a miniature painting of a beach

Since November i have started a series for art blogs but this time its miniature paintings and today i'm drawing a miniature painting of a beach. paints i used are from dollar store nothing fancy these are the cheapest gouache i could get my hands on, for the canvas i'm using a 4x6 piece of cartridge paper ,masking tape , one half inch wide brush and a fine liner brush .

First i put some blobs of sky blue on the top then some white in middle and a little green mixed with blue at the bottom now we take our half inch brush and just crisscross in across our canvas to have a gradient like this. so for the sea i actually did a little more white in the bottom middle of my canvas . Now we add some clouds and a sun . Thing with gouache is that i find there white color not so pigmented while it dries up to be more white so don't worry about it .

Now we add some islands with a fine liner brush in color black . This little detail also acts like a horizon for our painting giving it a more perspective . I also added some birds and made some higlights to the sea by adding some white dots .These paints got really chalky and light so i would suggest you use more darker blues . Here is the final result.

This was a fun painting so even if you have cheap material you can make these . I Mean you have to practice alot on how to mae it look more pigmented by mixing more darker colors . I personally enjoyed making this hopefully will make it again with acrylics next time .

That is all for today ,comment down below if you want me to paint some specific scenery .

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