 So I'm gonna be doing a tutorial for you guys. Happy Mother's Day And I decided that we are going to do this cactus now. Don't be afraid. It's not that hard All you will need is Some type of watercolor paper actually if you don't have any at home Just use a thicker paper or construction paper if that's what you have for your from your kids That will work great any size works an eraser a pencil and some type of Paintbrush now these are mine, but the first time I ever painted I used my son's Crayola pack And it worked great the last thing that you'll need is some type of watercolor paint and you can also use just Crayola pack of watercolor my first ever painting that I did of a deer was with that And it looks great so that can work if that's all you have So those are the things you'll need I sometimes like to use a black pin You don't have to have that and then of course you'll need water So that's all that we'll need again. We're gonna do this cactus so It'll be fun. Thanks for joining me To start we're gonna take our pencil and we're going to draw the outline of this Cacti that is blooming. So we will start by Let's do the pot So we're gonna do a little oval line here and just a little one barely there Come down And I'm gonna go a little more oval in this one than I did in there there we go and let's give it a little groove here Great, okay next step is we're going to do the base So think long oval Here we go. Now you can do your own shape if you want to be more creative You can just follow me. Let's do that one there Let's do another one here Hey, why don't I add one right here? Okay, I'm gonna do a little one here a little one here one over here Okay, and then let's add one over to this side Great job Let's give another one here Looking good add them where you would like to see them now. Let's see mine looks a little crooked So I'm gonna add one here And I'm gonna go here and then I'm gonna put a couple little flowers from it And then you just with the flowers you You're just gonna go up with your pencil like this and mark make little marks Just like that and actually I did a little bit too much because that's gonna take over the paint too much The paint will fill in the rest. We just want to have the the a little bit of an idea of Where we're going here With our paintbrushes, let's put a little flower there. Let's see. I'm gonna do a couple little flowers actually I'm gonna do one right here And Those three. Okay Next step We're gonna take our paintbrushes and a medium-sized paintbrush is great for all of this We're going to dip it in the water as much water as you can get and we're gonna go ahead and just put that all over if you want it Just make sure not to get it outside of the lines or you will get water color on those lines Right outside those lines. Okay, so get it nice and wet wait And I go I'm just gonna do the biggest ones right now Okay, oops I have a little speck of water if you need a paper towel you might want to grab one Or a sponge Have a little sponge here. I'm just gonna now take Your greenest color that you want to use And you start to apply it. Look how that runs. Isn't that fun thing about watercolor? Okay, and that's the look we are wanting to have Just going all over Okay, a little bit more water a little more paint adding it in here Other spot Just adding it where you want it You can go as dark or as light as you want See how mine started trailing off already in here We're gonna start here Not fun to watch These lines are fun getting a little more water a little more paint going this way now Now this is our base coat So we will add more green As we go but thing about watercolor is You've got to wait a little bit in between times of Painting because you have to wait for a lot of things to dry Okay, so I'm gonna add a little bit more green with no water on the side here I'm gonna start to Show that there's a little bit Of a difference between this line and this line On this one too. I'm gonna add a little bit more Right there More here. I'm gonna actually extend that line a little bit because I didn't like How that line was looking so I added I hope you ladies are having an amazing day today That you're getting spoiled so well by your family on Mother's Day time to yourself Do things that you love Okay So I just looking good now I'm going to Do the rest Let's be I'm gonna actually get a smaller brush to add this um Water because I don't want it to go out of the lines. So we're gonna add water to these The little spots So come good great job Now I don't want it I you could hit this one here. I'll show you what happens If you hit it, then it's gonna start going into that which is kind of cool. It has a cool look. I'll do it And then it starts to seep in and the water comes into this and it gives water drops and it's really pretty The way that the water affects the paint A couple more to go I'm going to take that same green that I used before And for those of you, I'm actually not sure of the color of this green just Whatever green you want to use Whatever green you think cactus is Or cacti I guess as I said There we go Billing those in you just drop it in drop drop drop drop Just giving it a little line I take a little bit of time to dry Don't get discouraged You run out of the lines not a big deal. Just make it a little bit bigger Like this guy over here. He kind of started to run out of the lines right here. So, you know what we're gonna do I'm just gonna extend his body a little bit and he's gonna be a little bit more plump than he was before That is okay Now when we're done, we're going to erase the the um Pencil Okay, we're gonna let that all dry and we're gonna move on to the Bowl or I guess just to say the planter So in this I use a lot of different color And to make it a little bit less intense Of a project for you ladies. I'm going to To Just go with one color If you want to use a mix of yellow and brown That would be a nice kind of clay looking color or you could do black and you could make it a black Pot or you know, honestly, it could be any color