Garden Butterflies Identified — Premium Watercolour Reference Set (20 Templates + Painted Samples + Colour Recipe Cards)

Twenty British garden butterflies, treated as a proper watercolour reference set. This is a step up from the standard template sets — alongside the lineart you get a painted reference of every butterfly, a colour recipe card with five hex-sampled swatches and mixing notes, plus a butterfly identifier index so you can see all twenty at a glance with their names.

It's the set I wish I'd had when I started painting butterflies — accurate species colour, the underlying lineart to print and paint over, and a recipe card per butterfly so you know exactly which warm reds make a Red Admiral's bands or what blue-green washes give a Common Blue its iridescence.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• 20 high-resolution A4 lineart templates (2480 × 3508, 300 DPI) — print and paint

• 20 painted watercolour reference samples (one per butterfly, on a botanical perch)

• 20 colour recipe cards (5 hex-sampled swatches per butterfly + mix hints + descriptive colour names)

• 1 butterfly identifier index page (4×5 grid — all 20 butterflies with names)

• Bundled PDF (cover + everything in print order) + zipped PNGs (one component at a time)

THE 20 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES

Brimstone · Comma · Common Blue · Gatekeeper · Green-veined White · Holly Blue · Large White · Marbled White · Meadow Brown · Orange Tip · Painted Lady · Peacock · Red Admiral · Ringlet · Small Copper · Small Heath · Small Tortoiseshell · Small White · Speckled Wood · Wall Brown

WHO IT'S FOR

Anyone painting realistic butterflies who's tired of guessing the colours, and anyone building a proper painted nature journal. The recipe cards are what set this apart from a standard template pack — they turn this from "templates" into a proper painting reference.

PAINT ON IPAD?

There's a matching 30-swatch Procreate palette (.swatches file + palette chart PNG) available as a separate companion listing, so digital painters can use the same butterfly colours on iPad. Look for "Garden Butterflies Identified — Procreate Colour Palette" in the shop.

Digital download — files arrive instantly. Free for Tier 2 Patreon members (patreon.com/Artsydee).