To use the template, you can freehand sketch it just onto your piece of paper. These are very simple geometric shapes. Or you can take it to a light source either a window or a light pad like I have here, illuminate the source, and then put your watercolor paper on and then you can trace your template. And so what I do is I just find the one that I want, I put my paper on top of it, and then I just sketch tracing very lightly because I don't want my pencil marks to show the shapes. Now there are ways you can modify this template that are really fun. The shapes here are very Angular and pointed for the most part.

And if you want you can round your edges here. This is just supposed to be a whimsical house. Very fun and bold and a little unusual, very abstract. You can change the shape of any of your squares into trapezoids or circles or rounded rectangles, whatever works for you. And just after have it done. Make sure your image is the way you want it so that when you go to paint, you're all ready to go.

And what we're going to do when we paint is leave a lot of open space. And by that I mean we're going to add our layer of paint to our sketch here, but we're going to leave a lot of blank area so that we can fill it in with our little whimsical touches our buttons and our flowers that we're going to paint onto our happy homes. So after you have your images sketched out onto your paper, we'll start painting