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Need help making waves - painting in progress Making waves is something I'm usually pretty good at. Ask my family!!
Up until now I have tried to avoid this issue by painting only calm water, or settling for what obviously isn't right to my eye (and probably to other eyes as well). This is one of the big reasons I bought Gordon MacKenzie's book The Essential Watercolourists Notebook Landscapes. The book is divided into three sections which are further broken down into more specific information. I am referring to the techniques in Section 3 Landscape Elements, Painting Water, Making Waves, Wave Direction and Surface Patterns. I have used the directions to draw these lines on 2 separate layers (lock them so you don't drop them by mistake). I'm going to keep track of the techniques and method I'm trying out here and hope it will work out, so it isn't a total waste of time. There are other ways to do a graded wash, but this works for me.
Brushes used to make the wash
The next illustration shows the brushstrokes of the wash brush before blending. The third illustration shows the digital layer dropped, diffused, and blended with grainy water and just add water Blender brushes. You can't use these brushes on dig wc unless the dig wc is dried. I haven't been able to figure out how I made my dig wc blenders that I used in Painter 9.5. (I thought I had copied the brushes over to Painter 11., but can't find them. My old computer has been cleaned off and passed down to my daughter in law Amy.
  Related postsCommentsJoan A Hamilton said: Hi dwsel;
Saturday, September 5th
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dwsel said:
Your 5th WIP http://www.joanahamilton.com/art/charlton-lake-picnic-island-wip-multiple-views/ looks pretty good already. I'm only missing reflection of the land on the far water. What I'd do when working digitally: I'd flatten layers, duplicate resulting layer, flip it upside down, lower transparency, align at the coastline, distort and erase some parts of it to make it look like a reflection and flatten all layers again. Then repainting this part of image would bring back natural 'painted' look to the image. Way of bluring and distorting might be tricky itself and depend on the waves you have already, but I think some kind of dense 'wave' filter combined with smudging brushes would work well.
By the way, your latest landscapes make me want to paint myself such a thing lately ;)