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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 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 little gnome. And this cute gnome lives
right here in this tree, in this little tree house. So 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 a paintbrush. You will also need a
colorable with clean water. You will need either
a black oil pastel or a black crayon. 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 a Gnome Design: In this step we are going
to draw our design. So let's get started. What we're going to
do is we're going to take a look at
our piece of paper. And I want you to
remember that we're going to try to
fill up our whole, entire space on our piece
of paper with our design, we're going to have
a little Gnome. And if we can fit
a little house for the Gnome right here on
this side or on this side, That's what we're going to do. But the main focus is
going to be a Gnome. The Gnome is going
to live in a forest. So what you'll want
to do is pick up your crayon or your Oil Pastel. I'm going to be
using Oil Pastel. We're going to go to
about the middle of our piece of paper and we're going to make a slightly
curved line like this. Okay, it's not
going to be giant, but it's not going
to be super small. Alright, that's going to be
the bottom of the nomes hat. You know how gnomes have
those really tall hats. This hat is going
to be pretty tall. It's going to go
almost to the top of the sheet of paper,
but not quite. Let me show you what I mean. We're going to start
about right here. We're going to come up and then we're going to
curve down. Alright? So we're going to
stop right there. And that's where
we're going to make another line going from
this line to this line. But watch what I do. I come up a curved down
and I come over like this. Okay, so it's a really tall hut. Alright, now that we
have our gnomes hat, we're going to come back and decorate that a
little bit later. We're going to move on to
underneath the nomes hat. And what we're going
to do is we're going to come down just a little bit. And we're going to make
an oval shape like this. That's going to be
the nomes knows. Now we know where we're
going to put our eyes on either side of
the nomes nose. So you can make any size or any shape of I
that you'd like to. I'm just going to make
some round circles. I'm going to try
to make sure that they're roughly the same size. They don't have to
be perfect though. Alright, now that we have the
nose and we have the eyes, we're going to make a beard. So the nomes beard
is pretty big. Usually if you look at gnomes, they have pretty big beards. So what we're going to do is we're going to make the letter you go humming down
underneath the nose, then coming back up. Alright. Now what we're going to do, this is the top
part of the beard. So now what we're going
to do is we're going to make a beard underneath. And I'm going to make
this type of a beard. It's just kinda comes up in it. It's a little bit
spiky actually. They're like little v's. So V, VB, V, and they're connected together. Now you can put a little mouse here or a little mouth here. Just decide where you'd
like your mouth to go. I think I'd like my mouth. Maybe right here. Little mouth. Alright, now that we
have hat, our nose, our eyes, our mouth,
and our beard, we're going to make
the body of our Gnome. Now, the nomes beard
is pretty big, so it's going to be covering up a lot of the part of the body. So what we're going to do
is we're just going to make a little tiny part of the
body down here at the bottom. And I think that's it. That's all I'm going to do. So I just made a
little line that came down and went over
and then a little line that goes across your beard might be a little bit
different from mine. So your little outfit underneath the clothing might
be a little bit different. So coming out from the body, we're going to make
for little lines and these are going to be the
little legs for the Gnome. And then let's make some shoes. So we're going to
close up that space, come up with a point. So we're coming along and then we go up with a curve line, and then we come back
down and then close up. So that's a little
shoe for the Gnome. How cute is that? So close up. Point T, little toe, and then close up. If you'd like to
put a little bow or something at the
tip of the shoe. You can go ahead and do that. I like to do that on my gnomes. Then if you'd like to add
some stripes on the socks, I'm not going to be able
to fit that many stripes because by little legs
are pretty short. You might have longer
or shorter legs. Now what I'm going to
do is I'm going to make the nomes arms and
I'm just going to decide where I want
to put the arms. So I'm going to
come out and then make little tiny part of
the arm and a little hand. And then on this side, I think I want my arm to
be reaching out this way. So two little lines that
close a little hand. Then what I'm going
to do is I'm going to make a little flower. I'm going to make my Gnome
holding a little flower And then I am also
going to make a leaf. How cute is that? Keep in mind. You need to be careful
if you're using oil pastels because
if you swish, if you touch your oil pastels, they might smear or smudge. So be very careful with that. Alright, so I have
my Gnome drawing. I think that my Gnome
is really cute. Your Gnome is going to look different from mine and
that's a good thing. We want your artwork to
look like your artwork. Now's the time that you can
add a design to the hat. You can put stripes, you can put hearts, you can put flowers. You can add anything to
your hat that you'd like. I think I'm going to add
a little bell right here. And then I think
I'm going to add a flower right here
another day, easy. One to the hat of my Gnome. Sometimes I like to
make stripes on my hat. But for this one,
I think I'm just going to make a little daisy. Alright, now that
we have our Gnome, what we're going to do
is if we have space, which I do, I'm going
to make a little house, a little door for my Gnome. And gnomes live in
trees a lot of time. So I'm going to make
