October/November 2014 Entry: Bogie's RedThorn by Jaxilon

[Deadshade]

Why did you do the sea darker on shore than over the depths ?

[Jaxilon]

Thanks guys.
@Bogie, I'm glad you are liking it because after all you are the client

Why did you do the sea darker on shore than over the depths ?

I looked around at a bunch of watercolor work and while most of them have it lighter near shore they have a dark ink line running along the edge. Then I saw some that were painted darker near the shore and quickly faded out to nothing. I thought it was an interesting look and figured to try it. Admittedly, it was against my first inclination and in the end I may have carried the Color out too far but now that everything is in digital I can tweak the colors if I choose or even fade the depths back. I just scanned it in yesterday and will doing the labels and further work in Photoshop at this point so things can still change.