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1. Introduction and Supplies You Will Need: Hi friends, how are you? I hope you're having
a great day 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 happy
New Year llama. I hope that you have a lot
of fun with this project. Let's get started. 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'm going to use this
size paint brush, but just use what you
have available to you. You will need a cup able
with clean water and a permanent permanent means that the ink in the marker will not run around on your
piece of paper. If water is added to it, you will need a pencil with
an eraser and a paper towel. You will also need a set
of oil pastels or crayons. I'm going to be using
a set of oil pastels. 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 Festive Llama Design: In this step, we
are going to draw our happy New year Llama design. Let's get started. The first thing that
we're going to do is pick up our permanent marker. Take the cap off, and put it
on the back of your marker. The cap doesn't get lost. We're going to go
up to the top of our piece of paper
in the middle. Maybe a little bit to the left, but mostly in the middle. And we're going to
make a small circle right near the top right. This is going to be the top
of our happy New Year hat. Now what we're going to
do is we're going to draw the actual hat
down from this circle. I'm going to make
a slanted line, coming down about that far. Then I'm going to make
another slanted line. But this slanted
line isn't going to be as long as this first one. Let me show you what I mean. I'm going to go with my slanted line to about right
here, About halfway down. The reason why I'm going to do that is because I'm going to make the ear of my llama
right here. All right. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to start a
little bit up from that line and I'm going to make a curve line
coming down like this. And it's going to touch
that line of the hat. Then I'm going to make
another curve line like this. All right, so it looks like the ear is in front of the hat. Now what we're going to
do is we're going to make the face of the
llama right here. I'm going to start here
on this line of the ear. I'm going to come down
with a curved line. Come do come around and
stop about right here. Your line might be a little bit longer or shorter than
mine and that's okay. All right, here we have the hat, the ear, and the
face of our llama. We're going to come back and do some different designs for the face and the hat
in just a few minutes. Now, we're going to make
the body of our llama. We're going to start with the back of the
head and the neck. Let's start with the
neck right here. We're going to start
where this line left off, and we're going to
go about this far, and we're going to make a very slightly wiggly
line, just like this. Okay? Just a little bit of a
wiggle in that line. Then we're going to
make another line, coming from this ear down to about the same spot as this one. It's going to be about
the same length. It's going to be a
little bit wiggly as well because when you look
at llamas or alpacas, they look pretty fluffy, right? Okay. The next thing
that we're going to do is we are going to create a small thin sign right here that's going to
say Happy New Year on it. We're going to just make
the sign right now, and then we will write, Happy
New Year in a few minutes. We're going to come a little bit down from these two lines. We're going to come over to the left and we're going to
make a curve line like this, Slightly curved like this. Now we're going to move down a little bit and
we're going to make another curve line that runs parallel to this initial line that we
made for the sign. Now we're going to close
that up on either side. This is going to be our sign. All right, Now we're
going to move back up to the squiggly lines and we're going to come out just
a little bit like this. Then the same thing
on this side, because the body of
our llama is going to be a little bit bigger
than the actual neck. All right, now what we're going to do is
we are going to come down underneath
the sign and we're going to create the
body of our llama. We're going to use that
same squiggly line. I'm going to make mine about
right here, squiggly line. Then I'm going to come over squiggly line and then
I'm going to come back up. Do you see that? Here's
the head, Here's the neck. Here's the sign. And
then here's the body. The little tail is going
to be behind the sign. We won't be able to see it. All right. Now let's make the legs and the feet
down here at the bottom, I'm just going to make
some straight lines. They're not going to
be perfectly straight. Close it up and then make a
little foot at the bottom. A little hoof, come down, come down, close up,
and then make a hoof. Remember, these don't
need to be perfect. All right, now let's add some details to
our Llama design. Let's start up here at the top. You can add any type of a
design that you'd like. For the hat, I think I'm just
going to add some stripes. I'm just going to add some
diagonal stripes like this that makes it
look fun and festive. I'll add a little
point out here at the back because it looks like this area right here needs a little bit of extra
hat right here. Your artwork might not need
that little extra bit of hat. All right, now I'm going
to move to the eye. This llama is going
to have a closed eye. But you can certainly make
an open eye if you'd like. I'm going to make some
eyelashes like that. I'm going to make a nose right here, right here on the end. Then I'm going to make a that I'm going to paint
in with the pink. Then I'm going to make one
of those noise blowers, those little horns that people blow during their
happy New Year party. I'm going to make
that little horn, and then I'm going to make some little confetti coming
out the top like this. I think I'll actually add
a little bit of decoration to this little
hornblower perfect. Now I'd like to decorate my
actual body of my llama. I think I'm going
to give my llama a color that's going to
be two diagonal lines. And then I'm going to make
some little lines with some little circles at the end for some
little pom pom balls. I think that that makes
it look fun and festive. All right. If there's
anything else that you'd like to add
to your design, you can go ahead and
draw that right now. In the next step, what we're going to do is we're going to work on creating our sign, our happy New Year's sign. We're going to do that
in the next step. I will see you in
the next video.
