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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 cute
little Easter bunny, who's surrounded by Easter
eggs sitting in a basket. 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 paintbrush. I'm going to use this
size paintbrush, but you can also use
a smaller paintbrush, if you like, just to use what
you have available to you. You will need a caper
bowl with clean water, and you will need
a paper towel and a set of oil pastels or crayons. 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 Bunny in an Easter Basket: In this step, we are going to draw our Easter bunny design. So let's get started. So take a look at
your piece of paper. We're going to find the
middle of our piece of paper. The middle of my piece of paper is right here. This
is the center. What we're going to do is we're going to create our basket and eggs down here
closer to the bottom, and then our bunny is going
to be here at the top. So go ahead and pick up your
brown oil pastel or crayon. And if you don't have brown, just choose the color that's
the closest to brown. Okay? That might be orange or yellow. All right, what we're
going to do first is we're going to
start about right here a little bit lower than the center of
our sheet of paper, and we're going to make a very wide curved line like that. This is going to be
the top of our basket. Now we're going to
make two lines. Curve just a little bit underneath the ends
of that first line, and then we're going to close up that shape with another
line like this. Now let's add some curve
lines inside of that shape. And then down here,
let's create the basket. Alright? So what we're going to do is we're going to make
a curve line like this. Come down, come over, and then come back up and
stop About right there. Now let's create a pattern, a weaving pattern right inside here in the center
of our basket. So I'm going to make
curve lines going across. Not too many. I'm just
going to make two. And then we're going
to make straight lines coming down like this. If they're not perfectly
straight, that's okay. M all the way across. I'll put one right here. Now, let's create some eggs right here at the
top of our basket, and we're going to make
those eggs different colors. Okay? So you get to choose the colors that you'd
like to make your eggs. So I'm just going to make mine all kinds of different colors, and they're going to
be an oval shape. So I'm going to start
out with green. Then maybe I'll move to orange. And they might be
going different ways. Alright. Some might
be facing one way, some might be the other way. Some might be larger,
some might be smaller. Here's yellow. I'm
not sure if that's going to show up on the
video, but maybe it will. I'm pressing pretty hard. I think I'm going to try
one more purple again. And this purple one is
going to be a little bit behind this blue one
about right there. Now that we have our eggs, we're going to go ahead and
draw our bunny up here. We will come back
in just a bit to create some patterns inside
of these eggs, okay? But let's focus on making
our bunny right here. So I'm going to choose the
color brown for my bunny, but you just choose the color that you'd like to choose, okay? You can choose any
color. You can choose pink or blue or purple.
It's up to you. We're going to
make the letter C, but the letter C is
going to be upside down. In other words, a letter
C is going to start here come around and then
end up about right here. We do need to leave a
little bit of space at the top for the bunny ears. Okay? So let me show
you what I mean. So I'm going to start
about right here, come around, and then
end up about right here. Now I'm going to make
my bunnies ears, and they're a little bit pointy almost to the top of
my sheet of paper. I'm not sure if you can see
the top, but maybe you can. And then a little
bit of detail here. All right. Now, I think I will switch colors
and I will move to my black oil pastle and I'm
going to make some eyes. You can choose any
color for your eyes. You can even choose a
different type of an eye. If there's a really neat type
of an eye that you like, you can go ahead and use that. Then for my whiskers, I'm going to use black as well, but I'm going to wait because I want to make my nose first. Go to make a little pink nose, little pink triangle
nose, and little cheeks. Now that I know where my
nose is and my cheeks are, I'm going to move back to that
black, make the whiskers. I just like to make a
couple of whiskers. I don't like to make a
whole lot of whiskers. And then I'm also going to
make a little smile. So cute. Alright, so now we
have our bunny. We have our eggs and our basket. Let's add some
designs to the eggs. So you can add any type
of design with any color. You can add poka dots. You can add zigzags. You can add hearts or stars
or swirls or wavy lines. It's completely up to you. So I'm just going to start making some different patterns. For my eggs, the space
is not that big, so it won't take a whole
lot of time to fill up. Just do what you like as
far as the patterns go. Alright, friends,
I'm finished adding some pattern designs to my eggs. What we're going
to do next is make some grass down
here at the bottom. So choose your green or any other color that you'd
like that's close to green. I'm just going to
make some grass that looks like
this, some zigzags. And then if you'd like to add something else down
here at the very, very bottom, you can
do that, as well. You can add more eggs or you can add a bug or you can
add some flowers. It's completely up to you. I think I'm just going
to leave my grass. You know what? Actually,
I've changed my mind. Maybe I'll just add
a few little sprigs of grass like this. Okay. But you can add
whatever you'd like. If you'd like to
add something in the sky, you can go
ahead and do that. I think I am going
to add a couple of small clouds because I have some space and I want
to fill up that space. So maybe just two or
three clouds here. I don't have that much space. Maybe one even over here. That's how I like
to make clouds. If there's a different
way that you'd like to make clouds,
go ahead and do that. Alright, friends,
when we come back, we will start
painting our design.
