From the course: Painting Foundations: Light and the Landscape

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Painting water

Painting water

(quiet instrumental music) - [Instructor] So now we can start to bring in the water and just marry the colors together from the building and the gondola and the water in the middle so they're all in harmony. So again, just starting with that top sky color, which was the lightest color that hit the water, and then we're just going to work the tones downwards. (quiet instrumental music) This is with the size six classic short flat. And then when you're looking on this bottom line, you can jump your eye up to the top horizon line around the building, and just see if there's anything there that could be tweaked or enhanced, and I could put a bit more color here, just to push that blue tone. So again, we're just working throughout the entire of the painting. Even though we're working a section at a time, you're still just kind of aware of how it's all matching in together. This is just some of the lightest peach tone we've mixed, and I'm just keeping it here on the left hand side so it's…

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