EASY Art Class for Kids and Beginners: How to Draw and Watercolor Paint an Australian Lorikeet

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're going to be drawing and painting this cute Lorikeet. 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 sheet of watercolor paper. You will need a set of watercolor paints and a paintbrush. You will also need a cup horrible with clean water and a black Oil Pastel or a black 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 a Lorikeet Design: In this step we're going to draw our Lorikeet Design. So let's get started. The first thing that we're going to do is pick up our black Oil Pastel or are black Crayon? I'm going to use a black Oil Pastel. And what we're going to do is we're going to find the middle of our piece of paper. And then we're going to go up about halfway between the middle of our piece of paper and the top of our piece of paper. So that area for me is about right here. So we're going to start our line, a curved line that goes up and then comes down. Let me show you what I mean. I'm going to start about right here. I'm going to come up. And then I'm going to come down with a slanted line like this. It almost looks like an upside-down letter J. Alright, this is going to be the top of our Lord Kids head. And the back of our Lorikeet, or Lorikeet is going to be looking this way. Now what we're going to do is we're going to go back to this line and make a sideways letter V. Then what we're going to do is we are going to start here at the bottom of our sideways letter V. And then we're going to make a curve line coming down. And then we're going to touch this first initial line. So we make a curve line coming down and let's touch that initial line. Like that. We have our head and our body of our Lorikeet. And then here's our lower Keats, Tommy. Now let's make a beak for our Lorikeet right here. So what we're going to do is we're going to make, write it this area right here where these two lines meet. We're going to make a curve line coming down. Then we're going to make this straight line from this end of this line into the mid part of our V. Let me show you what I mean. We go then see this other area right here where this line in this line meet. What we're going to do is we're going to make a curve line going from that line to the beak. Alright, so that's the beak of our Lorikeet. Now let's make a circle for the I. And then inside that circle, we're going to make a dot like that. So we're going to be looking at the Lorikeet from this side. Now what we're going to do is we're going to add a wing. So we're going to go about right here. And we'll make a curved line. Just like that. This is going to be one of the wings. Now we're going to add a little bit of decoration right here, little bit of detail. So some zigzag lines like this and some words exact lines that's going from the tummy to the wing. Now we're going to come down here to the bottom of our Lorikeet and we're going to make one more longer wing coming down. Just like that. Alright, so now we have the basic shape of our Lorikeet. And what we're going to do is we're going to make something for our Lorikeet to stand on and that's going to be a branch. So we're going to start at this edge of our piece of paper. And we're not going to make a really straight line, but we're going to make a line that looks like a branch. We're going to start here. And once we get to the tail of our Lorikeet, we're going to jump over that and then keep moving until the other side of our piece of paper. And then if you'd like to go up at the end, you can go ahead and do that. Now we're going to go a little bit down from that initial line on our branch for our branch. And we're going to come along and then go down at the end. And then we're going to make a sideways letter V. So it looks like here's a branch going along due to do, and then it's going to break off into some smaller branches. So now we see our Lorikeet needs to be standing on the branch with something, probably legs and feet. So let's make some legs and feet. So what we're going to do is about right here, going to make two little curved lines like this. And then we're going to make some legs and feet coming out. So some legs and some feet. You'd like to double up that line. You can go ahead and do that a little bit thicker. Now that we have drawn our Lorikeet, we can add a little bit of detail. For example, if you'd like to add some detail to the wings, you can go ahead and do that. The tail may be. Then we can add some details to the Background. So I have a branch here, I think I'll add some leaves, so I'll start out with a line. Then I'll add some really long leaves. Just going to decide where to put these leaves. You could put them in any position or any place that you'd like to. I think I'm just going to bring some outside of the bottom. Then another thing that you can do is think about what you'd like to put into the sky. So I think what I'm going to do is surround my Lorikeet with a little bit more greenery. So I'm going to make some more of these leaves, these longer leaves maybe coming