Triceratops -Watercolor Tutorial for Kids with Sarah Cray

hey kids sarah cray here and we are painting dinosaurs and today we are painting the triceratops which just happens to be my favorite dinosaur because my name is sarah and the name sarah is in the name triceratops so it's always been my favorite it makes a lot of sense it does it makes sense to me um okay so the colors that i use for this project are mostly the purple and the pink but i would like to say that you guys can use whatever colors you want this is your dinosaur don't be afraid to change it up and make it yours and we are going to do this dinosaur in three steps so the very first step is we are going to paint the body here our second step is we will paint the horns our third step is just details and that's it now before we get started we are going to do our oath so if you can raise your right hand and repeat after me i promise to be kind to myself i promise to be kind to myself i promise not to compare my work i promise not to compare my work and i promise to have fun i promise to have fun thank you and i like to start that way because painting and creating art it's not about seeing who's his best it's not about trying to make it look exactly like someone else's sometimes it's just about exploring and having fun and i just want to remind you of that so let's get to it i'm going to grab my paintbrush that comes in my kit and i'm going to get it wet and then i'm going to hit the bristles off the side of the cup so it's not too wet and this time i'm just going to pick up some color i'm going to do this purplish color down here and i'm just going to start coloring in my dinosaur so this is kind of like a bluish purple color okay and then when i get to the top of this what do you think this is called michael this part oh i just saw it uh i will tell you in a second okay keep going well the top of that area is going to be pink so i'm actually going to grab some of that pink now and put that in and then it's going to blend this pink and this bluish purple is going to blend to make more of a regular purple and you can blend that right on your painting tray if you want just grab some of that blue and bring it over to the pink and then i'm just going to start spreading it around like that so we have a nice little color change going on and you can make remember this is your painting so if you want to make different parts of it different colors than what i am doing please feel free to do that you don't have to follow me exactly it's called a frail oh this is called a frill the little like weird head thing is called a frail frill that's a great name let's uh let's segue into triceratops facts from that little thing okay all right so these guys lived at the same time as t-rex about 60 million years ago okay um there was a very large extinction event around 60 million years ago so a lot of things died around men i think it was the um impact in mexico that killed everything but you know speculation i guess okay they are about 10 feet tall okay and they weigh 13 tons that's 26 000 pounds whoa they're way heavier than the stegosaurus we talked about earlier are they heavier than a house no okay i don't know how much houses weigh i just was guessing something big probably a lot yeah probably a car is like one ton two tons so this weighs as much as 13 cars six to 13 yeah okay depending on your car okay geo metro's 13. smart cars suburban maybe two three okay um famous fossil finding names yoshi oh hatcher kelsey and raymond oh this is a kelsey to me kelsey this is kelsey the triceratops okay so i have my dark purple and i'm gonna keep doing that dark purple on the top part of my dinosaur now again i'm mixing this color purple by doing this blueish purple and the pink that's how i'm getting this purple that i have going on here and then when it gets to kind of the bottom of the side side triceratops it turns more into that blue purple so i'm going to do pink purpley on the top and then blue purpley on the bottom now i just want to remind you guys yet again feel free to change these colors as you see fit you are the artist this is your world that you're creating you can do whatever you want another thing is i'm going to this little space in between this front leg and the back leg i'm going to make a darker color this dark color here so i'm putting that in now so this is kind of how my dinosaur is looking now that's a great color dinosaur i love this color and this also happens to be my husband's favorite color he loves purple so a nice blue purple yeah i'm more of a fan of a pink purple michael's more of a fan of a blue purple so i did both okay and now what i'm going to do is i'm going to put in the legs and like the front legs and the back legs now these two right here i want to make sure they're lighter than the stomach area that i put in this in-between area now how to make sure something is lighter in watercolor is you just want to make sure that you have more water than paint on your paintbrush that's it and that's how you can get a lighter color color pretty easy huh with other paints you sometimes have to mix like white into them but this is why i love watercolor because you use water a lot as if it's a pink color and i think that is pretty cool so i'm now kind of coloring in most of the body and if you want to smooth it out just kind of work your paintbrush back and forth like so i always think it'd be fun to have like tiny versions of big animals as pets like a tiny tiny dog-sized elephant i also think a tiny tiny dog size triceratops would be awesome that would be awesome cuddling on the couch with you out of all of the dinosaurs in this dinosaur kit which one would you want a miniature version of uh i feel like it hurt to step on your stegosaurus on accident yes i feel like your triceratops would get mad and ram you yeah definitely a ramming type animal i feel like your miniature t-rex would bite you so probably a brontosaurus little tiny brontosaurus i'd make a little saddle and put a fake doll on him [Laughter] okay now i'm doing the back parts of the legs on my triceratops now i kind of did them light at first so i'm going to go back in and do them a little bit darker i'm going to do a little bit darker near the top because they're kind of coming out from the body and the body is casting a shadow on these legs so they would be a little bit darker where they're coming out from because a shadow would be there like that i feel like i need a little bit more pink going on in the top so i'm going to do another layer of pink now your dinosaur might not need another layer of pink so you get to decide if this is something that your dinosaur needs and maybe he or she doesn't need it now are triceratops carnivores nope are they herbivores yep okay so so far our dinosaurs we have three herbivores and a carnivore right was a stegosaurus