So now my pieces dry, I want to just create a little highlight in the eye. So I'm just gonna take my gel pen and make a little highlight just like that. Then I want to work on actually adding a little detail to the actual seahorse. So with my number two brush, I'll mix some color and I want two shades of blue here. So I'll start with the Prussian blue. I'll make two little splotches on my palette here.

And they'll take some of this ultramarine blue in one of them. And I'll rinse off my brush and add a little more prussian blue to the other one. Gonna take a little bit of this vermillion hue and mix it in with our first mixture. And then I'll add a couple of drops of water to this prussian blue. So we have a slight variation. If you want more of a distinction, you can add a little more of this pigment so I'll add a little more Ultramarine Blue With my smallest brush, I'm going to pick up some of this very light color here, our Prussian blue, diluted Prussian blue, and I'm going to go around very carefully, barely touching the page, just outline our seahorse.

This will dry lighter and give an interesting effect. And I'm barely touching the page here. This really emphasizes the beautiful shape of the seahorse. The silhouette. It's very simple and very subtle. Continue around the head.

I'm skipping over any areas where those flowers are. I'm gonna go in here just behind the eye and make that little see again. And then using my deeper color blue, I'm going to come in here and I want to make some dots and I'm going to make some dots at the top here of this blue, right on the tail. And I'm emphasizing that arch to beautiful shape. Again, with the deeper blue I'll come here and emphasize the arch over here on the big part of the tail. I'll make one row and then I'll make a second row just a little smaller.

Again, with that color, I'll come in here on this little area here. And I'm going to make just a look a little path to where the body would be if it didn't have this sticking out part on the back. And again, I want to emphasize the shapes the curves, right to the center of each of these pieces. Just like that. I'm going to come over here, do the same thing just on the back of each of these little things on the crown. And I'll do a few little dots slips with the darker color on the nose as well.

Start here and here and just work my way together. Maybe add a second row And now for the centerpiece here. Again, with that dark blue, I'm going to start and I'm going to try and envision a curve here, parallel to this curve. So I'm going to pull some colors in and stop at where I would imagine, I'm not going to make a line, but I'm going to pretend there's a line there. I'll come back in. Once again, you could add the dots as close together or as far apart as you'd like.

And I come in just like this. Now I'm going to switch colors, and I have this much lighter blue. I'll start at the top and work my way down the piece. And I'm going to just make a third layer, and I'm going to be echoing the taper that we make. For this little spot up here, I'm going to just add another row. Over here, I'll add a row or two for each of these.

I'll start with one row. Let's see how that Looks and when it dries, there'll be more of a difference than when the pigment is wet. I think I'll go in and add a another row of our lighter blue. Come over here, and on our back end, I'll add a row of blue to either side of the initial row that we put down. Really play with it and see what you like for patterns where you like to emphasize. I'm trying to really emphasize all the rounded shapes of this unusual creature.

Add another row here, maybe two are three going smaller as I go. And the same thing over here. Now I'm seeing over here I think I want to add just a few dots in between connecting each of these little stripes, just on the outskirts and there we have our completed seahorse.