Super Easy Watercolour Watermelon Pattern

Hey everyone, and welcome back to another video. Today I'm going to show you how to paint a very, very easy watermelon pattern. Let's do it. OK, so to start, I'm just going to go through my materials. I have my Arches watercolor paper. I have my Winsor & Newton Cotman watercolors. My paint brushes, I'm going to be using a size 6 Princeton snap brush. I have my water and my paper towel, and we're ready to start. So this is actually so easy, but it can be so cute. It can be used for cards or, you know, just like some art in your house for the summertime. But if you can draw a triangle, you're golden, OK? So we're just going to do a really simple watermelon pattern. So what you're going to do, I'm just taking a really, really, really light wash of... Actually, you know what? I'm going to use yellow. Really, really light wash of yellow, just so you can see where I am drawing my, or painting my triangle, because you're going to be using a wet-on-wet technique for this. So you're going to make your triangle, and then you're just going to have like a curved bottom like that, and you're just going to fill that triangle in with water. Not too much water. You don't want it to pool everywhere, because then you will not get the wet-on-wet effect that you're trying to achieve. So in order to see if you're doing it correctly, just tilt your paper so you can get, you can see this like nice sheen, kind of, like it's like a shimmer on it. But if it starts pooling in one area, that means you have too much water. You can just pick up a bit with your paper towel, but you want to see that kind of nice watercolor light sheen on there. And what you're going to do is you're going to take your red, and you're just going to take that tip of there, and you're just going to, just a little bit, let the watercolor do its thing. You're not going to bring it all the way down, just like maybe halfway. Kind of let it do its thing, actually. Like that. Then you're going to take your light green, if you have a light green, I'm going to take my sap green here, and I'm just going to go along the bottom. I might have used a bit too much water there. Just keep that in mind. Then I'm going to use my dark green, my hooker's green, dark color, and I'm just going to go right under there. And there you go. Honestly, super easy. Okay? And then you're just going to continue doing this exact same thing, air bubble, but doing it in different directions. And it turns out to be a really cute pattern for, like I said, cards or whatever you want to use it for. And it's so easy, and it looks good because you're doing the wet-on-wet technique. So it gives it that extra cool effect. Honestly, I love wet-on-wet. Just the key with this is just try not to use too much water, but you've got to use enough that it will disperse kind of the way you want it to. Take my green on the bottom, darker green at the base, and make sure it's right at the base and there's not extra left over so you get that sharp edge of the dark green. I'm just going to redo it on this side too. There you go. Even if you want, you can tilt it a bit, help that color down even though that's not happening right now. You can drag it down a bit if it's too far up, but I wouldn't recommend going all the way down with the red just because you do want that bit of the white space in there. And yeah, you can just continue going and going until it dries and then we will do the seeds. So I'm just going to speed this up a bit. Okay, so now that I've done all of my watermelons, I am going to take my small size 2 brush and I'm just going to dip it in my black and just do a few watermelon seeds on each. Just using the shape of my brush, the pointy end facing up and there you go. So I just want to clarify, when I did my light wash at the bottom, the reason why I chose yellow is because yellow is a color that mixes well with red and green and it's a good base and it's light enough that you don't see it. Like, as you can tell, you don't see the yellow. I wouldn't have used red because if I used red as the light wash underneath, the green could get a little bit mucky with it because if red and green mix, it turns brown. So that is why I used the yellow as a light wash, just so I could see where I was putting my water. If you want to just use pure clean water, that works too. I just wanted to make sure that you guys could see it underneath. And also, in the watermelon, that little white space has a bit of a yellow tinge to it. So. Tinge. Tint. That's it. And now you can slap it on a card and say happy summer or happy birthday, you're wanting a melon, I don't know. Whatever you want. But there is your extremely simple watermelon pattern. Thank you guys so much for watching my video. I really hope you liked it and I hope you learned something. Don't forget to subscribe to this channel and follow me on Instagram for more. Have a great day guys. Bye.