Made of Rainbows

Today’s blog was a lot of fun, but it might be a little challenging if you don’t draw frequently, so be prepared.  If it helps, try sketching it a few times on computer paper!

Here’s what you need:

Watercolor
Paintbrushes
A cup of water
Pencil
Charcoal
Charcoal paper OR Watercolor paper (I suggest WC paper.)
Toilet paper

Step 1:

Sketch the outline of your drawing in pencil, lightly.  I mean really lightly!

Step 2:

Starting with the red watercolor, near the top of the paper, paint a few streaks.  (The lips of the girl I drew were at the top, so I started there!  Use the toilet paper, and drag it down where you painted.  You should now have some semi-faded streaks. 

Move on to orange, and blend it a little where the red was painted, but make the bulk of it a little below the red.  Using the same tactic, streak the orange with the toilet paper.

Now do the same thing with the yellow…and then the green…and then the blue…and then indigo, if you

have it…and then violet!

Step 3:

Now, starting at the top again, splatter some red against the paper!  I do this from about a foot away.

 Don’t do this step against anything important and white, because it will get destroyed!  Follow the same

step for all the other colors.

Step 4:

Wait for the paint to dry.  You might as well put away your paint stuff now, because you won’t need it

anymore.

Step 5:

Using a stick of thin charcoal, trace the outline of your drawing over the paint.  At this point it should be

looking pretty epic!

Step 6:

Using the charcoal again, shade in some basic areas.  Don’t shade in the whole drawing, because you

don’t want to overpower the colors!

And now, here is a Bonnie masterpiece: