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1. intro: Hi. My name is Kolbie
and this class is all about having fun
with watercolor. Throughout the lessons
in this class, we're going to talk about
the colors of the rainbow, how to use basic watercolor
techniques to make really fun shapes and
patterns and textures, or even going to make a giant
rainbow just like this. If any of that
seems fun for you, then I would love for
you to keep watching.
2. materials: Before we get started let's
take a look at the materials that I'm going to be using
today in this class. First, I always use when I am painting with
watercolor, watercolor paper. This is student grade
watercolor paper so it's a little less
expensive and perfect for practicing and for creating
some really fun projects. One thing to note with
watercolor paper is I always use 140 pound
watercolor paper, 140 pounds watercolor paper just means that when there
is a whole ream of this, meaning 500 sheets put together, then it weighs 140 pounds. Just to compare,
typically copy paper is something considerably less like 12 pound or 32 pound or
something like that. Watercolor paper is much
heavier and thicker than copy paper and that's why it's a lot better
for these projects. I also like to use cold press watercolor paper which just means there's a
little bit of texture to it. This is Canson brand XL, you can pick this
up at basically any craft store or at
Walmart or if you're watching this during COVID-19 and can't go to any
of those stores, Amazon or a lot of other online shops will
also have this paper. Next, any paintbrush
really will do. I'm using this Royal
& Langnickel it's just a really basic round
shape watercolor paintbrush it's size 10. I like to have a bigger
size when I'm doing wet-on-wet watercolor activities
like we're doing today. But any paintbrush that
you have on hand will do. I have just one of these pretty inexpensive but still fun watercolor palettes that maybe you guys
have at home too. I have other more
expensive paint but especially because I'm making
this class just for kids, I wanted to show you how to do these activities using the paint that you probably have on hand. This is a casa paint set
and it's really similar to Artist's Loft or
Crayola or any of those paints that you might
have on hand as well. Then I always have
a cup of water. Sometimes I have
two to keep one cup clean and one cup for
the dirty paint water. As you can see, I like
to keep my water in a mug so that it doesn't
tip over as easily. Then last but not least, for some of the
things we're going to be practicing
today I like to have masking tape so that I
can tape down my paper and I will show
you how to do that in one of the future videos
and why it's useful. Gather all of your materials. It's okay if you don't have the materials that I have today. Oh, I forgot one thing. For one of the activities today, we're going to be using salt. I have just some table
salt right here, [OVERLAPPING]
masking tape paper, paint brush, paint, water, and then a paper towel to wipe off your paint
brush in-between. That's what I'm using today
but please feel free to use whatever you have on
hand and I'm sure whatever you make is
going to be beautiful. Without further ado,
let's get started.
3. techniques: We've gathered all
of our materials. Now I'm going to
do a quick rundown of two of watercolors
most basic techniques, and we're going to
be using both of these techniques in
these classes today. The first technique is called
the wet-on-dry technique. That happens when
you use watercolor, which is always wet, because it's
activated with water. It's color that you get from
adding water to pigment. Pigment is the material that
makes something colorful, so when you take watercolor
that is wet and paint on a dry surface like
a piece of paper. When you paint on a dry surface, then the paint basically stays wherever your
paint brushes. That's important to remember when we practice
the next technique, which is called the
wet-on-wet technique. I'm going to get
there in a minute. The wet-on-dry technique when
you paint on a dry paper is really helpful for when
you want to create specific shapes and details, because you know that the
paint is only going to go wherever your
paintbrush leads it. Now contrast that with
the wet-on-wet technique, which is what happens when
you paint on a wet surface. Mostly when I paint with
watercolor I paint on paper, and so you can get
your paper wet with either water or with paint. It doesn't matter which one, it just has to be wet. When you paint on a wet surface, instead of these crisp lines
to get specific shapes, what happens is the paint
moves around on its own. That's because watercolor is activated by water, remember. When there's water
on your paper, your paint isn't stuck moving in this track led by your
paintbrush anymore, your paint can move about
wherever there's water. The wet-on-wet technique is
really fun to play with, to get fun color blends and
to get really cool textures. I think the wet-on-wet
technique is mostly what helps watercolors stand out from any of the other different kinds of
painting that you can do. We're going to practice both of these techniques in
our projects today. They're both very important
and also really fun. If you want to go ahead and
practice some of those, and then we will move
on to our next project.
