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Hello, my dear friend.
Today you will paint a mysterious painting by Vincent van Gogh.
Olya, the artist, will lead you. Just follow the steps and create your own amazing painting.
To begin with, let’s see what supplies you need:
A4 watercolor paper sheet,
watercolors,
a thick paintbrush,
a pencil,
crayons,
a napkin (to remove extra water from the painting)
The major colours of the painting are blues and yellows. The minor colours are greens and browns.

Step 1
Pencil Sketch
1) We are going to start with a sketch and it’s gonna be very light.
Let’s begin with the line of the horizon. In the background we can see dark mountains there so try to repeat the line of the mountain tops.
2) And to the right there is another mountain range underneath the first line of the mountains. Let’s draw a couple of roly-poly hills and several bumps.
3) The “Starry Night” has a big massive Cyprus Tree in the foreground and it’s really wavy. It has the shape of a wavy flame, this tree is dreamlike, isn’t it?
4) It doesn’t need to be super-perfect. It just needs to give you some idea where to apply the paint.
5) Now let’s add the village and the little hills down the bottom. Let’s start with the little church and its spire. They don’t have to look exactly as in the original painting so you can use your creativity here and make the houses look as you’d like them to look.
6) The village shouldn’t be too detailed because it isn’t the focus of the painting. That’s why we are drawing just several houses and roofs with really simple shapes.
7) Now it’s time for the sky. Keep your pencil lines quite light for this. Let’s start off with the big swirl through the sky. This is the most unique feature of this painting.
8) Let’s draw the crescent moon in the top right and stars all over the sky.

Step 2
Crayons
9) Our next step is to cover everything with crayons. First, we take the white crayon and draw the swirl in the sky. Follow the shape and make short curved strokes. Add some white strokes around the big stars too.
It’s very important to press the crayon strong enough so it’ll be seen under the paint later.
10) Now take brown for the Cyprus tree. But don’t forget you are not trying to just colour it in you’re actually going in these short strokes following the shape.
11) You can also add some yellow and orange marks in the tree.
12) Let’s go back to the sky and make the stars. Use orange and yellow to put the stars and light around them. Do the same with the crescent moon.
13) Add a little bit of yellow strokes into the swirl in the sky and into the lower part of the sky.
14) Let’s draw some short strokes in the mountains with purple and indigo crayons. Hills and the village also go in dark blue colour. Color the roods and add some bushes nearby.
15) Use orange for the light in the windows, these are just some simple shapes.
16) Be more cautious than Olya and draw blue strokes all over the sky folowing the shapes of the curly swirl in the middle.

Step 3
Watercolors. Magic time
16) We start with yellow paint and add just a little bit of it around the moon and the stars.
17) Then we cover the whole sky with blue paint. Right over the crayons. And look at that! Isn’t it pure magic? The crayons are showed through the paint.
So even though you painted watercolor on top of the crayons, it still showed through. That’s called resist. The crayons resisted the watercolour away from it.
18) Use a darker shade of blue (ultramarine or indigo) to add at the top part of the sky.
19) This dark colour also goes to the lower part: mountains, village and everything around.
20) We need more paint in the roofs and houses to add contrast. Let’s do the same in the surrounding area. We can also darken the mountains.
21) The last step is to paint the Cyprus tree brown.
22) That’s a marvelous masterpiece!
Well done!