Lindsey Dawn Art

Watercolour Sea Turtle; Adding Texture and Depth to your Watercolour Paintings

I love how you have painted him swimming in the opposite direction.  His face also looks different and really interesting.  I love how you've captured the highlights at the bottom of the shell. He's gorgeous!

Well done! May I ask what make and colour your background is?

Hi Bonnie!Excelent question! I use Windsor &amp; Newton. And for that background, believe it was a mix of cerulean blue with yellow ochre darkened with payne's grey. A bit of viridian may have been thrown in as well but I'm not absolutely sure. I'm just now getting into the habit of making a color chart for my projects but for the past ones, I just did my best to match whatever was instructed by the teacher.I hope that's somewhat helpful. 

It is a wonderful blue for the water.

I absolutely love using yellow ochre to mix with blues for perfect natural greens.  This is gorgeous

Amazing turtle, Isabel. Your colours are vibrant. The turtle looks as if it could swim away.

Thank you for a lovely class!
I used a different reference photo so I improvised a bit the colors, shadows and patterns but overall I'm really happy with the result.<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/ecc4e789a5c53a1fff72e6220109d4b7/0d765796.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/ecc4e789a5c53a1fff72e6220109d4b7/0d765796.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/ecc4e789a5c53a1fff72e6220109d4b7/0d765796.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="Sea turtle - image 1 - student project">

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