 Hey guys, I'm showing you a different angle of my table. Yes, this is my messy art table. Here you go Welcome to another kids art video So in this video, we're gonna start a series where we do little paintings and things every now and then We're gonna do a watercolor Sort of painting today. I'm gonna show you a couple different ways to do it This is a plant that lives on my kitchen counter downstairs And I thought it was a good inspiration to do a fun easy painting So we're gonna use it as inspiration and I'm gonna show you a few tips and tricks on how to create something that is Inspired by this but not exactly looking like this. I think it's gonna be pretty fun and pretty easy So I wanted to show you the plant first before we get started now We'll go back to the overhead table view and let's get going now as we get going to do this on video I hope that y'all have done your chores and you've done your homework, you know, same old routine I know I repeat myself a lot But I am a mom and so yeah You're minding your parents hopefully and everything is going all right for you at home And if it's not ask someone you trust for some help. All right that being said We are gonna get started with some kids art painting videos and We are going to I'm gonna show you a couple different ways to do that painting inspired by that little plant for those of you who don't know and aren't aware I am a Mix media artist and water colorists So I do have a lot of watercolor paints here in my art room You don't need them to do this at least I don't think so I have a couple ideas on what you could do with simpler materials, but I am gonna show you with watercolor paints how to do it and then with the Supplies we've been using which include the water soluble Crayola Metallic markers and some crayons and pencils. So Let's get started The first thing I want to do is tape off the edge of my paper. So let's talk about the paper So this is watercolor paper So if you're gonna do something like this, you do want a thicker piece of paper You don't want to use a thin piece of paper. So you want to use a thick piece of cardstock or preferably watercolor paper Watercolor paper is not expensive. You can get very inexpensive brands kinds of watercolor paper If you don't have anything at home and you're trying to just use what you have a thick piece of cardstock will work You just want to be careful about how wet you get it You're gonna need a straw And you're gonna need some pencils and some paints or some markers that like we we saw in the last Drawing video for the little journal which is here On the seashell and on the popsicle we Got some of these wet on a piece of plastic or on a plate and Made sort of a painting ink out of them so you can use that too All right, so The first thing we're gonna do is we are gonna draw the pot for our plant in just a plain number two school pencil So I'm going to just Lightly draw the shape for my pot. Is it a curved line? Hopefully that's showing up on camera I'll zoom in in just a minute and then on each side of the curved line Do a straight line about the same length? right Then bring it in just a little bit Make sure that these are the same distance apart then a little bit in from the edge Start a new line and curve it curve it in just a little bit and draw another one on the other side Do your best to make sure that they're straight. They're not going to be perfect, but we're okay with that and Then do another curved line to attach them. That's our pot then Do a little bit of a curved line going the opposite direction here and Here There we go. Can you see that? So that's your that's our basic pot shape Okay So now Have to move a bunch of stuff. Okay, let's go there So the first one that we do let's do with simple tools And then I'll show you one with proper watercolor paints So the first thing we're going to do is I'm going to take my metallic green I'm going to put a bunch of it on our hard surface whether it's a piece of plastic or it's a plate like this one You probably have something from the last drawing And if you don't make sure that you ask mom and dad's permission Don't just go do this on one of their plates because I'm pretty sure that's going to get you in trouble and Then we're going to take the blue and we're going to take a paintbrush and We're going to get them wet Well, I'm going to start with just the green right now Now with any watercolor paint or water soluble paint the more water you put in there the lighter The color is going to be that's kind of an important thing So if your color is too dark add more water I'm going to take some of this color and move it down here with my paintbrush and I'm going to get my brush wet again, and I'm going to add more water to it See look how much lighter it is Then I'm going to put the plate on the side and I'm going to take the light color and I'm going to put a bunch of it here. I'm going to take my straw like that How fun is that? Same color. I'm still using the lighter color. Try not to make a big mess Then I'm going to take my darker color We'll put the darker color on Now One of the things about water color paints water soluble paints is they're just going to go where the water is So unless you put it down here where it's dry, it's not going to go there by itself If you get some paint like right here where you don't want it take your brush with some water Put some water there grab a rag You won't get all of it up, but you'll get probably most of it up. Okay, just like that You want to let that dry and then we're going to do some more Okay, so I took our green and I added some of the brown to it and I'm going to get it wet again Just to give me that'll give me a little bit of a darker color. See what happened Put that on here puddle some of it so we can blow With the straw and also take it before that dries and I'm gonna just add some of it To like thicken up some of the lines that we have gotten from blowing the paint around This isn't exactly the right paint brush for it, but I'll show you in the other one Using a different brush, but that's okay. We're gonna also take one of the lighter colors. I'm gonna Add some more of that to the background. How fun is that already? Sop up some of that extra water and paint. Okay, let's work on the pot just a little bit So I've got our blue here on that I put on the plate, too I don't want it too dark and the thing with water color paints or water soluble paints is Once you have it on there, you generally can't do a lot to take it back You can get some of it up and not all of it So always start with lighter colors than you think you want because you can always make it darker, but you can't make it lighter not easily so I'm gonna put a shadow here under the lip of the pot and Then also down the side Put a little bit of paint and then I'm gonna come back with water Again, this is really not the right brush for this, but work. I'm gonna use what I have Because we're all about that, right? I'm gonna why that's wet. I'm gonna come in with our rag and blot it up a little bit in my opinion That's a little bit dark. So you might like it that way. It's a little dark for me Okay, I'm gonna put some of the dark here outside our line Oops We'll take a