I painted with watercolor while on vacation in beautiful Vieques, Puerto Rico this past Spring. This week I finally made time to revisit their beautiful, tropical beaches with the dazzling turquoise water in my favorite medium - oil.
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| Vieques - Media Luna (Half Moon) |
With the watercolors and painting plein air, I never did feel like I quite matched the ocean's tropical green. With oil, that's a different story. I used Emerald Green, Gamblin's "Cote d'Azur and some cerulean blue with titanium white in varying amounts to make what I thought was a good match for that fabulous tropical water's colors. The rocks had a mid value pinkish purple color. I used my tropical sea water with alizarin to get the local color of the rocks. In the deepest shadows I used Prussian Blue (very similar to Pthalo Blue).
The sand was primarily buff titanium with some swirls of my existing palette colors for interest. I like how bright it looks - certainly not the blinding light of standing there, but relative brightness feels similar. I'd like to figure out a way of having the canvas emit the associated solar heat.
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