ROLLING WAVES
Watercolor - 11x14
It is always fun to paint a seascape but dealing with moving water is not always an easy task. When I am painting any body of water - stream, lake, waterfall, ocean - I always wet the paper first so that when I start applying the paint I get nice, soft edges.
For the calm area of the ocean in the back I used horizontal strokes and as I moved into the rolling wave I started curving my lines to suggest the movement of the wave. I made sure that I kept areas of white and used different shades of blues - ultramarine blue, phthalo blue, indigo and turquoise - over the whole body of water.