little bit of the darker All things are still wet it'll move around in the water Okay, I am gonna take a little bit of that brown Brown inky paint. Let's just put a little bit of it here Underneath the plant where the dirt is right? Okay, we're not quite done yet, but look how cute that looks We are gonna dry let that dry again before we go do the next step I'll be okay now. Let's just define a couple of things. We don't have to do too much. I don't think So we're gonna take a black again, just a plain black pen like we used in the daily drawings I'm a plane. This is a big crystal ballpoint pen. It's nothing fancy. I'm gonna not push down too hard into the paper But I'm going to redefine some of our lines for the pot Keeping it loose and sketchy not being too concerned about Things being completely perfect. We're not about perfect, right? and then define Just a few of your pieces of plant Follow the lines of the paint when you blue on the paint And I'm going to take a white pen. I did finally get this one to work now the plant has Um white lines on the branches and so The darker your green paint is the more these lines are going to show up I may take my paint pen to do some little accents with the paint pen That are a little bit darker. That's that's a good painting So there you go. I didn't use anything special One thing you always want to remember when you create a painting is make sure to sign it So we see how we can do that with proper watercolor paints Hang on just a second. Okay. Let me start by saying you don't have to have watercolor paints to do that Do this painting. We just proved that I used what we had that we were using for the daily drawings But if you have some watercolor paints, maybe you've got a set of Crayola watercolor paints That'll work just fine. These are Windsor newt. This is a Windsor Newton pocket set It's not super expensive, but you can use Crayola use what you have I'm gonna Put mine here first and let's get them wet. So when you get them, they're usually dry in Cakes like this. It's called a cake. These are half pans I'm gonna get them wet and then put them us put them up here off Slightly off camera I have my pencil back again. I've got two. These are watercolor brushes. I only use these for watercolor I have a half inch a flat a small flat brush and then I've got a small round one. This is a number four round I'm gonna put them in some clean water. We've got our straw still So like last time the first thing we want to do is draw our pot So we want to start with our Curved line and go down one side and then make the same size straight line on the other side Then go in just a little bit and in just a little bit just like we did last time Then we're going to go in slightly on each side and we're going to draw a straight line that goes in Tapers in just a little bit Like that draw a curved line Now once You get your paint on here. These pencil lines really won't show much Once your paint is dry, you can erase them before you do your pen work But I really I like seeing the pencil lines underneath my paintings. So if they show i'm not too concerned Then we want to draw our other little lines here at the top just like that Okay, so just like last time same kind of shape as last time So now we're going to take our flat brush the bigger of the two brushes which has yellow paint on it for some reason Plate does I don't know and we're going to grab We have two greens in here. We have a sap green, which is a yellowy green Like that and we have veridian, which is a darker blue green For right now, we're going to go with the sap green and i'm just pulling a little bit of the paint Like last time with watercolor paints or water soluble paints or ink the more water you use The lighter the color is So i'm just grabbing a little bit and then i'm going to put some water Because you can always make it darker, but it's harder to make it lighter, especially if you're using watercolor paint The marker lifts really easy the paint doesn't always so i'm going to take my Light green paint here And again, we're going to puddle it on the top of our pot in the middle Just add a bunch of it and then we're going to take our straw Take some more one more time Let's put some of that pigment back down here because we blew it all away our water droplets Okay, we're going to dry that and we're going to come right back I will say about the drying part. You don't have to let it dry at all or all the way Before you go on to the next step But then your colors are going to mix a little bit and you have to be okay with that The easiest way to let it dry is to just do a couple of these or do these while you're working on your drawings And just put this aside and let it dry while you're doing something else All right, so now We're going to take some more of that sap green color Add it to our pile of water So we have a darker color I'm also going to take a little bit of the viridian and mix it in with the sap green I'm going to put it down here just like we did last time We're just using paints to the watered down marker Okay, let that dry again, and I'll be back. Okay time for the details like with the other one So we're going to start with some loose sketchy lines to outline the shape of our pot For me painting is all about suggesting shapes rather than trying to be super realistic about things That's not who I am as an artist and a painter If it's what you think you want to explore go for it There's a lot of great tutorials for realistic drawing and painting on youtube But that's not what I'm about. I think it's more fun to suggest shapes So like with the other one I'm going in to suggest some of the vertical lines of the plant Following some of the paint lines that I see that came And then we're going to take our two white pens Now you can see right there. Can you see right there? How the white gel pen is showing up darker Here because this green is darker than what we got with the marker And that's one of the big differences you'll find with using A crayola marker versus like even crayola watercolor paint And then we're going to go in with the paint pen again Just like that What's the last thing you do before you finish? Sign it, of course. All right. So there we go. There are two watercolor paintings That I hope that you have fun Recreating and if you decide to do a different kind of painting I would love to see what you do if you have a way to share them with me You know painting and creating is a lot of fun and very Therapeutic. I know a big grown-up word, but it's a really great way to Have some fun in a creative constructive healthy normal way So I hope that you Explore it and decide to give it a try. I love painting. I love water coloring One of my things about watercolor is I can take it with me anywhere I just need a piece of paper my little paint box and a paint brush and if you have One of these brushes that has water in the handle you don't even need a cup of water because there's water here already So that's it for today. I hope that you all have fun with it that you have found good and fun interesting ways to stay creative while you're staying inside and don't forget to Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later. Bye guys