4. color + shapes: Now that we've practiced some basic watercolor
techniques, which once again, [NOISE] are the wet-on-dry technique where
the paper is dry, so we can make definite and defined shapes like some wines or a heart and
the wet-on-wet technique, which is when the paper is wet so the paint blooms outward
and blends together. Let's put both of those
techniques into practice. For this project, we're
going to paint a bunch of hearts that are going to connect and blend into
each other just like this. To paint this project, we need to use both
the wet-on-dry technique and the
wet-on-wet technique. We need the wet-on-dry
technique to paint the hearts so that they
stay in a heart shape. But then using the
wet-on-wet technique, we're going to just while
the hearts are still wet, the next heart will
just barely touch the first heart so
that the colors bloom and blend together and mix these colors right on the paper. Let's get started. The first thing to do is to
make sure that the colors you are using are pretty wet. I'm just going to use my
big paintbrush and drop some water on the
colors that I'm going to use and I'm going to use pinks and purples
and blues because I know that those three colors all mixed together really well. I'm going to look for all of
the pinks and purples and blues on my palette
and get them wet. Now that I have my pinks and purples
and blues pretty wet, I'm going to start
painting my hearts. I'm going to start with
this light purple color and paint a heart right in
the corner of my paper. It doesn't have to
be a fancy heart, just a heart and this
is wet-on-dry first, so the paper is dry
when I start painting, that's how I know that my shape is going to stay
in the heart that I'm making with my
paintbrush because the paint can't go outside of the boundary that
my paintbrush is making with the water
because it's dry. But in order to make the color blend really well with the next
heart that I make. I want to make sure that my
heart is still pretty wet, and one way to tell that your heart or whatever you're painting is
still pretty wet, is to tilt your head
or tilt the paper and see if you can get some
light to reflect off of it. If you can get light to reflect off of whatever
you're painting, that means it's still wet. I got some light to
reflect off of it so I know that it's still
wet, which is perfect. Now, I'm going to take some
of this pink over here, and because I don't really
want to make straight lines, I'm going to go just below this heart and I'm going to make a skinnier or longer heart. But then I'm just going to
barely touch the side of this heart into the
heart that I just made, and because this heart was wet. Because the heart that
I'm making right now is wet because watercolor is activated by water then the pink and the purple are going
to blend together. Let me show you that
right up close. The pink and the
purple are blending together and I can bring some of the purple into this pink over here and I can do the
same with the pink with my paintbrush and encouraged
the blends to happen. But it would also happen
on its own naturally. That's the wet-on-wet
technique when we use the fact that both
of these hearts are wet, and if I touch
them together then the paint is going to go back and forth between
these two whites paces. Before we start painting on, I want to once again, just to make sure my
pink heart is still wet. And if it's not or if
it's only a little bit, what that might mean, adding some more pink paint to my heart to make
sure it stays wet. One thing to note here is I
don't want it to be too wet. I don't want there to be
any puddles on my paper. If I can see like
visible puddles, then that means the paint isn't really sticking
to the paper, it's just going to stick
on top of the water. I don't want puddles, I don't want it to be too wet, but it does need to
be wet enough that it stays wet while I keep
painting these hearts. Now I'm going to take
some blue and paint a heart where the bottom of
this heart is just going to touch the side of
that pink heart, and the wet-on-wet
technique is what allows the pink paint to blend into the blue
paint right here. See how the colors are blending together. It's pretty neat. One thing that I like to do too, is to take some of the color
like I mentioned before, and just manually put
it in another color and watch as it blends together right on top
of this blue heart. Because I put peak on blue
instead of staying pink, some of it actually
turned purple. That's because pink and blue together make a
pinkish-purple color. Because of the
wet-on-wet technique, both of these colors are activated and ready
for blending, so that means I can
blend right on top of this heart without having to blend separately in
a different palette. It's pretty fun. I
love watercolor, that's one of the reasons
I love watercolor. Because you can make some cool blends right
on top of the paper. I'm going to keep painting with my different shades of
blue and pink and purple and the key like we
practiced is just to make sure that the heart's that you are going to touch together both of
them are wet because that is what allows the
wet-on-wet technique to happen. Both of the hearts
have to be wet. As you're painting, I would also encourage you to have fun with the different heart shapes
