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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 feel successful
in 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 cat. 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 bowl
or a cup with clean water. You will need one or
two paintbrushes. I'm going to be using
to paint brushes, but just use what you
have available to you. I used the larger paint brush
for the larger areas on my artwork and the
smaller paint brushes for those little small areas. You will also need a pencil with an eraser and a
permanent marker. Permanent means that the marker, the ink in the marker
will not spread around on your piece of paper
if you add water to it. So you'll need a permanent
marker and 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 Folk Art Cat Design: In this step we are going
to draw our cat design. So let's get started. The first thing that we're
going to do is pick up our pencil and we're going to find the middle
of our piece of paper. The middle of my piece
of paper is right here. We're going to go up just a
little bit from the middle, in a little bit from each side. And we're going to
make a curved line. I'm going to press pretty
hard with my pencil, but you don't need
to press this hard. I'm pressing hard because I wanna make sure that you
can see this on the video. I'm going to go about that far. And then I'm going to
close this shape up with another line coming
down, curve line. Then I'm going to
close up like that. And then if I have
any extra little line hanging out at the end, I'll just erase that. Remember, you can erase anytime you feel
like you need to. Now what we're going to do is
make some eyes on our cat. This is the cat's head. This is a stylized cat, so it's not a
realistic looking cat. So keep that in mind
as you're creating. So I'm going to make an I here and it's going to
be a curved line. And then another
curved line closing up about the same shape as
the head of our cat, only a lot smaller. Then I'm going to do the
same thing over here. Another eye, if they're not exactly the same size or the
same shape, that's okay. Alright, so I have
my two eyes here. Now what I'm going to do
is I am going to fill in with two lines here. It's going to be the
pupil of my cat. Now I'm going to come up
to the top of the head. I'm going to make
two straight lines. One coming out the side. When coming out the side, these are going to be the
outer edges of the ears. And then we're going to come
back down with another line. So that'll turn those
ears into triangles. Now let's add a nose
here for our cat. So I'm just going to add a triangle nose here at
the bottom of this shape. And then I'm going to add
a couple of whiskers, just maybe two or
three whiskers, I think too well, look nice. There we go. Now let's make the
body of our cats. So we're going to come
down here below the head. And we're going to
make two lines. They're pretty long. Cats next are not
usually this long. But remember this is not a
realistic drawing of a cat. So we have two lines
coming down for the neck. Then we're going to
curve off with a line, come down, curve around, and then come back up. It's almost like a
light bulb shape right? There we go. So this is the
neck and the body of the cat. Let's make some feet
down here at the bottom. So our cat can walk around. Then let's make a tail. You get to choose which side of the body you'd like
the tail to be on. I'm going to choose this side. I'm going to start
about right here. Can make your tail is
swirly or straight, or as long or as
short as you'd like. There we go. Alright. Then we are
not going to put the cats arms here because we're going to create a design
right here on the tummy. Okay? Now what we're going to
do is we are going to put our pencil down because we are
finished creating our cat, the actual cat drawing. And we're going to add the
details with our marker. So we're first going to cover
our cat with the marker. And then we're going
to add some details with the marker without
using the pencil. Alright, so let's
take a moment to cover all of these pencil
lines with our marker. Alrighty friends. I'm
finished covering almost all of my pencil
lines with my marker. The last two lines
that I need to cover are these
eyes, the pupils. So I'm going to go
ahead and do that and I'm going to make
them pretty thick. So they really stand out. See how I'm doing that. Now what we're going to
do is we are going to add some details to this drawing. So what we're going to do
is we're going to first add some flowers up here at
the top if you'd like to. And we're just going to
go right over the lines. We're going to go
right over the top of the head line and the ear. Alright, so the flowers are going to be more on this side. So the type of flower
that I'm going to make is going to be a circle. Then as I'm coming to
the top of the circle, I'm just going to add
a spiral like that. I'm going to add several
of these type of flowers. This marker is a really squeaky, just going to keep
adding until I feel that it's the
right time to stop. Alrighty. Now the next step is
we're going to add some designs to the background and to the body of the cat. So let's just start with
the body of the cat. Let's add some
designs to the body. So think of some
different types of shapes and lines that
you might want to add. You can add anything that
you'd like to the body. I'm going to show
you some examples. And then you can
either follow what I do or you can choose your
own different patterns. So I like hearts, so I'm going to make hearts
across this part of the body. I'm going to make a
large flower right here. Then I'm going to maybe
make some lines right here. Notice how I'm trying to keep
things pretty symmetrical. Symmetrical, meaning one side
is the same as the other. I know we have a tail here. It's not symmetrical because we don't have a tail over here. We have flowers on
this side of the head, but we don't have
them over here. Not everything is going
to be symmetrical. But when we create
on the background, we're going to try to
be pretty symmetrical. It's symmetrical as we can. I have my hearts and my
lines and my flower. I think I'm happy with that. I'm going to stop there. So you can fill in this
whole space if you'd like, or you can just put a
little bit of patterns, a little bit of
shapes and lines. Now let's go to
the background of our drawing and
let's start adding different types of shapes
and lines and dots. Okay? So remember, we are trying
to keep things symmetrical. So if you add something to this side of your
piece of paper, then you need to do the same
thing over on this side. Okay? So for example, I'm going
to make a circle here. And then I need to
make a circle here. If I'm going to make some
panels here for a flower. And I'm going to do the
same thing over here. Maybe I'll add some dots here. But I'm not going
to put them over here because of the flowers. Actually, maybe I can
put a couple here. Here we go. All right, so I'm just going to move down my piece of paper and I'm just going to start adding
lines and shapes. And when I add a line or
a shape to this side, I'm going to do the same
thing on this side. As you can see. I tried to be as
symmetrical as possible. However, there are certain areas where I couldn't be
and that's okay. For example, there's a tail
here and a flower here. I thought that that
would look nice. It kind of balances
out each side. So when we come back, what we will do is we will start adding paint to our design.
