This was one of those cases...I has painted the flag stones and the lily pads and the flower and it looked pretty good, but the top seemed empty. The photo I was working from wasn't particularly well composed so it just kind of ended there and I wasn't sure what to do. I'm not sure why I did this, but I grabbed one of my Niji Water Brushes and I wet the entire top section and them proceeded to just drop in black, sienna and a blue and just let them sit there and mingle a little as they dried. Nine out of ten people who have seen this say that is their favorite part...
The other thing that was challenging in this piece was I had initially painted the water between the surface pads black, which was a terrible idea and looked nothing like what I wanted for the picture. But I had discovered back on the house form a few posts ago that one of my yellows is rather opaque, so I used it ti mix up a green and was able to get those dark green murky submerged shapes in the water, which I was thrilled with. This is a technique I'm certainly going to use in future water scenes when depicting submerged objects.
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