This a silhouette painting. I did this in water colors. For this painting you don’t need to draw anything. So I first started of with the background. I used graded wash method to do the background.

How to do graded wash?

Graded wash is a method when you take one base color and paint it at the top. Then you take some clear water and just paint horizontally from top to bottom. You are actually taking some of the paint from the top and while coming to the bottom the paint gets lighter and lighter.

After finishing the background you can do the coconut trees in black and that’s it. I like this painting because it is very simple yet beautiful.