Printable Watercolor Painting Worksheet Green Tree.

This is a simplified version of how to paint a green tree in summer.  

The project uses a limited choice in colors to make it an ideal project for the beginner.

In this approach, we use wet washes and then follow up with a dry brush technique for detail.

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Printable How To Paint A Green Tree Worksheet By MrAdron

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ART SUPPLY LIST

You can use any watercolor paint. I prefer my small Windsor Newton paint set; it has a nice selection of colors. I also use Grumbacher Paints in the tubes.  You can easily find these at any craft store like Lobby Hobby or Michaels. (Look for coupons online.) You can collect lots of paintbrushes, but it is better at the start to keep it simple with a few small, medium, and medium-large brushes and a combination of flats as well as rounded paintbrushes. For these art lessons, I use Strathmore series 300 Watercolor paper. It is economical and available at Michaels and Hobby Lobby and online. 

Printable project notes. 

TRACE THE DESIGN
Use 140 lb watercolor paper for the best results.  Center the picture and trace the design onto the paper. This is a heavy paper and it may be hard to trace through it but if you hold it up to a light or against a window with the light coming through you may have success.  Do not press hard, the design is a reference and we do not want to see the pencil through the paint when the picture is done.

BEGINNINGS
After you trace the design do the first wash.  Use a big brush.  It is watercolor and for this part, we will use a lot of water.  This wash is the lightest colors because after this wash dries we will put in the darker colors on top.  Put blue in the sky.  Light green on the hills and the grass.  Make a light grey out of blue and brown for the tree trunk and fence.  Use light yellow-green (more yellow than green) in the tree leaves.  Use light brown for the road.

LET IT DRY BEFORE YOU DO THE SECOND WASH
Use a smaller brush, and not so much water.
Mix more grey but make it darker and use a small brush to draw in the dark side of the tree trunk and fence post.  Make a dark wash of green by adding a little blue and put the shadow under the tree.  Use dots and scribbles put green on top of the yellow but leave yellow showing in places especially on the upper areas and sunshine side of the leaves.  Keep dotting and scribbling to adding texture.

LET IT DRY BEFORE YOU DO THE LAST WASH.
Use your smallest brush. Use less water.
Use more dark green in the grass.  Use some darker brown in the road, mix a little blue with the brown to make it darker.  For the darkest greens in the tree mix a little brown and use the smallest brush to paint dots and scribbles on the leaves.  Be sure to use the darker green for the shadow side and do less dark on the sunny side.  Put a little brown on the wood of the fence.

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How to Draw a Daffodil, a Skill Builder For The Young Artist.

Daffodils are a beautiful and bright spring flower and they inspire all of us. Do a few practice flowers on a cheap paper and then put together your own arrangement.

Draw the flowers lightly using a hard light pencil, you will want to switch to a darker one later on. Start with a circle and mark off 6 points for the star-like flowers. One way is to make two triangles to help line up the marks evenly. There are many varieties of daffodils but this one has large diamond-shaped petals. After you draw them in round them off. The center tube is just a hollow tube it is like looking down into a cup so shadow the top inside and the bottom outside, use an outward sweeping line. the center has a ruffle, draw an irregular pattern around the center. The daffodil has 3 or four blade-like leaves draw them with a shadow on one side and light on the other. be sure to add some texture on the ground and add a background.

These are very colorful flowers so try it in colored pencil or watercolor paint.

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Drawing a Picture of a Tree Stump a Skill Builder For a Young Artist.

This free printable how to draw worksheet will help give the young artist confidence in drawing. If you can scribble you can sketch this picture. It uses few techniques and is a simple composition with the point of interest centered.

Free how to draw a tree stump worksheet

The first line of every nature drawing should be the horizon. In this picture it is above the center about 70% above the bottom of the page, (or 1/3 down from the top). Use a hard light pencil and draw it with a tight scribble line, like a bunch of bushes or tree tops far away. The point of interest, the tree trunk, is centered in the foreground. It begins with a basic cylinder shape. To draw the roots sketch lightly a bunch of irregular circles across the bottom of the cylinder shape. Draw a few lines to turn the circles into rough rounded triangles for the roots. Draw them longer out from the sides but short and stubby in the middle.

Don't overdraw the trunk at this point; move on to the other features of the picture, so you draw the picture as a whole. Use the same squiggly line and draw the simple silhouette of the bushes and the underside of the trees. Use sharp jagged lines to draw the tree trunks. Use short vertical lines to draw the grass.

The grass in the distance is shortest and in long rows the grass in the foreground is longest and is clumped in groups this makes it interesting.

