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Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Lesson No.9 - Go With The Flow
As you paint your way down the canvas, keep the directional flow of water by placing darks either in lines or dabs. Then you can go back with mid-greens, then lighter greens, blending them in as you go. From that one big ripple where the flamingo is breaking the surface of the water, the lines gradually become further apart and level up as they head toward the bottom of the canvas.
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