Coloricombo Creative Prompts

Coloricombo Creative Prompts

Let's paint a patterned snake

This week I felt inspired to paint a stylised snake, it has so much scope to improvise an play with doodles and shapes, even a few creepy crawlies made it into the design.

Feb 01, 2025
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Welcome to the Year of the Snake!

The colours from this week’s #coloricombo post: Turmeric, Rust, Pistachio and Green Grey are used in this 30 minute demo. I also explain why I use a 1/4” dagger brush as my go to painting tool.

The Year of the Snake

The Year of the Snake

Esté MacLeod's Coloricombo
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January 27, 2025
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Artwork

Here’s the outcome of the stylised snake using Week 4’s colours.

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