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1. Introduction and Supplies You Will Need: Hi, friends. How are you? I hope you're having
a cure D today. I'm excited about sharing
this project with you. This is a drawing and
watercolor painting project that I designed,
especially for kids. Students do not need to have any drawing or
painting experience at all to be successful
with this project. I will guide students step by step through all the steps
that they need to take. Today, we are going
to be creating this cute pba painting. Let's talk about
the supplies and the materials that you will
need for this project. The first thing
that you'll need is a sheet of watercolor paper. You will need a set of watercolor paints
and a paint brush. I'd like to use this
size paint brush, but just use what you
have available to you. You will need a cup or
a bowl with clean water and a set of oil
pastels or urons. Either one will
work, and you will also need a handy
dandy paper towel. Go ahead and gather all of
those supplies and materials, and I'll see you back
here in the next video.
2. Step 1: Draw a Capybara Design: In this step, we
are going to draw our para design.
Let's get started. The first thing that we're
going to do is pick up our black oil pastel or Creon. I'm going to use an oil pastel. Keep in mind if your oil
pastel breaks, that's okay. Just put the broken piece back into your tray and move on. Oil pastels are really soft, so they do break quite
a bit. All right. What we're going to do
is we're going to come about a third of the way
down your piece of paper. In other words,
if you're looking at the middle of
your piece of paper, the middle of my piece
of paper is right here, going to go up just a little bit from that on the
right hand side. No way far to the
right hand side, but a little from the
middle, right here. What we're going to do
is we're going to start with a slanted line
that's coming down. Just like that.
That's going to be the forehead of our capaba. Now we're going to curve around, and then we're going to
come back in like this. If you look at a
capaba from the side, the area where their noses, a little bit more flat. We're going to stop
there. Then what we're going to do is
we're going to come back up to the top of this line, and we're going to
make a small ear. Capps don't have
that big of ears. Make a small line and
make another ear. You can make them a different
shape if you'd like to. Now what we're going to do from this ear line is we're going to make a slightly curved
line that's not very long. Now what we're
going to do is make the back in the bunun area, and then we're going to
go down to the feet. Let me show you what I mean. We're going to start
right here at this line. We're going to make a
straight back curve around and then come down
to about right here. Now what we're going to do is
we're going to move back to the front of our capaba we're going to make a slightly
curved line that comes down and it's about
the same length as this line right here. See this line right
here and this line, they're about the same length. They go to the same spot
on the piece of paper. Now what we're going to
do is we're going to make some legs and short feet
down here at the bottom. Here I have my back leg
and I'm going to come up. Then with my front leg, I'm going to come up and then I'm going to attach
these two lines together. You can even go down a
little tiny bit from the top of the line and make
a slightly curved line. These are the feet
right here and the legs that are closest to us, but let's make some
more legs behind two more because abs
do have four legs. These are the legs,
these two right here are on the other
side of the body. Now let's go back up to the
face area and we're going to really why do you
like this for the eye? Then the pa bears that I've
seen, they're pretty happy, so I'm going to make
a slight smile, and then a nostril right here. They have pretty big nostrils. Awesome. Now what we're going to do is we're going to make a
drawing in the background. We're going to make
lines for the ground. Now we're going to decorate this area down here
at the bottom. The ground, it could be grass, it could be flowers, it could be little
bugs, it's up to you. I'm going to make some flowers. My favorite type of flower
to make is a daisy. I'm going to start with
a circle and then I'm going to make some
petals like this. Then I'm going to make some more daisies here in the grass. Okay. I love it. Now what we're going
to do is we are going to add something
into the sky. I'm going to add some clouds, but you can add
whatever you'd like. I'm just going to make some
nice, big fluffy clouds. This is how I like to
make clouds like this. It's just some curve lines that are connected
to each other. I think the three would be good. Now what we're going to
do is we're going to put our black back
into the tray. If you look at your
fingers and your hands, you might notice that
they're part messy. If you'd like to, you can take your handy dandy paper towel or tissue and wipe off
the excess oil pestel. Normal for oil pestels to get really messy because
they're very soft. They're made out of oil and they're very soft,
so they get messy. All of the oil pestle
might not come off of your hand and that's
okay. All right. Now what we're going
to do is pick up our brown oil pastel and my brown oil pastel
broke, and that's okay. They're very soft.
