Tiny tips: Water - Colour

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The third part about painting water. This time about its colour; since water essentially acts as a reflective surface in most paintings, it can be trickier than you think. Just going with blue to paint water isn't enough. As always, looking at references will help a great deal.
The tutorial talks about both the colour under water as the colour of the surface; the first is easier to paint as it doesn't variate as much under different lighting conditions.

Also see Part One: Water - Waves ranarh.deviantart.com/art/Tiny…


and Part Two: Water - Reflections ranarh.deviantart.com/art/Tiny…

"Ranarh's tiny tips" is a collection of iddy-biddy tutorials, each containing small bites of advice anyone can chew, aimed at beginner's level artists. They are not software-dependent. If there's a problem you have, something you feel someone should finally explain, or are just curious what I have to say on a particular artistic issue, feel free to tell me.