Here you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw a Beetle and a Beetle Coloring Page. A few extra details make it look pretty real.
Painting of a Beetle
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If you’d like your students to remember the body parts of an insect, say a beetle, then drawing one with instructions that mention the “head, thorax and abdomen” will certainly support that. (See PDF download)
My tutorial shows an easy drawing solution for your beetle art, but I couldn’t help but add a watercolor sample above too. Simple drawings can sometimes look SO great with the texture that liquid paint on watercolor paper creates.
Should though you resort to painting, make sure to give the beetle time to dry before you make out the background. It will reduce the possibility of bleeding by the colors together.
Beetle Coloring Page
Materials to paint a Beetle
Prang® Watercolor Pan Set
Ever the gold standard, these Prang paints offer smoothness, perfect blending, intense pigments and the best tone palette of its kind.
Watercolor Paper
Real watercolor paper always makes the watercolor paintings much more vibrant *affiliate link
Non-Spill Paint Cups
Train your students to return brushes to the cup they came from and you have an easy system with very little cleanup *affiliate link
Paint Brush
A good paint brush can make a big difference and this style with a sturdy rounded tip is my favorite. *affiliate link
Sharpie Marker
Sharpie Permanent Markers, Fine Point, Black
Pencils
Ticonderoga Wood-Cased Pencils, Unsharpened, #2 HB Soft
Step by Step Directions for a Beetle Drawing