a tree over here, little door for my
Gnome to go inside of. If you don't have a lot
of space over here, just do the best that you can. You might be able to
put part of a door, or you might want
to put flowers, or you might want to put
some little insects. It's completely up to you. If you have room
for a little house, then you can go ahead and make
one as well if you'd like. So let me show you
what I'm going to do. I'm going to start about right here and I'm going to come up. And then I'm going
to come down like this to about the bottom of
where my gnomes feet are. And then this is going to be the door for my gnomes house. I'm going to make a circle
and then close that up. Actually it's semi-circle or an upside down U and then
it's closed up at the bottom. Then I'm going to make
a little doorknob. And then I think to add a
little bit of decoration, I'm just going to make
some lines like this. Okay, and then maybe
I'll close that up, down here at the bottom. Now I'm going to
make the tree that this little door opens into. So I'm just going to make a line coming up and then
coming out like this. And remember, we don't
need to make it perfect because it is a tree. So we want to add,
for the trunk, we're going to add some
little squiggly lines. Now what we're going to
do is we're going to give an area for our
Gnome to stand on. So just some, a little bit of lines so we can have him
standing on the ground. Now, I have some space
down here at the bottom. I'm trying to think of
something that I want to put. I think that I am going to add just a little
bit of grass. So I'm just going
to add a little bit of grass that looks like this. That will just add a
little bit more detail and interest to the bottom
part of my drawing. Then if you'd like to add
anything else into the sky, you can go ahead and do that. I think I'm happy with mine, so I think I'm going
to stop right there. If there's anything
else that you'd like to add at this time, you can go ahead
and do that. Now. What we're going to
do next is we are going to start
painting our Design. And remember, if you have a little bit of oil
pastels on your hands, you can always use your paper towel to
get most of it off. All of it might not come off. But most of it well
3. Step 2: Paint the Design: In this step, we're going to add some watercolor paints to
our Gnome and to our tree. So let's get started. The first thing that
we're going to do is we're going to add a drop or two of water into
each pan of paint. And what this will do
is it will soften up the Paints so that they
are easier for us to use. So I always suggest to my students to take this step because it
really does help. Alright, now, that are
Paints or softening up, Let's turn our attention
to our design. So we have our Gnome, we have our tree. This is the house
where the Gnome lives. And then we have our background, which is the sky and the grass. So we're just going to focus
on the Gnome and the tree. So I'm going to paint
my Gnome first. I am going to leave this
area, this little beard. I'm going to leave that white. And I'm going to paint
everything else. And then I'll paint the tree. Alright. So two Paint the
face on a Gnome. I'm going to show you the color
that I'm going to use and going to mix a couple of
different colors together. But of course, you get to choose the color that you'd like
for your gnomes face. Alright, I'm going to choose a little bit of orange and put it into my well, one of my wells, and
then I'm going to choose a little bit of brown. I want this color to be pretty light so I can see the features. But like I said before, you get to choose the
color that you'd like to have for your gnomes face. Alright, so I'm going to
work on this painting. This, this color is also the
color that I'm going to use for my nose little
hands as well. So I have some tiny
little hands here. You can barely even see them. They're so small. All right, for the
nose on my Gnome, I'm going to add a little
bit of pink to this color. And I want my nose
to be pretty light, but I want it to be a
little bit more pink than the actual skin. Alrighty. Next I'm going to Paint the hat. And I think I'm going to Paint the hat red, a lighter red. So I'm going to add more water than paint because I want the color
to be pretty light. Remember if you'd like
to have a more vibrant, brighter color, then
you add more paint. If you, if you'd like
to a softer color, then you add more
water to your paint. So I'm going to go ahead
and paint this hat red. Alrighty friends. So I have my hat painted red. I also painted the
little tiny arms red and the outfit of my
Gnome read as well. I'm going to paint
my shoes brown. I think, I think that would
be a cool color for my shoes. And then I'm also going
to paint the flowers. Alrighty friends. So I'm finished
painting my Gnome. And what I'm going
to do next is I'm going to paint the tree
and I'm going to paint this tree Brown,
including the door. Alrighty friends. So I've painted the tree and I'm going to
paint the door now, I've decided to
add a little bit, a tiny bit of black to my
brown paint because I want my door to be a little
bit darker than my tree, so I want that to stand
out a little bit more. I'm going to paint
that a mixture of brown and black with just
using a tiny bit of black. Because black is a
very powerful color and so you don't need that much. Alrighty friends. So now I have my Gnome and I
have my tree house painted. I'm really happy with the way that things have
turned out so far. In the next step, we're going
to Paint the Background
4. Step 3: Paint the Background: In this step we're going
to Paint the Background. So let's get started. I'm going to start
out by painting the sky and I'm going
to paint the sky blue. And I'm going to paint
this grass green. Remember, you can use any colors that you'd
like to paint with. That is absolutely fine. So let's get started
painting our background, including our sky and our grass, and then any other details
that you have added. I'm going to speed
up this video. See you can watch me
and then you can get started on your own artwork. 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
