![]() ![]() ![]() If you fancy a torch, go ahead and torch the water to try and encourage some lacing and bubble-like cells.Do not wipe the paint off of the folder in between swipes and swipe a couple more times or until you’re happy with the way it looks in terms of dark to light.Now, to get rid of that dark line on top of the ocean floor, use a popsicle stick to swipe the navy blue paint down into the ocean floor.Don’t freak out if it seems really dark! There’s more to go! Take one half of a plastic folder was cut in half and swipe from dark up to light, dragging a thin layer of the dark navy blue up through the painting, making your way across the painting until it has all been swiped upward.(I find that it is easier to swipe downward, which is why the painting has been upside down this whole time.) Next, you’ll want to create a seamless gradient for my underwaterpainting, moving from dark along the ocean floor to lighter near the surface. Once all four colors for the water were applied, I again swiped with a popsicle stick to roughly mix some of each color into all of the others so that, rather than stripes, it was a transitional gradient.The next three colors, the neon blue, turquoise, and ultramarine blue (all muted with white as noted above), were applied in equal portions and moving from dark to light up towards the surface of the water.This is the smallest of all the layers because it is such a powerful color and has the ability to take over the painting so incredibly quickly. The first layer that I poured onto the canvas after the ocean floor was the navy blue.I mixed my paints this way to get the muted blue tones that you see underwater and then to get the dark colors and shaddows that you see at the lower depths. That’s because I mixed the neon blue, turquoise, and ultramarine blue with white for the top three layers of the water (closest to the surface of the water and top of the painting) and with ultramarine with black for the darkest layer. Now, you’ll notice that the none of the colors in my painting look like the colors in the tubes. I used four different hues for the ocean: neon blue, turqoise, ultramarine blue, and a very deep, almost black navy blue. This also created some cells of each color in the other, which I think look somewhat like rocks on the ocean floor. Next, I took a popsicle stick and did swipes in varying directions to mingle the two colors together. I did a straight pour and just poured them onto the canvas in layers. The first thing I started with for this underwater painting was the ocean floor. Step-by-step Underwater Painting with Acrylic Pouring Painting the Ocean Floor DecoArt Dazzling Metallics Festive Green.(If you’re curious about colors and color theory as it relates to acrylic pouring, head on over to my post about Choosing Colors for Acrylic Pouring and grab your FREE printable Color Wheel and Color Scheme Guides below!) Materials You Will Need to Paint an Underwater Painting with Acrylic Pouring Paints: Water: ![]() The acrylic pouring techniques that I’m going to show you in this tutorial are perfect for creating an amazing backdrop for any underwater scene that you want to create, so get creative and let your imagination wander!! Will you have coral or seaweed? Will you paint in some creatures like a mermaid, a sea turtle, fish, an octopus, a dolphin, seashells? Then, you’ve got to think about what you want the ocean floor to look like, or do you even want to incorporate that into your painting?Īdditionally, you’ve got to think about what other things you will have in your underwater painting. There’s also an element of green to the water in most places, so you’ll want to be thinking about incorporating some turquoise. You’ll want to use a variety of tones of blue, ranging from light to dark as you get further down toward the ocean floor. Well, one would obviously think of blue, but there’s a bit more to it than that. What colors do you need to paint an underwater painting? So how do you paint an underwater painting or a painting of under the sea? Well, the four techniques that I used were: ![]() You can also head over to my Comprehensive Guide to Acrylic Pouring Techniques for more information on all of the different techniques. If you’re pouring for the first time and would like more explanation on materials, processes, and terms, you can head on over to my Beginner’s Guide to Acrylic Pouring. ![]()
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