Watercolor and Pastel Valentines – ARTBAR
This weekend I was influenced by 1 of the prompts in our February Creativeness Project guide, properly named Friendship and centered close to enjoy, kindness, and connection. The prompt is a simple invitation with watercolors and pastels, and the choices are unlimited.
These hearts are channeling a minor Jim Dine, who explored relationships of colour, texture and composition by means of the coronary heart condition.
Materials for Watercolor and Pastel Valentines:
~ Watercolor paper (I inventory 90lb 18 X 24 paper that I can slice down when needed)
~ Pencil
~ Watercolors (any type will do the job, I employed acryla-guache paints that are in tubes but you can use regular palette watercolors)
~ Paint brush and glass of water
How to make Watercolor and Pastel Valentines:
1. Slash your paper down if you need to have to. I had huge sheets that I measured out and tore working with a huge ruler. My last measurement is about 4 X 5 inches.
2. Sketch a coronary heart on each and every card with a pencil.
3. Paint your hearts. I performed all around with utilizing colors in the similar loved ones (blue/inexperienced, pink/pink, red/orang) and also contrasting colors (yellow/purple, crimson/inexperienced).
4. When they are dry (you may well will need to bend them to flatten, they can curl when drying) use chalk pastels on leading to spotlight and brighten elements of the heart and track record. I favored utilizing highlights and then darker shades to make the hearts experience 3-dimentional.
This watercolor + chalk pastel thought can be even extra open up-finished for young kids. Just established out even larger paper with the watercolors and enable them paint whatsoever they opt for. Then deliver out the chalk pastels when dry and permit them examine adding a lot more shade on major.
xo Bar
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Did you like this publish? Below are much more handmade Valentine ideas:
Cereal Box Cardboard Hearts
Simple Watercolor Hearts
Valentines for the Class
