Transcripts
1. Introduction and Supplies You Will Need for This Project: 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 our drawing and
watercolor painting project that I designed,
especially for kids. You do not need to
have any drawing or painting experience at all. To be successful
with this project. I will teach you step-by-step through all the steps
that you need to take. So you will feel
comfortable at all times. Today we are going to be
creating this cool puffer fish. 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 piece of watercolor paper. You will need a set
of watercolor paints. And you will need two different
sites, paint brushes, you will need a large
one and a small one. You will also need a
cup or a bowl with clean water and a
pencil with an eraser. You will also need a black
crayon or a black oil pastel. And you will also
need a paper towel. And around template,
a circle template, I'm going to use a plate, but you can use a
bowl or a lead, or a circle that you cut
out of a piece of paper, just something that's round. So your fish is super
nice and round. 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 the Pufferfish Design: In this step we are going
to draw our fish design. So let's get started. The first thing that we're
going to do is we're going to take our round template and we're going to place
it on our piece of paper where we would
like our fish to be. I think I'd like my fish to
be right here in the middle, maybe a little bit up. And what I'm going to
do first is I am going to go around my template. I'm going to hold
it with one hand, my non writing hand. And then I'm going
to go slowly and carefully around my
template, which is a plate. I'm going to hold down with this hand and I'm going
all the way around. Then I'm going to
pick up my template. There we got, we have
a nice round circle. If you need to do a
little bit of erasing, you can go ahead and
do that as well. The next thing that we're
going to do is pick up our oil pastel or our crayon. I'm using an oil pastel. And we're going to
carefully follow along that pencil line
that we just created. And again, go slowly and carefully so you
do your best work. I'm going to take my time. Follow that pencil line
all the way around. I'm pushing pretty hard
with my oil pastel. There we go. Alright, there
is our body for our fish. Now what we're going to
do for our puffer fishes eyes is we're going to make
them pretty big and Googly. So I'm going to put circle, a smaller circle right here on the outside of my big circle. And I'm going to put
a dot inside there. That's one of my eyes. It looks kind of silly. Now I'm going to come down a
little bit about right here. And I'm going to
make another circle roughly the same
size as this one. But if it's not exactly the
same size, that's okay. Don't worry about it too much. There's my other eye. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a mouth here. You can make a Smiley mouth or you can make any type
of mouth that you want. I'm going to make a mouth
that looks like this. Because I like the
way that that looks. Alright. Now that we have our
eyes and our mouth, we're going to make some fins. Let's make the top fin. So that's just a line
coming up from the circle, going over and then coming down. And then let's add a little bit of detail
inside of there. Now for my back tail, I'm going to come
up at an angle, come down, and
then come back up. And then again, I'm going to add some details,
some straight lines. Then I'm going to
make a side fins. So I'm going to make
a straight line, come out and then come back in. Now let me add a little bit
of detail into that thin. There we go. Now what we're going to
do is we're going to place some little spikes all over our fish and that will
turn him into a puffer fish. And those are just going
to be small triangles. You can go on the
inside of the body. They don't all have to be
pointing the same way. And then you can also
make some of these on the outside
like this as well, on the outside of the
circle, if you'd like. So I'm going to go ahead and
take a moment to do that. Alrighty friends, you might have more or less detail than
I do on your puffer fish. And that's fine. Remember
this is your artwork. So we would like it to
look like your artwork. Alright, down here
at the bottom, Let's put a little
bit of detail. So I'm going to put some
seaweed with some little rocks. So I'm going to make some ovals. In coming up from the ovals, I'm going to make
some wavy lines going up and wavy lines coming down. And there'll be
different lengths. Wavy lines coming up, wavy lines coming down. If they even go off the
piece of paper, that's okay. Maybe I'll add a little bit
more detail in there as well. Alright, I think I'll add a
little bit more over here. So make an oval. And then these ovals are going to be behind that initial oval. And then I'm also going to
make some seaweed coming up. Now that I have my seaweed
down here at the bottom, I'm going to make some sand. It's not going to be a
straight line going across. It's going to be
more of a wavy line. And I can even put
some little dots that can represent some sand. That's always a good idea to add a little bit of implied texture. Okay, There we go. Now if you'd like to add
some bubbles somewhere, you can go ahead and
do that bubbles. You can just make by
making some circles. If you'd like to add
a smaller circle inside that larger circle, you can go ahead and do that. It's up to you. So you can add many bubbles
or you can add a few bubbles. I'm just going to add three and just do what you
think looks the best. So go ahead and finish up the drawing portion
of your artwork. And when we come back, we will start painting.
