For my landscape I decided to do a scene of a beach. I originally wanted to do a cityscape, but I had no good references so I just chose this. I wanted my colors to be bright and vivid to make it a little more interesting. There were a bunch of people all throughout the photo and I thought it would be too difficult to paint all of them so I decided to start drawing on the piece in pen. I really like the effect of it, and will probably add more throughout it later one.
There weren't many obstacles throughout the piece. I had a hard time deciding what shade of blue I wanted for the sky and the ocean. I intended to make the water greener and the sky bluer, but I ended up swapping the two. It also got a bit harder to get darker with the greens, so I ended up putting purple in the grass areas, and then layer green again on top to create a darker value.
There weren't many obstacles throughout the piece. I had a hard time deciding what shade of blue I wanted for the sky and the ocean. I intended to make the water greener and the sky bluer, but I ended up swapping the two. It also got a bit harder to get darker with the greens, so I ended up putting purple in the grass areas, and then layer green again on top to create a darker value.