This could be one of your easiest Valentine’s Day art projects. Keep things really simple so kids can experiment with their wet-on-wet painting.
This fourth grade artist, Lola, did an impeccable job using the colors to make shadows. I’m in love with that center balloon, which blends fuchsia and red.
MATERIALS
- Heart Balloon Painting PDF
- Watercolor paper*
- Liquid watercolor paint*
- Crayons*
- Heart stencil, optional
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DIRECTIONS
Time needed: 1 hour.
How to paint Heart Balloons
- Draw or trace a page full of hearts.
- Add small triangles to the bottoms.
- Add strings.
- Draw highlights in same side of each heart.
- Trace with a crayon.
- Paint with one color, add a stripe of another along one side.
LIKE THIS VALENTINE PROJECT?
There are a lot more fun and easy ones in my new VALENTINE DRAWING ebook.
It contains 25 tutorials of things to draw as stand alone art, or perhaps very sweet homemade cards.
Each project includes easy to follow step-by-step tutorial, a full size line drawing for reference, and finished color sample. Just click on the title or book to learn more.
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