that you're making. They can be small, or they can be big. They can be skinny, or they can be fat. They can be like
perfectly symmetrical. Or they can be wonky and silly. Like I'm going to
make one side of my heart really small and then another side big over here. You can also, instead of painting the heart one
color right off the bat, you can start painting
with one color. I'm going to paint start this heart purple
and then wash off your paintbrush and finish the heart with a
different color. On the wet-on-wet technique will allow those two colors
to blend together. That's another way to
blend colors together instead of this heart
over here where we started with a completely
blue heart and then took some pink paint and just tapped
it inside the wet heart. This time we just
did two halves, one half purple, one half pink. Then you just keep going
until you're done. For this heart, instead
of filling it in, I'm just going to
do an outline of the heart and that's just to add some different
variety and texture. Painting and art, I
think is especially fun when you have lots of
different kinds of something. If you're going to do
something with only hearts, then make sure they're
all different kinds of hearts so that they're
more enjoyable to look at. I'm going to do this really skinny sideways
heart right here. Up here I did another outline. I know that as long as I keep using pink and purple and blue, it doesn't matter
which color I choose. All of them are going to
blend together really well. That's because pink and purple and blue are
next to each other on the color wheel which in
a very technical term, means that they're called
analogous colors and that just means that they're used from a lot of the same
different base colors. When you put them together, you're not gonna get any
brown or muddy mixes. They're going to
blend really well. That's what I would suggest
for pieces like this, especially if you're just
beginning so that you don't accidentally paint, put two colors together that
might not look so great. But you should definitely
experiment and even if you have a mix of colors that aren't exactly
what you wanted, that's okay. That just mean that
you've learned. I'm just painting, doing a mix of small hearts and big
hearts and outline hearts. With all of my different colors. I think maybe up
here I'm going to do another heart that is
a mix of two colors [NOISE] and I'm just going to do a couple
more heart's down here. Maybe just one more of this
bright pink color down here. There's my page full of hearts. I painted this page full of hearts by painting a
bunch of different kinds of hearts using the wet-on-wet technique and the
wet-on-dry technique. The wet-on-wet
technique is what helps the paint move in between
all of these hearts and make these really cool color
blends and the wet-on-dry technique is what
allowed the hearts to keep their shape
on the dry paper. This project where I paint a bunch of different
shapes that touch each other, is one of my favorite
watercolor projects because it's so
fun to just watch the paint blend and mix together and you can get
some really cool patterns. Now, onto the next project.
5. mini rainbows: Welcome to project number 2. For this project, we're going to make a bunch of rainbows. Similar to how we practiced
in project number 1, where we had some
wet-on-dry shapes and then we had them touching so that some of the
colors blended together, that's exactly how
we're going to make a bunch of page
full of rainbows. First, before we
start our rainbows, it's important to know the
colors of the rainbow, and an easy way to remember
the colors of the rainbow is to think of this made-up
word, it's called ROY. Starts with R and then goes onto O, R for red, O for orange, ROY, after R and O is Y, Y for yellow, and then, remember G, G is for green, ROYG, then the next silly
made-up word is BIV. So BIV, B-I-V starts with blue, blue for B, then iv next is I, I stands for indigo, which can be like a darker blue or kind
of like blue-purple, and then V for violet. ROYGBIV, make up the
colors of the rainbow, and for our rainbows, we're just going to do
three-layer rainbows. You can do all seven
layers if you want, but for our page
full of rainbows, we're just going to do
three-layer rainbows that use colors that
are next to each other. Remember how we talked
about last time, how pink, purple, and blue are next to each other
on the color wheel, this is kind of like a
linear so meaning in a line, all of the colors on the color wheel except
they're in a line, and not on a wheel. Colors that are next to each
other could be like violet, red, and orange, those are next to each other, or orange, yellow
and green, or green, blue and indigo or yellow, green and blue, or
yellow, orange and red. So we're going to take different combinations
of those colors and put them together. I'm going to start just
kind of going in a line, let's start with
red, orange, yellow. First, I'm going to put
red as the inside rainbow, I'm just going to make like an upside-down
U-shape or an arch. So I'm going to start with
red and then pick up orange, and I'm carefully going to
paint just around the arch, and I want some parts of
my second arch to touch, but not all of them. I want to be careful
