After creating 4 highly successful painting courses over the years, Scott wanted to create something more affordable and accessible for beginners. If you’ve ever wanted to give painting a go, this course is your simple roadmap. It will guide you through each step to create the painting below in just over 2 hours of video, using only 5 paints.
This course is perfect for beginners, even if you have never picked up a brush and it’s also been produced to give plenty of insight and acrylic paint techniques if you’re a bit more advanced. Scott has taught over 3800 students how to paint through his online courses. This one is designed to be very easy to follow, and will save you hours of effort and frustration trying to figure out how to paint on your own.
Learn to paint ‘Surf’s Up’ with just 5 acrylic paint colours!
Chroma’s Surf’s Up 5 Paint Pack is perfect! The pack includes, Titanium White, Brilliant Violet, Arylamide Yellow, Phthalo Blue and Cobalt Turquoise light. A slow paint medium is useful to thin the paint down.
40 x 30cm primed canvas (Any 4:3 aspect small canvas will do)
Brushes, 3 containers of water, palette, an old rag or towel and some paper towels, A spray bottle of water, masking tape, a piece of sandpaper, a pencil and ruler.
1) Introduction and Materials
2) Sky and Ocean
3) Wave, Shallows and Sand
4) Reflections, Foam and Cloud
5) Highlight
6) Headland and Final Details
PDF Surf’s Up Print Ready Instructions
PDF Surf’s Up Print Ready Draft Sketch
Video: Copyright and Painting Demos
Learn to paint ‘Surf’s Up’ with just 5 acrylic paint colours!
Learn all the techniques to paint the ocean and sell your art. (Main course, 16+ hours of video).
Learn all the techniques to paint the ocean and sell your art. (Main course, 16+ hours of video).
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I’m Scott Christensen, the creator of the Paint the Ocean Learning Program.
I began painting in 1997 at the age of 26. Three years later, I resigned from work drilling under roads to pursue art as a full-time career. My wife had just given birth to our first children: twins so failure was not an option. Since then I’ve painted hundreds of seascapes, sold over 2.1M worth of my art and continue to enjoy the lifestyle that comes with being a full-time artist.
This demo will show you the steps needed to paint this specific painting. If you end up doing my main course, you will learn the formulas and workflows that I have developed to construct winning paintings that shine – and how to navigate the business of consistently selling your artwork. The core of the program is to make you a better and more skilled artist so you can consistently produce winning paintings, but I also include a business section to show you what to do once you reach that level.
If you are worried about your skill level, just remember I started out drilling under roads for a living. It took a lot of practice to get me where I am today, and I’m ready to share that knowledge with you.
Learn to paint ‘Surf’s Up’ with just 5 acrylic paint colours!
Scott created the ‘Surf’s Up’ painting using only the 5 paints from Chroma’s new acrylic paint set. His artwork is featured on the box showing you exactly what is possible with limited colours. The pack includes Titanium White, Brilliant Violet, Arylamide Yellow, Phthalo Blue and Cobalt Turquoise light.
The kit is available from art retailers internationally.
Learn to paint ‘Surf’s Up’ with just 5 acrylic paint colours!
This course has been designed specifically for beginners. Although the techniques have been broken down and explained in more detail so original and more advanced students will brush up on skills using this course.
In this course you will learn how to paint ‘Surf’s Up’
All of our prices are in AUD, but when you buy the course it will automatically come out of your bank in your currency at the current exchange rate. You can check what that is on Google. It’s roughly $65 USD or £57
Yes! This is the 5th course I have released. You can check the others out here: https://www.startcourse.painttheocean.com/
Chroma’s Surf’s Up 5 Paint Pack is perfect! The pack includes, Titanium White, Brilliant Violet, Arylamide Yellow, Cobalt Blue Hue and Cobalt Turquoise light. A slow paint medium is very useful so we can thin the paint down.
40 x 30cm primed canvas (Any 4:3 aspect small canvas will do)
Brushes, 3 containers of water, palette, an old rag or towel and some paper towels, A spray bottle of water, masking tape, a piece of sandpaper, a pencil and ruler.