Drawing and Watercolor Painting a Hummingbird in the Garden: Art Project for Kids and Beginners

1. Introduction and Supplies You Will Need: Hi friends, how are you? I hope you're having a great day today. I'd like to introduce you to this project. This is a 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 take you step-by-step through all the steps you need to take. So you will feel comfortable at all times. Today we are going to be drawing and painting this hummingbird in the garden. Let's talk about the supplies in 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 some watercolor paints. You will need a paintbrush. I like to use this size paintbrush for this project, but just use what you have available to you. You will need some clean water in a bowl or a cop. You will need a set of crayons or a set of oil pastels. Either one will work and you will need 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 the Design: In this step we are going to draw our hummingbird garden design. So let's get started. So I'm going to choose to use my oil pastels today. So I'm going to set aside my CRAN set, and I'm going to focus on using these. If you do not have oil pastels available, you can go ahead and use your crayons. Both will work beautifully. So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to draw our hummingbird. And what I'd like you to do is pick a dark color for your hummingbird. We really want that hummingbird to stand out on our piece of paper. So I think I'm going to use this blue color right here. It's fairly dark. It's like a dark turquoise color. So go ahead and choose a darker color. And then we're going to start creating or hummingbird right here in the center of our piece of paper. So let's come a little ways down from the top of your piece of paper. And we're going to make an upside down U is going to be slanted a little bit on our piece of paper. That means it's not going to be straight up and down. Now we're going to come out from this part of our head, of our hummingbird and we're going to make a curved line. And then we're going to do the same thing over here on this side, another curved line. And then we're going to meet at the bottom of that first curve line. This is going to be the head of our hummingbird, and this is going to be the body. Now let's make a wing for hummingbird. It's going to be on this side. So we'll make a slanted line coming up. And then we're going to make a curve line coming down and close up. And then we're going to make his other wing on the other side of his body. And it's going to look like this curved line coming out and curved line coming in. Now let's make his tail feathers. So we're going to make a curved line coming out and then zigzag and then come back in. Now let's make his feet. So we're just going to make a V and then one more line of V and then one more line down the middle. When humming birds are flying, they tuck their feet into their body. All right, now let's make his really long beak. So it's going to come out is a really skinny point. And I'm going to double that up. Let's create an eye for hummingbird, pretty dark. Then let's add a little bit of detail to the wings. So I'm just going to add some lines and maybe even some lines down here. And then on his tail feathers, some more little lines. All right, so there is our hummingbird. It's pretty simple. What we're going to do now is we are going to fill up the background space with a lot of different colors. So go ahead and choose the colors that you like from your choices that you have of your oil pastels or your crayons. And just fill up the space with flowers and leaves with different colors. So let me give you some suggestions on what flowers we can make. We can make different types of flowers. You probably know how to make a few different types of flowers. My favorite flower to make is Daisy. So I think I'm just going to fill up my space with some really big, large daisies all around. And then I will fill in with smaller flowers and maybe some leaves. And I will just keep filling in the space until I feel like it's exactly how I want it to be. Okay, so this is the type of Daisy that I like to make. And I might choose different colors. I might choose the same colors. It's completely up to you as to the colors that you'd like to choose, because this is your art work. So maybe I will choose maybe a purple here for this daisy. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to fill in the whole entire background space with a lot of different colors. And if I want to add a little bit of color onto the inside of my daisies. I'm going to do that. If I want to add some leaves, I'm going to do that as well. So just take a few minutes to fill in this space. The background space with different colors, with different shapes. And your humming bird will definitely be happy with that. Already friends. So I'm finished filling in the background space for my picture. And as you can see, I filled up the space really, really well. I have flowers, I have leaves, I have lines, I have dots, I have circles, I have triangles. I have a lot going on in this. That's exactly what we want. So I encourage you if your space is not completely filled up with color and lines and shapes, go ahead and make sure all of your space is filled in. And in the next step, what we will do is start painting. 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're going to put a drop or two out of water inside each pan of paint. And what this will do is it will soften up each pan of paint so it's a lot easier for us to use. This water will dissolve the paint just a little bit. And it's really, really helpful. All right, while that water is dissolving our paint, Let's turn our attention to our design. So what we're going to do first is we are going to start with painting our hummingbird, one or two colors. Then we will move to the background. And what I would like you to do is just go with how you're feeling at that moment. So if you feel like you want to pay orange, then paint with your orange. If you want to paint with your green, then go ahead and do that. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to choose two colors to paint my hummingbird. And those colors are going to be blue and green. So I'm going to choose this blue right here. And then I am going to also mix in a little bit of green. So I'm going to start here. And I do want those two colors to kind of flow in with each other. So we'll start out with my blue and I'll go ahead and paint with my green. So now that I'm finished painting my hummingbird, I'm going to focus on my background. And I'm just going to see how I feel at that moment. And I'm just going to paint the colors that I feel like painting. And I would encourage you to do the same so you can watch me. I'm going to not worry too much about seeing inside of the lines. I'm not going to worry about that too much. I'm just going to do my painting. And if I, if the colors run a little bit into each other, I'm not going to worry about that at all because this is more of a free flowing our project. And I won't mind at all if my colors start running around like a watercolor paints do. So I'm going to go ahead and get a good start on this. And I'll see you back here in just a minute. All righty friends. I'm finished with my painting, f my background. And I really, really like how it turned out. It's so bright and colorful and fun. And notice that some of my paint colors did run into each other. And that is a okay, I think it actually looks a lot better when it does that for this particular project. So I hope that you had fun with this lesson. I will see you next time.