to have some parts of this orange arch that are by itself and other parts
that are touching the red so that these two
colors can blend together. Then to finish this rainbow, this just kind of three color, short rainbow, I'm going to do the
same thing with yellow, except the yellow
arch is going to be on top and a little bigger, but some parts of the
yellow arch are going to touch the orange and
some parts aren't. I want to be really careful about that and touch some parts intentionally and leave
others by themselves. There's our little mini rainbow. Now, I'm going to do that with lots of different colors and lots of different
color combinations, maybe let's try, if we're going
down in this line, now let's try orange,
yellow, and green. I'm going to start with orange, down here as the inside rainbow, the inside arch, and then I'm going to do yellow, as the middle arch and make sure that the
yellow is touching in some places and not in every place so that there is still some
space in-between, and then I'm going to do
green as the outside arch. [NOISE] I'm going
to have that one like touch at the bottom
and a little bit at the top right there [NOISE], and that is my next
little mini rainbow. I started with red on this
one and orange on this one, now I'm going to
start with yellow, and do yellow for
the inside arch. It doesn't really
matter where on the page you put these rainbows, you can do yellow on
the inside, green, as the middle, and then blue, as the outside arch. Have it, just barely
touching in some places. That's our third one, we had red starting with red. Red, orange, yellow, and then we started with orange. Orange, yellow, green, and then we started with yellow. Yellow, green, blue, and now let's start with green. To do green, blue, indigo. I'm going to start with
green as my middle, and then I'm going to do
blue no green is my middle, green is my first arch, and then blue as my second arch, and now indigo, which is like a darker blue as
my outside arch. I even had this indigo arch
touching the other rainbow, which I knew was okay because blue and indigo blend
together really well. Now let's try starting with blue and we'll do
that one over here, and maybe we'll do that
one a little bigger because a lot of these
rainbows are pretty small, and that's okay too,
but I like to mix up sizes because I think
that makes art super fun. I'm going to start
with this blue arch, and then I'm going
to make an indigo one where it just touches
the side of that blue arch, and then I'm going to take my violet arch and also notice how my
arches are kind of like sideways in some places, they're not very even
and other places and that's pretty much
exactly how I like it. So I wouldn't worry
too much about that. Now I'm going to
start with indigo, and this is where it could
get tricky because indigo, violet, what do
you do after that? You start back over
and go to read, so this next one is going to start with indigo
and then violet, and then red is going
to be the top arch. So I'm going to do
an indigo middle, and then of violet, I keep saying middle
because I think of it as like in the
middle of everything, but really it's just
the first arch, so an indigo first arch, then a violet second arch, and now I'm going to do a red outside arch, there you go. I did indigo, violet, red, and now I want violet to be the middle arch and this is
going to be my last one. So it's going to go violet, red, and then orange is going
to be the outside arch. I think I'm going to put
that one right here, violet is the middle, the first one, then
red is the next one, and then orange is
the outside arch. Now we've made seven little
mini rainbows that all have each of the colors
as the first arch, each of the colors
as the second arch, and each of the colors
as the outside arch, and if you want to
make a big rainbow, I'm going to show that as a quick video in
the next lesson.
6. big rainbow: Okay, friends. Let's make a big
watercolor rainbow. When I like to make rainbows, I like to have all the
colors in front of me, so I know what order
I'm going to go in. This is just a
quick little trick to remember the colors
of the rainbow. ROYGBIV. Start with red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
indigo, violet. If you stick with this order, then all of the
colors will blend with the colors that they
blend with the best. One more note, when I paint rainbows with all seven colors, I like to use a big piece of paper just so I don't
run out of room. This is a nine-inch
by 12-inch piece of paper that I got
from a watercolor pad. I would recommend
having a bigger piece, just so you're not trying to squeeze tiny
little lines on the outside. First things first,
let's get the colors. We're going to use wet on our watercolor palette
so that they're all ready by the time we want
to use them. Here's red. Then for orange, I'm going to use this lighter
orange over here. I'm just picking
up some water with my paintbrush in my water cup that's off to the side,
you can't see it, and dropping some drops of
water on the colors I want to use so that they're nice and activated by the
time I get to them. I've done red, orange,
yellow, green, blue, indigo, which is
just like a darker blue, and violet, which is purple. I'm going to start
with the inside arch. Rainbows are in an arch, which is an upside-down U.
