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Hello my art friends! It's Miss Rose from the Cary Area Library again with another fun art project for you to do it at home.
Um, hey it's, um, going to be Earth Day April 22nd so I thought it would be fun to paint a landscape picture celebrating Earth.
We're also going to talk about an artist named Robin Mead who does colorful landscapes.
So we're going to be using watercolors today which is fun.
We're going to be drawing flowers, water, hills, trees, mountains, sun, all things on Earth.
So cool! Let's get started!
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The supplies you will need are a pencil, um, a black Sharpie marker, if you don't have a black Sharpie marker
you can use a black crayon, a tray of watercolors, a paintbrush, um, 9 by 12 watercolor paper, and a container of water.
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Let's talk a little bit about the artist that influenced me to have you guys paint this landscape picture.
Her name is Robin Mead and she paints colorful nature landscapes using watercolors and black lines.
You'll notice that she uses designs in parts of her artwork and also, um, she uses black lines.
She outlines everything in black but you'll notice some of the lines are thicker in some areas along with the patterns.
All right, let's begin by drawing our landscape. Um, we're going to be using our paper in the vertical position.
Some people call that the dory - doorway position, rather than horizontally.
So get your paper vertically and we're going to start by drawing our flowers in the foreground
which is going to be down here at the bottom of the paper.
So since it's in the foreground, it's larger than what's in the background.
So I'm going to draw my flowers pretty large
and I'm going to have some of them go off my page.
I'm going to draw another one with different shaped petals, trying to make them different sizes
and different shapes so it makes the picture more interesting.
That one looks a little funky but that's all right. We're gonna have this one go off the corner
and maybe we'll make these petals a little bit larger.
Okay. The artist, Robin Mead, also added designs to her picture.
So I'm just going to put some designs in my flowers, or patterns. Just really simple ones.
Let's see what we do.
Now we're going to work on our middle ground which is what is in the middle of your picture when you're drawing.
We have our foreground which is larger because they're up close.
Then we work on the middle ground which is a little bit smaller than the flowers.
We're going to be putting some water and hills in this picture.
Um, so another good reason why we did it in the vertical position because we got lots to draw.
We're going to do flowers, we're going to do water, hills, trees, mountains, and the sun.
So let's see if I can draw some waves for the water.
These are just like curls that you add to. So they kind of look like they're moving waves.
Okay and then in between I'm just going to do some wave lines.
So that's our water. Now we're going to move on to the hills.
These are soft rolling hills. So they're not - it's not a pointed line. It's a kind of another wave
like we did for the water, but these are our hills.
All right. So that's our middle ground.
All right the last section of your picture we're going to be working on the background. So we have our foreground which is larger,
the middle ground kind of in the middle size, and then our background is smaller because it's farther away from you in the picture.
So we're going to draw some trees because that's part of our Earth.
Um, so I'm just going to draw some tree trunks and then I'm going to add
the leaves, kind of in a stylized fashion.
So these are very simple trees. If you want to make yours more ornate that's up to you.
Okay. Trees are done so we're gonna move on to the mountains which are different than the hills.
They're a little more pointier and taller.
I like to make them different sizes so it makes the picture more interesting.
Okay and then we're gonna finish by filling in the rest of the paper with the sun.
So you can either draw a circle and have your rays come out. I'm going to have it look like it's a sunrise or a sunset.
So I'm just going to draw half of the sun and do the rays out.
And I'm drawing my rays all the way off of the paper
because it's taking up the rest of the spot in my background.
All right, our picture's done. We have our foreground which is our flowers.
We have our middle ground which is our hills and our waves of water.
We have trees, mountains, and the sun in our background.
So once your picture is finished the way you'd like it to be
you're going to take your black Sharpie marker, or if you don't have that a black crayon works just fine,
and you're going to start tracing over all your lines,
um, slowly and carefully.
I like to start at the bottom and just work my way up.
And if there's something you drew on your paper that you don't want to have
in your picture just don't outline it in black and you can erase it later.
Okay. So if you want to pause this recording and meet me back later
after you've finished all your black lines we'll see you in a few minutes.
All right, did you finish all your black lines? Cause I certainly did!
Takes a while and it's hard to be exactly on the pencil line.
So remember you can take an eraser and erase all your leftover pencil lines when you're done. Um, so that works.
I'm just going to add some more patterns because the artist we are talking about, Robin Mead, used patterns in some of her artwork.
So I'm just going to add some more patterns in my sun, in the rays.
Just simple patterns. You don't want it to be too busy. Um, let's see, we'll do...
and maybe we'll do some...
All right and let's see. We got another - I'm gonna add another ray here and do some dots.
Dots are always fun! They're a good pattern. Easy to do.
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All right, now we're gonna start painting.
So you have your water to rinse off your paintbrush
when you change colors
and we have our tray of watercolor paints.
I'm going to start by working on the sun
and, um, there's a technique called "wet on wet" where you wet the paper first.
Now this is important why we used,
um, a Sharpie marker. So it's a permanent marker so when it gets wet it does not bleed.
And also if you use black crayon, same thing. It will not bleed.
All right, so you wet your paper first if you're doing the "wet on wet."
Then get your paint wet
and it kind of just bleeds a little bit.
It's easier to do. And maybe I want to do some blending so maybe I want to add some red.
So the colors kind of blend together.
You can certainly just paint using water.
You might have to add a lot of water to get your paint started.
That yellow is not very dark so I hope you can see it.
Oops.
All right and I'm using, basically using warm colors
on my sun because it's warm.
So you want to do the orange, yellows, and reds.
I have a paper towel underneath my artwork just so I don't mess up my table
and I have paper towel under my water bowl.
So I'm just going to do that "wet on wet" again where I wet the paper first.
Add my color.
Rinse off my paintbrush and add some orange.
Kind of bleed together.
You'll notice that some of my orange is going into the yellow because it's wet and that's fine too.
Maybe I just want to add some more...
along the edge.
You can also add just water to kind of make things bleed a little more.
All right. So I started my sun.
I'm gonna move on down to my waves just because, um,
that might be a good place for the "wet on wet."
So I'm gonna get that part wet
and the waves I'm going to do in the cool colors - blue, greens, and purples.
I'm going to add some purple to that just to make it a little more interesting...
and add some green.
I think I'm going to add some blue to the green.
Oh, look at what happens! See, it's wet...
and that looks pretty cool.
Go ahead and wet this part.
Add some more blue.
Kind of a neat effect.
Rinse off my paintbrush. Throw some purple in there.
Okay, so you can kind of experiment with that.
All right, so you're going to continue painting.
Remember in the water we use the blue, green, purple for cool colors.
The sun is warm colors so red, yellow, and oranges.
The mountains can be purple and cool colors.
Remember, I didn't mention this before, but when you're changing colors make sure to rinse off your paintbrush
so you don't mix your colors on your paint tray.
All right, I brought in my finished sample to show you because I - I'm gonna continue painting just like you were.
Um, I wanted to show you that I did two different suns.
I did the sun rising or set and then I did the circle with the sun in the sky.
Um, you can see that I did the "wet on wet" here. Gives kind of a neat effect in the water.
I basically stuck with warm colors, the orange, reds, and yellows for the sun for warmth.
And then I did the mountains in purple and kept the hills and the trees in green.
So step - stayed with cool colors in the middle, um, section.
Flowers you can do anything you want. I stuck with the warm.
Um, so we have our foreground, our middle ground, and background.
So, I hope you guys had fun painting with watercolors, um, and thanks for joining me,
and do something fun for the Earth today for Earth Day.
See you next time!
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