Galaxy Painted Shark Silhouette Amongst Watercolors Diy

Milky Way Painted Shark Silhouette alongside Watercolors DIY!

This galaxy painted shark silhouette is the perfect agency to combine Shark Week as well as Space Week from the calendar week before! This technique is a fun agency to purpose watercolors as well as uncomplicated plenty for kids to endeavor it too. Just a few supplies as well as you'll bring the greatest shark inward the galaxy. This is a fun icon projection to endeavor spell watching shows near sharks on Shark Week starting on sun July 28th!

Supplies Needed:

Watercolor Paper

Water

Paintbrush or Waterbrush

Cricut Bright Pad or Light box

Painters tape

Salt

Watercolors (Prima Tropicals)

Start yesteryear correct clicking as well as printing off this shark outline. This procedure tin ship away endure duplicated alongside whatsoever other silhouette cast you lot desire. What volition you lot plough into a painted galaxy? Whales would endure lots of fun too!

Begin yesteryear taping the shark printable on the tracing box. Cover alongside the watercolor newspaper as well as so record the newspaper inward place.

Next receive down adding H2O to the outline of the shark. I grabbed a lilliputian bluish paint, but so realized it would endure easier simply using H2O first. So start describe the outline of the shark alongside water.

Then fill upwards the within of the shark alongside a overnice layer of water.

Just similar pictured below. This volition brand the pigment bleed as well as mix together when placed on the H2O surface. It volition non acquire yesteryear the H2O line, as well as so proceed it really shark-like. Just describe those edges carefully.

Now add together dabs as well as dots of colors. Let the H2O naturally blend them around.

Add to a greater extent than colors, blues as well as purples. Complimentary colors; similar ruby-red & green, bluish & orange, as well as yellowish & purple, volition plough to chocolate-brown when mixed...so endeavor to avoid those colors touching.

Let it dry out slightly, so move into alongside nighttime bluish as well as add together to a greater extent than color to the shark. These tropical paints produce non come upwards alongside a black, but I dearest the deep blue. My fine art instructor didn't wishing us icon inward black, he said that pure dark rarely shows upwards inward nature. There are colors everywhere as well as fifty-fifty shadows bring color.

Then sprinkle about common salt on the shark as well as laid upwards it aside to dry. The common salt volition soak upwards the H2O as well as about of the color as well as acquire out amazing crystal-like patterns on the paper.

After drying, dust off the common salt alongside your fingers. The crystalline designing revealed is amazing! This is 1 of my favorite watercolor techniques that I learned inward high school.

No involve to acquire dorsum inward alongside a mark to add together stars--the common salt gives it a fun speckled finish.

That's it! Add about manus lettering, plough it into a greeting bill of fare or stick it inward a frame to display. This operate of fine art is out of this world!