Watercolors For Kids: Fun & Easy Watermelon Postcard

1. What Will You Learn Today?: Hey, kids, I am Pooja. I'm a watercolor artist based out of North America, and I'm so, so excited to bring this five day project CDs just for you kids. I hope you all are staying safe at home and keeping busy with lots of art and craft projects. In today's watercolor project. We are going to pain acute postcard with a waterman and slice and a witty and adorable coat to go with it. You can give this postcard to your family member or your best friend or simply hug it in your room. Are you excited to paint with me? Because I surely am. So let's get started. 2. Art Supplies: So before we start painting, let's look at the art supplies that we're going to need today for this project. We're going to need a pencil for sketching and Anne Reza a measuring scale. What a color People or a thick guard sheet. It's completely okay if you don't have a watercolor people. But make sure that the paper you use is thick enough, so your paper does not back a lot when you put water on it, so make sure you're using a thick white paper. You will need water. Connor's off any brand that you have at home water kind of brush. A black sketch been two cups of clean water in one cup. We're going to rinse our red color and the other cup to rains. The green color issue paper to dab your rash, and that's about it. 3. Sketching + Painting Watermelon: So we are going to keep. Our people were tickle the size off. My paper is six inches by nine inches, and we're going to paint a vertical watermelon slice on this people. So I'm going to draw a triangular shape with around it base, and that's going to be our sketch. So let's start by marking an approximate center off the page. So that's my center, and I'm going to start drawing a triangle. So start by drawing the sites off the try anger, pull them down from both the sites and then just joined the two ends with around base like So. I'm just going to darken the pencil sketch so you can see it now if you think that your pencil sketch is too dark with the help, Often a razor just lightly erases the lines just so that you can see them while pending. We're trying to erase the lines, so once you finish your painting, the lines are not seen through the color. Okay, so after that, we're going to dip our brush in the clean water, rinse it nicely, take off any existing color on your brush and then lord your brush with water lots of water and then glided over the watermelon slice from top to bottom. Make sure that the surface off your watermelon is glistening. You will instantly notice that it gives off machine on the surface off the people once you start lighting water over it, so take your time and paint your watermelon slice with just clean water, make sure that you cover all the areas with a tin layer. Okay, While you're doing this, I would like to share some quick, fun facts about watermelons. Watermelon is the only food to be classified as both off fruit and a vegetable. There are more than 1200 different where ideas off watermelons. Watermelon is a related off pumpkins and cucumber, and the last one watermelons are made up off 92% water, and hence they make the best fruits for somewhere. Once you finish applying the layer of water, we're going to start coloring before the water layer dries up. So I'm going to load my brush with a nice, bright red color. And would this guy no, on the tip off the watermelon slice and you wouldn't know this at the moment you put Carlo on this wet surface that follow will start bleeding onto the paper. You will instantly see that the dots off the color starts to spread in all different directions wherever the paper is wet, once you apply little color. If you brush in water and start spreading the red color all around the slice, make sure you leave some space on the bottom, where you can paint the green part off the watermelon. So make sure you don't go all the way down and just stop above this layer where we're going to place the green color later on having some more red color. If you have two shades of red color, now is the time to use the dark okelo and put some random brush marks all over the watermelon slice. So when this dries up, it's going to add a beautiful extra. So I'm just randomly placing my brush everywhere, and the color is automatically spreading on its own. Be really soft and gentle on your brush. Don't press your brush too hard, and once you have read Carlo on the slice, wash your brush and with the clean brush, just try to cover all the white spaces on the watermelon. After that, I'm going to load some green color on my brush and then reverse my people. I'm going to make it upside down and then just draw a green border at the bottom off the slice. I'm just going to do it one more time because I want the green color to look dark. So start with a nice, fresh green color. And then, if you want, you can darkened this again by using a deep Bring Cano. Now I'm loading my brush with dark cream and just, I think small hands off it on top of the light green color. Now I'm cleaning my brush, and I'm simply merging the green color with the red. But we're going to let this layer dry completely. You'll have to wait for a least 10 to 15 minutes. 4. Adding Texture + Lettering: Okay, so my watermelon is now completely dry, so we're going to go ahead and write the message below it. So with the help off a scale, I'm going to draw two lines, one below the other. Keep some space between the two lines. Make sure your lines are very light because we want to erase them after we finish writing the court and the courts that we're going to write is you are one in a melon. So instead of writing your one in a 1,000,000 we're going to replace the word 1,000,000 by melon. So let's try toe right it. I am going to write all the words in upper case or capital letters. Take your own sweet time. When you're writing this, I'm first going to write with a pencil and then use a pen after I feel that the letters are looking OK. So that's how I who did. And now I'm going to use ah, black pen to right on top off the pencil work that we just did, Or Leo, you can use a black sketch been, ah, black fine liner, a black Sharpie, just anything that you have handy. So if you're not comfortable writing in uppercase. You can always write it in your normal lower case handwriting, so don't worry about the text on the way to write it. Just do it nice and slowly. Don't rush into it. And don't be in a hurry to erase the pencil line because sometimes the pen ink does take a few seconds to dry up. So make sure that your ink has completely tried before you go and erase the pencil lines. Now, using the same pen, I'm going to draw the waterman and seeds. I'm going to draw small to your drops that are placed at some distance from each other. So I'm just going to add a couple off them all over the slice off the watermelon. Don't act too many because it's just going to look a little overwhelming, so make sure that you see it's are tiny and spaced out from each other, and that's it. And now I'm going to go ahead and raise the pencil lines. No, I'm just making some line marks around the code to make it look prominent. Okay, now, this is my favorite part. We're going to do some red splatter around the Waterman and slice. And for that, you have to take lots of Fred color on your rash on your weight brush, and then please, either a cardboard or a newspaper sheet underneath so you don't spoil your desk and then using another pen or pencil, just stop this brush on top off your what? Two kind of people. And just make some red splatter around your watermen and slice. And that's it. I really like this effect, and I think it looks so cool. All right. I think our first what to Kahlo. Watermelon postcard is now ready. Thank you so much for joining me today in this painting session. And I hope you had fun because I had lots of fun painting with you. If you're excited about the next project to tune in again and I can't wait to paint with you