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1. Introduction and supplies: Hi, my name is Ken. Welcome to my class. Today we are going
to be painting this cute ice cream
cone in watercolors. For this project, you're going
to need some watercolors and any kind of palette that
you have will do this trick. And I'm going to be using
this particular palette. You will also need
a sharpie marker and some paint brushes. Any kind of brushes
that you have are fine. And you will need
watercolor paper and some water to wash the brushes, as well as a paper towel
to clean your brushes on. And for this project, we're going to first draw the ice cream cone and
paint the ice cream cone. So I hope you have fun. Let's get started.
2. Step 1: Drawing the ice cream cone: Today we're going to be drawing an ice cream cone and
we will get started. I have watercolors and some water marker
and some paintbrush, paper towels, and
a sheet of paper. I'm using watercolor paper, but you can use any kind
of paper that you have to draw the ice cream
cone and going to have the scoops here and
the waffle cone there, and maybe add a cherry on
top, something like that. So I'm going to keep
my paper this way. Let's get started. So I'm going to
start out with the smallest group here
and we're going to leave some space for
the, the cherry on top. So I'm gonna try to do a
little dome shape here, a small dome shape, and do not close
the bottom of it. I have this opening and
then I'm gonna go ahead and draw some
wiggly lines there. So I'm going to start out with a little a little
semicircle shape and then continue with
some wiggly lines there. Then I'm going to end
with a similar shape. Then I have the first
scoop on top of it. I'm going to add
a little cherry. So I'm just going to be
doing a little heart-shaped. But at the bottom I'm
going to round it. So it's going to
be like a little heart-shaped and just round the bottom of it and
add a little stem. So that's my cherry and the first school for
the second scoop, I'm gonna do the same thing, but I'm going to do the whole, I'm not gonna do the whole dome. I'm going to start
out from here and do a curve line,
little bit Baker. And do the same thing
on the other side. Then I'm going to do the
same thing as I did here. Little semicircle and
then wavy lines like so. So at anytime if
you need more time, you can pause the
video and continue. Then I'm gonna do a
third scoop here. So I'm going to make
it a little bit bigger here and wider. And I'm going to do exactly the same thing as the
first three, the first two. So I've got my
three scope scopes and I'm going to go ahead
and draw the waffle cone. So for this waffle cone, I'm going to do to, to
sort of shapes too. Maybe one rectangle
and a square. So I'm going to start out
with a rectangle here, but I'm gonna do a slanted one. Not close the top. So I'm gonna do this. Alright? And then I'm gonna go ahead
and do a square shape, but it's more like a little bit tilt it
so it's not really exactly a square to
slanted lines coming down. And then just go ahead and maybe around the
bottom a little bit. Now I can add some
criss cross line and these two compartments, like so. And do the same thing. The bottom one. And then go the other way and
do some crisscross lines. So take your time and pause the video if you need more time. All right. And I'm gonna go ahead and
add some sprinkles on top. So just some little random
dashes here and there. Okay. Just completely
random all over the place, just any shape or form. So this looks very good. I'm going to add a little, maybe a waffle stick there. So something like this. Two lines coming out from here. And maybe a little
loop at the end. And then I can sort of
create a little pattern in the middle and
color this in sort of brown or something
like a chocolate waffles. So this looks very good. So we can get started
with the coloring.
3. Step 2: Painting the ice cream cone: I'm going to be
using watercolor, but if you have any other
materials like crayons, colored pencils, markers,
whatever you have you can use. So I'm gonna go ahead and
get started with pink here. I'm gonna go ahead and
color in this whole thing. Pink. Alright, The first scope. So there we have it. That's some water. If you're not able
to drag the paint, you can lighten some areas. Okay. Alright. So the next one, I'm gonna
go ahead and do green. So again, you can choose
any color you like. You can make it brown. For chocolate. You can make it any
color you like. So there I have pink and green. And for the last scoop, I'm going to use purple. So here we go. There's purple. Use the tip of the brush to stay within the line and go ahead
and color it in. All right. I need a
little bit more worn or to be able to drag. It's very stiff. Alright, so this
looks pretty good. And then for the cherry on top, I'm actually just
using one brush, but you can use smaller
brush for tighter spaces. I'm gonna go ahead and
add a little red while the cherry. That would be it. Now for the, the cone and this, I'm going to be using some browns and some
yellowish tone. Actually, I'm going to
use this peach color, very light peach
color for this area. The waffle cone, I mean, not the waffle on the
the waffle or chocolate. And then brown for the
chocolate part here. I have too much water, so I'm gonna go ahead and grab some more paint and go
ahead and add that in. So that shows up pretty well. For the bottom part here, I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to go ahead
and color this in brown. And I'm going to add some yellow to it to make
it little bit lighter. I'll go for the bright yellow. Just something like this. And also on this side. Right now it looks pretty good. I'm going to add a
little bit more ground to mix it really well. So this is pretty much it. There is your ice cream cone. Be sure to sign off on it. And I hope you
enjoyed the video.
4. Bonus Lesson 1: Getting to know your palette: Today I want to share with you some tips regarding
watercolor palettes. As you know, when
you started out, you may start out with simple watercolor palettes like these. Then as you progress, you may go to more
student grade watercolors and then maybe move on to
professional-grade watercolors. And whenever you get a palate, it is good to be familiar
with the colors. So if you look at this
palette that I have here, you'll see that these
colors are pretty obvious. When you paint
these on the paper. You'll probably get
exactly what you see. Now, when you get to
these darker colors, it can be confusing. This one here looks very
much like a black color. This one also, this one. You're not sure exactly what color you're going to
get when you paint them. So it's easy to have
something like this where you draw some
rectangles or squares, whatever you want to do. But just sort of follow that palette and exactly paint
these colors on the paper. When you look at this, you'll see that, for example. So I have white here and then light gray and
then there's black. And this one actually, which looks a lot like black, it's actually a brownish color. And this one is
even lighter brown. So you can see whatever
you see on this palette is not exactly translating to
the same colors on the paper. So it is important
to create this kind of chart with any
palette that you get so that you can immediately know what kind of color it
will show up on your paper. So here I have another palette. The same thing. This palette here I
have multiple colors. So I went ahead and did a little chart and I even
wrote some names on it. Again, when you are painting, names aren't very important and you may forget those names. But it is important
to know what kind of colors they show up
to be on the paper. So when you're mixing colors, it'll be much easier to think through in the
process of painting. So I hope you find
this tip very helpful. And it doesn't matter what kind of watercolor palette
that you have. You can create this
kind of charts and you will really find these
helpful when you are painting. Alright, thanks so
much for watching.
5. Bonus Lesson 2: Preparing the palette: In my own art journey, I learned many tips and
tricks along the way. Today I want to share
with you one tip that I find helpful
when I'm painting. Watercolor palettes tend
to be dry and cracked, even dependent on where you keep them and the temperature
of the room. I use a spray bottle to spray some water on the
palette evenly. Before I start
using the palette. This allow all the
paints to be moist evenly and this
is just a missed. If you let it sit for a minute, it will be ready for use. If you do not do this tab, you may need to use
a brush a lot to get the paint wet and get
the paint on the brush. So I hope you found
this tip helpful. Thank you so much for
joining my class. I hope you share your projects
on the class project page. I will see you in
the next class. Thank you once
again for watching.
Khin, Artist | Designer | Educator
