Brrrrr! It is cold out there! Stay indoors and keep warm while celebrating the chilly weather with this fun, snowy scene.
You will need:
Watercolors and paintbrush
White crayon
Thick white
paper
Water for
rinsing
Paper towels
Fine-tipped marker (optional)
Sometimes it's nice to have a little inspiration for art projects. Since it's not actually snowing here, I looked online for painted snowy scenes. I was inspired by this picture of a watercolor painting by Janice Trane Jones. (You can check out more of her work at her Etsy shop.)
1. Watercolors work because the paper absorbs the color after the water has dried. They are fun to work with because they are easy to mix together on paper as you work.
If
you color on your paper with a crayon first, the paper cannot absorb it. You
can create a snow effect by coloring white where you want “snow” to appear in
your drawing.
Make snow on the ground, snowflakes in the air – whatever you
would like!
2. It will be hard to see where you have drawn “snow” – one trick
is to hold your paper up to sunlight. You should be able to faintly see where
you have colored.
3. When you are finished coloring snow, paint a scene with
watercolors. It is easiest to paint a sky first, let it dry, then paint any
other elements you want, like trees, houses, etc.
4. If you would like, use a paper towel to blot the watercolors
and help them dry.
5. When my watercolors were dry, I went back and added details and outlining with a fine-tipped Sharpie. You may like the look of just watercolors, though. The finished look is up to you, the artist! However, I would reccomend always signing your work and adding the year. You can see my signature in the bottom left-hand corner.
Happy "Snowing"!