I'm going to start with red. Just in the middle, but toward the
bottom of my paper, I'm going to paint an arch
in nice, watery watercolor. In order to get the
colors to blend together using the
wet-on-wet technique, we want each arch that we
paint to be pretty watery. I started with red, just like this, my reference up here, ROYGBIV, I started with red, and now I'm going
to go to orange. Make sure I have some nice
watery orange watercolor. Then I'm going to
paint another arch. Just in some places, but not in all. I'm going to have this arch
touch the first one so that some of the places in the
orange arch are by themselves. It's just orange,
and you can see the space between the
red and the orange, but other places the red and the orange are
blending together. Then you can even add paint afterward to make sure you get some really cool
[NOISE] color blends. Then I'm going to wash
off my paintbrush and get my yellow watercolor
because yellow is next. With my yellow watercolor, I'm going to do the same thing. Paint a yellow arch that's touching just barely
in some places, but not in others. Trying to get master this
wet-on-wet method of barely touching one shape in
some places but not others, is a really fun way to
get better control of your paintbrush and
better experience watching colors blend together. But it can be tricky. If you need to practice, that's exactly what
this video is for. [NOISE] It might even be helpful for you to
decide before you start painting where you
think you want to touch your arch to
the one beneath it. I think I want to try touching my green arch right here in this corner and on the side right here
when I start painting. That means when I start
painting over here, I know that I want to keep this side of my
arch separate from the yellow until I hit the yellow up here
in this top corner. Then I'm just going to
move my paintbrush just a little bit and dip it just a little bit
inside the yellow. Then I'm going to keep painting around and getting
more watery paint because the watery paint is what makes this the
wet-on-wet technique. Then, just as I
reach the bottom, I'm going to touch that
arch with the yellow one. Beforehand, I decided I
wanted the yellow arch to touch the green one in
this corner and down here, and so I made sure
to make my arch touch the yellow arch
in those places just by tapping or moving my
paintbrush just slightly. If moving your paintbrush
just slightly, makes your arch a little wobbly. That's okay. Your
arch can be wobbly. But if you really
prefer your arch to have a little more
shape, like I did. You can just add
more paint onto it afterward to make it a
little more arch-like. Now, before we move on, I'm just going to take
a little bit more of this yellow and tap it along where it's supposed to be
blended with the green, so I can do some
manual blending here. Just to have a little bit more of that color intruding
on the green. Because I think it looks cool, we've done four out
of seven colors. That means we have three left. We did red, orange,
yellow, and green. Now we need blue,
indigo, and violet. Blue is up next. I got this light blue already wet for exactly this occasion. I'm going to make sure I
have a lot of pigment on my paintbrush by mixing in
the water with the paint, a fair amount before
I start painting. That's what I'm doing over here, as my paintbrush is
mixing the paint even more in the water so that the paint that's on my
paintbrush is nice and colorful instead of just water. Now I'm going to start my arch and this time I'm going
to touch it right here, maybe in three
places, right here, right here, and right here. I want to just barely
touch right here. I just barely touch
my paintbrush, and then I move it back
to where I want it. You can do your arch
in multiple stages. You don't necessarily have
to be one big stroke. You can do a little
bit at a time. Sometimes doing things
a little bit at a time is what helps
me get them right. Now, I touched the blue
to the green right here, at the bottom, over here, and then at the
top, in the middle. Now, I'm going to touch it
just to the side, like that. I'm just going to
add some more blue watery paint and extend the arch just so it's as big
as I really want it to be. There. That looks pretty good. Now we have indigo
and violet left. Indigo is this dark blue. I think I'm going to
have it touch right here in this corner and
this corner, right there. I'm going to start down here, down in the bottom, I'm doing it in a few
different strokes. Then, right when I
get to where I want, I just dive my paintbrush down. I'll show you that again. Just dive my paintbrush down, go down, and then back
