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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 a cute little chipmunk
with some heart leaves. 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. You will also need a cup or
a bowl with clean water. You will need a black oil pastel or crayon 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 Chipmunk & Hearts: O in this step, we're going to draw
our chipmunk design. So let's get started. Let's find the middle
of our sheet of paper, and we're going to just
create a circle right here, and this is going to be
the head of our chickmnk. So let's go ahead and do that. My circles going to be
fairly large because I want my chipmunk to be pretty
big on my sheet of paper. Little chickmnks
are so cute, right? But we want this one to
be big enough that we can see if we're looking at the
artwork from across the room. So I do have a big circle here. Alright, the next step that we're going to
do is we're going to make some ears
for our chipmunk, so it can hear. Then we're going to make
a little nose here. So an upside down triangle. And then you can create a
little smile, if you'd like. Now what we're going to
do is we're going to create a little bit
of detail up here. So we're going to make a line coming a little bit
lower than the ear, and we're going to attach it to the nose to this
angle right here. So we're going to do
that with a curve line. So I'm going to come around, curve line, and then stop right there at
that angle on the nose. And then I'm going to do the
same thing on this side. Now I'm going to make
some eyes right here. You can make any type
of eye that you like. I'm just going to make some dots that are filled in right here. I like my dots to be
roughly the same size, but sometimes it's
challenging to get them to be exactly
the same size. Now I'm going to
create some cheeks right here because
chipmunks have those big chubby
cheeks. There we go. The next thing that we're
going to do is we're going to move a little bit down from
the head a little bit, and we're going to make a heart right there in the center. Now connected to this heart, we're going to make another
heart right next to it. So we're going to make
another heart right here. And then on this side,
we're going to do the same. Just make sure those hearts
are connected to each other. Alright, so this is going to be our little heart garland and it's going to be made out
of green leaves, okay? Because the chipmunk loves
to collect those leaves. Now let's make the
body for our chipmunk. So we're going to start
about right here. Come down, and then
we're going to make the body down here underneath
these three hearts. Okay? So let me show
you what I mean. Slightly curve line. Slightly curve line. And then we're going to
follow that line down, come around, and
then come back up. Your shape might
look a little bit different from mine,
and that's okay. Alright, let's make a little bit of detail inside the body. So I'm just going to
start about right here. Make a curve line, make another curve line. And then I'm going to follow this one down like this
and then come back up. And then I'm going to
make some little hands that are holding the hearts. And then I'm going to
connect those hands to this part of the
chipmunk's body like this. Alright. The next
thing that we're going to do is come down
here to the bottom, and we're going to create some
very simple legs and feet. So little legs coming down, curve line and do the
same thing on this side. And then if you'd like
to add some little toes, you can go ahead and do that. Alrighty. So this chipmunk is in the forest with
some green leaves. So what we're going to
do is we're going to create a forest floor
down here at the bottom. So I'm making some
lines that aren't that straight going all the
way across the bottom. Now, as I'm looking
at my chipmunk, I felt like there was
something missing. And you know what's
missing? It's the tail. So we need to add a
tail for our chipmunk. So you can either add a tail on the left hand side or the right hand side.
It's up to you. I'm going to add my
tail on the right. Let me show you how we're
going to make the tail. So coming out from the arm, what we're going to do
is we're going to make a curve line that comes into a little bit of a hook and if you go off of your sheet
of paper, that's okay. Just let your tail go off
of the sheet of paper. That's no problem. Now
we're at the hook, and then we come back in, come down, and then
we come to the side. Now what we're going to
do is we're going to add a little bit of a lighter
area underneath here. So we start at that point, and then we come down, and then we come back and we
hit at the side, as well. So my chipmunks
tail's pretty small. If yours is bigger,
that's great. And if it's smaller than
mine, that's okay, too, because different chipmunks
have different sized tails. Alright, now that we
have the tail finished, let's go back to what
we were doing before. Alright, so we have
our leaves right here, and they are heart shaped. And what we're going to
do is we're going to just create some more leaves,
some more hearts. So I'm going to just start
creating some hearts, some big hearts, small hearts. You can make as many hearts as you like that fit on
your piece of paper. Alrighty friends. I'm
finished drawing my design. If there's anything else that you'd like to add
to your design. Go ahead and do that right now. And then when we come
back, we will start painting our chipmunk design.
3. Step 2: Paint the Chipmunk: In this step, we are going to
paint our chipmunk design. So let's get started. 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 up our
paint a little bit so that it is
easier for us to use. So I encourage my students to take this step because
it really does help. Alright, friends, now that
our paints are softening up, let's turn our attention
to our design. So here we have our
little chipmunk, and this chipmunk is holding some hearts that
are going to be leaves, and there's also going to be some falling leaves which are hearts all
around this cutie. So what we're going to do
is we're going to start by painting this part of
our chipmunk brown. So we're going to
create a light brown, and we're going to start
painting our chipmunk. Alright. I'm also going to paint the ears and this part of the body and the arms and the legs and
feet brown, as well. All righty friends, now that I'm finished painting my ears, my face, my body, arms, legs, and top of the tail, what we're going to do
next is we are going to paint with a
little bit of gray. We're going to paint
this area with gray, this area with gray. We're going to leave this
stripe right here white, okay? Because chipmunks do have a little bit of white
on them, right? So I'm going to make some gray, and I'm going to make it
out of the color black. I'm going to add some
water drops to my palette, and then I'm going to add a
little bit of black paint. Black is a very powerful color, so you don't need that much. There we go. Good. Perfect. Alrighty. The last
thing that I'm going to do is paint these little cheeks, pink, a light pink. Alrighty, friends, I'm finished
painting the chipmunk. And the next step, what we're
going to do is we are going to be painting these
little heart leaves.
4. Step 3: Paint the Hearts: And in this step, we are going to paint
the heart leaves. So let's get started. So what I'm going to do
is I'm just going to carefully start
painting in my leaves, and I'm going to use
this shade of green. Your shade of green might look a little bit
different from mine, or maybe you even have
one or two choices. So just choose the
green that you like if you do have a choice and be careful
when you're painting. Try to stay in those lines. But if you go outside of the lines a little
bit, that's okay. Don't worry about that too much. Alright, friends, I finished
painting the heart leaves. When we come back, we will start painting the sky and the ground. So I will see you back
here in the next video.
5. Step 4: Paint the Background: In this step, we are going to paint the ground and the sky. So let's get started. You get to choose
the colors that you like to paint the
ground and the sky. I'm going to choose the colors very light brown down here
for the forest floor, and then I'm going to choose
to paint the sky blue. So I'm going to start
with a forest floor, and I'm going to use just
a little tiny bit of brown because I want my forest
floor to be pretty light. I want that to be
a light tan color, a light brown color. So I'm going to go ahead and
paint this forest floor, and then I'm going to
move on to the sky. Alrighty friends, I'm
finished painting, my chipmunk design. I had a lot of fun
with this project. I hope that you did, as well. I will see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
