surrounding houses with special care, because they should have a clear outline. While the paper is still wet, apply the wet technique, covering the sky with a watery wash. In this case, start from the top edge of the drawing and move down to the horizon line. At the top of the painting the sky tone is darker, so use more Kraplak red. While painting around the clouds, add more Sky Blue and Iridescent Blue. Remember to smooth out any harsh transitions with a clean, wet brush. You can also use a paper towel to blot off any excess paint in the cloud area to prevent it from running and staining them. But don't overdo it.

Stage 4


Add Cobalt Blue to the finished sky wash and use the resulting shade to create a shadow below the clouds. Next, add a hazy effect to the horizon using deeper blue tones, mixing Ultramarine Blue with Alizarin Crimson. Continue smoothing out the outlines of the clouds using a clean, wet brush and paper towels. You can also add a dark blue tint at the bottom of the clouds by making a mixture of Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue and a drop of Payne's Grey. This will make the clouds larger and more structured. Once done, allow the drawing to dry thoroughly. Then proceed to the next step.

Stage 5


Identify lighted and shaded areas on adjacent buildings and the lighthouse. Prepare a watercolor wash for the shadow by mixing Ultramarine Blue, Alizarin Crimson and a drop of Payne's Grey. The resulting color should match the shade of the dark area of ​​the sky, because shadows tend to reflect adjacent tones. Work with brush #2, switching to brush #0 when painting small areas. Using the same shade, draw a shadow on the lighthouse. This building has a rounded shape, so be sure to add partial shade, smoothing out the sharp edges of the shading as you transition to the illuminated surface. This will give you a gradation from shadow to light. The lighthouse can blend in with the rest of the buildings, so you can add Cadmium Yellow Orange and Yellow Ocher in small quantities to this wash. You can use the same mixture to show light in shadowed areas. The finishing touch will display the falling shadow of the lighthouse.

Stage 6


Let the shadows dry, and in the meantime start drawing small elements lighthouse and houses. To color the balcony, roof and windows of the lighthouse, add Payne's Gray to the blue-violet watercolor. Before painting windows, check that the shadow is dry. Test the paint by touching it with the back of your hand. If it is cool to the touch, then the watercolor is still wet. After making sure the drawing is dry, add details to the surrounding houses, but do not touch the roofs and windows yet.

Stage 7


While the houses and the lighthouse are drying, start drawing the ocean. It will take a lot of blurring since you have to cover a large area. Take Ultramarine, Cerulean and Peacock Blue, add Cobalt Blue, Hooker's green and Sap Green, as well as a grain of Payne's Gray ) Since the sky will be reflected in the ocean, their shades should also match. Using a #14 sable brush, blur the horizon line. clean water, and take a #8 round brush. Add a little more Gray Payne and Green Hooker to the prepared watercolor mixture, and begin to work on the surface of the ocean, moving from top to bottom. Try to connect the ocean and sky, smoothing the transition between them.

Stage 8


As you approach the foreground of the painting, you need to use deeper tones, adding more blues and/or greens. This shade can be applied around rocks and sea foam, and other areas of the ocean that need to be darkened. To make the tone less harsh, mix in Burnt Sienna and Alizarin Crimson. Try applying strokes in the direction of the waves, without painting over the surf areas. Where the water foams, blur the outline of the wet watercolor with a #0 brush. Paint over the entire ocean, alternating between blurring and softening the edges with water.

Stage 9


Let the ocean dry out and in the meantime you can start painting the roofs of the buildings. Prepare a wash using Yellow Ocher and Cadmium Yellow Orange. Now use a No. 2 Cotman brush to fill the roof areas with the mixture. Watercolor is quite transparent, so you can layer it on shaded areas if necessary. This way the drawing will come out more harmonious and deeper. To represent shingles and rust, take some Cadmium Red Deep and add Cadmium Yellow Orange and Burnt Sienna. Work on finer details using brush No. 1. Passing deep purple shadows falling on the roofs, add Alizarin Crimson and a little Ultramarine Blue to the wash. Use the same shade to paint thin stripes of shadows under the roofs. Paint the remaining elements of the houses, such as the windows and wall texture, using a mixture of Payne's Gray and a blue wash. But don't make them too rich. To do this, blot off any excess watercolor or brush water with paper towels. Continue to refer to the original image and tone sketch if in any doubt.

