This watercolor was made up in the studio. I started laying down color in very rapid manner all over the paper. The color was a mixture of cobalt blue, winsor yellow and winsor red with the major amount being the blue. I white shapes that remained looked like waves so I added a cool mixture of the same color, but a bit darker to create solid forms in the waves keeping in mind the direction of light. The foreground water was splashed in especially in the lower right where I actually flicked the paint on to the paper.