herbivore yes okay an herbivore just means they eat plants carnivore means they eat meat and omnivore means they eat both i don't think very many reptiles were omnivores oh really i think that's more of a recent evolutionary development okay does it usually develop one type of stomach you develop the ability to digest plants or you develop the ability to digest meat it's very expensive from an evolutionary standpoint to develop a stomach that does both how interesting so we're omnivores we are omnivores we we're expensive creatures we raise our young until they're very old you know we put a lot of effort into them a dinosaur is born ready to go they come out of an egg and they're just little dinosaurs ready i know it's so silly i know they're reptiles i forget they come out of eggs some reptiles don't like some snakes um so boas and pythons are in the same family and pythons lay eggs and boas do not they're live bearers but they're still white bears also oh but they're reptiles yeah okay also snake eggs are leathery yes i did know that i feel eggs are weird they are weird okay we're gonna we're moving on to set two because i want to talk more about this but i gotta teach them how to pick it so i'm gonna move on to step two i'm gonna do the horns and the mouth and i'm gonna do this tan color up here um and so i'm just going to put that in there and if you want i'm gonna have the front of the horns be darker than the back so i'm only painting the front and then i'm going to rinse my brush and using water i'm just going to blend out these colors and spread it to cover the rest of the horn but since i'm just using water it should be lighter on the back part than the front you see that okay and then i'm going to do the mouth now if this tan color is maybe a little bit too yellow or gold for you you can get a little bit of this brown that's in the bottom right and use some brown now i'm not going to do the inside of the mouth just yet we will wait for step three so i'm only doing the top and the bottom what a funky little beak they have i know i was just thinking it looks like a beak i was just reading it self sharpens when they chew yeah and sharpens it back into chewing shape really yeah that's cool okay so while that dries i am going to kind of look at my dinosaur and and see if there's anything else i want to add or maybe some details now i do like how in my reference photo here the front of this leg is a little bit darker and i don't kind of i don't have that kind of dark edge on my leg so i'm going to go ahead and put that in what did you name this one this is kelsey kelsey that's a cute name it is cute any kelsey's out there you got a good name great name it just seems nice when i think of kelsey i think of nice you just did all the mean kelseys okay now i'm going to do a little bit of scales here and for scales they're u-shaped and if you've watched the other dinosaur tutorials you might have already seen this but if this is your first i want to just kind of go over the shapes with you they're basically just used next to each other that are connected and then the next row it starts in the middle so this is called staggered there these scales are staggered from each other like so so i'm just going to do a little bit of scale details on the front on this leg and the back you can do it more you cannot do scales you can do whatever you want this is your dinosaur that you're making and it's your world now you can see here that the back of my dinosaur is still a little bit wet so because it's wet when i'm putting my scales in they're kind of bleeding and blending out a little bit and i'm okay with that but if i want them to stay nice and sharp and dark then i would want to wait until the area was dry before i painted on it but you guys get to be the one to decide that look and there's not it's not wrong to do it this way it's just two different ways to do it if you don't feel up to doing these scales you don't have to i'm just going to kind of blend out around them using just water kind of make them a little bit fuzzy and transition into our my body okay and then i'm going to do the inside of the mouth this one i'm going to do just black but this mouth is open and i thought it would be fun because if you guys wanted to do a tongue sticking out or something like that you totally could i'm just going to leave my black and then you might notice that this little dinosaur doesn't have eyes and the reason why i left the faces off is because usually faces give us such a strong expression we can tell how someone is feeling by looking at their face and i wanted you guys to just to decide how your dinosaur is feeling now if you um want to do a face but it's hard for you to do small marks with your paint brush you can use a marker or a pen so i just have a little bit of a marker here now we have our mouth open i'm going to leave it just like that and i'm going to make this one angry i was going to say shocked shocked oh because the mouth is open okay okay so if i were to do a shocked expression when you look surprised your eyes go wide so you can kind of see the whites around your eyes and your eyebrows go up so shocked at how good the t-rex looked with glasses that t-rex didn't look good with glasses okay so i will do a big circle for the eyes with glasses huh who had glasses the t-rex had glasses and then his eyeball or her eyeball and then she's gonna kind of have an eyebrow going up so she looks surprised does she look surprised she almost looks scared a little bit too but i guess surprise could also be scared so you guys can make your dinosaur look however you want have fun with it and also i would like to say that take some time to put your dinosaur put a background in it um i think i i mean whenever i think of dinosaurs i think of lots of trees and bushes and mountains and you think of cycads but you don't know it what are cycling like ferns can you do a picture of a cycad right here yes okay so now you guys know what cycads are and then but i just want to say take some take some time have some fun make it yours do whatever you want maybe this is your pet dinosaur it has a little leash and maybe you brought it to school and you can paint that you can do whatever you want this is your world that you're creating so if you painted this with us i would love to see it so if you ask a grown-up for help you can share it with us if they have instagram they can tag us at let's go make art or hashtag let's make art facebook it's the same or you can email us at hello let's make art if you have any questions or you just want to show us your work if you need any of these supplies you can find them at let's make art dot com and i hope you guys had a lot of fun that's it bye

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Length: 17min 20sec (1040 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 13 2019