Kids will definitely be excited to make an underwater scenery painting! This tutorial will guide them to make crabs underwater painting! 

This painting is just right for you! Welcome to this tutorial to make a fantastic painting that will brighten up your collection! This painting includes underwater scenery of crabs floating! The color combination of this painting will be eye-catching and will excite the kiddos! This painting is suitable for kids and even beginners to make as you will be making it with stamps to make it even easier and flawless! So, grab the listed materials, and let’s begin to make it with us!

Easy Crabs Underwater Stamp Painting

Crabs Underwater: Stamp Painting Tutorial

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Tools & Supplies

  • Circle And Oval Stamps
  • Paintbrush
  • Googly Eyes
  • Glue
  • Paint Colors (Red, White, And Green)
  • Blue Circular Paper Sheet
  • Black Marker

Crabs Stamp Painting Instructions

Step #1: Stamping A Red Oval

Stamping A Red Oval - How to make a stamp painting featuring crabs underwater

Begin this artwork by taking a blue circular paper sheet as the base for the painting and a big oval stamp. Dip the stamp into red paint and dab it over the base on the right in a tilted way to make the base of the crab’s body.

Step #2: Making The Hands And Eye Stalks Of The Crab

Making The Hands And Eye Stalks Of The Crab - Learn to create a stamp painting with a crab-underwater theme

Dip a thin paintbrush into red paint and make 2 small lines on the left boundary of the crab and 2 tilted lines on the sides of the middle lines. The middle lines will be the eye stalks and the tilted lines will be the hands of the crab.

Step #3: Stamping Circles At The Ends Of The Lines

Stamping Circles At The Ends Of The Lines - A guide to crafting a stamp painting with a crab-underwater motif

Dip a small circle stamp into red paint and dab it over the ends of the eye stalks and the hands.

Step #4: Making Legs Of The Crab

Making Legs Of The Crab - A lesson on making a stamp painting featuring crabs that live in the sea

Using the same small circle stamp, make 3-3 circles on the side and below the boundaries of the crab, half inside the body and half on the base to make the legs of the crab.

Step #5: Making Another Crab’s Body And Sticking Googly Eyes

Making Another Crab's Body And Sticking Googly Eyes - A tutorial on stamp painting featuring crabs beneath the sea

In the same way, make another crab’s body on the upper left side of the base, and make this crab tilted to the previous one. Now, using glue, stick 2 googly eyes on the circles of the eye stalks. Grab a black marker and using it make zig-zag lines on each of the circles of the hands to make the claws of the crab. Also, make tiny line strokes on the boundary on the sides of the eye stalks to texture the crab.

Step #6: Making Smile Of The Crab

Making Smile Of The Crab - Step-by-step instructions on designing a stamp painting of crabs in the water

Using the black marker, make a curved smile in the center of its body. See the image for reference. Also, detail your other crab in the same way.

Step #7: Making Sea Plants

Making Sea Plants - Techniques for producing a stamp painting depicting crabs underwater

Dip the paintbrush into green paint and make random wavy lines at the bottom of the base. Make these lines in a bunch to make them look like sea plants.

Step #8: Completing Making the Sea Plants

Completing Making the Sea Plants - Instructions on creating a stamp painting with a motif of crabs in the ocean

Completely cover the bottom region of the base with the wavy sea plants. See the image for reference.

Step #9: Stamping A Bubble

Stamping A Bubble - A guide to making a stamp painting with a design of crabs underwater

Paint the boundary of your tiny circle stamp with white paint and dab it over the base to see a bubble.

Step #10: Making More Bubbles And Adding Shine To Them

Making More Bubbles And Adding Shine To Them - Learn how to make a stamp painting that features crabs underwater

Make more bubbles randomly on the artwork and then dip your paintbrush into white paint and make strokes in the bubbles along their boundaries to add shine to those bubbles.

This Is The Final Look Of Your Crabs Underwater Artwork!

This Is The Final Look Of Your Crabs Underwater Artwork! - A Guide on How to Create a Picture Using Crab Impressions

Look at your crabs happily swimming underwater!

You can now decorate your artwork in your room to have fabulous decor room, well if you are fond of the water life then it will be a cherry on top artwork! This painting can be a learning artwork for the kiddos to learn about water life and to make it more fascinating, you can add more underwater creatures to it, fish, sea horses, starfish, anything! You can also make this painting on a giant base to make a whole aquarium painting! Amazing, right?

Hope you had fun making this painting! Also, leave your feedback and tell your art journey to us in the comments section below! We would love to hear from you!

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