Thanks dudes
I am really pleased that you like it and thanks for putting up with this eternal WIP!!! LOL
I've added some texture to the water surface. I am curious what your opinion is.
I spread some Vallejo water effect gel (basically artists' thick acrylic medium) all over the surface. My tests highlighted that it is important to put it
all over the surface otherwise the ripples will look "stuck on"
I used a clay modeling tool to randomly swish the gel about into....a mess LOL
These shots show how it looks during the drying process. As you can see, some of the gel has not fully cured yet and is still opaque.
To add some depth to the water (no pun intended) I tried to add a "wash & highlight" approach.
I thinned out some water-based transparent craft paint that is used for decorating glass/windows and added a VERY thin wash around the ripples.
For highlights, I used some very fine lines of Titanium White oil paint on the crests of some ripples and then lightly removed it with a tissue
Here's a side-by-side of (more or less) the same area with and without ripples.
Just for fun, here's a National Geographic/Discovery Channel type shot while I was standing in the middle of the lake LOL
And here's a dummy run with JP plopped into the middle.
Getting close now!
Just need the hammock, figure and some fine-tune detailing of the terrain
Cheers for looking in and let me know what you honestly think of the revised water