Painted this in Brushes on the iPhone over lunch today, a little over an hour, a lot of save and duplicates, but I like the way this ended up. I was planning to make the water a bit rougher, a little stormy, but...I ran out of time.
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Thanks, cyndia!
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that's it, i need to get one now...
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