An unusual drawing technique opens up a world of fantasy and wide possibilities even for a person who does not know how to depict anything on paper. For a child, these are ideas for self-expression and space for inspiration.
There are many interesting ways when it becomes possible not only to get an exciting drawing, but also to have fun with your baby.
Blotography
The method involves applying an ordinary blot to a sheet of paper. This can be done by simply dropping paint onto a wide brush.
After this, the child is asked to think about what his blot looks like and fill in the missing details. Perhaps these will be legs, tail or rays. Then the blot comes to life, and then you can fantasize and draw in the rest of the background.
As the child draws, his imagination develops through questions asked. He learns to fantasize and realize his plans on a piece of paper.
Drawing with stamps
Unusual techniques Drawing for children does not require complex preparation and unusual tools. You can easily create a masterpiece using ordinary things:
- potato halves;
- apple slices;
- foam sponges;
- bricks from Lego.
To get a picture, you must first draw the future base. It could be a twig, flower stems, a road where houses will soon appear.
Then take any stamp you like and dip it in paint. After applying it to a sheet, a color print is obtained. This way you can depict leaves on a branch, flowers, or using Lego cubes you can create nice houses with brick walls.
Drawing with autumn leaves
A very fascinating and unusual drawing technique, and the drawings turn out incredibly delicate and beautiful. To do this, you need to prepare and collect leaves. Moreover, you will need completely different specimens: large, small, red, yellow, round or elongated.
Walking through the park with your child on an autumn evening, you should draw your child’s attention to the beauty autumn nature, for a riot of colors. Then you can offer to collect leaves and create a small miracle on a simple sheet of paper.
Leaf print options
There are several ways to create a picture using leaves.
1st method. Invite your child to temporarily turn into a wizard autumn forest and go on a trip. You need to choose a few leaves you like and coat them on one side with paints. The leaves are then pressed onto the paper, leaving imprints reminiscent of trees in a forest.
2nd method. Young children really like it because it doesn’t require any special skills, and the drawing looks simply amazing. Together with your baby, lay out 2-3 beautiful leaves on paper. Next, it is better to lightly secure them with tape so that they do not slip during operation.
Using a sponge or wide brush, apply paint over the entire remaining surface, including the spread out leaves. As soon as the watercolor dries, you can remove the leaves and admire the resulting miracle.
Create a fancy drawing
Unusual drawing techniques for children at school will require some preparation and a little patience. But the result will please not only children, but will surprise even an adult.
So, you can offer younger children school age create colored paper own production. For this you will need:
- Paper.
- Disposable plastic plate.
- Watercolor.
- Thick cardboard.
- Shaving foam.
- Cotton swabs.
First, the foam is squeezed out in an even layer onto a disposable plate. Then, using a brush, you need to drip multi-colored paints in random order.
Next comes the time for magic. By using cotton swab The paints are carefully mixed and a multi-colored, snowy foam is obtained. Now take a sheet of paper and press the entire side against the plate. Excess foam is removed with a piece of cardboard.
When the multi-colored sheet dries, it can be used for further work. The result is a wonderful colored background that is suitable for all kinds of crafts.
Unusual watercolor painting techniques are suitable for even the smallest children. And joint creativity not only brings adults and children closer together, but also gives many wonderful works that can be framed and decorated in a room.
Using gouache in unusual art
Gouache, unlike watercolor, is heavier and opaque. The colors are rich and lighten slightly as they dry. Unusual techniques for painting with gouache are based on its properties.
You can encourage your child to draw with dots. First, a child or adult draws the outline of the future drawing. It is then gradually filled with paint using cotton swabs.
Children are especially delighted with foam drawing. Gouache diluted in water gives amazing rich color. If you dilute different colors in disposable cups and then pour out the bulbs, then the resulting foam can depict fancy landscapes.
To become a wizard, you don't have to have a magic wand. An unusual drawing technique will help show your child a small miracle.
In the absence of the child, draw a picture in advance with candle wax. And then offer the baby supposedly blank slate paint over it. Surely he will be surprised where such beauty came from on the sheet.
Hobby for adults
Adults or older students can try to create an atmospheric drawing using watercolors. Hanging gardens are an unusual painting technique where an image appears by spraying paint from a spray bottle.
You should definitely try to depict this miracle in the presence of a child. To do this, you need to apply several stripes of different shades of green on top of the sheet. Then spray water from a spray bottle, the watercolor begins to flow, bizarrely changing shape and movement.
One of the varieties of such drawing is the appearance of an image on wet paper. There are a number of landscapes that come out successfully only when an unusual drawing technique is used.
First you need to teach your child to make the sheet slightly damp. If you wet the paper too much, the effect will not work and the paper will be damaged. A piece of cotton wool moistened with water is suitable for this.
After this, you can use a brush, touching the sheet, to leave marks, thinking through the plot in advance. It could be a rainy day, a city at night, or flowers in the fog.
There is no limit to imagination and creativity. Teachers advise using all kinds of materials in your work and not being afraid to experiment.
We all know that drawing is one of children's favorite activities.
Babies pick up pencils and start tracing them on paper at the age of 12 months.
Let the pencil still slip out of your hands, and a lot of time will pass before the child draws his first scribbles - this is the first step towards self-expression.
Painting classes can be taught to children as young as one year old.
Some parents start even earlier: this makes sense. The younger the child, the easier it is to work with him. He accepts new things more easily and readily. How older child, the more it is life experience, the more stable the stereotype of behavior and habit.
Children who started drawing early do not have the “fear of a white sheet of paper” in the future. In addition, it has been proven that everything we learned in early childhood stays with a person for life.
This does not mean at all that a child who starts drawing early will become an artist, he simply will not be afraid of this type of activity. Bright colors They diversify a child’s life and satisfy his need for pleasant sensations. Finally, painting is one of the forms of objective activity of a child, and objective activity is absolutely necessary for the baby for physical, mental and mental development.