Shade in the tree trunk using a soft dark pencil on the shadow; use the side of the pencil with short choppy lines going up and down the trunk. Use the point of a hard light pencil to texture the sunny side. Make the shading increase to the dark side of the trunk. Do the same for the trees in the back ground but keep it simpler and use only a hard pencil so it stays lighter.

Don't forget the branch that is growing out of the root on the side of the trunk, this tells the story of the tree. Shade tree leaves darkest at the top and lightest toward the opening this gives the effect of distance. Shade in the bushes under the tree with a light pencil. Use a blending sick to smooth out the pencil shading.

This will be a very inspiring picture when you are done.

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How to Draw Flowers in a Water Pail a Skillbuilder for The Young Artist

This is an easy sketch to do. The watering pail uses very basic shapes and flowers are very easy to dray after you have done a few.

How to draw Flowers in a pail Worksheet

Start by lightly drawing the basic shape of the pail as a half cone then add the circle for the handle.keep it light since your flowers will cover parts of both. The spout is the hardest. Draw it lightly and go over it in a darker pencil when you have it right. There are more than one way to draw flowers I have put a few examples in the diagram, use whatever works for you. Add variety.  Put the darkest shadows around the flowers especially if you are going to use color, then they will be brighter. Put some flowers behind others to make it interesting. Fill in any spare spaces between the flowers with leaves and shadow. Be sure to shadow around the pail so it looks three dimensional . keep the wood table light and just use a few flowing lines and squiggles to give the look of  wood planks. Don't rush through and take your time and you will have a great picture.

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Drawing Trees in Silouette a Project For The Young Artist.

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Spectrum Homeschool Art Lesson Plans March 3, 2011

SPECTRUM HOMESCHOOL COMMUNITY

Art Lesson Plans March 3, 2011

WARM-UPS:

1. Shading practice with side of pencil making lighting bolts.

2. Rolling swirls with attention to keeping swirls even.

3. Hills to mountains; using horizontal lines to draw rows of hills with graduation to jagged lines above in rows to draw mountains.

4. Circles in negative space, we don’t draw the circle but shading all the surrounding areas.

QUICK DRAW CHALLENGE:

Several stuffed toy animals were brought in and the students are to draw one in 4 minutes using whatever technique they wish.

CLASS PROJECTS:

We will draw a face of a civil war re-enactor from a photo. (Because I forgot about African American history month, so I found a picture from a history book of a Black Civil War soldier.)   The technique being developed is the blocking in of large areas and using light areas against dark to develop a picture.

Our alternative class projects are drawing a calculator- I will bring several in. Additionally more stuffed animals will be available.   

TAKE HOME SKILLBUILDERS:

The Viking ship (the boys will like this one). This was on my blog last week but not everyone got to it so I have a few extra to hand out. Other skill builders include a Mute Swan and a Seahorse.  I spent several hours designing these skill builders I hope they are fun and helpful for the students.

OUR INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:

Our inspiration for today is from 2 Chronicles 1:10. “Give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may lead this people, for who is able to govern this great people of yours?” We know the story of how the angel of the Lord appeared to Solomon at night after he worshiped and offered him anything he wanted. Solomon asked for wisdom.  It was given to him. God delights to give wisdom. If we are having problems with an art project or any other thing we can ask God for wisdom and we can be confident he will give it to us.

 Skill-building exercise: how to draw a seahorse.

Free How to Draw a Seahorse Worksheet

Skill builder/confidence builder: How to draw a swan. Mute Swan.

Free how to draw a swan worksheet

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Specrum Homeschool Community Art Lesson 2/10/11

WARM UPS: Three dimensional squares, holding pencil in the common position. 2. Double "S" swirls, holding pencil in the over position 3. Balls using shading techniques. Holding pencil in the eraser end position. 4. A "timed quick draw challenge." drawing an old shoe, the students sketch quickly. It is only a warm up and no need to be perfect. Time 4 minutes.

CLASS PROJECTS: 1. Vase with tulips emphasizing summitry of form

2. Graphic art and design project Valentines Day Greeting card with Hearts. Introducing basics of calligraphy and layout. 

TAKE HOME SKILLBUILDERS: Drawing smiley flowers, heart, and seagull. Students who need confidence are encouraged to do these.

LONG TERM PROJECT: Read acts chapter 2 and draw 1 people picture and 1 illustration of something from the chapter. The illustration can be any subject found in the chapter.

OUR INSPIRATION FOR TODAY... "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid." Proverbs 12:1. NIV. A good artist needs the self discipline to work his craft every day.  So also we need self discipline in our lives. There is the discipline that comes from the teacher or master or God we must know that we need that kind of discipline to develop and mature. If we are resentful when someone attempts to correct us we are making a foolish choice.