3. Step 2: Write Happy New Year!: In this step we are going
to write Happy New Year, inside the sign that we've
created for our Llama. Let's get started. What we're going
to do is start out with our pencil and
we are going to write our words, Happy New Year. We're going to do
that with the pencil. If you need to do a little bit of erasing, you can do that. I would suggest using real light pencil marks on your piece of paper so that
you can erase them easily. All right. I'm going to
show you a trick that I use sometimes when I
am writing on a sign. And I want one of the
words to be in the middle. See this word right here? I'm going to write
the word new here, because I know that that
can be in the middle. And then I will write the
word happy over here and the word year with the exclamation mark here on this side. Let me
show you what I mean. I'm going to write the word new, right here in big
capital letters. I firmly, because I want you to be able
to see my letters, But you don't need
to push this hard. I have the word. Now what I'm going to do is I'm
going to move over here and I'm going to write the word H, A, P, Y. And it definitely doesn't
need to be perfect. I have happy new, and then I'm going to write the word year with
the exclamation mark. Y, a exclamation mark. Do you see why I put
that word in the middle? Because I wanted to
make sure that it would even out all
of the letters. Okay. That's just a trick that I learned when I was young. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put my pencil down, get my permanent marker out, and put the cap on the back. And I'm just going to
very carefully cover over those pencil lines with
my permanent marker. All right, friends.
In the next step, what we're going to do
is we are going to add some color to the
background of our design.
4. Step 3: Add Fireworks: In this step, we
are going to add some color to the
background of our design. Let's get started for this step. We're going to use some oil
pastels or some crayons. I'm going to be
using oil pastels. I like the way that they
look on a piece of paper, but of course those
crayons will work as well. We're going to use some really bright colors because we want these fireworks that
are going to be behind our Llama to be bright. Okay? I'm going to start
out with some orange. Like a light orange.
I'm going to start by making a small dot on my piece of paper
at the background. And then I'm going to push
pretty hard and I'm going to make some lines that come out from that.it doesn't
even have to touch the dot. Then I'm going to make
some shorter lines between those lines. All right, now I'm
finished with the orange, going to choose, maybe
this light green. I'm going to make another
dot here and then I'm going to make some
straight lines coming out from that dot. I'm pressing fairly hard
with my oil pestle. Now I'm going to make
some smaller lines in between those initial lines. Now I'm going to choose a
different color, maybe yellow. All right, friends,
I'm finished creating some fireworks behind my
happy New Year Llama. Remember to press pretty hard with your oil pastel or crayon. When we do add some watercolor
paints to the design, con those oil pastel colors really out and show themselves. In the next step what we're going to do is we are going to add some watercolor
paints to our design.
5. Step 4: Paint the Llama & Details: In this step, we
are going to apply some watercolor
paints to our 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 this will do is it
will soften up our paints a little bit so that they
are easier for us to use. I always encourage my students to take that step because
it really does help. Alrighty, now that our
paints are softening up, let's turn our attention
to our design. So what we're going to paint
in this step is the llama. And anything that's
on the llama, we are not going to paint
the background in this step. That's going to be
for the next step. Okay, I'm going to leave my llama white because I like
the way that that looks. I like white llamas. But the accessories that the
Llama has, like the hat, even the cheek and
the little horn, the little blow
horn in the collar, and the sign, and the hoofs. I'm going to paint all
of those on the llama. All right. So what
I'm going to do is start here at
the top on the hat. And I've decided to paint
my hat orange and yellow. I'm going to go ahead and paint my hat orange and yellow
with those stripes. And I'm going to try
to stay in the lines, but if I get a little bit of outside of the
lines, that's okay. I'm not going to worry
about that too much. Sometimes when you're working
with watercolor paints, they like to spread around. That's just what
they like to do. What I'm going to
do now is move down to the cheek and the horn, then I'm going to move
to the collar then. I'm actually going
to paint this sign. I'm not sure what colors
I'm going to use quite yet. And then I'm going
to move down to the feet and those are
going to be black. All right, friends, I'm
finished painting my hat, my little blow horn, my cheek, my color. And I love the way
that this turned out. It's almost like a tight dialog. I wanted to add those
three colors there and I wanted them to mix together.
I'm really happy with that. Now I'm going to move down here, to the feet, to the, and I'm going to use
a little tiny bit of black with a little
bit of water. And I'm going to not
make them super dark, but maybe like a dark gray. Okay, there we go.
All right, friends. Now we're finished
with this step. In the next step, what
we're going to do is we are going to
paint the background.
6. Step 5: Paint the Background: In this step, we are going
to paint the background. Let's get started.
I've decided that I am going to paint
my background pink. You can choose any color or colors that you would like
to paint your background. I'm going to choose
the color pink. I might decide to add
more colors to that, but I might just stick with one solid color pink
because I have all of these different colors
that I'm working with as well for the
background for the fireworks. All right. I'm going to add some water to one of my
wells, add some pink. And I'm going to mix the
water in the paint together. Then I'm going to
test out the color. And I really like this color. I think I want it a
little bit darker. I'm going to add a
little bit more paint. Remember, if you want a darker, more bright, and vivid color, then you use more paint. If you want a lighter, more soft color, then
you use more water. I'm just going to keep testing that out until I'm
happy with it. I'm just going to
go ahead and speed up the video and paint the back. All right, friends,
I'm finished painting my design and I'm really happy the way
that it turned out. My oil pastels resisted the watercolor paints and the design looks
fun and festive. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
