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1. Introduction and Supplies You Will Need: I 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 word love with the apple as the Oh. 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 square piece of
watercolor paper. You will need a set of watercolor painting
and a paintbrush. I'm going to be using
this larger paint brush. But if you feel like you
might have some small spaces, you might also want to have the option of using a
smaller paint brush. You will need a cup or a
bowl with clean water. You will need a pencil with an eraser and a
permanent marker. Permanent means that the marker will not spread around
if you add water to it. You will also need
a paper towel. 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 LOVE Sign & Apple: In this step, we will draw
our design with pencil. So let's get started. So here we have a
square piece of paper, and we are going to
write the word love. And we are going to use bubble letters that are
going to be pretty big. We'd like to fill up most of the space of
this piece of paper. So we're going to
use large letters, but we need to make sure that each letter fits onto
our piece of paper. Okay? So we're going
to have the letter L and then an apple here that's going
to represent the O. V is going to be down here, and then E is going
to be right here. Your letters might look
different from my letters. Your letters might
go in front of another letter or
behind another letter, or they might overlap a
little bit. All right? It just depends on
what you'd like to do. So we're going to start
out with our pencil because there might be
some erasing that you might need to do so
that you can get the design the way that you want it before we
add our marker. Alright? So we're
going to start up here on the upper left, and we're going to
start with the letter L. And so we're
going to decide how large we'd like our L. I
think I'm going to make my L about this large, and I'm pressing pretty
hard on my piece of paper because I want you to be able to see this pencil line, okay? So I have my first
line. This is for my. It doesn't have to be perfect. And I'm going to
come here and come around and come around like this and then come up and then close
up with a bubble. I wanted my L to be tilted
a little bit to the side. Right now, I'm going
to make an apple here, and that's going to
represent the letter O. So I want my apple to be a little bit behind this letter L. So I'm going to start
about right here, come up, and come down, and then I'm going to
follow my pencil line around and then come
out the other side, and then close up
with a curve line. Alright, now I'm going
to finish up my apples, so I'm going to
make a curve line coming out of the top
and another curve line, and then I'm going to close up, and that's going to
be a small stem. And then I think I'd like
to add a little leaf with a curve line coming
back to the stem. And then I made a couple of little veins. Maybe
I'll make one more. There we go. Alright, so I have my L and my O
represented by an apple. And down here, I'm
going to make my V, and my V's going to be
behind the L as well. So I'm going to come
out about right here. Come down. Come back up. Notice I don't have any sharp
angles, and then come down. Well here's a sharp
angle right here. And then when we go back up, we will connect with
part of the line. So here's my L, my O, my V, and I need to
make my E right here. All right? If some
of your letters are larger or smaller
than the other letters, don't worry too much about that. All right, I'd like
my E to be right here and it's going to be
connected to my apple. So I'm going to
start about right here because I want it to
be a little bit close to my V. I'll make a straight
line here coming out. Like this. Then I'm going
to come back over here, come down with a slanted line, and then I'm going
to curve around. So all I need right here
is the middle part of my E. So come down, come out. Come back in, and come down. So as I'm looking at my E, I see that this part is a little bit longer than this
part right here, so the top part is a little
bit longer than the bottom. So I can either extend
this part out a little bit more or I can make this
part a little bit shorter. So I think I'm going
to erase this, and then I'm going to extend it out just a little bit more. Oops. All right, so
I'll come out here. Come around. All right, that evens it out a little bit. If you like the
look where one of your E parts is a little bit longer, you
can go ahead and keep it. Alright, so now we have our L O, represented by an apple, V, and our E. And what we're going to do
next is we are going to cover those lines as long as you're happy with them
and you're finished erasing, going to cover these lines
with our Sharpie marker. So just go slowly carefully. And the more careful
you are with this part, the less erasing that
you'll have to do. There we go. I feel like my marker
is running out of ink, but it made it
through this project. So I see a few lines
that I need to erase, my pencil lines, where I didn't quite get on those pencil
lines with the marker. So I'm going to just
take a moment to erase those areas that I
feel I need to erase. Here's another area down here. I'm not sure if you
can see that on the video. Just do your best. Alright, so there we go. In our next step,
we will apply some watercolor painting
to our design.