When using a brush and paints, the fingers work - it develops fine motor skills hands, which means speech development improves. The baby’s speech becomes more active because another (and what an interesting!) reason appears. verbal communication child and adult. A drawing is a mirror of your baby’s feelings, maturity, and development. From masterpieces little artist you can learn a lot.
The main thing for us, parents, is to learn to “read” his messages. Psychologists believe that children's drawings are of great interest for understanding their feelings and personal characteristics, expressing relationships with family and the outside world.
If we want to understand what a child wants to “say” with his drawings, then, first of all, we must give him creative freedom. Your little creator should always have paper and pencil at hand.
The drawing should not be criticized; on the contrary, the child should be praised. Together with him, select the best drawings, in his opinion, hang them somewhere in the apartment, arrange an exhibition.
Invite your grandmothers or friends to your art gallery; perhaps their visit and delight will inspire your child to create new masterpieces.
Children reflect their inner world in their drawings, so be sure to look closely at how your child draws and listen to what the little artist tells you about his paintings. This may help understand his problems.
Your baby draws what he sees around him, what excites him. The drawing is a projection of the child’s experiences and feelings.
For example, when drawing a person, a child depicts himself, and when drawing a family (even if it is a family of some animals), he assumes his own family.
It is important to notice in time what and how the baby draws. You should especially pay attention to what colors your child chooses to create his masterpieces. For example, the predominance of black and gray colors may speak of timidity, shyness and hidden fears. Orange and red colors tell us about the child's sensitivity and need for warmth.
Children who feel the need for safety and security most often use green. But you should only sound the alarm if most of the picture is painted in an “alarming” color.
After all, noticing what exists in reality, the child draws an orange sun and a black tree trunk.
Blotography
It consists of teaching children how to make blots (black and multi-colored). Then a 3-year-old child can look at them and see images, objects or individual details.
You will need gouache, a thick brush and paper (preferably 1/2 or 1/4 sheet).
Fold a piece of paper in half and unfold it again. On one half, ask your child to put a few bold blots, strokes or curls. Now fold the sheet in half again and press firmly with your palm. Carefully unfold the sheet. You will see a bizarre pattern: “What does your or my blot look like?”, “Who or what does it remind you of?” - these questions are very useful, because... develop thinking and imagination. After this, without forcing the child, but by showing him, we recommend moving on to the next stage - tracing or finishing the blots. The result can be a whole plot.
Bitmap
Children like everything unconventional. Drawing with dots is one of the unusual in this case, receptions. To implement this, you can take a felt-tip pen, a pencil or an ordinary ear cleaning stick. But the best thing to do is dotted drawings with paints.
You will need a separate stick for each color. Using this technique, lilac or mimosa flowers are produced beautifully. Draw branch lines with a felt-tip pen. And make clusters of flowers with chopsticks. But this is already aerobatics! Drawing simpler things - flowers and berries (the stems can be drawn with a felt-tip pen) will bring no less pleasure to your child. Or you can cut out a dress (scarf, tablecloth, mittens) from paper and decorate it with an ornament of dots.
Foam drawings
For some reason, we all tend to think that if we paint with paints, we must also use a brush. Not always. Foam rubber can come to the rescue. We advise you to make a variety of small geometric figures out of it, and then attach them with thin wire to a stick or pencil (not sharpened). The tool is already ready. It turns out to be a large brush without hairs. The stick is held strictly perpendicular to the surface of the sheet, without tilting. Now you can dip it in paint and use stamps to draw red triangles, yellow circles, green squares (all foam rubber, unlike cotton wool, washes well). At first, children will draw chaotically geometric shapes. And then offer to make simple ornaments out of them - first from one type of figure, then from two, three.
The mark left by such a “brush” can imitate animal fur, tree crowns, or snow. A stick with foam rubber is dipped in paint (the main thing is that there is no large quantity water), and the baby begins to cover the leaf with traces of it. Let him first simply understand that with the help of a “magic wand” you can quickly and easily draw marks.
Then draw tree branches or a bush with a black felt-tip pen, and let the child finish painting the foliage with green, yellow, red or orange paint. Draw a simple outline of a bunny or fox with a pencil, let the baby “trample” it with his “magic tool” - the bunny and fox will turn out fluffy, their fur will seem so disheveled that the baby will certainly want to touch it.
It is extremely interesting to work in this technique with a stencil. Cut out an image in the middle of a thick sheet of cardboard, such as the head of a tiger cub or a bear. Attach the cardboard with the cut out stencil to the landscape sheet and invite the child to “trample” the part of the landscape sheet that is visible through the hole in the stencil.
After the child has done this, let the work dry, then use a brush to draw eyes, a mouth, a mustache, and a stripe “Curly” figure
A very interesting way to draw with a pencil, felt-tip pen, or ballpoint pen using pre-made stencils. Stencils can be of two types - some are cut inside the sheet, others are made from the sheet and separated from it. It is easier for young children to trace the figures embossed inside the sheet. Many squares and rulers have such patterns.
Having attached them to the album sheet, you ask the child to trace the shapes. Then you remove the stencil and, together with it, figure out how you can complete this or that shape.
Children 4.5-5 years old will be able to trace single stencils cut out of cardboard. This is more difficult, because the hand is poorly held on the outside of the pattern and the baby draws extra lines. But you can interest children in the content of stencils: for boys, these are silhouettes of cars and airplanes, for girls, animals, nesting dolls, bows and houses. Having traced the patterns, children can paint over their images with felt-tip pens and paints, and shade different lines: straight, wavy, zigzag, with loops, wavy with sharp peaks. Stencils can help you create your own drawings; they will complement what the child himself has created.
You can start a game: the child circles various objects, and you guess what they are. Firstly, not all objects can be circled. By finding them, the baby will understand the difference between three-dimensional and flat objects or things that have at least one flat side and those that do not. Secondly, it is not easy to circle this or that object on your own, without the help of an adult. And thirdly, in this game the roles change: the baby puzzles the parents, and the adults try to find the answer. All this pleases the child, providing him with a surge of creative energy.
