Freshwater turtle on a pond bank, with tall reeds and ripples in front.

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Freshwater Turtle by the Pond

Seen from a low angle, this turtle stretches its striped neck above the pond bank. Color the broad shell plates first, then add shades to the tall reeds, grass and foreground ripples.

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Ochre shell beside the pond

Keep the turtle's long white stripes clear against two greens.

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Digital example: An ochre-shelled turtle with sage skin, white stripes and a cream underside stands beside green grasses and three gray stones.

1. Ochre — upper shell
2. Sage — turtle skin
3. Cream — lower shell
4. Leaf green — grasses
5. Gray — three stones

Fill every upper shell plate and its narrow seams with ochre.
Use sage on the head, neck, feet and tail, leaving the neck and leg stripes white.
Color the visible lower shell cream, including the curved section under the neck.
Use leaf green on both tall grass clumps and the two short tufts.
Color all three stones gray.

The shell has two distinct colors; stripes, claws, eye, water and bank remain white.

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