Beach Boy, Acrylic 11 X 14

This is a painting of my grandson who visited us for two weeks this summer!  He really likes to go to eastern NC beaches - particularly Atlantic beach.  He also loved to boogie board!  He is a great grandson.  This painting is in honor of him and the great time we had this summer.

As usual, I started by lightly painting, then rubbing most of it off with a mixture of burnt umber and yellow ochre on the board.  I then sketched his figure in and then painted in the darks and lights (painting a grisaille).

This is a picture of my palette - I use a masterson box with a liner - so I can keep my paints moist).  The colors I mostly used for this painting were - starting from bottom left - burnt umber, yellow ochre, cadmium lemon, naples yellow, hansa yellow medium, quinicrodone nickel azo gold, naphtol red, cadmium orange , flesh tint (windsor newton), dioxazine purple, phalo blue, anthroquinone blue, cobalt blue, phalo green, titanium white and buff, mars black.

The painting with  color and no added shadows other than that which appears through the underpainting of the darks.  I felt like the sand area was a little dark so I lighted it up in the final painting.

This is the final painting with a little lightening up to give it a little bit of  a dreamy look!

Thanks for taking a look!