

Watercolor Painting Sunrise / Sunset Skies. Part 3 Lifting Out The Lighthouse.
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Burnt Sienna
A sedimentary color; sediments quickly offering a mottled or shimmery look to the final (wash)
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A sedimentary color; sediments quickly offering a mottled or shimmery look to the final (wash)
+ close +Pthalocyanine Blue
A "warm" (greenish) blue.
A non sedimentary color settles out smoothly yielding a uniform finish (wash)
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A "warm" (orangish) red.
A non sedimentary color settles out smoothly yielding a uniform finish (wash)
+ close +Arylide Yellow FGL
A "warm" (orangish) yellow.
A non sedimentary color settles out smoothly yielding a uniform finish (wash)
There is not an industry standard name for this color. I am offering DaVincis Brand name.
+ close +Yellow Ocher
A sedimentary color.
sediments quickly offering a mottled or shimmery look to the final (wash)
+ close +Cerulean Blue
A sedimentary color.
Sediments quickly offering a mottled or shimmery look to the final (wash)
+ close +Ultramarine Blue
A cool (purplish) blue.
A non sedimentary color settles out smoothly, theoretically yielding a uniform final (wash).
Actually Ultramarine Blue "flocculates" (gathers in clumps) so we only get a fairly smooth (wash)
Sadly, it's the only purplish blue thats light-fast and available to artists.
+ close +Alizarin Crimson
( Quinacridone )
A cool (purplish) red.
A non sedimentary color settles out smoothly yielding a uniform finish (wash)
n fact, Alizarine Crimson (a very early man made pigment) lost favor when it was found non light-fast.
Today we replace it it with a better version of the same color called Quinacdridone Red.
Nevertheless, manufacturers still call it Alizerine Crimson.
+ close +A cool (greenish) yellow
A non sedimentary color settles out smoothly yielding a uniform finish (wash)
There is not an industry standard name for this color. I am offering the DaVincis Brand name.
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This is a lesson on how to watercolor paint a lighthouse. First we lift the paint, then we paint in the base, catwalk and the actual light.
This is no ordinary lighthouse. This is my lighthouse: Fire Island Light. It's on the great South Bay, and so is my home. This channel, is modeled on Snake Hill Channel, a place were my family has picnicked and dug clams for half a century. My children and I feel at home there.
Navigation of Snake Hill, Channel can be a little tricky at low tide, but we know every inch of it. It is included in this painting in order to give darkness to the foreground. It is the intense darkness of the foreground which creates the "brightness" of the sky and it's reflection in the water. Cover the foreground with your hand and you will see how sterile the scene is without it.

First Watercolor Lesson, Washes And Values.






Sunrise / Sunset
(Dawn / Dusk)
Part 1 Painting The Sky.

Sunrise /:65px Sunset
(Dawn / Dusk)
Part 2 Painting The Islands.

Sunrise / Sunset
(Dawn / Dusk)
Part 3 Painting The Lighthouse
