How to Color a Clear Umbrella: Easy Step-By-Step Coloring Tutorial for Beginners

Pillie and Pop
Jan 21
3 min read

Updated: Mar 10

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How to Color a Super Cute Clear Umbrella!

Learn how to color a super cute clear umbrella that actually looks transparent with this step-by-step coloring tutorial! This technique is perfect for artists of all skill levels who love adding fun effects to their artwork. Follow along with the video, the step-by-step guide, or download the free printable to color along with the tutorial. We hope you love this technique as much as we do! Happy coloring!

Supplies:

For this tutorial, you will need:

Background colors in your preferred medium
A white gel pen or acrylic marker
A colorful acrylic marker or gel pen for the umbrella handle
Coloring supplies and a black pen for any objects that appear behind the umbrella
White metallic glitter glue (optional)

Step 1: Draw in and Color Anything behind the Umbrella

Step 1 in the how to color a clear umbrella coloring tutorial. Shows coloring page of a smiling girl with blond hair under a clear umbrella. Shows drawing in objects behind the umbrella for step one.

Using a black pen, draw in anything behind or inside the umbrella.
Then color in those objects, ignoring the umbrella lines.

Step 2: Background

Step 2 for the clear umbrella tutorial. Shows watercolor colored penciling in the background of a coloring page with a girl and a duck in pink raincoats and boots, joyfully jumping in puddles under clear umbrellas. Rainbow in sky, raindrops falling.

Color in the background however you like best, disregarding the umbrella lines.
We drew a rainbow in the sky with watercolor colored pencils—a super cute addition to any rainy page!

Step 3: Color Over the Lines

Step three for the beginner coloring tutorial. Shows coloring over the black lines of the umbrella on a coloring page with a child in pink floral raincoat holding a clear umbrella under a colorful rainbow. Raindrops fall, hand colors drawing. Happy mood.

Using a white gel pen or a white acrylic marker, color over the lines of the umbrella.
This begins to give the umbrella a transparent appearance.

Step 4: Polka Dots

Step 4 for the clear umbrella coloring how-to. Shows adding polka dots to the umbrella with a white gel pen.

Using a white gel pen (or acrylic marker), add white polka dots to the umbrella.
You can do a different design if you like, but I found that adding some sort of design to the umbrella helps a lot with the clear look.

Step 5: Umbrella Stick

Step 5 in the coloring tutorial for clear umbrellas. Shows adding in the umbrella stick/shaft with an acrylic marker.

Using an acrylic marker (or gel pen), color in the umbrella stick, coloring over the black lines too.
Then draw in the missing part of the umbrella stick inside the umbrella, using the same acrylic marker (or gel pen).

Step 6: More Polka Dots

Step 6 in the adult coloring tutorial. Shows adding more polka dots to the clear umbrella to help with the clear effect.

Add a few more dots over the umbrella stick.
This helps show the umbrella stick is inside the umbrella, behind the clear layer.

Step 7: Metallic Glitter Glue (Optional)

Step 7 in the clear umbrella coloring tutorial. Shows adding metallic glitter glue for an added clear effect.

Using a paintbrush or the top of the glue bottle, paint white/clear metallic glitter glue onto the umbrella.
This adds a layer of shimmery clear over the umbrella.
I used CraftSmart Metallic Glitter Glue (available at Michaels), but similar metallic or clear glues should work as well.

Step 8: Color Over the Lines again

Step 8 for how to color clear umbrellas step-by-step coloring tutorial. Shows coloring over the lines again in acrylic marker.

Using a white acrylic marker (or gel pen), color over the lines again after the glue has dried.
This finishes the clear look and helps show that the umbrella is in front of the background.

Step 9: Color Over the Dots Again Too

Step 9 in the coloring how-to for clear umbrellas. Shows coloring over the dots again to add to the clear effect.

Using a white acrylic marker (or gel pen), color over the dots again.
This helps show that the dots are part of the umbrella design, not the background behind it.

Step 10: Try it on an Actual Coloring Page!

Step 10 in the how to color clear umbrellas beginner coloring tutorial. Shows the finished page of a girl and a duck playing in the rain holding clear umbrellas in front of a rainbow sky. — Page from: Me and My Pet Coloring Book

Try these steps on any page you like and make it your own. Mix up the colors, add fun details, and color your clear umbrella in your own special way!

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