Cut Out + Keep

Big Blue Marble

watercolour painting, earth day

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/big-blue-marble • Posted by thatartistwoman

This a great project for Earth Day. Watercolour makes amazing marbles and it is a good introduction for the beginner painter.

You will need

Project Budget
Cheap

Time

2 h 00

Difficulty

Pretty Easy
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Description

This a great project for Earth Day. Watercolour makes amazing marbles and it is a good introduction for the beginner painter.

Instructions

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    Find a nice selection of round objects for tracing. On a single large sheet of watercolour paper trace these out in pencil.

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    Add the highlight. Select one to be the Earth...the big blue marble. Add the continents.

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    Using watercolour paint begin painting your marbles. Reference photos help with choosing colour combinations. Allow your colours to mingle a bit. Don't worry about staying in the lines as we will be cutting these out.

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    ...

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    Paint your Earth marble. Lift off some clouds by blotting with a kleenex while the paint is still wet.

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    Let your painting dry.

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    Cut out your marbles and glue onto the black background paper. Overlap marbles to give appearance of depth.

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    Finally using crayon or pastel add lines for back wall or corner of the room.