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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 awesome fish let me 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, and then you will need a black oil pastel or a black crayon and a yellow or orange
oil pastel or crayon. So yellow or orange. You don't need both
just one or the other. The last thing that you'll
need is 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 Fish Design: In this step, we are going
to draw our fish design. So let's get started. We're going to orient
our paper landscape, the landscape way, which is going back and
forth this way, as opposed to up and down with
our piece of paper because we're going to make our fish going across our piece
of paper like this. Our fish is going to be large, so keep that in mind
as you're drawing. Small fish are so
cute, aren't they? But we want to be
able to see this fish from across the room if we are
looking at it on the wall. So we want it to
be nice and big. Go ahead and pick up either your yellow oil pastel or crayon or your orange
oil pastel or crayon. I'm going to use my orange, and the reason why
is because I want you to be able to see my
drawing on the video. Okay, so come in a little
bit from the left edge, just to tad, and we're going
to make a curved line. And like I said, our fish is
going to be fairly large. So we want to make a curve
line that is fairly large. And we want to leave some space here on the
right hand side for a tail. So now we have our curve line
that's the top of our fish. Now we're going to come back
to this area right here, and then we're going to
come down and come back up, but we're not going to close this shape right here because
we want to create a tail. Now, you can create any
tail that you'd like, any style tail that you like. If you want a really huge tail, you can make that a really
small tail, it's up to you. I'm going to make a tail with a slightly curve line this way, a slightly curve line this way, and then come in
and then come out. That's the type of tail
I'm going to make. Alright. The next thing that we're going to do is we're going to add some detail on the inside
of our fish's body. So you get to make any lines or patterns that you would like to with your orange or your
yellow oil pastel or crayon. I'm just going to
start making patterns. I'm going to start right
here with a straight line because I want to section
off the head from the body. Now I am going to just
start making my patterns. So I think what I'll do first
is I'll make a curve line. And then I'll make
another curve line. And then maybe I'll
make a wavy line. And then maybe I'll make
another curve line. Now, up here at the top, in this space right here, I think I'm going to
make some circles. They'll probably be pretty
large for this space. Sometimes I don't know until I'm actually drawing if they're
going to be small or big. Now I think down here, I will make some
smaller circles. And then down here, I think
I'll make some scales, and those are just going to
be some curve lines that are connected together
all the way across. But as I said before, you can make any type of
pattern that you'd like. Just fill in those spaces. Alrighty. So after we have all of our patterns in
our spaces filled up, then what we're going to
do is if you'd like to, we're going to put a little
bit of detail in the tail. We're going to make
a fin on the back. It can be any type of
a fin that you'd like. You can have just a wavy
line like I made or you can have your fin be more
pointed. It's up to you. And then I think I'll even make a small fin down here at
the bottom. Here we go. Now that we've created
our fish design, what we're going to do next
is we're going to take our black oil pastel or crayon, and we're going to
add some details. So I'm going to make
an eye right here. It's pretty large. And I'm not going to make
a mouth on this fish, but if you want to make a mouth like a little smile
or something, you can go ahead and do that. And then down here
at the bottom, if you have some space, you can even make some
seaweed, some sand, different details like
little shells or starfish. It's up to you. So I have
a little bit of space. So down here at the very bottom, I'm going to make some sand. It's not going to be a really straight line because it's sand. And then I think right here, I'm going to make a
few little rocks. So those are just circles
with a little bit of seaweed. Coming up like this. And then, maybe I will make a little
starfish right here. I love it. I think I'll
make some bubbles up here. There we go. Depending on how much space you have
on your piece of paper, you can get creative
with your background. So if you like to fill
up your background with a lot of different details,
go ahead and do that. Alright, I think I'm finished. If you have more drawing to do, go ahead and do
that before we add our watercolor paints
in the next step. Once you're finished, your hands might be a little bit messy. So why don't you just wipe that off on your handy
dandy paper towel, and I will see you
in the next video.
3. Step 2: Paint the Fish: In this step, we are going to apply some watercolor
paints to our design. So let's get started. The first thing that
I'm going to do is I'm going to add a drop or two of water into
each pan of paint. And what this will do is it will soften up my
paints a little bit, so they are easier
for me to use. So I do encourage students to take that step because
it does make it a lot easier to use
these paints if they have a little bit of
water to dissolve that paint. Now that our paints
are softening up, let's turn our attention
to our drawing. So here we have a big fish, and we have a background
for our fish. We have some seaweed and we have a little bit of sand
and some other details. So what we're going
to do right now is we're going to
paint our fish, and we're going to
paint our details, and then we're going to save the background painting
for the next step. What you can do is you
can think about the color that you'd like to use
for the background. I'm going to use a color that is not an ordinary
color for the ocean. I'm going to use the color pink. So if you'd like to
use a different color other than the ocean color
that we normally see, which is blue or a
greenish blue or a dark blue then you can use a
different color as well. So I'm going to use pink
for the background, so I'm not going to use pink for my fish because I want to
use pink for the background, and I want my fish to stand
out from the background. So I think I'm going
to use mostly greens, maybe some blues, and then maybe a little bit
of purple or orange. I'm not even sure yet. For the sand down here, I'm going to use a light brown, which will be tan, maybe
some green and red. And then for these bubbles, I think I'm going to not put
any paint on there at all. So I'm going to start
out with the sand, and I'm going to show you
how to make a sand color. I'm going to take a tiny bit of brown and add
quite a bit of water, and that will make a really
light brown sand color. So that's what I'm going
to do for my sand. And then for the rocks, I'm going to make a
really light gray. So I put some water
in one of my wells, and I used a little
bit of black, and I'm going to paint those rocks gray,
like a light gray. And then I think I'm going
to use red for my starfish. Notice I'm trying to
stay inside the lines. I'd like my starfish
to be a darker red. And then for my seaweed, I think I'd like my
seaweed to be green. There we go. Okay,
now for my fish, I think I'm going to use some blues and some greens,
so I'll start out here. I'm going to try to stay
inside these lines. But if I go outside of
the lines a little bit, that's okay because
sometimes it's neat to watch the watercolor
paints blend together. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to
start painting, and you can watch me. I'll speed up the video, and then I'll see you back
here in just a minute. In the next step, what
we're going to do is we're going to come back
and paint the background. So I'll see you back
here in the next video.
4. Step 3: Paint the Background: In this step, we are going to add some watercolor
paint to our background. So let's get started. So as I mentioned before, I'm going to paint
my background pink. I know that that's not
the typical ocean color, but that's the color
that I want to use. So I encourage you to use the color that
you'd like to use. So I'm going to make
some pink paint by putting a few drops of water and a little bit of paint
into one of my wells. I'm gonna test it out on my paper towel,
see if I like it. Oh, I love it. Okay? So what I'm
going to do is I am going to carefully
paint my background, and I will speed up this video
so that you can watch me, and I will be back
in just a minute. Alrighty friends, I'm finished painting the background
of my fish design. I'm really happy with the
way that it turned out. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
