How To Paint A Beach Sunset

Unlike your typical yellow and orange sunset scenes, this particular painting tutorial of a beach sunset takes a more complex route. Ryan does a wonderful job of combining multiple colors, creating an astounding image of a ‘romantic’ beach sunset. Apart from your usual yellow and orange, you will also notice vivid shades of pink, deep blue, violet, and black. This tutorial is one of the more advanced ones in this list, given how you are required to work wonders with so many color combinations. However, all that hard work will definitely pay off once you take a look at the final picture.

In this video tutorial, the artist, Noelle, takes a simplistic approach, and produces a fine watercolor painting of beach sunset. There are no fancy brush strokes, or any special color combinations here. The painting is as simple as it can get. Despite lacking in complexity, Noelle’s process is something you will enjoy working with. This tutorial goes to show how you need not go for complicated art styles to create something magnificent. As they say, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

In this tutorial, Alika shows us how we can mimic an actual beach sunset on our canvas by using acrylic paints, and simple brush strokes. Alika does not go overboard with her color combinations. You can clearly see the variation in shades and color tones in her painting, but unless you have observed her process, you would not be able to tell how simply she has accomplished it. Just take a look at the painting below, and then watch this tutorial. You will understand what we are on about.

The most impressive thing about a setting sun, is the way it shrouds its surroundings with beautiful colors. Artists love playing with these colors while trying to capture such a scenery in their paintings. However, there are a few artists who take the unconventional path for painting such a scene, where they ditch the colors and opt for a two tone black and white picture instead, something you can see in this tutorial. Here, the artist uses pencils and black markers to create a very basic, but eye catching scene of a beach sunset. Although the picture could use a few more shades and touches of black here and there, it is still an amazing piece of work nonetheless.

This tutorial of a beach during sunset by Feliks is one of the best you will ever see. The coloring is impeccable, and the details are inspiring. You will almost feel as if you were standing right there at the beach, and the waves were splashing against your feet. This two and a half hour long comprehensive tutorial will give you an in depth understanding of how Feliks plays with the colors and shades to create such a masterpiece. Just take a look at the painting below, and have your mind blown out.