Tucson Botanical Gardens: Drawing Bumblebees in Colored Pencil

Pollinators pop with many of the same colors as the flowers they call food. Explore the various colors and textures of bees using colored pencil techniques, including stippling, hatching, layering and grisaille. Use these techniques to achieve rich, luminous depth to your drawings.

Please provide your own art materials. Recommended art materials (Substitute as needed):

paper

Colored Pencils (a pack of at least 12 colors)

Eraser

graphite pencil