Wet-in-wet: painting terminology
Obviously in some places where I mixed them a lot I made the green you can see, in other places the yellow
dominated. I did this fairly haphazardly only lightening the effect towards the center of the painting. Where it
gets thin the background comes through and gives us a beautiful mauve tint.- At this stage everything was fairly bland but I could begin to see shallow water and deeper water, sandbanks
and dry sand,.and a shore line. I just needed to define them. Up till now the paint was fairly thick in places an
the only painting implement I had used was a knife. Next I loaded up the edge of the knife with white/tint of
yellow ochre and dragged it across the canvas tilting it slightly and letting the white be dragged off to form the
waves. (See below)
Note: I placed the waves just above the sandbanks and shallow water. Why? Because waves are formed as deep
water meets shallow water. Where the sand meets the water it gets a little darker. Observing things like that is
what painting is all about. I have probably spent a little too much time observing little things like that instead
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