up to where my arch is. Then I'm going to do
that one more time. Down and then back up
to where my arch is. Then if I want to even that out, so it doesn't look
quite so wonky. Then I can do that. The rest of this layer
is just spent making sure to get this arch
where I want it. Smoothing it out
with my paintbrush. Then I'm going to do the same thing that
we did in some of the other ones where I just
manually blend in this blue. Right here. Our last
arch is violet. I'm going to make sure I have some watery but also
very pigmenty paint by mixing my paintbrush in where I put the water
on the paint before. I just want to mix the
water in with the paint so that the paint comes
up with the water. Starting on this side, it's a good thing I
chose this big paper because I'm running out of room. Starting on this side, I think I'm going to do three places where the
violet is going to touch. It's going to touch
right here about, and then maybe toward the top over here and then
on the side right here. Maybe if my brush
decides to do more, we'll see where it goes. I touched by diving
down and then up with my paintbrush
right there. Maybe actually I'm
going to do four. So one down and then back up, two, and then before I move on, I'm just going to smooth
out that arch so that it doesn't look quite as wonky where I went
down and then back up, 1, 2, and then I'm going to
go all the way across, down and then back up. Over here. I'm smoothing it out and getting a little bit closer
to the indigo layer. Then I'm going to
have it touch in one more place right here
down, and then back up. Now I have my last arch touching in all
the places I want, and so I'm just going
to smooth it out. Just make sure that all the places that I
want to be touching, they look good [NOISE] Grab a little bit of indigo and just push it into
the violet layer, so the eye can see this blend. Then even I might be
able to push some of the violet into the
indigo, over here. I'm just going to push
some of this violet into the indigo so that it blends both ways.
There you have it. Here is a fun watercolor, wet-on-wet rainbow, using all seven colors of the rainbow. ROYGBIV, and using one of
these fun little multi-color, inexpensive watercolor sets that you can pick up at
most craft stores.
7. watercolor + salt: We're going to do one
last practice project before we move on to our big final
project for this class. For this practice project, we're going to use salt to make different textures
in our watercolor. Well, I have just some regular old table salt right here that
we're going to use. [NOISE] The first thing
we're going to do is get our paper wet with water. Next, we're going
to add some color. I brought my ROYGBIV reference over here just so you can pick colors that you know will
blend well together. For this one, I think
I'm going to do green, and blue, and indigo. As you place the colors, you don't have to place
them in any particular way, just paint some strokes
and put down the color. Because we know that
all these colors blend well together, it doesn't matter where you put the colors or what
colors they touch. All of them will
look pretty good. You won't ever get let
brown, muddy mess. Next, we're going to use salt
to make different kinds of textures on our [NOISE]
wet-on-wet watercolor page. But the thing you need
to know about salt is one-year paper is too wet. Salt doesn't really
work very well. So if you see any puddles, just take a Q-tip or a paper towel and mop
up those puddles. Now, take out your salt and just put a little bit of it between two fingers,
just like this. Then just rub your two fingers together and put the
salt on your paper. The results won't necessarily
be instantaneous. You might have to
wait a few minutes. I would do this a few times. Put some salt on your paper. Then either sit and watch or go do
something else like get a drink of water or a snack and come back in a few minutes and see what the salt has
done to the watercolor. Now, the paper is dry. [NOISE] It's time to
rub off the salt. I usually rub it off just using circular
motions with my hand. [NOISE] Here is the result. See all of the cool
little white specks under the paint that
happened because when the salt landed on top
of the wet watercolor, it acted as a paint pusher or paint remover and so I pushed the paint out of the
way so that you can see the white of the
paper underneath. Salt is such a fun way to add a fun texture to any
watercolor piece, and I had fun exploring that
with you in this lesson.
8. tape prep for final project (hyperlapse): way, way, way, way.
