Painting water using watercolor is often a tough task for the beginners. It requires practice and skill to paint water to create realistic river paintings. The flow of water as well as the reflection patterns need to be painted exactly as it is. Hence it is often impossible to achieve perfection using this medium. Here is a collection of hand-picked river watercolor paintings. This would inspire you to try different watercolor techniques to paint water. Painting river stones and rocks demand high level experience with watercolor.
Try to focus on the subject and give importance to the details. If you are trying to add some greenery, it would enhance the subject. Paint and paint until you get the real feel of flowing water!!
River Paintings
Douglas Hunt
Abdul Salim
Joe Cartwright
Sergey Zhiboedov
Gary.J.Keimig
The river watercolor work by Abdul Salim is my favorite.Amazing works!!!
Loved the one by Gary.J.Keimig
Amazing works….