Painting Water with Acrylic by Ginger Cook part 3

[jhaley12]

geezzzz just take white gesso and blend it in the water with a paint brush then continue to work the water until it's to the point you want. You're making this sound way too hard when it is so simple, three parts to this? makes no sense also level water? yes but when you add rocks, trees whatever on the banks or shore etc. it should not be straight across it isn't in real life. Notice any similarity in the 3 paintings you have there? all the same basically.

[ellingtonwhippet]

i would sure like her to show me how to paint the rest of the picture!!!!! i thought this video would show you how to paint the entire freakin picture and now you just wasted a heck load of paint and a canvas!!!!!!!!

[Katebumblebee77]

That helped so much :) But i'm haveing a problem ! when i drag my brush over the white at the end of the canvas its like bloby ? so in my painting there is only a tad amount of water so would i start from the middel of the canvas were the water ends and drag the brush off the canvas?

[video7pro]

The base color of the water should be wet as in just painted acrylic. You might have wanted to put a smaller amount of white on the edge of the pallet knife just doing thin lines of white. (Experiment on a separate piece of paper or canvas to get the hang of it.) ----- see part 2 of reply ---- Ginger

[video7pro]

@Katebumblebee77 The base color of the water should be wet as in just painted acrylic. You might have wanted to put a smaller amount of white on the edge of the pallet knife just doing thin lines of white. (Experiment on a separate piece of paper or canvas to get the hang of it.) With acrylics I start off the edge of the water. If you start in the middle of it, you will leave a brush mark.) ---- read part 2 of reply ---- Ginger

[Rikku132]

thanks a bunch!!! that hlped me out a lot!

[itsaaronspencer]

great video, thanks. :)