A giraffe spreads its front legs wide and lowers its head to the water.

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Giraffe Drinking at a Waterhole

A giraffe spreads its front legs wide and lowers its head to the water.

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A drink at the blue pond

Follow the long neck down to the ripples, then add color to the nearby grass and stones.

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Digital example: Golden giraffe with brown spots drinking from a blue pond, surrounded by green grass and gray stones.

1. Pale gold
2. Warm brown
3. Soft blue
4. Grass green
5. Stone gray

Color the giraffe’s coat between the spots pale gold, including the legs, face, muzzle, horn stems and outer ears.
Fill the spots, mane, horn tips, hooves and tail tuft with warm brown.
Color the whole pond soft blue, keeping the ripple lines visible.
Use green for all pointed grass tufts beside the water, legs and distant bushes.
Color the outlined bank rocks and the small oval stone left of center gray.

Leave both distant trees, rounded bushes, ground, sky and inner ears white. Check the small spots along the lowered neck.

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