You will get a really pretty dark teal color. Mix equal amounts of the turquoise and phthalo blue. Load your palette with turquoise blue and phthalo blue. Use a clean, slightly wet, 3/4″ flat wash brush. I made my shoreline go kind of diagonal, however, you can make yours go straight across if you want.

The bottom line is the bottom edge of the seafoam. The top line is where the blue will start blending with the sand. There will also be a point where the blue will blend with the sand. I recommend lightly drawing your shoreline with a pencil so you know where to stop painting your “blues” down to the sand color. Try not to get any white at the top of the sky so that it stays a little darker. This will create a “gradient” of the blue that blends to a lighter blue at the bottom.Ĭontinue to blend the blue and the white so the blue is lightest along the horizon and darker at the top. Paint left and right strokes that gently blend into the blue. Load the tip of your brush in titanium white. Then wipe off the excess cerulean blue but do not rinse the brush. Paint left and right strokes across the canvas starting at the top and working your way to the mid point of the sky.

Next, load your color palette with cerulean blue and titanium white. This does not have to be exact, simply select where your horizon line will be! I recommend that it is above the center point of your canvas so you have more ocean than sky in your painting. Place a tapeline at about 9″ from the bottom of the canvas. Position your canvas in a vertical format.

Beach waves painting