Watercolour and pen activity

We may be spending a lot more time at home than we’d like but art is such a great activity to get you through these times. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be adding simple art activities that you can easily do at home. Don’t limit yourself to trying each activity once. While you have lots of time at home, you can keep trying the same techniques. By doing this, you can really develop your skills.

For this activity, you’ll need paper, a pencil, a paintbrush, watercolours and a black pen. If you don’t have watercolours, you could use felt tip pens or crayons.

Step 1:

Draw the outline of vegetables (or flowers, leaves, plants, fruit) in pencil.

Step 2

Go over the outline in black pen. Use a thicker pen for the outside

Step 3

You can add detail to the vegetables with lines in a thinner black pen.

Step 4

You can leave out some parts of the vegetables to be painted just with watercolour, like leaves of vegetables.

Step 5:

Paint over the vegetables in watercolour paint.

Tip 1:

Don’t worry about going over the lines, being neat or filling in all of the vegetables as a freer style of painting gives a nice effect.

Tip 2:

Try this technique again but paint the vegetables first (or plants, flowers, leaves or fruit) and then apply the black pen after.

Tip 3:

Try this activity again but drawing a different set of objects. So if you tried fruit for your first painting, try a plant for your next.

Tip 4:

For your next painting, try different colours. You could do purple leaves, a blue banana, rainbow coloured flowers. Get creative and send us pictures of your work.