When you draw water you are really drawing the sky or whatever is reflected in the water, it is the surface that you draw. In some ways it doesn't matter how close you zoom in you are still drawing the same thing, always a detail. There is something absolute about drawing water although it is different every second and in every place. Most of the landscapes I draw push the space back into the picture, I try to achieve this with the minimum of means, just enough to deny the real surface of the object. With pictures of water without any horizon or edge the image pushes up to near the surface but somehow the same effect is achieved of making the object , the canvas and stretcher, disappear. Perhaps this is because it is really a reflection of something much further away
When you draw water you are really drawing the sky or whatever is reflected in the water, it is the surface that you draw. In some ways it doesn't matter how close you zoom in you are still drawing the same thing, always a detail. There is something absolute about drawing water although it is different every second and in every place. Most of the landscapes I draw push the space back into the picture, I try to achieve this with the minimum of means, just enough to deny the real surface of the object. With pictures of water without any horizon or edge the image pushes up to near the surface but somehow the same effect is achieved of making the object , the canvas and stretcher, disappear. Perhaps this is because it is really a reflection of something much further away