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Question

how do you paint waves realistically. build layers? which colours. etc all these thing . please help cheers forever greatful

Answer 1

Hey there!
I have a GREAT technique that I JUST figured out for myself. Of course it will take alot of practice and patience to perfect your own style. You have to know one thing , Always have your MEDIUM colour paint, Dark and Light paint, all from the same family, but different shades. This will help.
First, lay your medium colour down around the whole area you have water.
Take a flat head with pointed brissles paint brush. load dark paint onto one side, and flip the bush over ,and load that colour with the light paint that you're using. Keep the light sided paint part of the brush upwards, and so the brush is vertical. The put it on the canvas, and drag sideways with little up and down motions, then lightly drag down about 3 inches on a 45 degree angle.
ALWAYS work back to front.....to have layers and to look realistic. Meaning,.... work at teh farthest point in the painting, to the closest, or another way put, up to down on the canvas. Never try to go back with a large paint brush to fix things. I fyou need to fix it, take a SMALL paint brush and lightly go over.
Waves are all abotu layers and blending.
Bob ross shows are a good practice sessiion too.
Hope this helps. Writing instructions on it is HARD lol.

Answer 2

It all has to do with blending colors, just play around with light/dark blue, and whites. It might take some time to get the right colors to work with but its worth it.