3. Step 2: Paint the Design: In this step, we
are going to apply some watercolor paints
to our drawing. 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 to each pan
of watercolor paint. And what this does is it softens up the paint
just a little bit. So it makes it much
easier for us to use. It dissolves the
paint a little bit. I like to take a
moment to do that. Now that our paints or softening up and
getting ready for us, Let's turn our attention
to our design. So here we have a puffer
fish in the ocean. So you get to paint
your puffer fish. Design any color
that you'd like. I'm going to paint
my background, which is the ocean
blue down here and going to paint this
seaweed probably green. I'm not sure about
the rocks Yet. Maybe a gray color, the sand, I think I'm going
to paint the sand brown and the fish green. And I might change my
mind halfway through and it's okay to change your mind if you'd like
to change your mind. Go ahead and do that. Just keep in mind that this
is your artwork so you get to use the colors that
you would like to use. You don't have to use the
same colors that I do. Alright, so what I'm going to do is start by painting my fish. And I'm going to
paint my fish green. So I'm going to paint it. I have two shades of green here. I'm going to use
the lighter shade. And I'm going to keep
in mind that if I use more water than paint, than my colors will
be lighter, softer. And if I use more paint than my colors
will be darker or more vivid. If I feel like I need to
use a smaller paintbrush, I have this one available to me to get into those
very small spaces. I may or may not use
that paintbrush. Alright, what I'm going
to do is I'm going to try to stay inside the lines. And if I go outside of the lines a little
bit, No problem. That does happen
to me quite a bit and I don't worry
about it too much. So I'm going to
speed up the video. I'll paint my fish green. And then I will
paint the seaweed. Already friends and finished painting my fish
and the seaweed. And then I wanted to talk to you about the rocks a little bit. I'm going to make a light
gray for the rocks. And to do that, I'm going to use a very small amount of black
and quite a bit of water. All right, friends. So now I have my fish painted and my
seaweed and my rocks. And when we come back, we will paint the
background which includes the water in the back
and then the ground, which would be the
sand. Alrighty friends. I'll see you back here
in the next video.
4. Step 3: Paint the Background: In this step we are going
to paint our background. So let's get started. I'm choosing to keep my eyeballs white and
the bubbles white. If you'd like to paint them
in, that's perfectly fine, but that's just what
I'm going to do to make a sand color. Take a very small
amount of brown and then add quite
a bit of water. And that will
lighten up the color to make it so light
that it looks like a very light tan brown
color for the sand. So I'm going to go
ahead and paint the bottom part of
my piece of paper, this tan color and this is
going to represent sand. And then I'm going to go back up to the top of my piece of paper. And I'm going to paint
the rest of my painting, which would be the water
area, this light blue. So I'm going to go ahead
and speed up the video, and I'll see you back
here in just a minute. Alrighty friends. I'm finished
painting the background. There is one little change
that I'd like to make. I told you that I wasn't
going to paint the bubbles, but I've decided that I
am going to paint them. I'm going to paint them a
really, really light pink. So I'm going to put
a little bit of pink paint into one of my
wells and then I'm going to add a lot of water to
that because I want these bubbles to be
really, really light. I'm not even sure if you
can see that pink color, but it is pink. It's thought that that
would look great to have some pink bubbles coming
up from the fish. So there we go. I hope that you enjoyed this project and I will
see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
