Easter Egg Decorating - Using Food Coloring as Watercolors

1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Irina Trzaskos, watercolor artist and illustrator. Welcome to my watercolor channel. Here you'll find a big collection of classes for beginners. [MUSIC] In today's class, I will show you step-by-step how to paint Easter eggs in watercolor style using food coloring. If you're new to this channel, thank you for joining and welcome. Press the Follow button on top, and lets get started. 2. Supplies: [MUSIC] In this class we'll need the following, hard-boiled eggs. They're cooked and cooled down and dried. Also, we'll need a cardboard from the eggs, a measuring spoon, one tablespoon, a paint palette, or some dishes you're not afraid of staining with food coloring. Also, we'll need paper towel, a few brushes. If you have a water brush, we may use that too. If not, any brushes will work. Also, we'll need a measuring cup. We'll be measuring one cup of hot water, so we need hot water too. Food coloring, so this is just regular food coloring, Mccormick, red, yellow, green, and blue. Also, we'll need white vinegar, and two jars for water. All the supplies which are not the kitchen supplies, I first sterilized in a dishwasher and the brushes were washed with hot water and dish soap just to make sure everything is food safe. I suggest you do the same. Also, we'll need a piece of paper to try our colors on. That's it. That's all that you'll need today. [MUSIC] 3. Preparing the Colors: First let's prepare our water. This is a cup of warm water, one cup. To make it ready for dying, we'll pour one tablespoon of white vinegar to it. Mix it. After we have our water, we will pour half in one jar and another half in another jar. Doesn't have to be precise. We just need water in two different jars. Next, we can prepare our colors. For that, we'll need our water paint palette. Make sure you have a paper towel next to you. Also, we'll need a brush, the colors and a piece of paper to try the colors on. Now let's play with colors. I'm taking blue, put in one drop of blue, and one drop of the green. After we brush, let's take some water and add it to our coloring. Mix it well, and now let's try it on paper. Well, it must have a look soft green and they wanted it to be more aqua. Let's add more blue to it. Two drops. It's still pretty green so let's add more blue to add three drops. This is closer to the tone I was looking for. Let's add more water to it because it's way too dark. Let's try it again. Beautiful, nice aqua color. [NOISE] This will be the jar for washing our brush and this would be the jar to take water for the next color. Next, we'll have some yellow, two drops. Again, let's add some water too clean water obviously. This is enough. We have a bright yellow. [NOISE] Washing color brush again. Next one, I would like to be red orange color. We'll add three drops of red and one drop of yellow. Then get clean water to it. If you touch the paint by accident, just wash your brush in another jar. Then touch the clean water again. Let's see. We've got an orange color, and I wanted it to be more red so I'm going to add two drops of red. Let's see. This is better, but I still would like it to be more red. Another two drops. In total we have six drops of red now. Yes, this is what I was looking for. We'll be using three colors; aqua, yellow, and red orange. Now, we can start painting. 4. Painting the Eggs: Now when I have our water and I have our colors and eggs, of course, we can start painting. I have a paper towel on there, and a paper towel right here. I will take my smaller brush and we'll start from the middle of the flower. I'm painting three tiny circles. This water is for washing the brush and this one is for picking the different colors. Now that I painted three yellow circles, in each of them, I put on one tiny dot of our red. Next, I'm going back to yellow and I'll put some more tiny circles around those three circles. [NOISE] Then taking our red orange and we'll start painting the petals. Just by pressing the brush three times, 1, 2, 3. I'll turn the egg anyway where comfortable. You can see that I'm not touching the yellow. One, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 and the last one. We have our flower. Don't touch it until it's totally dry. Next, what we'll do, we'll take our aqua-green blue. I'll add a stem, just a line and add a leaf and another leaf. Now, I'll put the egg back and let it dry. We can take another one. Here we'll start with a stem. At the end of the stem we'll paint a flower. Turn the egg anyway you are comfortable with. Beautiful. Maybe two more petals. It is really easy and fun to paint on eggs. Now let's wash our brush. [NOISE] Take some clean water and add some yellow dots right here between the petals. [NOISE] Let's add some leaves to our stem. Add many leaves as you want. The paint will become a little lighter after it dries. Let's turn the egg just a tiny bit, make sure you're not touching and paint another flower. This one I'll have some rounded leaves or at least I'll try to make them rounder. [NOISE] Let's make this flower yellow. One petal and the other. Then I want to add some red to the bottom while it's still wet. I think this is good. Let's let it dry. This one, I want to be all in one color. It'll be just a green. Then starting from the top, a tiny leaf, and another leaf. No worry, it will become lighter when it dries and just be playful. [MUSIC] You can see that food coloring is behaving pretty much like watercolor. Looks like we need another leaf here. When I'm turning the actual image, you can see that the paint is changing a shape and we don't want that. Let's let it dry and then we'll come back to it. [NOISE] If you see this drops forming on your shapes, they can run away, so it's dangerous for your painting. That is very dangerous. You can take a paper towel and just absorb the excess of paint so that won't happen. Now I can let it dry. 5. Painting the Back of the Eggs: When our egg is dry on one side, we can start painting on this side and then let it dry like this and then paint on this side and let it dry like this and so on if you want to do it all the way around. I'm going to turn it all the way 180 degrees and paint the similar flower I did on that side. Three dots, adding some red, some tiny dots around. As a result, I'll just do that. I need just one. One small brush is enough for egg painting. Now I'm adding the petals again and three strokes. I'm regularly drying my brush on paper towel right here so I won't have excess of paint, and also I'm absorbing if it happened right here so it won't run away like with that, that which didn't make the cut to Easter table. Even I think it's dry this side, I'm still pretty careful with touching the egg. I'm still gentle on that side just in case it didn't dry well. Now, I have to add the stem and the leaves. Again, I'll absorb the excess of paint just in case. I can see this petal is a little bit running away, but it's not too bad. Of course, it depends on the texture of the egg shell too, but it should be all right, and now we'll let it dry on this side. [NOISE] Next, I want to show you when the paint is dry, we can start layering it by making it darker. You can add a little layer on the same color on the previous layer, just like in watercolor. You can add some lines, some texture if you feel like it. It's a totally see-through paint. The same with the green, we can add some darker lines here if we want to, or just keep it simple and just try to make it not to run away. [MUSIC] 6. Thank you!: Thank you for joining me in this class. I hope you had a chance to paint with me. If you like the class, please leave a review on a blogger project or project section of the class. If you're sharing your project on Instagram, please tag me so I can see your beautiful artwork. I'll see you in the next class. Bye. [MUSIC]