Stage 10


Wipe the palette with a wet rag or paper towel. Once you have found areas of light and shadow on the rocks, determine their overall hue. Apply a mixture of Yellow Ocher, Cadmium Red Deep and a drop of Permanent Violet. Add water to lighten the watercolor (do not use white for this purpose). Cover the surface of all rocks with the prepared wash, without affecting the foam areas and splash images. Smooth out the edges with a wet brush in areas where water runs up onto the rocks. Feel free to use the resulting shade as a base layer because both the lit and shaded areas of the rocks include this tone. To make the rocks at the bottom of the picture more picturesque and to make the picture deeper, you can add Cadmium Yellow Orange or Cadmium Red dark in slightly larger proportions here and there.

Stage 11


After the base layer has dried, add a drop of Burnt Sienna and blue wash to the orange mixture. Use this shade to paint the penumbra of the rock in the center of the picture. You can draw cracks and other texture elements on it. The main thing is not to overdo it, because it should highlight main object pictures, and not draw all the attention to yourself. Where the water washes over the rock, its tone will be darker. This area can be filled with a color obtained by mixing with the base shade of Burnt Umber, Ultramarine Blue, Permanent Violet and Payne's Gray. Apply this wash with a #1 brush. Still leave the sea foam and surf line untouched.

Stage 12


To create splashes of water on rocks where waves crash against them, you need to first wet the area with a #2 Cotman brush. Then peel off some of the paint at the base of the rock where the splashes will be. The resulting lightening effect will resemble water dust. If the color is still too dark, blot the paint with a paper towel. Add some more splashes. Be careful, because too many of them will make the picture implausible. Add more Burnt Umber and Sienna to create a light-to-shadow transition. Use the same shade to paint cracks and other uneven surfaces of the rocks. In this case, the rocks in the foreground should be depicted in more detail.

Stage 13


Let's move on to painting the lawn. Using brush #1, mix Sap Green and Cadmium Yellow Deep. This will be a shade of illuminated green. Cover the rocky surface of the island at the foot of the lighthouse and houses with it. Try to convey as accurately as possible the contour, shape and angle of the vegetation on the cliff's elevation. After this, add Burnt Sienna to the wash, and use this tone to paint the shadows and areas of grass at the roots. This will make the clearing larger.

Stage 14


Now let's focus on the area below the lawn where the waves roll in on the coast of the island. Paint shadows on the rocky surface using the same shade as for the shaded parts of the rocks. When depicting coastal plumbs, apply strokes unevenly to better convey the texture. Focus on light and shadow while referring to the original picture. The part of the bank that comes to the foreground can be decorated with crevices. But remember that recording every smallest detail is not as important as reliably conveying the shadows. At the line where the ocean surface meets the foot of the cliff, add more Cerulean Blue to the wash. The parts of the rocks that are always wet will be the darkest. To get this color, combine Burnt Umber and Permanent Violet. Use this tone liberally when working with the foreground. This is the best way to transmit aerial perspective, i.e. when nearby objects are painted a darker shade than distant objects. Under no circumstances should you choose black. It will immediately make the drawing dull and lifeless.

Stage 15


In some places, when working on shadows, you can add Cadmium Red Deep. Don't forget to remove sharp edges near the surf line. To depict the splashes of waves crashing on a rocky shore, use the same paint removal technique as in step 12. When painting over the darkest areas, don't be afraid to apply liberal amounts of Permanent Violet, Burnt Umber and Sepia. . Describe the cracks and irregularities more carefully. The rough surface of rocks can be conveyed using the “dry” technique. To do this, you need to blot almost all the watercolor from the brush before applying strokes. The grainy surface of the paper will only be partially covered with paint, creating the illusion of roughness and rockiness. First, you can practice on a waste sheet of watercolor paper, and only then start depicting the texture of the rocks in the foreground.

Stage 16


As finishing touches, you can add more splashes, foam, and other details. However, try not to overload the picture. Otherwise, the drawing will lose its individuality, and there will be no signs left on it that distinguish your unique artistic style. However, with proper planning of work on initial stage, at the end you won't have to make any additional modifications or corrections. At the end of the work, when all the paint is dry, go over the drawing with a scratch, erasing all visible traces of the pencil. Please pay attention special attention white and light areas. If there are not too many layers of paint in the picture, the pencil will be erased very easily. Once finished, you can safely sign the picture, come up with a name, and put it in a frame to the delight of those around you.