3. Step 2: Paint the Design: In this step, we are going to apply some watercolor
painting to our design. So 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 pan of paint. And what this will do is it will soften up our
paints a little bit, so they are easier
for us to use. So I always encourage
students to take that step because it
really does help. And now that our paints
are softening up, let's turn our attention
to our design. I'd like you to take a
moment to think about the colors that you would
like to apply to your L, your O, which is
an apple, your V, and your E. I think
that I am going to use red for the apple with a
brown stem and a green leaf, and I am going to use
some rainbow colors, I think, on the rest
of the letters. So I think that's the
design that I'd like. I might consider painting
the background black. But you get to choose any
colors that you like. That's just what I'm
thinking about right now. Sometimes I do change my mind. So if you see me, change
my mind at any point, it's just because I
had a different idea. So we're going to paint the
background in the next step. We're just going to
focus on the letters L, O, which is an apple, V, and E for this step. Okay? Because I know that
I'm going to paint my apple, red, I'm going to start there. I am going to try to stay
inside of the lines, and I am going to remember
that if I'd like a brighter, more vivid color of red, then I'm going to
add more paint. And if I'd like to
have a softer color, I'm going to add a
little bit more water. So there we go. You can
even have a couple of colors for your apple if
you'd like. It's up to you. Now I'm going to paint
my stem and my leaf. Now I'm going to start
with the rainbow colors on each one of these letters. So I'm going to have to make sure because I do want to
fit all of the colors. Let's see, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. I want to fit them
all on each letter, so I'm going to
have to make sure that I leave enough room. I do want my colors to
run into each other, so I'm going to
make sure that they touch each other as
I am applying them. So there's my red. I start with my red. And then I'll move to my orange and make sure
that it touches my red. And hopefully by the end, I won't run out of space and I can get all
of the colors on there. All right, so there's
red now orange. So I'm just going
to move on down. I'm going to touch that red, and hopefully the colors will blend in with each
other just a little bit. You know what I forgot? I forgot to do this
part of the V. So let me go back and do that
just a little bit of red. So now I can go back
and do my orange. Remember, if it's not
perfect, that's okay. That makes it more fun,
actually, I think. So just do the
best that you can. Alright, now I'm
ready for yellow. Like a strong yellow color. And then if I have too
much space at the end, I just start over
with my red and then my orange and then my
yellow all the way down. Alright, I think
what I'm going to do is I'm going to
speed up the video, and I'll be back
in just a minute. Alrighty. I love my artwork.
I think it looks great. Remember, you can use
whatever colors you like. You can use solid colors. You can use many colors. You can use just a tie dye look. It's completely up to you. So when we come back, we will
be painting the background.
4. Step 3: Paint the Background: In this step, we are going
to paint our background. So let's get started. So I want to mention one thing before we
get started painting. If you feel like you
really like the way that your artwork looks
right now with a white background,
it is your choice. It is your option to keep it white and not put paint on
it on the background at all. So if you'd like to do that, go ahead and do that.
That's just fine. I like the way that mine
looks with the white, but I think I am going to go ahead and paint the background. I was thinking
about pink or blue, but I really think that I
like to use the color black. Because for one, I
love the color black. But also, I think
that the black paint will really make those
colors stand out. So I am going to use
that color black. So I'm going to go ahead
and I'm going to drop quite a bit of water into one of my wells, add some black. My background's not probably going to be a very
dark dark black, but it will be pretty dark against those colors.
Oh, I love it. So much. Okay, so what I'm going to do is
speed up the video. I'm going to try
to stay away from those rainbow colors and
from that red apple, the red on the apple, because
I want to make sure that the black color doesn't
overpower those colors. So I'll see you back
here in just a minute. Alright, friends, I'm finished
painting my background. I really like the
way that it looks. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project, and I will see you next time. Mm hmm.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