3. Step 2: Paint the Design: A In this step, we are going to paint
our Easter bunny design. So let's get started. So for this step,
we're just going to focus on painting the bunny, the eggs, and the basket, okay? In the next step, we will
be painting the background, which will be the sky
and the grass. Alright? So the first thing that
we're going to do is we are going to add one or two drops of water into
each of our pans of paint. And what this will do is it will soften our paints just a little. So that they are
easier for us to use. So I always encourage my students to take this step because it
really does help. Alright, so I'm going to
paint my bunny brown. If you want to paint your
bunny a different color, you can go ahead and do that. You might want to
choose a lighter color, light pink or a light blue. If you'd like a
very light color, you add more water to your
paint and less paint. And if you like a more
vibrant and vivid color, then you would add more
paint and less water. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead
and make some brown paint. Let me show you how
I'm going to do that. I'm going to add a few drops of water
into one of my wells. And then to this water, I'm going to add
some brown paint, not too much because I want my bunny to be a lighter brown. Oh, that looks just right to me. Alright, I'm going
to go ahead and paint my bunny this brown. Alrighty friends, so I'm finished painting
my bunny brown. It's a light brown,
which I really like. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to make some
more brown paint, and I'm going to paint the
basket brown, as well. If there's a different color that you'd like to
use for your basket, go ahead and use that color. I'm going to start out
with a light brown. So I'm going to go ahead
and paint this top part of the basket, a light brown. And do you see this area
in here between the eggs? I'm going to go ahead and
fill that in with brown, as well. Okay. Now what I'm going to
do is I'm going to create a checkerboard
effect with this paint. So I'm going to use
a lighter brown. Alright, friends,
I decided to leave the squares white because I
like the way that that looks. What we're going to do now is go back and we're going to paint the details on the bunny
rabbit and then also the eggs. So I'm going to use pink to paint the inside
of the ears on my bunny and then also
the nose and the cheeks. Alright, I think what
I'd like to do is I'd like to take off
some of that color, some of that paint
color on the cheeks. I'd like the cheeks to
be a little bit lighter. So there's a trick that
I'm going to show you where you can pull up
some of that color. You can absorb some of the color off of your piece of paper with your paper towel. Your paint still needs to
be wet to do this trick. So you have her over that area that you want to
pull the paint up, and then you just touch
with your finger, and then it will absorb. The paper towel will absorb that paint and take it right
off of your piece of paper. Okay? Alright. Now
I'm going to go back in and I'm going
to paint these eggs, all kinds of different colors, and you can watch me. Alright, friends, I really like how those eggs turned out. They're nice and
bright and colorful. And that's it for this step. In the next step,
we are going to be painting our background.
4. Step 3: Paint the Background: In this step, we are going
to paint the background. So let's get started. So you get to decide
which colors you'd like to use for your
sky and your grass. I'm going to choose the colors green for the grass
and blue for the sky. I like how that looks. So what we're going
to do is we are going to just start painting. Remember, go slowly and carefully so you
do your best work. Alright, friends, I'm
finished painting my design. I'm really happy with it. I hope that you had a lot of
fun with this project. I will see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