Mysterious drawings
Mysterious drawings can be obtained as follows. Take cardboard measuring approximately 20x20 cm and fold it in half. Then a semi-woolen or woolen thread about 30 cm long is selected, its end 8 - 10 cm is dipped in thick paint and clamped inside the cardboard. You should then move this thread inside the cardboard, and then take it out and open the cardboard. The result is a chaotic image, which is examined, outlined and completed by adults and children. It is extremely useful to give titles to the resulting images. This complex mental and verbal work, combined with visual work, will contribute to the intellectual development of children preschool age.
Drawing with crayons
Preschoolers love variety. These opportunities are provided to us by ordinary crayons, sanguine, and charcoal. Smooth asphalt, porcelain, ceramic tiles, stones - this is the base on which chalk and charcoal fit well. Thus, asphalt is conducive to a succinct depiction of subjects. They (if there is no rain) can be developed the next day. And then compose stories based on the plots. And on ceramic tiles (which are sometimes leftovers stored somewhere in the pantry), we recommend drawing patterns and small objects with crayons or charcoal. Large stones (such as boulders) are asked to be decorated with the image of an animal’s head or a tree stump. It depends on what or who the stone resembles in shape.
Drawing with foam
Take paints, shampoo, water, a glass and a straw for cocktails. And bubble a lot of colored bubbles in your glass.
And then, together with the children, apply the paper to the multi-colored foam, and there will be imprinted flowers, fireworks, ice cream and much more that you and your baby can see.
Magic drawing method
This method is implemented like this. Using the corner of a wax candle, an image is drawn on white paper (a Christmas tree, a house, or maybe a whole plot). Then, using a brush, or better yet, cotton wool or foam rubber, the paint is applied on top of the entire image. Due to the fact that the paint does not stick to the bold image like a candle, the drawing seems to suddenly appear before the children’s eyes, manifesting itself. You can get the same effect by first drawing with stationery glue or a piece of laundry soap. In this case, the selection of the background to the subject plays an important role. For example, it is better to paint a snowman drawn with a candle with blue paint, and a boat with green paint. There is no need to worry if candles or soap start to crumble while drawing. It depends on their quality.
Photocopy
Draw a picture with a candle on a white sheet. Paint over with black ink.
Painting small stones
Of course, most often the child draws large stone tiles on a plane, on paper, or less often on asphalt. A flat image of a house, trees, cars, animals on paper is not as attractive as creating three-dimensional creations of your own. In this regard, sea pebbles are ideally used. They are smooth, small and have different shapes.
The very shape of the pebble will sometimes tell the child what image to create in this case (and sometimes adults will help the kids). It is better to paint one pebble as a frog, another as a bug, and the third will produce a wonderful fungus. Bright light is applied to the stone thick paint- and the image is ready. It’s better to finish it like this: after the pebble has dried, cover it with colorless varnish. In this case, a voluminous beetle or frog made by children’s hands shines and shimmers brightly. This toy will take part in independent children's games more than once and bring considerable benefit to its owner.
Strange patterns
Take whatman paper and a small orange (tangerine) or a ball, pour a little paint of different colors onto the sheet and roll the ball along the sheet in different directions. Then “revive” what was received.
Finger painting method
Here is another way to depict the world around us: with your fingers, palm, fist, feet, and maybe with your chin and nose. Not everyone will take such a statement seriously. Where is the line between pranks and drawing? Why should we draw only with a brush or felt-tip pen? After all, a hand or individual fingers are such a help. Moreover, the index finger right hand The child listens better than a pencil. Well, what if the pencil breaks, the brush wears out, the markers run out - but you still want to draw.
There is another reason: sometimes the theme simply asks for a child’s palm or finger. For example, a child can draw a tree better with his hands than with other tools. With his finger he will draw out the trunk and branches, then (if it is autumn) he will apply yellow, green, orange paints to the inside of his hand and draw a crimson-mahogany tree on top. It’s also good to mix several colors and shades. For example, first apply yellow paint, and then brown or orange, it turns out fluffy!
It’s good if we teach children to use their fingers rationally: not just one index finger, but by everyone.
Monotopy method
A few words about this, unfortunately, rarely used method. And in vain. Because it contains a lot of tempting things for preschoolers. In short, this is an image on cellophane, which is then transferred to paper. On smooth cellophane I paint with paint using a brush, or a match with cotton wool, or my finger (no uniformity needed). The paint should be thick and bright. And immediately, before the paint has dried, they turn the cellophane over with the image down onto white thick paper and, as it were, blot the drawing, and then lift it up. This results in two drawings. Sometimes the image remains on cellophane, sometimes on paper.
Drawing under the film
Squeeze the paint onto cardboard or paper, put a film on top and smooth it with cotton wool, then sharply pull the film away. This way you get a good sunset, sea, fire...
Drawing on wet paper
Until recently, it was believed that painting could only be done on dry paper, because the paint was sufficiently diluted with water. But there is a whole series objects, plots, images that are best drawn on damp paper. Clarity and vagueness are needed, for example, if a child wants to depict the following themes: “A city in the fog,” “I had a dream,” “It’s raining,” “ Night city", "Flowers behind the curtain", etc. You need to teach your preschooler to make the paper a little damp. If the paper is too wet, the drawing may not work out. Therefore, it is recommended to wet it in clean water a lump of cotton wool, squeeze it out and rub it either over the entire sheet of paper, or (if required) only over a separate part. And the paper is ready to produce unclear images.
Drawing with postcards
Almost every home has a lot of old postcards. Go through old postcards with your children, teach them to cut out the necessary images and paste them into place, into the plot. A bright factory image of objects and phenomena will give even the simplest unpretentious drawing a completely decoration. It is sometimes difficult for a three-, four-, or even five-year-old child to draw a dog and a beetle. You can take them ready-made, and let him finish drawing the sun and rain for the dog and the bug and be very happy. Or if you and your children cut it out of a postcard and stick it on fairy house with his grandmother in the window, then the preschooler, relying on his imagination, knowledge of fairy tales and visual skills, will undoubtedly finish drawing something for him.
