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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 under the S Sell Design. I hope that you have
a lot of fun with this project. Let's get started. Thing. 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 paint brush. I'm actually going to be using two different size
paint brushes today. I'm going to be using a
larger paint brush for the background and a smaller
paint brush for the details. But just use what you have
available, anything will work. You will need a cup or
able with clean water and a black oil pastel or a black
crayon and a paper towel. Okay. So go ahead and gather all of those
supplies and materials, and I'll see you back
here in the next video. Okay.
2. Step 1: Draw a Seashell Design: In this step, we're
going to draw sea shells. Let's get started. Go ahead and pick up your
oil pastel or your crayon, and we're going to get started anywhere on our sheet of paper. What I mean by that
is you get to choose the place that you'd like to
make your first seashell. I'm going to make mine right here at the first
one right here. Let me move this out of
the way a little bit. I'm going to make a sea
shell that looks like this. It's going to be a spiral. I'm going to start
here, spiral around. Keep going until I
stop in the center. Now I'm going to
close up that space, and then I'm going
to make some lines. So curve lines going all
the way down to the end. There's my first shell. Now I'm going to move a
little ways away from that shell and I'm going to make another shell right here. This one is going
to look like this. It's going to have
a straight line. Then coming back to
that initial point, another straight line coming down the other way,
the opposite way. Now I'm going to close that up. It doesn't have to be
a perfect curve line. Now I'm going to create
some lines inside of there. They're not going to
be that straight. Then here towards the top, I'm going to make a
line coming out from the center and come down a line come out from
the center and come down. There you go. There's
another type of a seashell. Now I'm going to
make another one. Let's say right here. I'm
going to make an oval. Okay. Inside this oval, I'm going to make another oval
towards the bottom. Then on top right here, I'm going to make
some more ovals and they're going to
progressively get smaller. See how I'm doing that?
I'm attaching those ovals. They're not full ovals. They're about half
ovals. Like that. Now I'm going to make a
shell that looks like this. It's going to start out
with a rectangle like this. Then attached to that rectangle, I'm going to create a circle. Make sure they're
touching each other. Then inside of there, I'm
going to make a spiral. If you'd like to add anything on the inside to
decorate that spiral, you can certainly do that. You can add some dots
or lines if you'd like. All right. Let's make a
sand dollar right here. The way that I like to make
a sand dollar is like this. I make a curve line, and then a tiny V, another curve, tiny V. Then I go all around
make like this. Now at the center of this shape, I'm going to make a small star. It's very small. It's very tiny. Then coming out from that star, I'm going to make
curve lines like this. Curve line out, curve line in. Curve line out and
in and out and in. I'd like to make five.
If you'd like to fit a design inside each one
of these little shapes, you can do that, but you
might not have space. Now I'm going to make
more little shapes right here if I can fit them. They almost look
like a leaf shape. All right, I'd like something a little bit larger to
fill up this space. I think I'm going to put maybe a starfish
right here, right? I know that that's not a shell, but let's create a starfish. Let's start out with
a very small circle. And then what we're going to
do is we're going to have some more small circles radiating out from this
first small circle. So the first line of circles is going to go straight up from
that initial circle. I'm going to make four
or five. I think four. And then I'm going to move over a little bit and then make four more circles
coming out from that initial circle
coming up a bit. And then I'm going to make
some more coming out this way. It's going to turn
into a star shape, one, two, three, four, and then one, two, three, four. Then the last one. The last line of circles will
come down this way. All right. Now what
I'm going to do is I'm going to add to this, and I'm going to make lines coming around
those circles like this. That's one continuous curve
line curve in curve down. All right. There's my starfish. All right. If there's a different type of a shell that
you'd like to make, you can go ahead
and do that now. What I'm going to do next
is I'm just going to fill in some space between
all of my shells. What I'm going to
fill in this space with our little plants. If you can think
of little animals like little snails, maybe. You can do that as well. If you'd like to put
a few little fish in there, you can do that. I think I'm just going
to start by making some plants to fill
in this space. Okay. I think I'm going to add a few small fish. This is how I like to make fish. I just like to make a
line in a curve line going out and then coming back and then a dot for the eye. I like to make very simple fish. Make this one go. All right, the last thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to add some sand to my design. I'm just going to
make some small dots. All around whenever I see a space that needs a
little bit of a dot. This is going to
represent the sand. All right, go ahead and take a look at your design
and see if there's anything else that you'd like
to add and you can add it at this time before we start
using our watercolor paints. In the next video, we will start
painting our design.
