Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Learn how to paint shallow water in this full acrylic paint beach tutorial. Follow along with Mark as he shows you how to create a realistic, compelling and sophisticated shallow water on the beach image . You will cover brush technique, colour mixing and heaps of useful info on painting shallow ocean water, foam trails and wavelets.

Materials for this project:

Stretched canvas 40cm x 40cm

Atelier Interactive Artists Acrylics:

Titanium White

Atelier Free Flow Artists Acrylics:

Burnt Umber
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Titanium White
Napthol Crimson
Dioxazine Purple
French Ultramarine Blue

Brushes:

Roymac flats sizes 12, 6, 4

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