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How To Paint A Koi Fish: A Step By Step Guide and Video

Learn more about Koi fish with an easy step-by-step Koi Fish tutorial and Koi Fish coloring page.

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Why paint Koi Fish?

A tutorial for learning how to paint a Koi Fish has a lot to offer young students. The view from overhead keeps the shapes really simple and graceful. As a watercolor resist, there’s the fun of adding white crayon lines for bubbles (always fun when they appear!) and the blue and orange combination just make the fish pop off the page.

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Here's an easy step-by-step how to paint a Koi Fish tutorial and Koi Fish coloring page. Stop by and grab yours for free.

Koi Fish Coloring Page

Koi Fish coloring page, available as a free PDF.

Look what this clever teacher in Spain made to display her student’s Koi Fish paintings. Such a fun idea!

Koi Fish Materials

Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for Watercolor Self Portrait and Coloring Page. It lets watercolor paints do what they do best!

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Materials

Watercolor Paper*

Liquid Watercolor Paint*

Leaf Painting Supplies

Crayola Crayons*

Rounded Paintbrush

Pencil*

Non Spill Paint Cups*

Directions

How to Draw and Paint a Koi Fish Directions

Time needed: 1 hour

How to Paint a Koi Fish in 9 Easy Steps

  1. Draw a medium teardrop shape.

  2. Draw a large teardrop shape.

  3. Add a tail to the large fish.

  4. Draw a tail on the medium fish.

  5. Add pectoral fins to both fish.

  6. Add a dorsal fin on the back of each fish.

  7. Draw the tops of the eyes.

  8. Draw wavy plants in between.

  9. Trace with a crayon and paint with watercolor.

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