Thanks Faisal. I agree, this one does look like watercolour. It is strange that way. I worked wet on wet, a technique that I have such a tough time with. I wanted a misty, soft look, and as a result, it is perhaps very fuzzy, all except the man's belt, ha ha. Oh, and the seagull that is popping up on the right side near him.
This is from a photo I took one evening at the beach. The figures were very dark, backlit, and quite small in the original picture. I lightened it a lot in Photoshop to get some definition on the people, and printed both the silhouette and the lighter version too. I preferred the lighter one. Then kind of roughed it in with paint.
The fun part was trying to capture those washed out pale colours with just the 5 Cobra tubes.