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How to Paint Reflections in Water, Using Watercolor Paints

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Painting a Broken or Rippled Reflection in Water

How to Paint Reflections in Water

Create a broken or rippled reflection in the water using short brush strokes.

Image: © Andy Walker

Using your same colours and using small horizontal stokes, paint in the windmill and then the water. You may want to mark a few pencil dots where various parts of the windmill will be in the reflection, to act as guides.

Don’t bend your wrist as you paint these lines, or they will end up as curves rather than straight lines. Instead, hold the brush firmly and swing your whole hand gently from your elbow.

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