Day 62: Tiny Ground Beetle Watercolor

I love miniature things and I already had these tiny easels so I decided to make some mini stamps which I could then color with watercolor paints. As always, I start with a sketch:

The fiery searcher is a very colorful predatory ground beetle in the Order Carabidae.

Next I transfer the sketch by laying it on the stamping material and rubbing the reverse side with a pencil:

Then I begin to cut out the image:

Done!

Next I stamped the image onto watercolor paper with waterproof black ink:

Then I painted it with watercolors:

Next I highlighted certain parts with gold ink and cut it out to the desired tiny size:

You can view the piece in my shop HERE

[March 2, 2020]

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