Watercolor plan #1--ocean blue(Soon to be better quality image) Watercolor plan #2--sunset orangefinal piece:Here's an underwater scene I'm making using watercolor & ink. This picture is depicting another 'war' scenario created by man. The setting is a reef that has been riddled with sunken ships and shot-down aircraft. There is a submarine in back, behind the drop off, firing a torpedo. aside from the objects in the picture, the values were the most difficult to capture with the watercolors. Being able to get the right amount of water in certain areas can be very hard because if the paint is not applied carefully and in small amounts, there could me dark ink splotches all over the place.
I made the mistake of placing one of the arches in the middle of the picture. This takes away from the photo because it is dead center. That is not good in the eyes of the viewer, your subject matter needs to follow the photo placement rules in order to look attractive. There's nothing I could do now to fix this except crop the picture, but I don't want to cut away the ship in the back. This is just a lesson I'm going to have to learn in order for my future pieces to turn out better. As usual with my watercolor I started with ink, then added my colors, and after they're dry, I add variants of shading/stippling to darker areas to make them have better shadows. Looking over my 'bulls eye mistake' I think this piece turned out ok in the end. The problem with this type of work is it gets me too detail orientated in one section, and costs me too much of my time, with little to show for it. The amount of detail is so small that a half an hour's work can make it seem like I did nothing at all.
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