Turtle with four webbed feet turning beside three long water-plant leaves.

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Freshwater Turtle Turning by Water Plants

The turtle’s oval shell lies diagonally beside three long plant blades. Four webbed feet and a short tail surround it, with loose water arcs between the shapes. Follow the shell plates in one color order and use another palette for the leaves.

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A teal shell among flowing leaves

Keep the swimming turtle’s shell one teal color. Lighter skin, pale stripes and deeper plant leaves make the narrow shapes easier to follow.

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Swimming turtle with a teal shell, light-green skin and cream stripes beside three deeper-green leaves and five gray stones, surrounded by white water.
Digital example: Swimming turtle with a teal shell, light-green skin and cream stripes beside three deeper-green leaves and five gray stones, surrounded by white water.
  • 1. Muted teal · shell
  • 2. Light green · skin
  • 3. Pale cream · long stripes
  • 4. Leaf green · water plant
  • 5. Pebble gray · five stones
  1. Color every shell plate and the segmented rim teal, leaving all black divisions clear.
  2. Use light green on the head and the skin between the stripes along the neck, four webbed feet and tail. Keep the eye white and claw tips white.
  3. Follow the existing long stripes with pale cream across the neck and each foot, including the pale strip down the tail.
  4. Color all three long plant leaves and their stems a deeper leaf green.
  5. Color the three larger stones and two tiny pebbles at the plant base gray.

The teal turtle has light-green skin with cream stripes beside three darker leaves. Keep all water and spaces between feet, leaves and shell white.

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