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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 bear design. 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 one
or two paint brushes. I'm going to use
two pat brushes. I'm going to use a
smaller pat brush and a larger paint brush. But just use what you
have available to you. You will need a cup ible
with clean water and 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 Happy Bears: S. In this step, we are going to draw
our cuddly bear design, so let's get started. The first thing that we're
going to do is we're going to pick up our black oil
pastel or crayon. We're going to come up a
little bit from the bottom. We're going to draw
some flowers down here, so we want to leave some space. We're going to start our
big bear about right here. Okay? So I'm coming up
maybe about five or 6 ". That would be about
10 centimeters. And what we're going to
do is we're going to make a giant letter U coming up. Coming around and then
coming back down to about the same length as the initial side
on here on the left. So let me show you what I mean. So we're going to
come up curve around, and then come back down. Go. This is going to be our
big bear. All right. Now what we're going to
do inside the big bear is we're going to make
some features up here and for the ears. So let's start with the ears. So we're just going to
make some curve lines. Bears do not have
really big ears. And then on the inside or
the outside of those lines. Maybe I'll make this
one on the outside, and then this one on the inside. We're going to
make some smaller, more detailed curve lines. And then we're going
to make a small face up here at the very top. Now, we are going to have
a smaller bear right here, so we want to leave a lot of
room for that smaller bear. So big bear, our big bear's face is going to be pretty close
to the top, okay. So we're going to make some
curve lines for the eyes like this because the eyes
are going to be closed. And then we're going to make a shape that looks like this. This is going to
be the nose area. And inside that shape, we're going to make a triangle. That looks like a triangle
with a little bit of a flat edge on the bottom,
right? That's okay. And then I'm going to
make two curve lines because this big bear
is pretty happy. And then I'm going to
make some little cheeks. If you don't want to make
cheeks, that's okay, but I like to make
cheeks sometimes, and I like to paint them pink. Alright, so the
bear's face looks like it's pretty high
on the piece of paper, but imagine the bear kind of lifting up the
face a little bit, and so the bear is looking up. So think about the bear
looking up a little bit. So down here, we're going
to create our smaller bear. So we're going to start about the same place where we started the big bear
about right here. And it's going to
be the same shape. It's going to be a U,
going to go almost all the way up to that nose area
and then come back down. So this is going to
be the little bear. Let's create some ears with a little bit
of detail inside. Same like we did
with the big bear. And then inside
this smaller bear, we're going to make
some features. So I'm going to make some eyes, some curve lines like this because the eyes are closed
on this bear as well, and then a shape like this. And then a triangle nose
and a little smiley mouth. And then if you'd like
to make some cheeks, you can go ahead
and do that, but you don't have to if
you don't want to. All right, now let's come
over here to the side of the small bear and
make some small paws. So now we're going to make some paws that are going to
be holding this smaller bear. The paws are going to
belong to the larger bear. So we're going to start about
right here at the line. Come over, touch
that little bear, and then come back and then do the same thing on
the other side like this. If you'd like to make
some little paw marks, you can do that as well, but I'm not going to do that part. Alright, inside, let's go
back to the little bear. Inside, I'm going to
make a little bit of detail for the
tummy like that. And you can't see the
bigger bear's tummy because the bigger bear's tummy is covered by the little bear. Alright, the next thing
that we're going to do down here is we're going to
create a bunch of flowers. Almost think of it this way. Think of the little bears as
popping out of the flowers. Okay? So think about the kind of flowers that you'd like to
make down here at the bottom. I'm going to make
some daisies because that's my favorite type
of flower to make. So I'm just going
to make a circle, and then I'm just going to
start making some petals, and I'm going to make
a bunch of daisies. I'm not quite sure how many I can fit on my piece of paper, but I'm just going to keep
making daisies until I'm happy with the way
that my artwork looks. Some daisies might be larger, some might be smaller. So might go behind
other daisies. And some might be going off
my piece of paper like this, and that's fine as well. So I'm going to go
ahead and fill up this whole entire
space down here at the bottom with daisies. All right. Now, I have all of my daisies, and what I'm going to
do next is I'm going to add some different leaves
and maybe some circles down here on the bottom as well
to fill up the rest of the space because I want a lot of the space
to be filled up. So I'm going to make some
leaves that look like this. There're just two curve lines. So I'm going to
fill up the space. If I have a tiny
space like this one, I'll just put like
a little circle. So I'm going to go
ahead and do that. All right, friends,
so I'm just going to take another look at my artwork, and if I feel like I
need to add something somewhere on my piece of paper
down here at the bottom, something like a leaf or
a flower or a circle, I'm going to go
ahead and do that. Now, what I'm going to do is
come back up to the bears, and I'm going to make sure
that the bears bodies, these lines right here are
going into the flowers. So if I need to extend
those lines a little bit, I'm going to go
ahead and do that. And then what I'm going to
do is I'm going to come back up here to the top
of my piece of paper, and I'm going to
make a small heart. So I'm going to do that because these two bears
love one another. I hope you can see
that on the video, but if you can't, I just added a small heart here at the top. Now, if there's
anything else that you'd like to add
to your design, you can go ahead
and do that now. For example, if
you'd like to add some more detail down here to your flower area,
you can do that. If you'd like to add any type of accessory for your bears,
you can do that as well. You can add a bow or
a cap or any type of design that you'd like onto your bear or onto
the background. Okay. When we come back, we will start
painting our design.
