How to Make a "Watercolor" Painting with Markers
Create vibrant valentines by "watercolor" painting with markers! It’s a simple and enjoyable project for all ages, perfect for creating personal cards to share this Valentine’s Day.
Yield: 1 watercolor heart art
Cost: $1
Equipment
- Heart shaped cookie cutter (in various sizes)
Materials
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Draw the hearts
- Start with a piece of watercolor or mixed media paper. Your paper can be any size you'd like your valentine to be. Ours is 3 by 4 inches.
- Place a cookier cutter on the paper where you'd like the heart to be. Trace around the inside or the outside of the cookie cutter with a washable marker.
- Use your marker to draw a jelly bean shape on each of the 2 rounded top parts of the heart. These will be the "shine spots." Color the top 1/3 of the heart with the marker, going around the shine spots. Then add a thicker line on the edge of the heart opposite the shine spots.
- Repeat these steps to create more hearts in different colors and sizes.
Step 3: Paint the hearts with water
- Dip a clean paintbrush in water, dabbing off any excess water drops.
- Drag the damp paintbrush through the marker in the top 1/3 of the heart, pulling the color towards the white space at the bottom of the heart. Try to avoid dragging color into the shine spots.Add more water to the brush as needed.
- Run the damp brush along the thicker edge of the heart opposite the shine spots and pull the color away from the heart. This helps create a 3D effect on the heart.Rinse any marker off the brush, then follow the same process to "paint" the rest of the hearts. Once you're happy with your valentine, let it dry fully.
- Your "watercolor" painting with markers is complete!
- Now have fun making valentines for all your friends using different colors!
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Notes
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