Watercolor Techniques - How to paint a fish

If you ever wondered 'How to draw a fish?" or "Is painting a fish easy?" You have come to the right place. It is indeed simple to draw/paint a fish.

After following this step by step fish tutorial, I believe you would have painted a fish like the one below:

Koi Fish Painting

Materials:
1. Card Stock or watercolor paper or any good quality paper for painting
2. Watercolor or you may even use Acrylics
3. Brushes -Round brush (No. 2) and 1 big brush for background
4. Brush Tank or a big glass of water to clean the brushes

Step by step fish tutorial

Start by mixing orange into yellow paint. Put down some paint with your round brush, the way shown below.

Step by step fish tutorial

Next step has two more colors: 1. Orange and  2. Orange with white 

 You don't have to follow it exactly. Just try to get the shape of the fish. 

Step by step fish tutorial

Use thalo blue to define the shapes even better. You may even paint the tiny eyes at this time.

Step by step fish tutorial

Paint the fins and do the background.

For the background, just play with your blues and greens and even some yellow.

If you like this tutorial, let me know about it by posting your comments. 

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