Let's Make Art Matter | Children's Watercolor Art Activity by Nicole Miyuki of Let's Make Art

hi kids my name is nicole and this is let's make art and you're here to paint with us we are doing something fun today this is what we need to name him but keane's going to make the noise first we're fading a lion it's a rainbow lion this time and so what we're doing is grab your postcard if you have our box or if you don't you can grab anything that's a little bit smaller and we're going to paint on that so what we were doing is this month we are making a postcard for some kids these kids are are going through some hard times and we're here to cheer them on and remind them that they're brave by painting this beautiful lion so the supplies i'd like you to get are your watercolors a brush where's my brush a brush your palette a cup of water to wash off and then a pencil so i'm going to start out with showing you the first step which is we're going to actually draw this line together i know you can do this i'm going to break it down into smaller steps so grab a pencil and grab your postcard now when you're doing this i want you to remember our motto actually perfect so we're going to say our motto together so if you can raise your right hand and repeat after me i am brave i am brave i am kind i am kind and i am creative and i am creative let's do this boom so i wanted you to say that because when we were doing this tutorial you were going to remember all three of those words actually you were brave for doing this and trying this you were kind for creating an art piece for someone else that you may not know and you were creative because we're making this cool painting with multiple colors yes it's gonna be so much fun okay so now the first step is that we're going to draw the face shape of our lion now when you're doing this i like to draw on pencil first so i'm going to use a pencil so what you're going to do is you're going to come sort of in the middle it doesn't matter exactly you don't need to get a ruler or anything we're just we're making marks on this paper so i'm going to start in the middle and i'm going to draw a curve and come around so there's a few things you can think of this as i'm just going to draw a circle or maybe you draw an oval it doesn't need to be perfect now if you want you can go okay wait i want to erase that a little bit but what you're doing is you're thinking about your lion now your line can have some curves at the top of this so what if you think and we're going to use our imagination and maybe we see an apple or maybe you see a rounded heart yes it totally does look like a heart so maybe you can if that helps you to think that maybe you go okay i'm going to draw a heart so i'm going to kind of come up a little bit more and then connect it now these lines are just our guidelines so they don't need to be perfect oh i like thinking of it as a heart yeah it's nice we're going to do that okay so that is your face shape now when you're doing this one thing that you can think about is think okay i'm going to be drawing i'm going to be painting the mane or the hair so you want to have a little bit of room so that we can do that so don't make it too big and take the whole space we're going to make it a little bit smaller so maybe move mine in a little bit now the other part that i'd like you to draw are your ears so if you can see here when you have your lines mains the hair goes above it a little bit so that's why we didn't connect our ears right here we're going to draw them a little bit higher so imagine some space right here so what you're doing is you can draw it's kind of just it's an upside down u or a curve so you're drawing it like that now maybe your ears are pointed what if you tip it upside down yeah and do smiley faces oh turn it upside down turn it upside down excuse me yes so you can do that you can turn it upside down and they're cool smiley faces i love that idea and now it looks like a paw oh that's cool maybe we make one part postcard yeah one of the lion's face and one of its paw paws and then it's a whole trail so dang i love that idea many ideas this is the fun part about creating so you have that now what we're going to do is we're going to paint our rainbow lion now i need to grab my watercolors out so we're going to paint with three colors or that's what i'm starting out with so i'm starting out with my red and i'm squeezing just a little bit on my palette yellow you can count the drops yeah you can you can do maybe three three drops how's that sound sounds great okay so we have three colors so i'm going to show you so i grabbed just this an extra piece of paper and i'm going to show you the color so we're getting our rainbow all ready so we have red yellow and blue now we want to create our rainbow so the next color in the rainbow is orange and guess what you can make orange yourself what so i'm going to use one drop of red and then i'm gonna squeeze maybe three drops of yellow because the yellow the red is really strong so i'm gonna do more yellow so red plus yellow equals orange orange boom we got our orange now then we're gonna keep going with our rainbow so we're gonna mix yellow and blue makes green so we're gonna mix those together oh here's the really cool thing that i love about mixing colors is i have this color what if i want to get what if i think okay i'm going to start with that color what if i add one drop of blue what happens oh that's a pretty blue oh that's like a turquoise so i'm going to get i have two different colors oh yeah that's a good green mixing colors is so fun