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Painting Wet Rocks in Digital WatercolourRocks on Lake Superior's Shore photo reference kmariez on Flickr Kate's photo on Flickr
I really love the challenge of painting these wet rocks. The goal is to keep them wet looking as the thin layer of water on them is reflecting the sky. The parts of the painting you see here are not complete because I haven't fgured out how to get the water in between the rocks in yet!
I am using a variety of techniques for the texture in the rocks. Not all the rocks were done with the very same method and brushes either!
Tips and Techniques for this painting:
 Lasso Tool can be used to confine sprays to a specific area.
 What's the difference between a Splatter and a Spatter? You know that a splatter sounds like more liquid being splashed than a spattering of rain. In any case thes drops can be varied in many ways digitally. The size and angle can be varied. Play around with the spot making brushes until you can make fairly fine dry sprays and wet splashy drops!
Then once you've made some spots you can do many things to the spotted area to vary it as well. I like to mix up the size and colours of my spots on rocks and use a few blending or wetting techniques to finish it off.
The next step in the painting wet rock techniques is to use some washes in digital watercolour and watercolours.
Quick View of steps to paints rocks with digital watercolours.
  These are the basic steps I used so far in this painting and I haven't painted the water yet.
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Try them out and let me know how it worked out for you and feel free to ask for clarification of any parts.
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canvas paintings said:
thank you for this post and sharing this technique, I don't usually work in watercolours, I use acrylic paints but have been using various mediums to try out a variety of new things, this was great, thank you.