“Brown” Sea Turtle Watercolor
Hello Friends,
Yesterday I said I would be posting the sea turtle doodle I finished last night. I had already worked on the background a few days ago and started it at my desk where I can use my watercolors out of the tubes. However, last night I decided to use my Prismacolor watercolor pencils to finish this one instead. It is more brown than I’d wanted, and not even the colors I had originally planned for, but the first one I did with this turtle’s pose the other day was such a disaster I could never show it to anyone. Trust me; it’s very bad! So here is a sea turtle that is brown, but that would not be classified as its ‘type’. I think it is a Green Sea Turtle which is fine, because many of their shells do have a lot of brown in them. They are not called ‘green’ for their shell color but for the color of the fat inside their bodies.
So anyway if you have a new name for this one, write it in the comments. Thanks.
Have a wonderful day, and give someone you love a big hug! 🙂
Posted on September 6, 2017, in Sea turtles and tagged 5x7 Sea Turtle #1, Green Sea Turtle,, Thomas the Green Sea Turtle. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
I never knew that’s why they’re called green turtles…interesting. I’m loving that blue eye!
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Yeah, I wrote about it somewhere on my blog a couple of years ago but I couldn’t tell ya which post it is! Anyway, thanks Jill. I liked the color of the eye the way it turned out too!
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That was an interesting bit of info about the green fat in a turtle. I didn’t know that, but it makes sense, considering what they eat. A name? Our childhood pet red-eared turtle was named Georgie and I can’t see a turtle of any kind or size without thinking he is named Georgie. I guess if it’s a girl, she could be Georgina. We LOVED our Georgie.
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Yes, it does make sense because they eat a lot of algae and other green plants in the sea.
Awww…that’s so cute! My husband’s name is George and his family called him Georgie when he was little, but changed it to G.T. when he was older because he is a Jr. so they didn’t want to confuse him and his dad all the time. His middle name is Thomas which I named my first huge turtle painting. 🙂
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LOL! So Thomas is close enough!
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Yep! 🙂
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