Acrylic Landscape Painting

For the composition of my painting I first decided on what landscape idea I wanted to pain.  Afterwards, I looked through pictures online of palm trees in Venice Beach, and I also found some of my own pictures that I had taken that I could use.  In this painting, we had to use atmospheric perspective.  Atmospheric perspective is having depth within a painting, and the painting being as realistic as possible.  You have to make sure that what you're painting is in perspective with everything else in the painting.  I used tints and shades to help create an atomospheric perspective that fits my painting.  To add a light source I made certain parts of the painting lighter by adding white to the color, and other parts of the painting darker by adding black to the color.  I also used cast shadows to make the light source more clear.  The color scheme that I used for this painting was complementary.  My two complementary colors in the painting are blue and orange.  There were a couple different brush strokes used in this painting.  For the sky and the ocean I used horizonta brush strokes.  For the sand I took the bristles on the paint brush, spread them out, and dabbed the paint on the painting.  For the leaves of the palm trees I used a small paint brush to create fast short strokes.  For the trunks of the palm trees I used vertical strokes, and I used markers to make the graffiti.  I used value in my painting by using the tints and shades of my color scheme.  This added texture to the sky, ocean, sand, and the leaves of the palm trees.