With construction complete on the pair of Logar River boards, it was time for my first attempt at painting the waters of the river itself.  In a way this may not be that important, since the plan is to fill the river with at least three 1/8″ deep pours of EnviroTex Lite clear resin, but it still should look good as the “bottom” or at least lower depths of the water.  My plan is to tint the resin itself a bit brownish, so I’m going to attempt to make the painted bottom of the river more greenish, but with some blue as well.

Instead of my standard inexpensive craft paints or affordable large volume custom-mixed gallons from Home Depot or Lowe’s, I went with Artists Acrylics from a nearby Aaron Brothers art supply store.  The main reason for this choice is it’s what recommended on the “Mother of all Terrain Board building sites” — at least in my own humble opinion — over at Clarence Harrison’s Quindia Studios.

Since first creating this blog back in the Summer of 2010 I’ve always featured a link to this incredibly useful site, but here’s another one:

QUINDIA STUDIOS ARTICLES – including how to make Terrain Boards

(If you’re interested scroll down to the long row of thumbnails second from the bottom of the page and start clicking!)

I went with Liquitex DEEP TURQUOISE blue, RAW UMBER brown, TITANIUM WHITE & MARS BLACK, and  GREEN, BROWN, YELLOW OCHRE, BLACK & WHITE; and Windsor & Newton YELLOW OCHRE, BURNT UMBER red-brown, and PALE UMBER drab beige.

For the “blending” process where you’re trying to naturally blend colors together to go from a darker center where the water is DEEP to lighter colors towards the riverbanks on both sides, they worked well…