How are these ever-changing aquascapes achieved?
Today we are introducing the work of an artist named Kim Keever. His creative medium is water and paint, two very ordinary things, yet in his works they produce a three-dimensional nebula effect. Take a look
These works are all done inside a tank. To capture these beautiful works, you need patience, sensitivity to color, and a thorough understanding of the materials! His personal homepage states that this is painting in water.
Recently he released a new series: adding aquascaping to the ever-changing paint, creating mountains shrouded in surging dark clouds, trees swaying in storms, forests immersed in mist...
Wait! This aquascaping is not that aquascaping. Keever uses miniature trees, stones, and foam to make scenes with no living things, then releases powdered paint into the water, controlling the release speed of the paint and the direction of the water flow. Hard to believe, isn't it?
It looks just like those real primitive regions far away from our lives!
For each landscape, Keever took at least several hundred photos before finally presenting the effect everyone sees.
The details of the mountain body in the image above are depicted very exquisitely, with trees distributed across the mountain. Even a small scene gives the feeling of a big world. This style is rare in aquarium aquascaping and can be imitated to create a majestic, towering mountain
Mountain path
Canyon
The lake surface effect in the image above can be expressed using the bottom of the tank
In the 2017 AGA International Aquascaping Contest, in the 28-60L aquascaping category, the work "Water Forest" by Xiao Xuhong from Taiwan, China, used this method to express the lake surface effect.
Fish swim among the trees on the lake, a fairyland as if in a dream
The feeling of a sweeping storm can be simulated with water flow and the placement of driftwood
Even though Kim Keever's work is not the same as our aquarium aquascaping, we can still draw on his composition and perspective relationships to create better-looking aquascapes!
There is also a surprise here