out from the sides and the top of my piece of paper. So I'm going to go ahead and do that. Now that we have our Lorikeet and our Background, decide if there's anything else that you'd like to put onto your artwork, onto your drawing. I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to double up these lines right here. And the reason why I'm going to do that is I think that I would prefer that they're a little bit thicker. So you can either do that or not do that. Sometimes when I'm looking at my artwork, I decide to do something different than what was, what I was initially thinking. And I just do it because I want to make sure that I do some experimentation and I do some different things that I think will make my artwork look wonderful. So there we go. In our next step, we will add some watercolor paint to our Design 3. Step 2: Paint the Design: In this step, we're going to add some watercolor paints to our design. So let's get started. The first thing that we're going to do is add one or two drops of water into each pan of paint. And what this will do is it will soften up the Paints a little so they are easier for us to use. So I do encourage my students to take that step because it really does help. While our Paints or softening up, Let's turn our attention to our design. So what we're going to do in this step is we're going to paint our Lorikeet, the leaves and the branches. And then for the next step we will be painting the sky. So Lorikeet come in different colors and I'm going to show you and explain to you the colors that I'm going to use because I've seen a lot of Lorikeet with these colors. That would be an orange-ish, red up here for the beak, and then blue for this part of the head right here. And then there's a little patch of yellow. And then we have red and orange in this area. Green for the wing and the tail. Blue for the Tommy down here. And then green down here. The Lorikeet that you have seen in pictures and in real life, they might be different colors. So I encourage you to get creative with this project and use the colors that you would like to use. Sound good. So now I'm going to paint my Lorikeet. I'm going to start with this reddish orangeish color for the beak. Maybe I'll add a little bit of red to that to make it more interesting. And then I will move to that yellow patch that I've seen on Lorikeet. It's about right here. Here we go. Now I'm going to create this blue color. I added a little bit of water to one of my wells and it's going to be okay if my yellow runs into the blue a little bit, That's alright. Might make a greenish color, that would be pretty cool. Alright, so I'm going to paint blue here, coming down a little bit. See how it's spreading right here, the colors are spreading a little bit. Now I'm going to make this area red. That's going to run into the blue. Go make some more red down here. And this area right here, I think I'm going to paint that orange. Alright, Now you see how this color right here, this color red, is creeping into the blue. There's a little bit of extra water on there. So what I think I'm going to do is I'm going to take my handy-dandy paper towel and I'm going to lift some of that color up off of the piece of paper. I'm going to absorb it with my paper towel. In the way that I'm going to do that is I'm going to hover over my, my artwork. And then I'm going to touch the paper towel to the piece of paper and it will bring up some of that color. Do you see how I did that? So if ever there's a time when you feel like there's a little bit of extra paint or water on there that you'd like to soak up. That's something that you can do, that's a technique that you can do. So let me try it again right here. So I hover over that area and then I soak that up, see how that works. Now I really like how this is spreading around, this yellow is spreading around right here. There is a little bit of green going into the yellow as well. If I want to soak that up, I just touch that area and that soaks it right up. Alright? So you get to decide if you'd like to use that technique. Alright, the next thing that I'm going to do is I am going to paint the leaves. And I'm also going to paint the branches. So I'm going to take a moment to do that. Alrighty friends. So I finished painting my Lorikeet and my branches and my leaves. So what we're going to do in the next step is we are going to start painting the Background 4. Step 3: Paint the Background: In this step we are going to paint our background. So let's get started. So I'm going to paint my background sky blue, this lighter blue. And what I'm going to do is I am going to add a few drops of water into one of my wells. And then I'm going to mix this water with a little bit of blue paint. I want my blue paint to be a little bit lighter. Then we will start painting. There we go. I'm going to just start at the top here and work my way down my piece of paper. Already friends, I'm finished painting my background for my Lorikeet. I'm really happy with the way that my painting turned out. I hope that you had a lot of Fun with this project. I will see you next time.