you want But what we're going to do is we're going to start here and I'm going to add the water So we add the water so it looks nice and good right here. It's got a little green on my brush That's okay. It'll all blend in dear. Let's start with this Okay, and I'm gonna do you know, I'm gonna do black and we're gonna go with black this time Excited and it's gonna try to look a little less than it's gonna be a little brownish gray. All right Just bringing that in gonna bring that in a little bit All right now because of this crease right here, I'm gonna I'm going to put in some darker Because I want everyone to see oh, there's a crease there And I'm going to do a little more shading over here. That's kind of Where I want it to look like there's a shadow Little shadow there a little there and we're just going to A little bit more see how I'm just sweeping it across Sweeping it across job ladies Jesus, I just asked right now that you would encounter these women as they're painting They would feel free of performance And They would just feel your delight over them today as mothers as creators as curators That you would give them joy Okay, so there we go see how I made it darker on this side and darker up on here It gives the illusion that it's round I'm gonna do a little bit more on the bottom. There. Yeah This is what I was looking for. Okay. Now. Let's move on to the top I'm gonna do the inside first and let's do brown because Let's do the inside of the pot because I don't want To mix the colors yet Here we go. We're still a little way. We'll see how this goes Dark brown be careful not to hit your green or you're gonna have a green cat die Okay I'm gonna actually bring it down a little bit further here Because my cat died came down and I wanted to be Some brown there. So we're gonna make the top See how I did that the top of my bowl My planter down a little bit further there. I can't wait to see what you girls have done Okay, so we're gonna give that a second to dry And let's move on to the flowers While we give everything else a second to dry and now when we add these flowers I'm gonna go to a smaller brush You just have one brush and it's just the medium size. It's gonna be just fine. Don't worry about it one bit Okay, we wipe off get all the extra paint off of that I'm gonna go for like a reddish Yeah, this is pretty red. Okay. Okay Now I'm going to Go do this like this And I didn't put any water on my brush this time um, I could have but I'm kind of liking the dry On it right now Let's see. I'm gonna do a little bit of water on this one. Let's see how we like the difference It just gives it a little bit more of a Whimsy look so if you want to go whimsical like type look I like it Okay, I'm gonna do another one with the and this was even less paint So hopefully you can hear me with that in the background that mowing Okay, I feel great about that Now I want to add just a little bit of yellow for those little Insides of the flower to come out Just a little It's larned on that one I'm gonna do the black the top of our Well here we're gonna add a little bit of water. I'm not going to put the water on first this time And it's gonna be a bit darker I'm gonna leave a little bit of a white line there It's just a different way to do it Give a more of an illusion of the There's a difference That's the soil and that's my popping around right here a little bit more Okay, you want to add more color into Your Cactus you want to bring a little bit of yellow you can do that right here. You can just go add it here and bring it up or Wherever it's still wet you can just add a little bit more Color And fine if you want to do that if not if you just want to leave it the way it is That's great too. If you want a little bit of more water marks you can add drops of water like that And it will give you This cool Water mark look that is so loved with watercolor There we go Okay, we're gonna take a little break and let it dry okay, so I've let my cactus dry And as you can see I did add This little mark right here because my paint ran out and so I just added a little spot So what we're going to do next is we're going to take an eraser And make sure that your eraser doesn't have any dark spots on it Just get it all off real quick before you put it on your paper. You might get more brown spots on it Do that real quick. Okay, mine's pretty good Um, if you're wondering I this is the eraser amazing right now Okay So we just take off our marks Just erase it real good make sure that nothing's wet while you do this or you will Definitely smear Okay, let's see Make it all those spots a black marker And we're gonna do our little quills. I like to do like three at a time And I just do them up one two three And you can just do them wherever you want And I'm just picking random spots Some I like to do off the edge Others I like to do in the inside of it A little longer for some a little shorter for others just You can't go wrong with these Out that way I like to have them all kind of growing up in the same direction You want to keep them in the same direction as much as you can It just makes it flow better Look better right here And then just look at it and see I mean I'm missing any spots Yeah, I'll do a couple this way This spot needs those little it's a little barren Do a couple coming off of that one and Perfect Okay, and you are done So here is our finished product Hopefully yours turned out great. If not, it's okay. Do it again. It's gonna be fun Um, I actually like this one better than the other one than I did And if you want I had all my other one put blooming You can make it a card for someone and give it to your mom or you can use it later down the road Um, but these are so fun to do. Hopefully I can do another one for everyone again soon If you make it and you're proud of it and you want to share it, I'd love to see it Go ahead and tag me on instagram Graham, my name is Anna m asbury On instagram and then on facebook. It's Anna asbury tag me And I'd love to see what you created in your home Great. Happy mother's day