In this class with Jennifer Rose, you’ll paint a fuzzy, buzzy bumblebee in loose watercolour. Using a combination of wet-in-wet and wet-on-dry painting, you’ll build up texture in your bee.

Jennifer will guide you step-by-step, and show you how to mix colours on the paper using a ‘colour bleed’ technique. Every bee you paint in this style will look different, so you can have lots of fun painting more than one!

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Get ready!

You can find info on equipment to use in the PDF below, and also in the intro video. The intro video also shows you how to use the Reference Image PDF to trace your drawing.

What you'll need

This PDF lists the supplies you’ll need for this class. (opens in a new window).

Reference image PDF

Includes the colour photo to refer to, a grayscale version of it to help assess tone/value and an outline drawing which has also been mirrored for easy printing and tracing. (Opens in new window)

  • Intro
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4

Steps & Timings

Click on a timing below to skip to that section of the video:

  • 00:01 - Get ready!
  • 00:01 - Intro
  • 00:42 - Drawing
  • 00:01 - Lightest tones
  • 04:00 - Building up the yellows
  • 06:51 - Adding in the purple
  • 00:01 - Midtones
  • 03:18 - Building up the colours
  • 08:45 - Dark tones - light blacks
  • 00:01 - Finishing touches
  • 09:37 - Paint splatters

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