Revisiting a forgotten technique

[Seagull]

I'd forgotten this technique I was playing with last year. I thought I had a xara file in my computer but can't find it so just whipped this one up this morning

Hope nobody gets sea sick while viewing it. My image is still not perfect, probably a bit more time and a lot more talent could easily fix it but unfortunatly I'm out of both

[JohnLogan1973]

I like it, the waves look good to me, a bit stormy

[wizard509]

I have a suggestion, cut off the hard line at the horizon and trim the water fill to make it look like a stormy sea and I think that will give you more of the result you want.
Hope you don't mind but here is your image altered so you can see what I am talking about. A stormy sea may not be what you have in mind at all but this it is only a suggestion just in case.