okay now the last color in the rainbow so we have red orange yellow green blue purple so we're going to mix the two colors at the end so we're going to mix blue and red and that is going to give us is the blue strong like the red is strong they are pretty similar i think it's because the yellow is such a light color it gets overpowered sometimes so you might need to give it more yellow it's a good question that is a pretty important beautiful color love it okay so now we have all of our colors ready now we are ready to paint so you have your lion and you're going to grab your brush swish it around so i'm changing i want to use i want to change my color so whenever you change colors always remember to dip in water first so i'm going to get some water and i'm going to paint my lion yellow the inside so i'm going to grab some yellow and i'm just going to paint so i'm going to paint inside now do all of this when you're painting i want you to be loose and have fun we're just making coloring this in giving him some color so i'm painting the full face now i'm gonna paint his ears oh what should we name this guy keenan i was thinking now hear me out what if i had two names one was timothy that was my first name timothy the lion okay sounds very kind that was because he's rainbow what if it's just a headdress and it's a girl oh epic yeah so the headdress is part of the play that she's going to be in and she's the male role so it's samantha the lion great perfect samantha okay so samantha to give her some rounding and depth so depth means when you can see some part in front and some in the back so when you have a rounded shape just like an apple like i was saying we want to give it some some life so to do that i'm going to take a little bit darker color so let's take the orange so we have yellow i'm going to grab some orange and what i'm going to do is i'm just whoa you might get some color everywhere that's okay i'm going to just paint on the outside of her face okay now this is me the magic part so i'm painting on the outside now what you're going to do is you're going to dip in oh grab some water swish around and i'm going to scrape off to the side so it's not super wet and what i'm going to do is i'm going to see where the line connects i'm going to go over this and we're going to blend it in so this is a beautiful thing about watercolors so i'm just moving over that line like that oh i'm kind of i'm just going to make heart shapes oh perfect so we're kind of painting inside so can you see how it kind of makes it look more rounded yeah cool now i'm going to do the same thing with my ears and you will notice if you did our lion which i want to show we have a lion project that you can also do where it's the full lion this guy's awesome so we're doing a similar thing so you're just you're getting really good at making these lines okay so now i have that we are going to move on to samantha's headdress her mane and her hair now i think i'm just going to go in rainbow order but what i want to tell you is that if you want your your hair to be all blue maybe it's all different shades of blue it can be anything that you want this is your postcard to paint because you are creative so i'm going to start with red and what i'm going to do is i'm going to just draw lines coming away from the face now when i get to the ear i'm going to kind of go around it oh here's the really cool thing i want to teach you is that do you see how it got it was really dark here and then it got lighter so the really cool thing about watercolors is you're going to get so many different colors so i did that now i want to pick up and i'm going to move to orange and maybe i'll paint on top of the this color kind of blend it in let's see what we get i like that it's going to move around so we're just painting lines you can see how loose and free you can make yours oh this reminds me of now that you said samantha i think of trolls i just thought of you know what i'm thinking of maybe in the world tour tour one spoilers whoops just kidding it's a great movie it's a great movie i'm sure you might have seen it which one which part this the character where she's the rock and roll one oh queen barb that's what i think of her hair yeah right she's rocking she looks epic so i'm gonna keep going and grab my yellow yellow is the next color in the rainbow so i'm just dipping in and i'm drawing my lines now i kind of want to blend and see what happens so we're just moving around so it's next green so i like to kind of go over the colors ooh [Music] here's where you can have fun what if i just use water and what we've been learning is just adding some cool dots oh man that looks awesome it's gonna kind of blend oh now i'm gonna see so if you see my palette we made this kind of this beautiful teal turquoisey color i'm gonna grab that in too oh that's nice that's like a a third in dairy color yeah the word is tertiary we can definitely call it that so i'm adding oh yes i got some of my blue and then my purple so i'm going to blend it in kind of go around the ear now it's okay if it paints over it kind of bleeds into it that's cool thing we're just giving we're giving her some personality yeah ooh maybe i want to add some purple in here just keep going she's going to nail this play oh i'm gonna keep going she's on fire in a good way now we are going to let this dry because we're going to it's a little bit wet so far to paint it's going to smear a little bit so while we let that dry for a few minutes i want to show you how we're going to do the face so let me move this in the center if you