They're made out of oil, as I said before, so
they break easily. What we're going to do
is we're going to start out right here and we're going to make some really light hairs. Little lines like this. They don't need to be
too close together. I'd like to make my lines
going one way. Perfect. Then when you're finished
with that brown, just go ahead and put
that back in the tray. Now what we're going to
do is we're going to take a look at our drawing. If there's anything else
that you'd like to add at this time, go
ahead and add it. For example, if you
see a space that you'd like to fill with a drawing, you can go ahead and
do that at this time, it's important to
do it at this time because in the next step,
we're going to be painting. I will see you in
the next video.
3. Step 2: Paint the Design : In this step, we are going to apply some watercolor paints to our capaba design.
Let's get started. The first thing that
we're going to do is we are going to add a drop or two of water into each
of our pans of paint. What that will do is it will
soften up our paint a bit, so it is easier for us to use. I always encourage
my students to go ahead and take this step
because it really does help. Now that our paints
are softening up, let's turn our attention
to our design. In this step, what
we're going to do is we are going to just paint our capia we're going
to save the background, which is everything
else besides the capia. We're going to save that for the next video for
the next step. We're just going to
focus on the capia. Pabas are usually brown. So what we're going
to do is we're going to create a light brown color. And the way that we're going
to do that is we're going to add some water into
one of our wells, quite a bit of water, and then we're going to add a
little bit of brown paint. Remember, if you'd like a paint to be really
strong in color, you add more paint and
a little bit of water, and that way, you will
get a nice strong color. If you'd like a lighter color, you add more water
and less paint, and that's what we're going
to do for our pabara. We want him to be a little
bit of a lighter brown. So we want to start out
with quite a bit of water, and then we're going to
add a little bit of brown. Mix it up really, really well. And then we're going to
test it out on our capaba. I'd like my color to be a
little bit darker. There we go. Perfect. What I'm going to
do now is I'm going to take a few minutes to paint my capaba I'm going to go slowly and carefully
so I do my best work. But I'm going to
speed up the video. It looks like I'm
painting pretty fast, but I'm really I'm
painting slowly and carefully so
I can do my best. All right, friends, I'm
finished painting my Capabia. In the next step, what
we're going to do is we are going to paint
our background. So I will see you back here
in the next video. Okay.
4. Step 3: Paint the Background: In this step, we are going
to paint our background, so let's get started. Take a look at your
artwork and think about the colors that
you might want to choose to paint your background. I'm going to choose the
colors blue for the sky. I'm going to keep
my clouds white, so I'm not going to put any
paint at all on my clouds. Then this area down here, I think I'm going
to turn into grass. I'm going to paint that green. Then my flowers may be pink and orange or yellow and
orange. I'm not sure yet. I haven't decided on that. So you get to choose the
colors that you would like just like I'm choosing the colors that
I'd like to choose. I'm going to get started
down here at the bottom, going to paint my grass green. Again, what I'm
going to do is I am going to speed up the video, and I will see you back
here in just a minute. All right, friends.
I'm finished painting the background of
my pabea painting. I'm really happy with it. I think it looks great. I have a light blue
background for the sky, and the way that I made the
paint for the background is I created a little bit of
a pole here with some water, and then I added
some blue paint. I used a bit of
paint and a lot of water and I got this
really light blue. Now, I wanted to also
show you something, a little technique that
you can use if you have a really dark puddle of
paint that you would like to soak up or absorb with your paper
towel. You can do that. You can hover over the area that you'd like to be
a little bit lighter. Just like that touch
very gently and that paint will come up
onto the paper towel. It will soak into
the paper towel so it will lighten
up that space. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
