Moonlight

Here's another quick painting. My youngest brother requested me to paint him a moon with it's light reflecting on a water surface.

He gave me an illustration board and I started to paint.
At first I used watercolor, but then I noticed that this type of paper/board is not compatible with watercolor. So I have no choice but to use acrylic paint.

Process

I prepared the watercolor and paintbrush and drafted the position of the moon and horizon on the given illustration board

Then I started to paint the sky with Blue and Violet using watercolor. I noticed that the paper absorb the color in a weird way, it created unwanted blots.

But I still continued to add more watercolor on it thinking that if I add more layers, maybe the blots and unwanted texture will not be visible

And...
I gave up. I grabbed my acrylic paint, blue, black and white.

I painted another layer of acrylic over the old layer of watercolor. I also added some clouds to make it more dreamy.

For the reflection of the moonlight, i painted the water surface with blue first and then I add layers of white strips in the middle of the water.

I also added silhouette of trees to make the painting more lively. I also fixed the shape and texture of the moon by adding more white acrylic paint.

.. and, it's finished!

I hope you all like it, thank you for dropping by !

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