3. Step 2: Paint the Background: In this step we are going to add some paint to our design. So let's get started. The first thing that
we're going to do is we're 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 paint just a little bit so it is going to be
easier for us to use. So I always encourage
students to take a moment to add a little bit of water to their paints
to soften those up. Now that our paints
or softening up, Let's turn our attention
to our design. So what we're going
to do this time for this particular
artwork is we are going to paint the
background first. So we're going to
choose one color to paint the background. So think and consider carefully. I think I'm going to
choose the color orange. I really like the color
orange for backgrounds. And think ahead as to what color you'd like
to paint your cat. I'm going to paint my cat black. And I think that the black will look great
against the orange. I was either going to
choose orange or pink, and I did decide on orange because I'd like to paint
a lot of my flowers pink. Alright, so think about the color you'd like
for the background. Think about the color
you'd like for your cat. And what we're going to do
first is paint the background. So we're going to
paint everything except for any of the shapes. And we're not going to be painting the cat
right now either. So it's going to be pretty
challenging because we have a lot of shapes
to go around. So take your time
if you need to use your smaller paintbrush for certain areas that
really tight areas, go ahead and use your smaller
paintbrush if you need to. Let's get started. Alrighty friends.
I'm back and I'm finished painting the
background orange. I really like the
way that it looks. I tried my best, but I did get a little bit of paint
inside some of the flowers. If that happens to you, please don't worry about that. That's not that big of a deal. When we come back, we will paint the details.
4. Step 3: Paint the Details: In this step, we
are going to paint our details on our design. So let's get started. So the details are
anything that is not the actual cat's head
or ears or body. We're going to save those
shapes for the next step. So any flowers or
swirls or hearts or circles that you have
on your piece of paper. That's what we're
going to paint. In this step. If you have a flower in some hearts or any
designs on your cat, we're going to paint
those on this step. So think about the colors
that you'd like to use. You can use any colors
that you'd like. Because my cat is black, I'm not going to be using
any black for my details. If you have the option of a larger paintbrush and
a smaller paintbrush, go ahead and use the
one that you'd like. If you only have one
paintbrush. That's okay. Just use that paintbrush. Sound good. All right. I'm going to
just start here at the top. And I am going to paint in my different
shapes that I have. If my watercolor paint
starts running around, I'm not going to worry
about it too much. That's just what
watercolor paints do. They love to spread around? Alrighty friends. I'm finished painting my
details and I'm really, really happy with those. I wanted to explain how I made these roses, these
little flowers. I just took my paint
and instead of covering every inch of space, I just put a swirl inside, a swirl of paint
inside each flower. And I went like this and I
left a little bit of white, I want it a little
bit of white fur, a little highlight
to be in there. So when we come back, we will be painting our cat.
5. Step 4: Paint the Cat: In this step we are
going to paint our cat. So let's get started. I've decided to
paint my cat black. You can use any color or colors that you'd like
to paint your cat. I'm going to prepare
some black paint by putting a little bit of water into one of my wells and then
adding some black paint. Black is a very strong color. So I don't need very much in my well to get a really
nice dark color. My color is probably going
to be more gray than black, but here let me make it
a little bit darker. But I really like that as well. I like dark gray. Alright, so what I'm
going to do is I'm going to start painting my actual cat. And I'm going to speed
up this video and I'll see you back here
in just a minute. Alrighty friends. I'm finished painting my cat. I really liked the way
that it turned out. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
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Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
