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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 folk art sun. You. 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 square
watercolor paper. You will need a set of watercolor paints
and a paintbrush. I'm going to use this
size paintbrush, but just use what you
have available to you. You will need a cup or a
bowl with clean water. You will need a
pencil with an eraser and also a black oil
pastel or a black crayon. You will need a paper towel
and a circle template. And we're going to use
the circle template for the actual sun. So 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 Folk Art Sun: In this step, we
are going to draw our folk art sun design. So let's get started. The first thing
that we're going to do is we are going to put our circle template in the
middle of our piece of paper. So get as close to the
middle as you can. And what we're going
to do is hold down our template with our
non writing hand. And with your writing hand, you're going to pick
up your pencil, and you're going to allow that template to be a
guide for your pencil. So you're gently pushing the pencil against
your template, and you're going around very,
very slowly, carefully. Try to remember where
you started your line, and then you ended up. Now that we have our circle
for our folk art sun, we are going to take
either our black crayon or our black oil pastel. I'm going to use oil pastel. And what we're going to
do is we're going to slowly and carefully go over that pencil ine with our
oil pastel or our crayon. Try to stay on the line, but if you go off a
little bit, that's okay. It'll just give your artwork
a little bit more character. So here's the sun, and then
we're going to put the rays here on the outside of the
sun, the main part of the sun. Let's add a little
bit of detail to our sun before we add our rays. So what we're going to do
first is we're going to make a small line right in the
middle of our circle, and then we're going to
make two curve lines coming up like this, and we're going to
touch the circle. There we go. This is going
to be the nose of our sun. Remember, this is
not a realistic sun. This is a folk art sun. Alright, now let's add a little
bit of detail right here. You can add whatever you want. If you would like to add some dots or a
flower or a circle, you can go ahead and do that. I'm going to add two
curve lines like this. And then I think I might
even add three dots. One, two. Three. There we go. Now what we're going to do is
we're going to add two Is, one I on this side, and one I on this side. You get to choose the type of I that you would
like to make. I'm going to make a type of
an eye that looks like this. It's a curve line and then another curve
line to close up. I'm going to do the same
thing on this side, curve line, and then a
curve line to close up. If they're not exactly
the same size, that's okay. Don't
worry about it. Now inside these lines, I'm going to make some more
curve lines like this. And if you don't have room
for this part, that's okay. You can just add a pupil. Alright, I'm going to add
some more dots up here. I noticed in Mexican folk art, they add a lot of dots. All right. Now we have
our eyes and our nose. Now we're going to add
a mouth down here, so I'm just going to
make a straight line and then I'm going
to make some lips, curve lines and
another curve line. Then I'm going to make some
round circles or some cheeks. Then I'm going to take
a look at my son to see if there's anything
else that I'd like to add. I think down here at the bottom, I'm going to add some more dots. There we go. I think I'd like to add a little bit more of a line
here for the nose, so it stands out a
little bit more. All right, so go
ahead and finish up adding designs to
your son's face. And what we're going to do
after that is we are going to create some rays
going around the sun. All right. So we're going to start here at the
top of the circle, and we're going to
make a straight line going all the way to
the edge of our paper. Then we're going to move over
just a little bit and make another line and go all the way to the edge
of our piece of paper. And we're going to
keep doing that. We're going to go
around the sun, and our paper is a square shape, so the rays are going to get longer here closer
to the corners. So you're just going
to go slowly and carefully around your sun. Taking your time because you
want to do your best work. If your rays, if your lines
are not perfectly straight, that's okay. Don't
worry about that. If they're not spaced exactly
evenly, that's okay, too. See how this space right here is a lot further away
than this space. If you want to add
another ray there, you can do that, or you can just keep it as is.
It's up to you. So I'm going to take a moment to go all the way around my son, and I will speed up this video, and I'll see you back
here in just a minute. He Alrighty friends, I'm finished adding my
rays to my son. Going to put that
oil pastel down, and my hands are fairly messy. That's what happens
sometimes when you're working with oil pastel, especially the
black oil pastels. That's why we have a handy
dandy paper towel available, so we can get most of
that oil pastel off. Will most of it come off? Yes. Will all of it
come off? Probably not. But that's the fun part about
creating with oil pastels. You get to get a
little bit messy. Alright, friends,
when we come back, we will add some watercolor
paint to our design.
3. Step 2: Paint the Design: In this step, we
are going to add some watercolor
paints to our design. So let's get started. The first thing that we'll
want to do is place a drop or two of water into
each pan of paint. And what this will do
is it will soften up our paints so they are
easier for us to use. So I do encourage students
to take that step, take the time to
make that happen. All right. So now we
have our sun here, and what we're going
to do is we are going to add some paint to our sun. Think about the
colors of the sun. When I think about the sun, I think about the warm
colors which are red, orange and yellow, maybe
even a little bit of pink. Those are the colors
that I think about. So I would encourage you to add mostly the warm
colors to your son. If you'd like to
add a little bit of some of the cool colors, you can go ahead and do that. But I'm going to stick with the warm colors because
when I think of the sun, I think of the warm colors. So the main part of my son, I'm going to paint yellow, and then I will add more
onto my design as I go. So start with yellow for
the main part of my son, and I think that I am going to leave this part right here, these little triangles
inside the eyes. I think I'm going to
leave those white. So let me go ahead and
paint this part of the sun. Alright. Now I think
I'm going to use red, a light red for the lips. And a pink for the cheeks. And I think I'd like to
lighten up those cheeks. So I'm going to take
some of the paint off. I'm going to hover over with my paper towel and
touch that area that I want to pull up some of the paint because I want those to be a
little bit lighter. I want those cheeks to
be a little bit lighter. Okay, there we go. Now I'm going to paint this part of my son
a light orange. You may or may not
have a light orange, but use the colors that
you have available to you. And then for the eyes, I think that what I'm
gonna do for the eyes, I'm going to paint those blue. I think that would look really, really nice. A light blue. And then I'm going to
pull some of that color up because I want that
blue to be pretty light. See how I do that? I just touch the piece of paper where I want to
pull the paint up. Maybe I'll even pull a little bit of that
orange up as well. Here we go. Perfect. And as I said before, I'm going to leave
this part of the eye white because I really
want it to stand out. Now I'm going to
paint these rays, a combination of maybe yellow and a light orange and maybe a little bit
of a darker orange. And I'm just going to see how
I feel as I'm going along. I'm not going to
just go. This way. I'm going to stay
with those lines, and I'm going to paint
slowly and carefully, each of my rays, and I'm just going to
take my time and I'll use different shades
of yellow and orange. I think that's what
I'm going to do. If you want to paint your
rays all the same color, go ahead and do that. That would look nice, as well. But this is what
I'm going to do. And if my colors spread
around a little bit, that's going to be a good thing. Alrighty friends, I'm finished
painting my folk art song. I'm really happy with the
way that it turned out. I like how I used these different colors
here on the rays. So I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