3. Step 2: Paint the Bears: In this step we are going to add some watercolor
paints to our design. Let's get started. The first thing that I'm going
to do is I'm going to add one or two drops of water into
each of my pans of paint. What this will do is it will
soften up my paint just a little bit so that it is
easier for us to use. I really do encourage all of my students to take this
step because it does help. That our paints
are softening up. Let's turn our attention
to our design. Here we have two
bears and they're popping out of these flowers
down here at the bottom, and you get to decide which colors that you would
like to paint your bears. We're going to just start in this step to paint
the bears. That's it. We're not going to paint the
flowers or the background. I'm going to paint my bears
brown, a lighter brown. I'm going to make brown for the larger bear and a lighter
brown for the smaller bear. Let me show you how
I'm going to do that. I'm going to start by putting a few drops of water
into one of my wells. And then I'm going to add some brown paint to that water and mix it
up really, really well. And then I'm going
to start painting. I'm going to start by
painting my smaller bear. Now, as you can see, my
smaller bear is fairly light. I want the smaller
bear to be a little bit lighter than
the larger bear. I'm going to go ahead
and use this color, this lighter brown color. To paint the small bear. Then I'm going to go back, add more brown paint to
this paint right here, and then that'll create a
darker color for my bear. Now, for this space right
here and for the nose area, on my small bear
and my large bear, I am going to add
some more water because I want this area
to be pretty light. So when you add more
water to a color, a paint color, then it will make that paint
color super light. All right. So now I
have my small bear and the tummy on my small bear and the nose area on my small
bear and even my large bear. I used a pretty light brown. It's more of a tan color. Now what I'm going to do is add a bit more water so I can
make some more paint, and I'm going to add
more brown paint so that this paint is
going to be darker. So that there's a little
bit of a color variation between my larger bear
and my smaller bear. See how that's a little bit
darker, little bit more. Just sometimes have to
test things out and experiment a little bit
when you are doing art. Okay, so this color is
a little bit darker, not a lot, but a little. That's exactly what
I'm looking for. So what I'm going to do
is speed up this video. I'm going to paint
this larger bear, and I'll be back
in just a minute. All right, friends, I'm finish
painting my bears bodies. I have the larger bears body painted and the smaller bear. Now I'm going to go ahead
and make some pink paint. I'm putting a little bit of
water into one of my wells, and I want this
paint to be light, so I'm going to add
quite a bit of water. And then just a small
amount of paint. I'm going to paint the
inside of the ears. Wow. This inside of this ear is a lot bigger
than this ear, right? That's okay. That makes
things look very interesting. And even a little bit funny. All right. The last thing
that I'm going to do in this step is I'm going
to paint the noses, and I'm going to paint
those noses a gray color. I'm going to put some
of my water into one of my wells and add a
tiny bit of black paint, just a tiny, tiny, tiny bit. Then I'm going to paint
those noses. There we go. If you'd like to use your
smaller paint brushes for some of these spaces, you can go ahead and do that. If you have one available
to you. All right. In the next step, what we're going to do is we're
going to come back, and we are going to start
painting the background.
4. Step 3: Paint the Background: In this step, we are going
to paint the background, so let's get started. We're going to start down
here painting the flowers. You get to choose the colors that you'd like to
paint the flowers. Think about the
flowers that you've seen when you were taking a walk or when you went
through the garden. Think about those colors. Those are the colors that
you can get some ideas from. I'm going to paint my flowers
probably pink and orange, maybe orange and yellow, I haven't really decided. Then after I paint my flowers, I'm going to go ahead and
paint my leaves green. Then these little
dots right here, I haven't decided
on those as well. I'm going to wait until
after I paint my flowers. After we paint our
flowers and all of the details like the leaves
and the little dots. What we're going to
do next is we're going to move to our background. I am going to paint
my background blue. Because I want it to
look like it's the sky. Then I'm going to
paint my heart, and I'll probably
paint my heart red. I like to paint hearts
either red or pink, and I'm going to choose red. Again, this is your artwork, so you get to choose the
colors that you'd like. I think I might use my smaller
paint brush for this step, but if you'd like to
use a bigger brush, go ahead and do that. For my sky, I might
use the larger brush. I haven't decided yet. What I'm going to do is I am just going to start painting. And I am going to speed up this video so
you can watch me, and then you can get started
on your own artwork. All right, friends. Before
I begin painting the sky, as I mentioned before, I'm going to paint that blue. I'm going to add a little
bit of light green into these spaces here between the flowers and the leaves
and the little dots. I'm not sure if you can see that there are some
white spaces here. I'm going to add a light
green to those areas, and I might miss a few
areas, and that's okay. I'm just going to do the
best that I can to get into those really tiny places. Alrighty friends, I'm
finished painting my design. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
