![]() However, the addition of sheets either side of the central section containing the girl was most likely due to Degas’s decision to expand and modify the composition. Japanese prints were often made as triptychs, and the fact that this picture consists of three sheets of paper stuck together might seem to echo this construction. Degas adopted the distinct spatial composition of Japanese prints, and several of their recurrent motifs, including a woman combing her hair or having it combed, also became part of his own repertoire. Hiroshige specialised in spacious panoramas which often contained little more than waves, rocks and sail boats in the distance to emphasise the contrast between the vast ocean and the deserted shore. He especially admired the work of Ando Hiroshige (1797–1858), and owned over 40 of his landscapes. He was familiar with British maritime pictures, but his painting is also profoundly influenced by Japanese woodblock prints. ![]() Manet’s figures are of more or less of equal size, but Degas gives much greater emphasis to the girl and her maid.ĭegas may have decided to paint beach scenes partly for commercial reasons, as marine subjects were popular with art buyers, particularly in England. Degas had originally planned to include a bathing machine, as Manet had, but he later removed it. Both also have sailboats in the distance – curiously, smoke from the two steamboats in Degas’s picture blows in opposite directions – and a scattering of bathers and walkers on the beach. Both paintings have three horizontal bands for the sandy beach, turquoise-green sea and grey sky. The two artists had a friendly but competitive relationship, and may well have travelled together to the channel coast in 1869. An immediate precedent was Manet’s Beach at Boulogne (Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Virginia), from which Degas borrowed various elements. Small paintings of beach and seaside scenes in resorts such as Trouville were popular with several of Degas’s contemporaries, including Whistler, Boudin and Monet. All four beach paintings include young women beside the sea, bathing, attending to their hair or resting. While some of the pastels may have been completed on site, Degas later stated that this picture had been finished in the studio, commenting, ‘the air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air you breathe out of doors’. That year he travelled to the northern French coast and made a series of landscapes in pastel. It is one of four paintings of beach scenes that Degas completed in around 1869. The picture was painted with essence – oil paint from which most of the oil has been removed with blotting paper, which is diluted with turpentine to give the effect of watercolour. In the background, a family group – some members wrapped in towels – is leaving the shoreline, as other people stroll on the beach. Other objects – two parasols, a basket and a summer bonnet – are scattered around them. Have fun and remember, practice makes perfect so keep on drawing.A maid combs the hair of a girl who has been swimming her bathing suit is stretched out on the ground to dry. I will just give you the basic lesson on how to draw a beach scene step by step. ![]() I will leave it up to you to draw and get creative with the design of your own beach. I also drew and colored in a shadow for the palm tree that you would typically see on beaches in the Caribbean, and down south like in Florida beaches, California beaches, so on and so forth. ![]() ![]() So I did sketch in detailing lines for the ocean water, and add a bit of speckle to the beach sand. At first I wasn’t going to detail the beach to much because I wanted it to keep it simple for you all, but then I said “hmm, I think people would like to learn how to sketch details”. When I do go to the beach, I like swimming, making sand castles, playing water volleyball, floating on an inflatable raft, and even making sand angels. A beach is a place to have fun with your family and friends during the hot summer months or even everyday if you are one of the lucky ones that live in summer climates all year round. You can basically make the scenery of the beach your own personal fantasy. I didn’t include it in the drawing but you can add some seashells, wooden lounge chairs, maybe a beach ball, and even a few towels and umbrella or a hammock. If you follow the steps the way that I lay them out for you, you will also learn how to draw a beach scene mural as well. Drawing a beach can be very uplifting and peaceful because you can almost picture how you want the view and surroundings to look. Well to go with the Dutchman I figured I would do a lesson on how to draw a beach scene step by step. How did you all like the last tutorial I submitted on how to draw The Flying Dutchmen? I hope you had fun drawing him out. ![]()
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