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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 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
Katy Cat portrait. 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 thick white paper. You will need some paints. I'm going to be using
these temper paints, but you can also use either poster paints
or acrylic paints. I'm going to use the colors red, orange, yellow, green and white. But the only colors that you
really need are and white. The black we are
going to use for the outline and the white we are going to be using for
some color mixing. Now, if you don't have these
exact colors, that's okay. Just use what you have
available to you. You will need a cup or a bowl with clean water if you'd like. Sometimes people like to use water to rinse
their paint brushes. If you'd like to use
water, remember, after you rinse your paint
brush with the water, make sure that you wipe your paint brush off really
well with the paper towel. Because if it has too
much water on it, then it will dilute
your paint and your paint will be too runny
on your piece of paper. You will need some
paint brushes. You'll need a larger paint brush and a smaller paint brush. The smaller paint brush we are going to use
for the outline, the black outline, and the larger paint
brush we're going to be using for the larger spaces. You will also need a
pencil with an eraser and a paper towel and something
to put your paints on. I'm going to be using
this paper plate. 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 Cat Portrait: 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 we're going to pick up
our pencil and we're going to create a frame around the
edge of our piece of paper, and our frame is going to
be about an inch and a half or so inside of the edge
of our piece of paper. So let me show you how
we're going to do that. We're going to start
at the upper left and we'll make a small dot. And then we're just going to
come on down with a line. It doesn't have to be
perfect if it's not perfectly straight. That's okay. And do you see how
I'm going around this piece of paper
with my straight lines? I'm going to end up
right where I started. So there we go. As you can see, my lines are not perfectly
straight, and that's okay. I'm a human being,
and I'm not going to be able to make straight
lines all the time, and that's perfectly
fine. All right. The next thing that
we're going to do is we are going to create our cat drawing here on
the inside of our frame. So that's what we're
going to do right now. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to start
about right here, not at the very top of my frame, but I'm going to start about
right here and I'm going to make a really large letter. I'm going to come
down like this, and then I'm going to
come back up like this. I'm going to stop roughly
about where I started. This one might need a
little bit more length. There we go. Now, what I'm
going to do is I'm going to come down at an
angle on the left side, come down at an angle,
on the right side, and then I'm going to connect these two lines with a
straight line like that. Now what I'm going to
do is I'm going to add some detail on the
inside of this face. All right. So I'm going
to make some eyes. Think about the
type of eyes that you'd like to make for your cat. You can make any type of eye. You can make your eye more
cartoony eye, silly eye. It's completely up to you. I'm going to make some
cat eyes that look like this because I like this
kind of eye on a cat. Curve line and then curve line. If they're not
perfect, that's okay. Now I'm going to make another
curve line on the inside, same thing on that side and do the same
thing for this eye. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a
straight line down the middle for the
pupil. All right. The next thing that
I'm going to do is I'm going to make a small nose, and that's just an
upside down triangle. Then I'm going to make a J and
a backwards for the mouth. Remember, we're going to be covering this design with paint, so we're not going to get very
detailed because if we do, then those details will just
get covered up with paint. So we want this design
to be pretty simple. We need some whiskers. I'm just going to put
two or three whiskers, maybe two, and they can go
past the frame if you'd like. Sometimes that's a neat idea. Now, what I'm going to
do is I'm going to make the shoulders right
here on my cat. And then I am going to
look to see if there's anything else that I'd like
to add any simple design. And I think I'd like to
add a collar onto my cat. There we go. So
there's a collar and maybe I'll even
add a little tag. So I'm going to make
a straight line and then a heart down
here for the tag. Another thing that I'd
like to add on my cat, I'd like to add
these little dots because I know with my own cat, he has these little whiskers
on the top of his eye area. So I'd like to add
those little dots. It just adds a little
bit more detail. And then I'm going to add
a tail coming out from the top because we are
looking straight at the cat. I think I'm finished
with my design. If there's something else
that you'd like to add to your design before
we stop drawing, you can go ahead and do that. In the next step, we're going
to come back and we are going to start painting an
outline for our design. So I'll see you back
here in the next video.
3. Step 2: Outline the Design: In this step, we
are going to add some black paint to our design. Let's get started. The first thing that we're
going to do is we are going to put a small amount
of black paint, either tempera paint like this or acrylic paint
will work as well. So you'll want a small
amount of black paint. Remember, you don't
need a lot of paint. This type of paint
goes a long way. You just need a small amount. You'll need your paint
brush and you'll need to add some paint to
your paint brush, load that paint onto
your paint brush. Then what we're going to do
is we're just going to start covering those pencil lines
with your black paint. When you feel like
you're about to run out of paint on
your paintbrush, just reload more paint
onto your paint brush. You'll have to do
it several times, if not dozens of times
for this project. It's just something that as
artists we get used to doing. So I'm going to start at the
top of my piece of paper, and then I'm going
to work my way down. The reason why I'm starting
at the top of my piece of paper is because if I
started here with the nose, I might by accident set
my hand onto the nose, and then my paint would
smear everywhere. I always encourage my students to start close to the top
of their piece of paper, and that really helps with the spreading and the
smearing of paint. Remember, if your paint
lines aren't perfect, right here, see
mine's not perfect, don't let that
bother you at all. That is going to happen
sometimes you just say, Oh, well, it just adds to the
character of my artwork. That's what I always
say to myself. I actually like it when it's
not perfect. All right. What I'm going to do is I am going to speed up this video, and I'll see you back
here in just a minute. All right, friends,
so I'm finish outlining my cat design. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to paint these dots. To do that, I am going
to take the paint off of my paint brush by
using my paper towel. Going to go like that. Then I am going to use the
back of my paint brush. I'm going to dip
it into my paint, and then I'm going to create a nice round circle with
the back of my paint brush. That's a really nice way
to get a nice round dot. Okay. There we go. Now I'm going to take
that paint off of my paint brush with my
handy dandy paper towel. And what we're going to
do now is we are going to allow our painting to dry. It's really important
that we make sure that black paint is dry before
we add some colors to it. Otherwise, the black will
smear into the other colors. So in the next step, we will be painting our cat. I will see you in the
next video. Okay.
