[Aquanet] Need some help

[Virginia Haines]

Signature FileVery interesting, Cia.  I love the bright colors, and am contemplating what I did in a similar bright water situation.  A very light wash of cobalt blue would tame it down, but do not cover all of it, just try it close to the rocky edges first..see how it interacts with the bright yellow/oranges. Leave the  glow in center of the water.  Test a little bit first  The rocks look pretty good for shape in the foreground, ..slowly give the base a 'waterline' with mix of burnt sienna and ultra for shadow away from the bright light .. move upward for shadow behind the highlighted top of the rocks.  At least that is what I would try.  Stop short of painting the entire rocks a color, do a touch of little greenish and dark lichens at the edge of shadow and the light on the rocks should blend it all together with little dabs of lichen dancing on the top.
Virginia
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Cecilia Price 
To: Aquanet at thedigitalbraintrust.net 
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 2:40 PM
Subject: [Aquanet] Need some help


Trying to do this "water" project for my little teaching group.... I painted the rocks just as they
were in the ref pic but then decided for various reasons that they did not work with the composition.

So I took this to the sink and amazingly they almost came out of the paper.  I'm letting that dry and
will go at it gently with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser but very carefully to try to get out more of it,
but I think that I could paint the water over it and let it seem to be having rocks under the surface
of the water.

This camera seems to grab yellow and run away with it, it is not nearly that bright in real life.
If you have any ideas to share, I surely would welcome them.

Cia


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