look at this can you see how what we did is we painted it with this shiny metallic color now so that's what i was using is i was using the same acrylic paint that you have in your box i want to show you if you don't have that here's the cool thing ask a grown-up just say hey do you have a pen i can borrow because yes if you if you have the the same paint as we do you can definitely use that but i want to show you that you can make art with any tool that you have in your home so let me use another piece of paper just to show you what we're going to do is when you're doing your faces i want you to sit there and imagine what kind of face you want do you want do you want him to be a little serious do you want him to be happy or her do you want her to be blinking winking or winking with glasses let's do that oh with glasses i don't know okay so when you're doing this the reason why i'm asking you is that you you're a magician you're an artist you can make any expression you want so a few different ways or you can draw their eyes they can just be lines like that or you can make them where they're circular oh those kind of like eyebrows right now yeah they do and maybe they have a little you know when you look at your eye and you see a little bit of white maybe they have a little bit of white like that so you're coloring it in so these are all different ways that you can draw eyes you draw like that if you want to do them winking maybe we'll do it where so i'm going to draw an oval for my eye so let's color that in so when you're winking one eye's open and one eye is closed right now like that ah maybe his nose is off to the side okay i like i think i'm gonna go with this one so this was just my practice to see what i wanted to do you like that yeah that is amazing okay we're gonna do that so now that this guy he's pretty dry is we're going to draw on top of our paint again if you want to do this in some other paint color or you want to do it with the pen like i have you can use any tool now what i would i would i think what might be easiest is i'm going to start with my nose so i'm going to draw my nose i'm going to draw it kind of in the middle so i'm gonna draw my nose and i drew it kind of off to the side maybe he's like squinking but his nose kind of comes off to the side yeah got it why not nailed it so we're gonna draw his nose so we're drawing a triangle so triangle has three sides so one two three is the strongest shape oh good to know i like that now we are going to draw two smiley faces for the part it's basically like the lip of the of our lion so i'm gonna draw a smiley face that way coming from the center and a smiley face that way now our winking eye so when you look at the our eyes we have the line down the center and there's an eye on the left and an eye on the right so i'm going to imagine that so i have the line in the center so i'm going to draw one to the left so this is going to be the open eye so i'm drawing an oval or a circle now i want to draw that glare and that glistening beautiful white part so i'm going to draw another circle and i'm going to fill this in so fill that in and then he's she is winking yeah nice so maybe i think here i'm gonna teach you guys another thing is i want to paint my nose brown so here's the cool thing is you can mix like we were doing any color so maybe i have my palette let's see what happens to make brown you're going to mix your three primary colors so i'm going to try that so i grabbed red yellow which i'm just going to we're going to become an artist here and i'm going to grab blue a mix edition oh i like that maybe it's a blue nose let's see what keeps happening so i'm going to kind of mix colors purple i think i need some yellow so we're just kind of mixing the three colors to see what combo we get ooh i like it okay so i'm gonna pick up that color whatever color you have i'm gonna paint her nose yeah nice there we go we're all done ah that is it so you can oh we're not done because lions have whiskers yes they do so maybe i'll use let's just see what happens i'm going to use orange so i'm going to draw some whiskers so i'm going to draw the whiskers come from the part they're attached to your face so i'm going to attach them with these kind of freckles i want to give her some freckles and then from the freckles i'm going to draw lines just drawing lines coming away and the whiskers go on top of the hair so that's why i drew them a little bit longer beautiful there we go this was so much fun now here's the really really cool thing what you just made is going to be in you're going to put this in the mailbox then that is going to go all the way across wherever you lived to a state called texas and there this think about kids that are going to be holding your artwork that they that you made is going to impact them so much so i want to say thank you for being a part of this with us sometimes when you see kids or adults who may be maybe a little bit sad you may not know what to say but guess what you have so much power inside of you to make a beautiful painting like this and make them smile so that is what we're here to do that's what let's make art matter is that is the power you hold and i hope you also had fun doing this this was an awesome one so again this is your postcard make sure you ask a grown-up to help you put it in the mailbox and know that you did a very good deed today so we'll see you next time for another painting bye guys

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Length: 20min 39sec (1239 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 22 2021