So now our first layer has dried, because it's such a light color and I love the variation we got, I want to go in there and erase any pencil marks that I can. We're going to paint over them when we do an outline, but for now I just wanted to go over the pencil marks and remove anything that was easily removed. From here I want to work on the background a little bit and unlike the first image that we painted, where we had a full background, I just want to paint some like kelp or some seaweed. So I'm mixing my color using my number six brush. I'm gonna come in here and take a little of this dark green. And I'll make another little pile over here.

And then I'm gonna take some of this permanent green, and mix that in. And now I want to dilute these colors so I'll add a few drops of water to each again, I'm looking for very subtle colors. And then I'm going to take a very sharp brush my number two brush with a point and I'll pick up some of this light color first. And I'm going to start up and I want to end up with my, the majority of my kelp or seaweed three quarters up the seahorse here. So I'm going to start with a very sharp point, very barely touching, and just make that line. Once I have that line, I'll go back in and fill it in, thicken it out at spots, so it looks like a blade of grass floating in the water.

I want to make sure the end is tapered and it comes just to a little point. And then I'm going to go here and I'm going to go behind our seahorse a little here. So I'm going to have this Come around, and I'm going to imagine it going behind the seahorse. And then coming out here, behind the seahorse again, and coming down, and again, I'll go in there and taper that as well. Deposit some little spots of a little more pigment than others. And again, we're going with a very diffused color.

But a little more color underneath, just to create a little shadow base of the seahorse. And then we'll do one more of these. I think we'll do this one a little taller. So I'll start up here, the height of the seahorse and just continue to drag that all the way to the bottom. And I'll go back in and deposit more pigment to make that very visible. I'll come in with my second color.

And I'm going to cross over the second over the first color we put down just in some spots. Still want to go in there and make it nice and tapered. Repeating that S shape that we have on our seahorse. Come over here. Oh, imagine this going behind our seahorse coming out here. Maybe women down And I'll do one more.

And I'll have this coming behind and in some spots on top of this other piece of seaweed here and again, I carry it right down. deposit a little more color. And I'll do one more over here. I'm going to take some over that deep green and mix some of that ultramarine lips mix some of that ultramarine blue with it so I get more of a turquoise color. And then at water back down I'll just make a few pieces. Here is Well make a nice sharp point.

This will be coming down this way. And I'll come in behind this piece here. And I'll let this layer completely dry.