9. final project: For our final project, we're going to use the methods
that we've practiced in this class to fill in block
letters that spell out love. You might only see L, V, and E right here on my
setup that's because the O, we're going to put in right here after we've
filled in the L, V, and and E. First up
is L. If you remember, the first project
that we did was doing a bunch of hearts that were barely
touching each other. Here's a project
for your reference. A bunch of hearts that were
touching each other so that the colors all blended together and we're going
to do that same thing, but in the L so that when we
take off the masking tape, it's going to be some crisp, clear L that is made up
of all these hearts. For our project before I did pinks and
blues and purples, but this time I think
I'm going to do pinks and yellows and oranges. Here is my first heart. I'm just going to go right
up against the masking tape. Make sure that your paint's watery and that when you
paint your hearts together, you try to just barely
touch one heart to the next so that you can
encourage some of that fun blending
that we practice. As you're painting
these hearts remember that we're trying to
make the letter L and so we want to fill in as much
of this area that is inside the masking tape as possible and especially we
want our hearts to touch the edge of
the masking tape so that when we remove the tape, then we have those crisp
lines and the color that will help make up this
cool heart filled L. Now that we've finished our L, let's move on to the
second thing that we did, which was a bunch of
little mini rainbows. I think that I'm going to put the rainbows in
this E over here. Let's pull out our
color reference guide, ROYGBIV, and start painting
the rainbows in sections. Maybe because I went
left to right last time, I'm going to go right
to left this time. I'm going to start with violet. My first rainbow, I'm
going to put right here, and I'm going to have this first arch be
this violet color. Wash off my paintbrush, pick up some indigo
and have indigo be the second arch and
have it just barely touch the violet
arch in some places, and then the last color will be blue for the outside arch, the biggest arch on this
little mini rainbow. Have this blue touch in some
places and not in others. We started with violet, now let's go indigo. I'm going to keep
making these rainbows of different sizes all the way, all to cover up this whole E, starting with each one
as I go down the line. This one started with violet, next I'm going to start
with indigo and then blue and then green and then yellow and then
orange and then red. I have all of my rainbows, but there's still a little
bit more white space. I'm going to take each one
of the colors and just make some little marks
coming outside of the edges just to
make sure that I have filled in enough edges so that
when we take off the tape, it's going to look super cool. I'm just doing some
random marks on the edge of the tape to
fill in some whites pace. Now, let's do the salt for
our V. First things first, let's paint the inside of the V with some
wet on wet colors. I think my color blend, I'm going to do
orange and yellow. I'm going to start
with some water. I'm going to make sure
that all of the water is covering the paper
inside the masking tape. Now I'm going to get my orange
and yellow and just paint inside of the masking tape just like we did in the
practice video for salt. [MUSIC] I used a Q-tip to mop up any places that looked
like it might be too wet. Now I'm going to take my salt and take a few of it in-between my fingers and sprinkle it right on top of
the wet watercolor. Now that it's dry, first we're going to rub off
the salt from the V. [MUSIC] Some tips for taking
off the tape. Make sure to look for pieces of tape that are on top first. On top, meaning there it doesn't look like
there's any pieces of tape that might be
covering them up. But then just take your
tape at an angle slowly. Sometimes the paper might rip up and that's okay.
That happens. [MUSIC] We have all the tape off. These letters look pretty
cool if I do say so myself. To finish off this piece, we're just going to take
our big brush and make a circle of water and just
add some paint onto it. Classic wet-on-wet style. You don't even have
to make it into an O, I like the design of it just being a completely
filled in and it's not a circle
actually, it's an oval. It's a small oval that's
going to rest on top of this L and then I'm going to add some colors ROYGBIV style. I'm going to start
with red just at the top and then
add some orange. Then I'm going to
add some yellow. Then I'm going to add green, and now blue, and then indigo, and last but not least, violet. There you have it.
Love using all of the different cool
watercolor techniques that we learned in this class. Thank you so much
for joining me. I had so much fun coming up
with all these techniques for you and I hope
you had a fun time.
10. recap: Thank you so much for joining me for my fun with watercolor class today. If you went through
all of the lessons, we created a wet-on-wet heart piece where we blended a few different
colors together, some rainbows using all the different
colors in the rainbow. We played with salt to see what fun texture salt
gives watercolor, a giant rainbow using all of the colors of the
rainbow and then we put all of them
together to make fun watercolor patterns
inside the word love. I had so much fun with you today and I hope that you had fun too. I have even more watercolor
classes on Skillshare, even another one for kids, that one's called watercolor
for kids galaxies. I have a bunch of
tutorials on YouTube if painting with me
was fun for you. Thank you so much for joining me and I'll see you next time.
Kolbie Blume, Artist
