Specialty Gardening: We are winning awards!!, 1 by seedpicker_TX

seedpicker_TX wrote:
Ok, Janit...hope you don't mind me trying to help you brainstorm :0)

I found this image, googling...it is an image of an app for the iphone, but it got me thinking...

You could almost take blue aquarium rocks, or those flattened blue glass marbles, and then use the pour on stuff to get this same look(of the water reflections and ripples) , or the other idea that came to mind from this image is how nice the lily pads look with their shadows offset below them!!

If you stick with painting these, and you do some lily pads, the "shadow pad" helps make it look more realistic...

by the way, I went to a bookmark of mine tagged "koi", and it was your site, so I guess you already have a source for the koi, but when I typed it into the search box, I was no longer able to find it...