How to Paint a Moonlit Harbour in Acrylics (Part 1 of 2)

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Step-by-step painting tutorial in acrylics.
Materials you will need:
10 x 8-inch canvas or board
Paints:
I use Artist Quality acrylics from Golden Paints and Winsor & Newton, but you follow along with any brand.
For the first stage of the painting.
Burnt Umber (Golden Paints)
Ultramarine Blue (Golden Paints)
Titanium White (Golden Paints)
For the main painting:
Titanium White (Golden Paints)
Cadmium Yellow Light (Golden Paints)
Permanent Alizarin Crimson (Winsor & Newton)
Ultramarine Blue (Golden Paints)
Burnt Umber (Golden Paints)
Brushes:
Round synthetic - Princeton Aspen, size 4
Small round synthetic - Rosemary & Co Series 344 Synthetic
2-inch Decorators Brush (Purdy XL Elite Monarch or Wooster are nice)
Extra tools:
An HB Pencil - (I use a Kuru Toga Roulette Mechanical Pencil 0.5mm Uniball)
Acrylic pen - I use a F & W empty marker filled with Sepia High Flow Acrylic
Acrylic Glazing Liquid Gloss (Golden Paints)
Palette Knife (I use a diamond shape size 45 by RGM)
Metal dipper or small pot for mediums
Greyscale value strip for judging colours
Jam Jar for water
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[@veronicahaits5233]

Delicious! Thanks for another amazing tutorial.

[@willkempartschool]

Thanks for watching Veronica!

[@holdthelight11]

lovely to watch your process. looking forward to part 2!

[@willkempartschool]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@shriyaagrawal6588]

very beautiful painting,and well explained. Can you please teach us more of the paintings like this.

[@tanja2058]

recently discovered you channel, and I love it! Can't wait to start painting again, thank you for all your effort

[@willkempartschool]

Thank you so much, really hope you find the lessons helpful Tanja.

[@aliciamolloy5948]

Thank you Will for a great tutorial.

[@willkempartschool]

My pleasure Alicia, glad you enjoyed it. Will

[@tracyhindibiedatnadi]

Waw Will, thank you soo much for the video. Merry Christmas Maestro.💖

[@willkempartschool]

Happy holidays Tracy!

[@triggerfish999]

Hi Will….excellent stuff. Thanks!

[@willkempartschool]

Thanks Roger, I've just put the reference image on the blog: willkempartschool.com/how-to-paint-a-harbour-scene/ Cheers, Will

[@riskzerobeatz]

Great tutorial! Thank you 😉

[@willkempartschool]

You’re welcome

[@maggs131]

I've love seeing you uploading fairly regularly again. I always wanted to ask is the vertical palette you use here just for filming or is this something you use all the time?

[@willkempartschool]

Hi Maggs, it's a mix of both really, vertical and horizontal depending on the size of the painting, so smaller pieces with thicker paint I tend to have the palette vertical, but for larger pieces either have the palette on a table of hand held. Will

[@adamski69]

Hi there Will, love all of your work. Do you have a like to the round sable brush you are using for this piece? Its exactly what I need. All the best.

[@willkempartschool]

Hi Adam, if you click the link under the video there is a full materials list and reference image.

[@kathyblake1729]

Love your videos…my first painting was one you taught me! Where can I get a value strip?

[@willkempartschool]

Thanks Kathy, drop me an email on the blog and I can send you one through. They are printed out at home. Will

[@tanja2058]

I have a question, after watching your videos I want to get some new acrylic paints, I am thinking of getting titanium white, burnt umber and ultramarine blue. But I am not sure for the red and yellow paint. Should I get the cadmium red or crimson, and for yellow the cadmium yellow pale or the lemon yellow?

[@willkempartschool]

Hi Tanja, it depends on what palette you're going with. If it's a split primary, you would have a cadmium yellow and the lemon yellow ( a warm and a cool yellow) and the cadmium red and alizarin crimson ( a warm and a cool red) But, I often tend to use cadmium yellow over a lemon yellow due to it's opacity and alizarin crimson over cadmium red due to it's range. Hope this helps, Will

[@tanja2058]

@@willkempartschool thankyou, It definitely helped! :)

[@tracyhindibiedatnadi]

Where can we buy the gray scale?

[@willkempartschool]

Hey Tracy, the grayscale is homemade, just printed out.