Considerations for Painting Shallow Water | Matt Smith

[@ronschlorff7089]

Nice one Matt! After painting a while you learn what are some of the "money effects" in a painting, and this lesson on shallow water and its transparency, and how to paint it, is certainly up there among them. Folks, beginning artists and others, just can't seem to "get their head around" the fact that they are not looking at some magical effect of transparency, but as you said it's just process, careful technique, and experience that will give you the painted effect, and of course having covered some decent "acreage of canvas" in pigments!! LOL. Sometimes when I paint outdoors and some nice folks stop by to look, they often ask, "how long did you take to paint that"? My stock, and somewhat "cheeky", now that I write this, answer is: "oh, around two hours, ...plus about thirty years." LOL ;D

[@TucsonArtAcademyOnline]

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[@UtahGmaw99]

Would you use the same technique for a tree thats under the water as you did for the rocks? This was very helpful. Thank you.

[@SojournFineArt]

Yes the same concept. Remember to not to paint a tree under water but paint the correct color and values and it will look as such

[@TucsonArtAcademyOnline]

Yes, absolutely