Mirror copy
Another method is based on the fact that a silhouette drawn with paints can be easily imprinted when a sheet of paper is placed on it. The sequence of work is as follows: the sheet is folded in half, unfolded, and the surface is slightly moistened with water. On one half of the sheet, the silhouette of an object or part of a symmetrical image is drawn with paints, for example, half a Christmas tree, half a flower, half a house. The sheet is folded and pressed firmly with your hand. By unfolding the sheet, you will see a whole image or two objects (if you drew a whole object on one half). Many kids like this method; for children, it seems like a miracle that the same image appears on the second half of the sheet. When the work dries, the details can be completed with felt-tip pens, pencils or paints.
Whose trace
Another way of drawing, or rather, printing, is based on the ability of many objects to leave colorful imprints on paper. You take a potato, cut it in half and from one half cut out a square, triangle, diamond, flower or something interesting. Moreover, one side of the print must be flat to be applied to the paper, and you will hold the other with your hand. Then you or your child dip such a signet in paint (preferably gouache) and apply it to the paper. As you might guess, an imprint remains. With the help of these signets you can make beads, ornaments, patterns, and mosaics.
Not only potatoes can serve as stamps, but also bottle caps, felt-tip pen caps, buttons, small boxes, etc.
You can try to depict something based on the principle of construction from different parts. For example, a car (reel - wheels, cubes - body and window); castle of a sorceress, animals, etc.
Salty drawings
What if you paint with glue and sprinkle salt on top of these areas? Then you will get amazing snow pictures. They will look more impressive if they are done on blue, blue, pink colored paper. Try it, it's very exciting! Tooth paint
Or let's create winter landscapes in another way - painting with toothpaste. First, the child must be explained that this is a creative search, and this use of toothpaste does not give him the right to squeeze it out on the floor, shelves and tables. Together with your child, outline with a pencil the light contours of trees, houses, and snowdrifts. Slowly squeezing out the toothpaste, go over all the outlined contours. Such work must be dried and it is better not to put it in a folder along with other drawings. For creativity, it is best to use a domestic product - it dries faster.
Drawing with relief
Flour is added to the paint and applied to the sheet. The cardboard strip is cut into teeth and we draw patterns along and across. From a dried leaf, cut out a shape, such as a vase. Let's draw flowers on a white sheet of paper and then glue them on. You can also draw with a stick, toothpick, fork, or match.
Glue painting
Squeeze glue onto the image on paper, let it dry, and then paint over it to create a relief.
Like an artist to an artist
But this is a completely unusual path! We need to get it large leaf paper. You ask the baby to lie down on such a sheet and circle it. Of course, it is better for the whole thing to fit in (this can be achieved by gluing two or three sheets of whatman paper) or, as a last resort, for the torso and head to fit. You have traced the baby, and now it’s his time - let him try to decorate the silhouette: draw eyes, mouth, hair, jewelry, clothes. If the child is small, then do this work together - the child suggests, and you, admiring his imagination, draw with him.
Rainy fantasies
Another option for unconventional drawing is the following: during rain or snowfall, you boldly open the window and expose a sheet of paper for less than a minute, holding it horizontally. You probably guessed that drops of rain or snow will remain on the sheet. And this is what we sought. Now traces of bad weather can be outlined and turned into fairy-tale creatures. They can also be connected to each other by guessing what kind of image they get.
Drawing by points
An adult prepares a drawing diagram in advance, placing contour points. The child is told: “Do you want to be surprised? Then connect the dots with each other in order!” Offer to complete the resulting outline, color it, come up with a plot and a name.
Picture from both sides
You will need a cardboard sheet, a wide brush, paper clips, and colored pencils. First you need to paint a sheet of cardboard with any paint (an old cardboard folder will do). Immediately, before the paint has dried, place a sheet of plain white paper (preferably writing paper) on top. Attach the paper with paper clips and have the child draw something with a colored pencil on a white sheet. If you want, you can use coloring, but the drawing should be simple - some object. When the drawing is finished, unfasten and remove the paper. Look what happened - on the side that was pressed to the folder, you got a color picture with a convex, as if imprinted, pattern.
Scratches
Take thick paint not diluted with water (it is better to use acrylic or gouache) and paint a colored spot. Use a piece of cardboard or a crochet hook to scratch the lines. Or you can cut the cardboard with jagged teeth and scratch ridges in the paint. Using a crochet hook, scratch out different curls. Using the edge of the cardboard, press out lines in a crisscross pattern. Make impressions with the cap of a felt-tip pen. After the child has mastered this technique, you can begin to create a picture. To do this, apply paint on several sheets of paper. different colors And in different ways scratch the surface. Now assemble the composition. For example, cut out a pond from a piece with scallops, cut out a sky with clouds from curls, make a snake from a scaly surface, and so on. Paste the cut out elements onto a blank sheet of paper.
Drawing with gouache using the poking method
You will need gouache, a brush, and album sheets. The child holds a brush in his hands and places it perpendicularly on the paper. Show me how your brush jumps! Using this poking method, you can draw fireworks, you can color a fluffy cat (the cat should be drawn in advance with a felt-tip pen or pencil), you can also color flowers.
Sprinkling technique
Dip your toothbrush into one color of paint. Hold the brush over the paper. Using your finger, spray the paint - splatter it across the sheet. Multiple colors can be used.
In the same way, you can make drawings using a stencil.
Place a stencil on colored paper. These can be various flowers, silhouettes of houses, trees. Dilute the paint thinly in a yogurt jar. Dip a toothbrush into the paint and run a ruler along the bristles of the brush towards you, splashing paint around the silhouette. Try to ensure that the entire background is covered with specks. Remove the stencil and add details on the “unstained” part of the drawing. You can also use tree leaves as stencils.
