Beach Christmas Draw Along

 Beach Christmas 

I am posting the photos I am using at the top of this blog.  Any up dates and drawing updates will be in the middle of this post, and the extra photos you have access to will be at the bottom.   

Feel free to use any of these photo references for your own drawings / paintings.  You may sell any art work you create with these photos. 

Unfortunately due to demands on my time this Holiday season, I did not finish this drawing before Christmas.  I am at least 15 hours deep into this project though.  I will finish it at some point.  I will post progress and my materials here as I go.

I blocked in basic color with Ohuhu Markers.  This is the first time I have used them.  We will see how they come out overall. 

for the sky I used MG011

For the water I used MG031, GG010, and RG040

The sand was E989

I didn't like how choppy the lines are, but I am inexperienced with alcohol markers any tips on using them.. and reducing overlap of lines etc... would be greatly appreciated. You can see that I started the driftwood branch on the bottom with alcohol marker -  but really didn't like it.  The ornaments and branches will just colored pencil. 

I will be using Mona Lisa Odorless Paint thinner and small paint brushes as well.  

This is mid progress, but I wanted to record the colored pencils I am using so far.  

I will list these in order of use, incase you like the way these areas turned out. I started out with a light layer of the first few colors, then added the additional colors in the following order, but more or less as I felt would be best. L = Luminance, P = Polychromos

Sky 

1. 146 - P

2. 661 - L 

3. 120 - P 

4. 140 - P 

5. 001 - L

Ocean  - Blue Area 

1. 172 - P

2. 159 - L 

3. 146 - P 

4. 246 - P 

5. 661 - L 

6. 008 - L   

Ocean - Greener Area

1. 172 - P 

2. 739 - L - a very light layer

3. 015 L  - mostly in the lighter area of the wave where light passes through

4. 153 - P sparsely 

5. 246 - P 

Ocean - Brown Area 

1. 190 - P very light handed

2. 177 - light handed and just a bit more pressure where I see darker areas

3. 504 - L 

4. 172 - P 

5. 002 - L 

6. 153 - L 

7. 001 - L 

I rework colors I feel should  throughout the whole process. 

Branches 

1. 821 - L 

2. 268 - P 

3. 280 - P 

4. 102 - 

5. 180 - P

6. 046 - L 

7. 177 - P   

Reworking the previous colors as needed in subsequent layers

White / Blue Ribbon 

1. 661 - L    2. 504 - L

Yellow Ornament 

1. 504 - L 

2. 821 - L 

3. 183 - P 

Sand 

1. 821 - L

2. 801 -