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Freshwater Turtle in Shallow Water

This turtle turns its head to the right in shallow water. Its striped neck, shell plates and visible webbed feet offer different shapes to color, with two stones and reeds nearby.

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Shallow-water turtle

A warm shell stands out against cool skin, reeds and stones.

Shallow-water turtle

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Digital coloring example. A turtle with a terracotta shell and sage skin beside green reeds and two blue-gray stones.

1. Terracotta shell
2. Sage skin
3. Green reeds
4. Blue-gray stones

Color every upper shell plate terracotta, stopping before the white belly plates.
Fill the head, neck, legs and tail with pale sage, keeping the stripes, claws and eye white.
Use deeper green inside the tall reed blades on the right.
Color both rounded foreground stones blue-gray.

Leave the water and the ripple loops white so the four colored areas stay clear.

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