Autumn picture
With your child, collect several leaves from different trees. Apply an even layer of paint to the bottom of the leaf (where the veins protrude). Carefully place the sheet on the paper with the painted side down, and press the structure on top with a napkin. Now you can remove the napkin and sheet, and a nice imprint will remain on the paper. For an autumn painting, make red, yellow, green and orange prints of leaves from different trees on paper.
Learning to make a background
Usually children draw on white paper. This way you can see it more clearly. It's faster that way. But some stories require a background. And, I must say, all children’s works look better against a background made in advance. Many children make the background with a brush, and an ordinary, small one. Although there is a simple and reliable way: to make a background with cotton wool or a piece of foam rubber dipped in water and paint.
Collage
The concept itself explains the meaning of this method: it combines several of those described above. In general, we ideally think the following is important: it is good when a preschooler is not only familiar with various image techniques, but also does not forget about them, but uses them appropriately, fulfilling a given goal. For example, one of the 5-6 year old children decided to draw summer, and for this he uses a dotted pattern (flowers), and the child will draw the sun with his finger, he will cut out fruits and vegetables from postcards, he will depict the sky and clouds with fabrics, etc. There is no limit to improvement and creativity in visual arts.
English teacher-researcher Anna Rogovin recommends using everything that is at hand for drawing exercises: drawing with a rag, a paper napkin (folded many times); paint dirty water, old tea leaves, coffee grounds, squeezed berries. It is also useful to color cans and bottles, spools and boxes, etc.
Blowing from a straw
You will need a drinking straw. You can use either tempera or acrylic paints to create a unique painting using only straw blowing skills. Dilute a little paint with water.
Pour a small amount of one of the colors onto the paper. Hold one end of the tube near the paint and blow it in all directions. Guess what you got.
Miracle - drawing
Invite your child to draw a portrait of his mother, grandmother, animal or anything else from... different flowers (daisies, bells, roses...), from vegetables (cucumbers, carrots, watermelons), from bunnies, bears, cats.
These will be real miracle pictures!
Drawing games
Drawing with a secret in three pairs of hands
When your child turns 4 years old, we strongly recommend using this method. It consists in the following. Take a rectangular sheet of paper and 3 pencils. Adults and children are divided: who will draw first, who will draw second, who will draw third. The first one begins to draw, and then closes his drawing, folding the piece of paper at the top and leaving a little bit, some part, for continuation (the neck, for example). The second, seeing nothing but the neck, naturally continues with the torso, leaving only part of the legs visible. The third one finishes. Then the entire sheet is opened - and almost always it turns out funny: from the discrepancy between proportions and color schemes.
Drawing together on a long strip of paper
By the way, it is useful to change the paper format (i.e., give not only the standard). In this case, a long strip will help two people to draw without interfering with each other. You can draw isolated objects or scenes, i.e. work nearby. And even in this case, the child is warmer from the elbow of mom or dad. And then it is advisable to move on to collective drawing. The adults and the child agree on who will draw what to create one plot.
Drawing yourself or drawing your favorite toys from life
Drawing from life develops observation, the ability to no longer create, but to depict according to the rules, i.e. draw so that it looks like the original in proportions, shapes, and color. Suggest that you first draw a picture of yourself while looking in the mirror. And be sure to look in the mirror many times. Better yet, show how you adults will draw yourself, making sure to look in the mirror many times. Next, let the child choose an object for himself. It could be a favorite doll, a bear, or a car. It is important to learn to observe for a long time, comparing parts of an object. And one more thing. If a child departs from nature, brings in something of his own, resulting in a completely different object or toy, do not be upset. Praise your child: “You drew today new car! You probably want one?” But at the end of such a drawing it is important to ask: “How is the drawn car different from this one?”
"I'm drawing mom..."
It would be good to continue drawing from life or drawing from memory (family members, relatives and friends could become objects for such an image). As auxiliary material there may be photographs or conversations about the characteristic features of the appearance of absent relatives... Photographs are taken and examined. A conversation is being held: “What is Grandma Valya like? What kind of hair does she have? Hairstyle? Favorite dress? Smile?” And the process of co-creation begins. After a while, you can offer to draw the girlfriends from memory. When enough drawings depicting relatives and friends have been collected, we recommend organizing a mini-exhibition “My Relatives and Friends,” where the first portraits of a preschooler are appreciated.
Building a city
If you have a large sheet of Whatman paper or other white paper, it will become the place where “the city will be founded.” Spread it right on the floor, grab pencils and markers and start “building” your own city with your child. What kind of houses, shops, cars, trees will there be here? Who will live here? Perhaps everything will be the most ordinary and familiar, or vice versa - amazing and fabulous? But in any city, be sure to draw a candy store, a zoo and a circus. What would we do without them? This “drawing” game is also good because you can play it for more than one day. Tired of drawing, they rolled up the paper and put it away. But after a while, the baby’s interest will flare up with renewed vigor. And you can draw not only the city, but also seabed, space, bird market, kindergarten, prehistoric land with ancient lizards, Africa or Antarctica, in general, everything in at the moment excites and interests the little artist. And on a large sheet of paper and with his mother’s participation, his imagination and artistic abilities will be fully revealed!
Typography
A child who loves to draw can be invited to work together. Type the text of his favorite fairy tale on the computer and print it out, leaving space for drawings. Let the child first draw pictures with a pencil, then color them. When the book is ready, order a binding (this can be done at any photocopying shop) or simply insert its pages into a notebook with transparent files. Maybe the first book your baby reads will be created by you together? By the way, you can create not only in the field of book printing. In a photo studio, your child’s drawings can be transferred to clothes or even dishes.
Colorful miracle
The world around the child is full magical colors, extraordinary colors, fabulous images. Children's unstructured perceptions differ from adults' concrete perceptions. From the age of three, pencils and paints, drawing and coloring become one of the child’s favorite activities. You probably remember the painted wallpaper, the painted furniture, the painted knees and foreheads. A child’s desire to freely draw and manipulate paints is natural for him.
