Which is your favorite blue to paint the sky or seascapes?

Question

Do you use a different blue to paint the sky or water, or do you use your favorite blue in general to paint everything?

Do you ever use two different blues on the same painting?

Answer 1

For blue skies, I use Winsor blue and Ultramarine over a wash of raw sienna (I'm a watercolorist).

I almost never use blue for a seascape, or any other water for that matter (unless the blue sky is reflecting down into the water). There is a color called Indigo that I sometimes use for the distant horizon. Sometimes I throw in a little purple or pink. But for the most part, my seascapes are in the silvery gray, green, or brown tones. I simply don't see a lot of blue in the ocean.

Answer 2

I don't always use blue to paint the sky or to paint the water. It depends. I have used two different blues in the same painting and I tend to stick to the basics...Cobalt and Ultrmarine. You can do most anything with those two. Experiment.

Answer 3

I use Prussian Blue, and mix with white for varying shades. I generally like things as dark as I can manage. I don't do much with seascapes, but sky has sometimes figured into my work. Actually, I use a lot of non-traditional colours for the sky; influence of Japanese art.

Answer 4

I never paint the sky blue, seem to obvious. I always for for a red or purple.

anthony pittarelli

Answer 5

i would use a mixture of blues for water as water isnt one colour look at the sea for example and a light blue for the sky i wouldnt use the same blue on the same painting

Answer 6

Lots of blues I find that in nature nothing is just one colour try painting the light consider it's direction as it effects the shades represented eg. sun setting cobalt in west sky violet in east. Even at noon the sky near the sun paler than the horizon!
Just keep painting express yourself let the viewer work it out!

Answer 7

I make it myself with cerulean, phtalo and white, sometimes ultramarine... sometimes I add a touch of yellow or purple depending on the time of day you can add orange too

Answer 8

I never ever use unmixed, one color area's to depict sea or sky. It just looks unnatural.
Look at this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/risemeagain/493784477/