| Lord Ashram | 03 Sep 2017 5:21 a.m. PST |
Hey all, Doing some rice paddies, based basically on these great pieces… link But do I do the water in muddy brown, like these examples, or more of a dark bluish greenish black? Thoughts? |
| jdpintex | 03 Sep 2017 5:46 a.m. PST |
Depends upon the sky. I've seen rice paddies in the US with all three colors. Blue green white clear skies, brown blackish when the sky is overcast. |
| Lord Ashram | 03 Sep 2017 5:55 a.m. PST |
Hmm… my father in law saw the blue prototype and immediately said it was wrong, needs to be brown. He spent a lot of time in rice paddies back in the 60s… |
| mwindsorfw | 03 Sep 2017 6:37 a.m. PST |
Go look at any river or pond and see what you think. Jdpintex is right, the water tends to pick up the color of the sky. If you don't like that idea, I'd go with a brownish tint. |
 chicklewis  | 03 Sep 2017 6:53 a.m. PST |
Brown, in my experience all over the world. |
 Extra Crispy  | 03 Sep 2017 7:18 a.m. PST |
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| Johnny60 | 03 Sep 2017 9:29 a.m. PST |
Went for brown with mine, but with a hint of green lines underneath to give the idea of rows of shoots beneath the water…
On larger scales, still brown, but with green plants…
Hope this helps, or maybe it just muddies the water! :) cheers John |
 McKinstry  | 03 Sep 2017 5:55 p.m. PST |
FWIW at least 3 months a year it looks like a very orderly straw stubble field. There is a dry season. |
| Narratio | 04 Sep 2017 1:47 a.m. PST |
Looking at one on the other other side of my back wall, fresh green rice growing in it but the water is brown, very, very brown. That's brown alright. |
| Sobieski | 04 Sep 2017 3:08 a.m. PST |
A lot of the soil here (Thailand) is very dark grey-black loam. I have never felt tempted to jump in a paddy for a swim. |
| Johnny60 | 04 Sep 2017 9:12 a.m. PST |
Got to ask – regarding swimming in one. I'm guessing there'd be snakes and all sorts of stuff in there? |
| Sobieski | 04 Sep 2017 4:14 p.m. PST |
Probably. I once saw a small crocodile cross the road between two fields, all full of farmers. I expressed alarm. "Don't worry", said the driver. "I didn't hit it." |
| Johnny60 | 05 Sep 2017 1:33 a.m. PST |
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 05 Sep 2017 12:27 p.m. PST |
The rice paddies that I have seen in Thailand have always had brownish water, never blue, even on a sunny day. I did once get to spend a morning planting rice in a dry rice paddy with a bunch of kids at an orphanage/children's home where I taught English for a few weeks. The dirt was a red-brown color. So were all of our pants and our hands by lunch time. |
| Lion in the Stars | 08 Sep 2017 4:18 p.m. PST |
Even my pics of rice paddies in Japan tend towards brownish water, when you could see it. Pics were taken at the end of July: link When I made my rice paddies for 15mm Vietnam, I added rows of shoots sticking out the top of the water and lots of overgrowth on the berms. |
