XOXO Painting

Materials

• Watercolor paper (this this packet)

• Watercolor paints

• Paint brushes

• Washi tape (this is a great set)

• A ruler & circle shape (like a glass or jar)

Directions

1. Put a piece of tape at the top of your paper and down each side. Measure across and find the middle. Measure out 1/4″ from the middle on each side and draw little teeny pencil marks all the way down (in about 4 or 5 places). Now lay your tape straight down the middle, keeping in line with your hashmarks. Take your ruler and measure 6″ from the top and make more hashmarks. Lay your tape across, even with the hashmarks. Repeat this step so that now you have 4 rectangles. Trim the bottom of the paper.

2. At the top left and bottom right, use your ruler to draw an “X” lightly with a pencil from corner to corner. Find a circle (I used a glitter jar) and place it in the middle of the top right and bottom left rectangles. Trace lightly with a pencil.

3. Start painting. Trace the pencil line for the “X” with your first color of paint, making two “V”s rather than an “X”. Then continue the “V”s until they got smaller and smaller.

4. Use a similar technique with the “O”. Start by tracing the pencil line “O” with your first color of paint, then continued making circles with different color going both inside and outside the first “O.”

5. When the paint is dry, peel off the tape

adapted from Art Bar Blog