How to Paint Water

How to Paint Water How to Paint Water Colors give the realistic and appealing look to any sketch or a drawing. You can even make your own choice of using water colors, sketch pens, crayons or even oil paints for filling more life to a drawing or an art work. Every one amongst us has some interest to paint and make their creative come alive on a drawing paper. The innovative ideas and the talents that can be brought into the light are just through drawing or painting. This is because there lays no jurisdictions or any prohibitions at least in this field of creation and expressing your feelings adding colors to your sketch or art.

Often it is seen in a gallery or art or some magazines that many artists made exceptional drawings with just a simple theme and subject like the sky, water, trees, fire etc. In here we make an effort to put some notable points which can come useful while creating a painting on water: -

There are artists and painters who an easily make any sketch without using a pencil or even a marker. This is because they have got immense experience in making a painting look admirable and realistic. But for any new budding talents, use of a light shaded pencil is advisable. Make the outline or the sketch of the water either flowing from a top hill or even moving smooth by its bank or shore.
To add more effects and contrasting looks to your painting you can make patterns of ripples and whirl pools. Such effects and features will make your subject get a high rate of interest and appreciation.
Splashing of the water after striking a rock or creating whir pools in the middle of the flow will always add more value and distinguishable attractions to your painting.
Now onto filling of the colors to the subject you have created out of your innovative mind. You can also take some assistance of what color combination will grab more eyes and curiosity of the spectators after the whole subject is brought into their focus. For this you can browse the internet and observe sites related and relevant for your painting. Instead you can also turn the pages of some good painting books, magazines or take the advice of your friends and closed ones.
Often the colors that are selected for filling the effects of the water are sky blue, bottle green, light brown and orange (for paleness of water) or even navy blue and at times black. For the splashing effects use can even use a light silver paint or even off white for the droplets that it will create after hitting the rocks.
Above all the type of painting you want to create solely depends on your creativity and innovation to give it more shines and realistic looks. For painting such a subject you can use both water colors and oil paints.
The selection of the type of painting brush, soft and clean cloth for rubbing undesired marks depends on what effects you like to put in your drawing. Normally a thin brush is used for the contrasting effects like whirlpools and splashing of water droplets. Whereas, a relatively, thicker brush is used for the free falling effects from top hill or an easy flow along the shore.

Materials used: -

Pencil/marker
Eraser
Colors (oil paints/ water colors)
Clean soft piece of cloth (optional)
Drawing paper/chart paper
Holding stand (optional)

This way you can paint the subject you selected to be water in this drawing. Make sure it solely depends on you as to how far you like to bring life to painting. But in the end, such paintings always looks cool and appealing to gain, wide spread popularity.