Once your top is blended, add more turquoise in the middle and under the narwhal. Go almost all the way down with this turquoise but leave a blank area on the bottom. Load your (not rinsed) 3/4″ brush in phthalo blue.īlend in this blue on the bottom so that it blends with the turquoise. I started this in the corners and then did the same curved direction to blend with the turquoise on the bottom. Next I used my #4 round brush to paint wavy lines in the water.

Use a mixture of titanium white and turquoise blue slightly watered down. The wavy lines should be a subtle color – not too bright.Īs you go to reload the color, you may wish to add more white to some of the lines and more turquoise to other lines. On the bottom, you can add phthalo blue to some of the wavy lines. Keep these lines very light and feathery, as stated above they should be subtle. Use a #4 round and phthalo blue to paint seaweed. The phthalo blue will show up dark enough against the bottom but if it doesn’t, you can add a tiny bit of mars black to it. Paint wavy lines in clusters to represent seaweed. Next you’ll need to clean out your water and get a clean #12 bright brush and neutral gray value 5.ĭip your brush in the water, pat dry.

Then use the neutral gray value 5 to paint all of the narwhal. Leave the eye, chest and horn white for now. To give the narwhal some shading, add titanium white to your brush that already has the gray on it. Then apply the white on the top and blend it in with the gray so the narwhal’s back is lightest at the top and blends to gray in the middle. Wet on wet blending allows the gray and white to blend together. Do the same blending on the narwhal’s tail fin by adding the white on the left of the tail fin.

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