3. Step 2: Paint the Design: In this step, we are going
to paint our 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. What this will do is it
will soften our paint a so that it is
easier for us to use. I really do encourage my students to take this
step because it does help. Now that our paints
are softening up, let's turn our attention
to our design. So here we have some shells. We have some little fish. We have a starfish,
some little plants. Your designs will probably look different from mine,
and that's a good thing. We want your designs to look
like your designs, right? That's the neat thing about everyone's design is going to look different and
that's what we want. All right, so what I'm
going to do is I am going to focus on
painting my shells, my fish, my starfish, my sand dollar, and
my little plants. I am not going to be painting
the background, the sand. I'm going to save that
for the next step, okay? And I encourage you
to do that as well. So in the next step, we will
be painting the sand, right? So think of some colors
that you would like to use to paint your designs. You can choose any
colors that you like. I'm going to choose all kinds
of different bright colors. They might not be
realistic colors, meaning that in nature
in real nature, we are not going to
see those colors on sea shells, but that's okay. When you are choosing paint
colors for this project, they don't need to be realistic. You can choose what
you like, right? So I think I'm just
going to start painting. I'm going to use my
smaller paint brush. If you have a
smaller paint brush, you can use that one or
you can use a larger one. It's completely up to you. I think I'm going to
start with the plants, and I'm going to choose
to paint my plants green. But you can choose to paint
your plants if you have them, any colors that you like. Now, I'm going to
paint my fish orange. I love orange fish. When I was young, I had
orange fish, goldfish. So whenever I see
fish like this, I always paint them orange because they remind me
from when I was young. All right. There's my
fish. Looking good so far. Now with the rest of the
shells and the starfish, I am just going to
choose different colors. So when I think about the
sand dollar down here, I was thinking that I would like to paint it a blue color, a darker blue for
the inside here, and then a lighter
blue for the outside. Meaning this area around here. So when I want a lighter color, I add a little bit more
water to the paint. That, and I push
that paint around. So it's a little bit lighter. Not too much, just a little. Now, I'm going to go ahead
and speed up the video, and I'm going to paint my
sea shells and my starfish. And you can watch me, and I will see you back here
in just a minute. All right, friends, I'm
finished painting my designs. I'm really happy with the way
that my artwork turned out. And I did use a couple of different colors for
some of my sea shells, and please feel free
to do that as well. When we come back
in the next step, we will start painting
the background. Okay.
4. Step 3: Paint the Background: In this step, we are going
to paint the background, so let's get started. We are going to paint
the background, a very light brown, which will end up being tan, which is the color of most of the sand at the
bottom of the ocean. I am going to use my
larger paint brush, but just to use the paint brush that you have available to you. I'm going to make really
light brown or tan. Paint. I'm going to
put a bunch of water. Into one of my wells, and then I'm just going to add a little tiny bit
of brown paint. I don't want much because I want my sand to be pretty light. We test it out a little bit. Right here. Oh, look at that. That's perfect. I'm making my sand really light for
a number of reasons. Number one is because the
sand underneath the ocean at the ocean floor is usually not always a pretty light
brown or a tan color, but also it will really help
my designs to stand out. I'm going to go ahead
and speed up this video, and I will see you back
here in just a minute. Oh, righty, friends, I'm
finished painting my design. I think it looks great. I hope that you had a lot
of fun with this project. I will see you next time.
Em Winn, Teacher, Art Instructor, Artist
