twilight into a sunset. I think it looks much better that way. I laid an orange wash over the original and added spots of orange in the waves. I made the mistake of trying to lay the wash over the water and just ended up smearing blue all over the place and getting rid of the light parts! Luckily, I was able to pull out the worst parts with a paper towel, and somehow the smearing didn't end up looking so bad. I didn't really define the waves on the bottom of the painting, because I planned on making a beach. Never did... but it worked. I think that maybe the sun could be a little brighter, but considering the fac
t that I didn't mask it, it's ok. At this point, the salt pattern kinda looks like birds. The last thing I did to the sky was add yet another wash from the top of violet to make it look more... awesome.I considered leaving the painting the way it was, but I felt that it needed something. My fiance wanted me to paint a ship... but I can't paint a ship from memory. So I decided on palm trees. I had to practice to get them down right, but once I figured out the basic brush movements, they're
actually extremely easy. Just quick downstrokes with an angled brush. Some thin lines to indicate individual leaves and bingo! I'm super happy with the trees. All in all, I think I turned a disaster of a background into something fun and it was good practice.
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