Woman in Pool

Wish spring time upon us and summer just around the corner, its time to start thinking about all those summer time pursuits. Errr, well, maybe not pursuing anything, just lounging in the sun.

This is a  obviously a woman lounging on the steps of of a pool.  I tried to make the water a little darker with each step of the pool, but not make is so uniform that it doesn't look alive.  Just like I don't use black in any of my paintings, I don't use white either.  So where you see white in this painting, what should be reflections off the top of ripples, I've used a white pencil.  And so that it doesn't look too pencil-ly, I used the pencil before painting the top layer of blue.

If you see some shimmer on the water, it's because I've used glitter watercolors on the very top coat.  I thought this would be a good way to give some real reflection off the water.

Hope you enjoy this painting.  I really had fun painting it.  Thank you