How to Paint: Watercolor Speckled Eggs

Spring is all about celebrating new life so let’s celebrate with some cute watercolor speckled eggs. We can add some fun textures and details. So grab your paints, and follow along in this step by step tutorial.

A close up painting of four Spring-colored watercolor speckled eggs by Audrey Ra Design.

Supplies:

Paint: LUKAS Aquarell 1862 Watercolor
Paint: FineTec Metallic paints
Brush(es): Creative Mark’s Mimik Synthetic, round size 6 and 1
Paper: Canson XL Watercolor Paper (~5″x7″)
Jars of water
Paper towel or cotton rag
All of my favorite supplies here

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Choose your color palette for your watercolor speckled eggs

Choose four colors that you’d like for your speckled eggs. You can do them all the same color. Maybe try a pastel palette. You really can’t go wrong with the colors you choose. Don’t be afraid to choose colors that aren’t realistic either.

Paint the first layer of speckled eggs

Start with a creamy consistency of paint. Water down your paint a little bit so it’s a lighter value. I’m using the round size 6 brush here. Outline your egg first, and while the paint is still wet, wash out your brush, and fade out that outline so that you have an even lighter value in the inside of the egg.

Darken one area of the egg by dropping in the original color and let it bleed and blend on its own. Have fun with this part!

Do the same for the other three speckled eggs.

Paint speckles

Switch to a smaller brush – I’m using the round size 1 here. Mix up a darker value of the egg color. Or you can use a similar hue in the same color family. For example, for the first turquoise egg, I used Prussian Blue for the speckles.

One tip I have for the speckles is to vary the size and value. Take a look at the yellow egg below and see how I added larger splotches instead of just dots?

And notice how the light and dark color values of the speckles make the egg look more realistic and interesting.

No matter what the color of the egg, a darker brown color for the speckles is a safe color to use.

Add metallic details (optional)

If you have a metallic palette available, this is a perfect project for you! I’m using the FineTec metallic watercolors. I decided to use the hazelnut color on the green egg. And the blue silver color on the turquoise egg.