4. Step 3: Paint the Cat Design: All right, friends, I'm back, and my kitty cat
painting is dry. So you need to make
sure that your painting is dry as well before
we begin to add paint. And the reason why is if
your paint isn't dry, then the black paint will smear all around into
your other colors. So that's really,
really important. All right. So what
we're going to do first is we're going
to paint the cat, and then we will paint the
background in the next step. So think about the colors that you'd like to use for
painting your cat. I was thinking about
it and I thought, I think an orange cat
would be really cool. I'm going to be painting my cat orange with maybe a little bit of yellow in there.
I'm not sure yet. I'm going to paint
the eyes green and the nose pink and the
heart pink as well. I'm not sure about
the color may be red. I haven't decided on that. So what I'm going to do is
I'm going to start putting a little bit of paint
onto my palette, and I'm going to use orange because I know that my cat
is going to be orange. I'm going to put white
onto my palette because I know that I'm going to be mixing some of the colors with white. I'll put that in the middle. I'm going to use a
little bit of green. So I'm going to put just a dot of green
that's for the eyes. Remember we're trying
to conserve paint. We're not going to
be using a whole lot because we want to be as environmentally
friendly as possible. So I put some red on there, and then I have some yellow. Put that right there, and I'm putting the white in the
middle, as I said before, because I want to make
sure that that is in the center so I can mix these
other colors with white. Now, when we are using
our paint brushes, you can choose to rinse your
paint brush out with water. If you like, I'm just going
to be using this paper towel. But some people like to rinse their paint
brushes out with water. If you decide to do that, then you need to make
sure that you dry your paint brushes really well with your paper towel
before you use the next color. Otherwise, your paints will
get watered down and you might not be happy with the effect on your
piece of paper. So keep that in mind. I'm going to start
with my green, and I'm going to use
my smaller paint brush because I'm going to be
painting these eyes green, and I'm going to mix that
with a little bit of white. Some white and some green. I'm going to paint inside for the irises and it's okay if you go a little
bit on the black. It's really hard to
control sometimes, so that might happen. I've been painting
for a long time and I still sometimes go
onto the black paint, and I just say, Oh, well, that's just what happens. I actually like the look
when there's a little bit of paint on the black.
It doesn't bother me. I hope it doesn't
bother you also. I'm just mixing that
white in the green because I want this green
to be pretty light. The more white I
put with the green. The more white that I
mix with the green, the lighter the green
will be. There we go. All right. If they're not
exactly the same, that's okay. That just gives it a lot
more personality. All right. Now I'm going to
rinse off my brush, but I'm not going to
rinse it in the water. I'm going to rinse my brush off onto this handy
dandy paper towel. All right, the next color
that I'm going to paint with is the red and the white
mixed together to make pink, and I'm going to put the pink on my heart and on
my nose of my cat. I'm going to go
ahead and do that. Using quite a bit
of white because I want that pink to be
really a soft pink. There we go on that. Now for the color, I'm going to use more red. It'll be a little bit darker. There we go. You see
how I added less white and this became a
lot darker, this red. Now I'm going to take off that
paint onto my paper towel. There might still be
a little tiny bit of red paint on here,
but that's okay. I'm just going to
leave it as is. Now what I'm going to do
is I'm going to switch my paint brush and I'm going to use this larger paint brush and I'm going to
paint the orange and maybe a little bit of white and yellow if I feel
like it needs it. So I'm going to go
ahead and do that. I'm not going to
mix the paint onto my paper a lot because I like the separation of the
white and the orange. Okay. All righty, friends, I'm finished painting
with my orange. Now I'm going to wipe that
off on my paper towel. If all of it doesn't
come off, that's okay. And then I'm going
to take a look. Yes, I'm happy with that. As you can see, there's a little bit of the black that got covered
with the orange, but I actually like
that kind of a look, so I'm going to leave it as is. When we come back
in the next step, we will be adding paint to the background and to the frame.
5. Step 4: Paint the Background: In this step, we
are going to add some paint to the background
and to the frame. Let's get started. I am going to add some yellow
onto the background here, the background that
is next to the cat. Then I might use. I'm not sure what color
maybe green or maybe red. I haven't decided yet. I'm going to just
start with the yellow. And I might add a little bit
of white to that yellow. It calms it down a
little bit because the yellow can be really bright, which is cool, but I might want to make it
a little bit softer, I might want to add a
little bit of white. I'm just going to go ahead
and paint this background, and I'll see you back
here in just a minute. All right, friends, I'm finished painting my cat portrait. I'm really happy with the
way that it turned out. I think it looks awesome. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
