Thanks everyone for the comments. To answer your question Zaphod, the water is Woodland Scenics Realistic Water tinted with a bit of Vallejo acyrlic paints. Wonderful stuff to work with..Pours straight from the bottle.
To get the effect i have, After i prepared the celluclay, allowed it to dry and painted it...i did this..
- Started by doing several dark oil washes on the bottom most part of the ditch bed. allowing the oil wash to soak in and dry between coats.
- After that i did several dark green oil washes, highly thinned, over the sides of the ditch, and lightly over the bottom.
That was basically it.. I did go back as i looked at it..and gave more dark and green oil washes as i saw fit to give the banks and bottom more realistic coloring. Followed all that up by laying down some fine green turf along the banks of the ditch.
Mary