The child is not so much interested in the plot of the drawing as in the process of changing the environment with the help of color. It is drawing that gives the feeling of a “creator”, a discoverer, an “author” who has created something unique, joy, pleasure and self-confidence. Children enjoy mixing and blurring, the fact that a new color appears here and there from a mixture of colors. The sudden surprise that flashes on children's faces says what it means to them. After all, the color of the objects surrounding the child does not change over time, but on paper the color moves, changes, appears and disappears.
That is why drawing is an internal event and at the same time serves as the key to the emotional understanding of art. The most productive process for a child’s development is painting with paints on a wet sheet.
There are three colors that cannot be obtained by mixing other colors.
These are yellow, blue and red. Derived colors are obtained by mixing pairs of primary colors: green from yellow and blue, orange from yellow and red, violet from red and blue. Color ratios can vary in their saturation, so yellowish, light blue, pink colors. All this can be taught and shown to the child, teaching him to experiment with color using really good watercolor paints (they are easier to mix and give purer tones than, for example, gouache). Free drawing paints through mixing them - a fascinating process.
Parents must show how to build it correctly. Place oilcloth or newspaper on the table or floor. Wet a thick sheet of paper (simply by dipping it in a bowl of water and ironing it with a sponge), dip the brush in one of the liquid paints and carefully brush it over the paper. Before dipping the brush into another paint, wash it in a glass of water. As if by chance, you can run a brush with water over the paper, but without paint; the water is mixed with other paints, and delicate, blurry, light halftones will appear on the sheet.
So continue to draw until the child has a desire to try: “I want to draw too!” This is how the first free creative drawing lesson begins. It is very important that the child always prepares correctly and carefully for this activity: change the water, dilute paints of three primary colors, prepare oilcloth and paper.
At first, children draw on their own what they want; over time, they can draw while telling fairy tales to adults. After drawing, you can discuss the drawing by asking the child how he felt. The leaves dry, then they must be hung in the most habitable corners of the apartment (central room, corridor, kitchen). Your child’s fantastic, extraordinary paintings will turn your home into a fairy-tale gallery, where the most expensive, soul-touching exhibits will not be carpets and prints, but bright reflections (bursts) of your child’s joy and emotional imagination.
Rainbow
It is useful to demonstrate the magical play of colors while teaching your child how to mix colors by asking him to draw a rainbow. To remember well how the colors are located in the rainbow, tell him the rhyme: “Every (red) hunter (orange) wants (yellow) to know (green) where the (blue) eagle owl (purple) sits” - and with him draw a rainbow by mixing paints.
Gems
The exercise allows you to freely experiment with color. A wet piece of paper is a chest with precious stones. They all have their own unique color. The child is invited to try all possible combinations of three colors, different brightness and saturation of colorful mixtures, and fill the chest with different gems, simply by placing multi-colored dots.
Drawing music
Prepare everything for drawing on a wet sheet. Sit next to your child and watch the expression of emotions on his face and on the paper, turning on calm, lyrical music. You can first agree on what colors will be good (yellow, blue), sad (green, light blue), evil (dark red, dark blue). Then it is better to exclude these rules and give the child freedom in choosing colors that reflect his perception of music.
Drawing a mood (for children from 5 years old)
Prepare a wet sheet and paints. Ask your child to draw his mood. Nearby, let him depict the mood of mom, dad, sister, cat, etc.
The adult observes but does not interfere with the drawing process. The interpretation will depend on the brightness, density and color of the design. Dark tones are disturbing tones.
"Drawing a fairy tale"
Prepare everything for drawing on a wet sheet. Invite your child to listen carefully to a fairy tale (any one) and, when he wants, to depict something or someone with color. While the child mixes paints and draws, the adult waits calmly, then continues the story. The drawing will show how emotionally the fairy tale affects the child. A dark range will indicate a negative experience. Light - about joyful and light.
Seasons
Invite the child to draw spring, summer, autumn and winter on one sheet of paper, telling him that “nature has no bad weather”, that any state of mind is useful to a person. When interpreting, pay attention to whether the child is sad or happy to draw autumn.
Drawing with the whole family
Having chosen the theme of the drawing (a fairy tale, an incident from the life of a family, etc.), prepare a large wet sheet, sit around it, allowing you to crawl to any place and draw whatever you want.
funny drawing
Attach a piece of paper to the door or wall. The players line up in one line. The presenter blindfolds the first person, takes him to the “easel”, gives him a felt-tip pen and says that now everyone will draw one cow, elephant, hare, princess, etc.
Everyone takes turns coming up blindfolded and completing the missing details.
Well, what a funny picture it turns out!
Collective drawing
On one sheet of paper, each participant draws a detail of a pre-selected plot (someone's portrait, the seabed, a morning in the forest, an unfamiliar planet, etc.). Then everyone names the picture and comes up with a common story or fairy tale.
Drawing portraits
Participants are divided into pairs. One is the sitter, he must concentrate and try not to change his pose and facial expression while the “artist” is working on his portrait. You can draw with flowers, stars, snowflakes, containers, carrots, etc., as long as you get a portrait of exactly the person you are drawing. The “artist” does not show his work to the “sitter” until he has been in the role of the “artist”. Then the couples exchange “masterpieces” and discuss what is wrong and what would be better. It is possible to re-draw and correct defects.
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If your child periodically gets upset, saying: “I can’t draw this” or “it didn’t turn out nicely,” stop trying to draw according to a model, as is done in various drawing circles, and try spontaneous drawing techniques, not standard ones.
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Passepartout.
This is when a child’s doodles are inserted into a sheet with some shape cut out. Those. cut out a template, for example, butterflies and place it on top of the baby’s “drawing”. As a result, the child’s work forms a unique pattern of butterfly wings.
Drawing with feet.
Secure a sheet of paper to the floor with duct tape. Place a pencil between your baby's toes and ask him to draw something. You can create with both feet on one sheet of paper at the same time. Attach a large piece of paper to the wall and ask your child to draw something on it while lying on his back.
Frottage.
