Rocky Shore - Bill Alexander

So beautiful! I love it!!!

Thanks Coldethel. Glad you like it.

Cool Tom😎👍🏼🇩🇪

Very nice and inspiring!

Many thanks Dirk. Curious to see something new from you too. I have some time of work after easter and there I plan a lot of new pictures.

Thanks a lot Jos. This tutorial is available on YouTube twice. I used that one https://youtu.be/p9-SpDuYDYE as it has the better quality.

Thanks Tom, I found it on Vimeo already!

Nice as always. What I like the most is the green in the sky. Don't see it much but here it works super.

Hey Tom , First Problem is work, You know that ,Family , Sports etc. Come on top of it . I'm trying to improve my Seascapes right now and so the next one will probably also be one.iIch arbeite quasi um meine Tochter do Liste herum. Look at a lot of things right now. Bill, Josh, Paul , Justin and some others.Seascapes are not exactly my core competence 😎I haven't been painting for quite so long but I'm working on it 👊🏼There are some seascape heavens where you hammer layers on top of each other and get a crisis when blinding. Maybe next week something new .

Maybe it is not on the 🌍? Imagination can take us wherever.

I noticed you prefer paintings with sun rays in them?

Perfect Jos. So I’m looking forward for your version.

Thanks a lot Matt. I think phtalo green is a great color to use in the sky.

I understand Dirk. I run into similar troubles. I think your seascapes are great yet already.
I like other scenes more but this is my personal preference. Looking forward!

Thanks for your attention Sunny. Indeed, this might be a seascape from a foreign planet, good idea😀
Well the sun rays are the school from Bill. He often uses them but I find it not so easy to create them.

I agree with Sunnylady AND I love the colors used!

Thanks Brian!

@Tom, I see you are struggling with the sunrays, because often the rest of the painting looks light even there are a lot of details. Maybe there is some other technique to do them? Maybe some sort of glazing with zinc white and yellow/orange/red color whatever your sun position on the sky?

The main problem is that I use an extremely firm white. I need that because else my knifework is not proper.
But for sun rays I think I would need to thin it a bit because it does not come off the brush, even I never use pure white anywhere. But if I thin it too much the rays are gone.
To find that out is my main challenge. But I am not so unhappy with these here. It should just have a touch of rays beyond the dark cloud.

Do you thin with thinner or linseed oil?

I never use pure linseed oil. It makes colors (especially the light ones) yellowish. Here I thinned with liquid white which is a bit better.
For tree highlights I mainly use thinner.

What about 50/50 ratio to thin sun rays? You need to have a fatter medium to go the top of previous less fat medium. If not linseed there were couple of other oils that do not have yellow tint. I do not recall the names though.

Thank you for your recognition, Tom. I always try to make everything to the maximum. So there's room for improvement ( Luft nach oben)😎if you feel like it, take a look at Justin Wozniak, Seascapes. He is the sky master (Bob Ross style) in my eyes.

Most of the time sun rays have a warm yellowish tint. Maybe linseed is not a bad thing with its natural tint.

Gorgeous Tom! Love the light shining down!

Well thank you for all the hints Sunny. I will think about them when I do my next Sunday’s😀

You will do your way Dirk. You improved very fast!

Many thanks Sandy!

Love Bill Alexander! Great work with your seascape :)

Many thanks Daniel!

Wow!!!! Tom this is such a gorgeous seascape!!! Those colors are so pretty! It looks soft but rough at the same time, calm but very alive! Love it!

Many thanks Nancy, glad you liked it. 😀