Fun and Quick Colorful Watercolor Beetles

Learn to paint some quick and easy watercolor beetles. There are lots of watercolor tips in this video. I used graphite for the shadows cast by the beetles and I used some Daniel Smith Duochrome Turquoise to add a sheen.


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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:31 Polina Bright Brushes
2:15 Paper and paint I used
3:08 Painting demonstration blue beetle
7:09 Using Graphite for the cast shadows
8:46 Using a white watercolor pencil
9:34 Painting demonstration green beetle
13:37 Daniel Smith DuoChrome Turquoise painted on blue beetle
14:52 Painting demonstration ants
16:06 Outro
16:26 Bloopers

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