A sheet of paper is placed on a flat, relief object and then, moving an unsharpened colored pencil across the surface, you get a print that imitates the main texture. You can rub pencil crumbs over a textured surface in the same way. Anyone who has tried to draw on a table with a relief surface knows how this drawing technique can be included in a drawing completely uninvited. You can create drawings by combining the relief of several objects.
Airy colors.
To prepare the paint, mix in a small cup:
- one tablespoon of “self-raising” (pancake) flour - this is flour with baking powder already added. You can simply add 1 tsp to flour (per 500 g). soda and 1 tsp. citric acid,
- a few drops of food coloring,
- one tablespoon of salt.
Then you need to add a little water to give the “airy” paint the desired consistency.
You need to apply the paint onto a thick sheet of cardboard (if you don’t have the right brush, you can use cotton swabs).
Attention! Cardboard should not contain synthetic materials or films; use regular cardboard or very thick paper.
Place the painting in the microwave on high for 10 to 30 seconds until the paint is dry. Drying time depends on the thickness of the paint layer and its consistency.
Marbled paper.
Needed: shaving cream (foam), watercolor paints or food coloring, a flat plate for mixing shaving foam and paints, paper, scraper.
Work plan:
- Apply shaving foam in an even, thick layer onto the plate.
- Mix different colors of paint or food coloring with a little water to make a rich solution.
- Using a brush or pipette, drip paint of different colors onto the surface of the foam in a random order.
- Now, using the same brush or stick, beautifully smear the paint over the surface so that it forms fancy zigzags, wavy lines etc. This is the most creative stage all the work that will bring pleasure to the children.
- Now take a sheet of paper and carefully apply it to the surface of the resulting patterned foam.
- Place the sheet on the table. All you have to do is scrape off all the foam from the sheet of paper. For these purposes, you can use a piece of cardboard or a lid cut in half.
- Underneath the shaving foam you'll find stunning marble patterns. The paint has time to quickly absorb into the paper; you just need to let it dry for a few hours.
Drawing with cling film.
Apply stains of several colors using watercolor or gouache paint over the entire surface of the sheet. We put the film on top and draw various lines, lightly pressing the film. Let the paint dry and remove the film. We complete the drawing with felt-tip pens or pencils.
Soap painting.
You can mix the paints with soapy water and then apply patterns and shapes with a brush. When drawing, soap bubbles are formed, which create the texture of colorful strokes.
Blotography.
Let the child drop paint onto the sheet, tilt it in different directions, and then finish drawing the blot so that it turns out to be some kind of image. Or a child dips a brush into paint, then places a blot on a sheet of paper and folds the sheet in half so that the “blot” is imprinted on the second half of the sheet. Then he unfolds the sheet and tries to understand who or what it looks like.
Drawing on a damp surface.
The technique is very simple: moisten a sheet of paper with water, let it dry for 30 seconds and start painting with watercolors. The colors spread in different directions and very interesting patterns are obtained (dawn, clouds, trees, rainbow).
Salt.
Make a sketch on paper first. Moisten it with water using a brush, sprinkle with salt, wait until it absorbs the water, sprinkle off the excess salt. When everything is dry, draw the missing elements and paint. Salt is good for drawing dragonflies, birds, jellyfish, butterflies, snow, smoke.
Wax.
Prepare a sheet of animal silhouettes that you will “draw” with a candle in advance. By painting over the drawing, the child will unexpectedly “create” images of animals.
Foam rubber or sponge.
By dipping a sponge in thick gouache, a child can draw landscapes, bouquets of flowers, lilac branches, and apple trees.
A bunch of pencils.
Securely secure a large piece of paper with duct tape. Gather colored pencils into a bun so that the sharpened ends are at the same level. Invite your child to draw.
Crayons and starch.
Pour a little starch onto a piece of paper and spread it evenly over the surface with your hands. Invite your child to draw with crayons on a slippery surface. It's better to use the primary colors of the crayons so that they give you new colors.
Colored glue.
Pour the glue into empty bottles, add a few drops of different colors to each, and you are ready to create works of art. Draw with colored glue on dark paper using the “drip” technique.
Gauze swab.
Invite your child to dip a gauze swab into paint and draw clouds, soap bubbles, snowdrifts, ducklings, and butterflies. The missing details must be completed with a brush or felt-tip pen.
Corn cobs.
Come up with some image. Dip the cob into the paint and roll it over a sheet of clean paper. Make an impression using the tail of the corncob.
Prints.
We make drawings using stamp imprints.
Drawing with dots.
The child, with a light pressure of the pencil, outlines preliminary contour object, then using a dotting technique fills the space inside it, using felt-tip pens or pencils of different colors.
Painting with splashes.
The most important thing here is to master the “spraying” technique. Apply gouache to a dry toothbrush with fairly stiff bristles, a little less than you usually put in toothpaste. The consistency of the paint is slightly thicker than a paste, so water is usually not needed here. Hold the brush in your left hand with the bristles down at a distance of 3-4 cm from the paper and use the stick to scrape the bristles towards you.
The multi-colored “splash” (fireworks) and yellow-red ( golden autumn) on a white sheet; white “spray” on a dark blue background (winter landscape).
Magic balls.
Material: box lid, balls, paint, paper, brushes, water.
Work progress. Place a sheet of paper in the box and apply several multi-colored or plain drops of paint on it. Place 2-3 balls in a box and shake the box so that the balls roll around, mixing the colors, creating a pattern. published
All children love to draw. But sometimes a child doesn’t get what he wants. Or maybe he doesn’t have enough familiar ways to express himself? Then you can inspire him to experiment with different techniques, among which you will definitely find your favorite. After this, your child will probably want to invent something new.
Dot patterns
First we draw the simplest squiggle. Then, using a cotton swab and paints (gouache or acrylic), we make intricate patterns to suit your taste. It is better to pre-mix the paints and dilute them slightly with water on the palette.
