Watercolor: 9-Pointed Attribute Stars

A Visual Arts & Crafting Project

With just a few basic supplies, you can easily create 9-pointed stars suitable for framing, presentation, or gift-giving. I have called them "Attribute Stars" because when the watercolors have dried you encircle the star with Attributes of God, or a favorite quote.

Supplies: 9-pointed star pattern (stencil) traced onto heavy paper or vellum and cut out; sharp pencil; watercolor paper; watercolor paints; various sized watercolor brushes; sea sponge (optional): fine-tipped permanent marking pens in desired colors; clean water.

Step 1: With the sharp pencil, lightly trace your star pattern onto the watercolor paper. Taking a clean brush dipped in clean water, fill in the inside of the star shape. You may have to reapeat this step to make sure the entire star shape is saturated with water.

Step2: Dip another watercolor brush into water and then your first color of paint. Saturate the brush with paint and then randomly apply the color to the wet star. The paint should be liquid enough to "bleed" outward to the edges of the moistened portion of the paper, filling in the star shape with color. Repeat this step using the same or different colors until you've created an effect you like. Let dry.

Step 3: You can now apply other squiggles or touches of color using another brush, or you can "splatter" some color over the entire piece using some liquifyied paint and an old toothbrush (Hold over paper and pull the bristles towards you after dipping in paint). Let dry

Step 4: With a fine-tipped marker, write attributes or a quote around the star. For a cool blue star, I chose attributes from the Long Healing Prayer: "Sufficing, Healing, Abiding" to give as a gift to someone who is ill, but you can choose whatever words fit with the colors of your star. For a red, orange and yellow star I chose atributes relating to the word "sun" like "Daystar" and "Sun of Reality."

Just remember to let your work dry flat before framing.

Here are 2 star examples of from friends of Creative Inspirations! The first was created by a young man named Lewis, and the other is from my buddy Sandra Klassen of Canada. (Thank you both so much for sharing your work with us.)

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