MATERIALS
• Paints: Ultramarine Blue, Flinders Blue Violet X520, Bordeaux, White, Turquoise, Phthalo Blue, Schmincke White, A.S. Flinders BlueViolet, Unison Caput Mortuum, Gold Ochre, Yellow Ochre, Rembrandt Mars Violet, Schmincke Crimson Lake, Bright Purple
STEP ONE
Always get your horizon straight on the paper first, lightly sketch in using a Red or Purple Conte, it adds interest if some of it still shows through at the finish.
STEP TWO
I prefer to start at the top so as not to smudge what I have already worked on, and also if any pastel floats down, it doesn’t contaminate work already finished. The sky is a mix of Ultramarine Blue, Flinders Blue Violet X520, Bordeaux and White. Sometimes I smudge it in whilst wearing a latex glove.
STEP THREE
The sea should…