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Article · Blue Beach House Art
How to Paint Underwater Scenes
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
Teaches how to handle the water surface and what lies beneath it in underwater and half-submerged scenes, including how colour shifts bluer and darker with depth, worked through three paintings: lily pads from above, a split-level diver and a whale shark.
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