Frottage
A technique familiar and loved by many since childhood. We place an object with a slightly protruding relief under a sheet of paper and paint over it with pastel, chalk or an unsharpened pencil.
Foam prints
By dipping a sponge in thick gouache, the child can draw landscapes, bouquets of flowers, lilac branches or animals.
Blotography
One option: drop paint on a sheet and tilt it in different directions to create an image. Second: the child dips the brush into the paint, then places the blot on a sheet of paper and folds the sheet in half so that the blot is imprinted on the second half of the sheet. Then he unfolds the sheet and tries to understand who or what the drawing resembles.
You can see other drawings using the klyasography method
Hand and foot prints
It's simple: you need to dip your foot or palm in the paint and make an imprint on paper. And then use your imagination and add a couple of details.
You can see more about the method of drawing with palms
Paint patterns
For such an application you need to apply a thick layer of paint onto the paper. Then, with the opposite end of the brush, scratch patterns on the still wet paint - various lines and curls. When dry, cut out the desired shapes and paste them onto a thick sheet of paper.
Fingerprints
The name speaks for itself. You need to paint your finger with a thin layer and make an imprint. A couple of strokes with a felt-tip pen - and you're done!
Monotype
A design is applied to a flat, smooth surface (for example, glass) with paint. Then a sheet of paper is applied, and the print is ready. To make it more blurry, the sheet of paper must first be wetted. Once everything is dry, you can add details and outlines if desired.
Scratch
The highlight of the work is that the drawing needs to be scratched. A sheet of cardboard is densely shaded with spots of multi-colored oil pastel. Then you need to mix black gouache with soap on a palette and paint over the entire sketch. When the paint is completely dry, use a toothpick to scratch the design.
Air colors
To make the paint, mix a tablespoon of self-raising flour, a few drops of food coloring and a tablespoon of salt. Add a little water to the consistency of thick sour cream and mix well. The paint can be placed in a pastry syringe or in a small bag. Tie tightly and cut the corner. We draw on paper or regular cardboard. Place the finished drawing in the microwave at maximum mode for 10-30 seconds.
Marbled paper
Paint a sheet of paper yellow acrylic paint. When it is completely dry, paint over it again with diluted pink paint and cover immediately cling film. The film needs to be crumpled and gathered into folds, since they are the ones that will create the desired pattern. We wait until it dries completely and remove the film.
Painting with water
We draw with watercolors a simple figure and fill it with water. Until it dries, we put colored blots on it so that they mix with each other and form smooth transitions like this.
Prints of vegetables and fruits
Vegetables or fruits need to be cut in half. Then you can cut out some kind of pattern on it or leave it as is. We dip it in paint and make impressions on paper. You can use an apple, potato, carrot or celery for prints.
Leaf prints
The principle is the same. We smear the leaves with paint and make prints on paper.
Drawings with salt
If you sprinkle salt on a watercolor painting that is still wet, it will soak into the paint and create a grainy effect when it dries.
Brush instead of a brush
Sometimes, for the sake of experimentation, it's worth trying something unexpected. For example, a household brush.
Ebru, or painting on water
We will need a container of water. The main requirement is that its area coincides with the area of the sheet of paper. You can use an oven broiler or a large tray. You will also need oil paints, a solvent for them and a brush. The idea is to create patterns with paint on water, and then dip a sheet of paper into them. How to do it: www.youtube.com
Cracked wax effect
Using wax pencils, draw an image on thin paper. In our case - a flower. The background must be completely shaded. Crumple it well and then straighten the sheet with the pattern. We paint it with dark paint so that it goes into all the cracks. We rinse the drawing under the tap and dry it. If necessary, smooth it with an iron.
You can see about drawing on crumpled paper
Cardboard prints with shift
We cut the cardboard into small strips, approximately 1.5x3 cm. Dip the edge of a piece of cardboard into paint, press it vertically to the paper and evenly move it to the side. You will get wide lines from which the drawing is created.
Fist prints
For such a drawing, the child will have to clench his hands into fists. Then dip back side fingers into the paint and make imprints, creating the desired shape. Fish and crabs can be created using fingerprints.
This article will focus on drawing with a pencil. If you want to learn how to draw, but can't get started, now is the time to start learning. Take a sheet of paper, a pencil and try it :) Let's start with drawing techniques.
Pencil drawing technique
There are two main drawing techniques - shading and pencil shading.
Hatching
Using strokes ( short lines) can very successfully convey the tone of the subject. Depending on the number of strokes drawn, you can get different levels tone saturation (the fewer strokes, the lighter the tone, the more strokes, the darker). By the direction of the strokes you can convey the texture of the surface of the figure. For example, horizontal strokes will convey the surface of the water well, and vertical strokes will convey the grass.
Basically, shading is done with short, straight strokes with approximately the same distance between them. The strokes are applied to the paper with a pencil torn off. First, one thin line is made, then the pencil returns to the starting line, and in this way all other strokes are applied.
Cross hatching can be used to enhance the depth of tone. For example, horizontal shading is applied to the oblique shading, darkening the tone, then on what came out, you can apply oblique shading in the opposite direction to the first - this will darken it even more. The darkest in this case will be the tone where shading in all directions is combined.
Feathering
Shading is one of the main techniques that can be used when drawing for beginning artists. Using gradation of tone, you can add volume to your figure. In general, shading is a special case of shading. After applying the strokes, using the properties of pencil graphite and a special shading tool, they are shaded (smeared) until a uniform tone is obtained.
However, the implementation of shading itself has a number of features.
- Shading of strokes must be done along the strokes, but not across. By shading along the strokes, you will achieve a more natural toning.
- For shading, not only simple shading is used, but also zigzag strokes.
With the help of such techniques, you can depict anything on paper.
10 common mistakes that beginners make
Most people who like to draw take their first steps on their own. And even if it's just a hobby, they still make various sketches. We want to write about 10 possible errors, which all aspiring artists probably encounter.
1. Wrong pencil
If your shadows aren't coming out well, check the markings on your pencil. Most likely it is too hard. It is recommended to draw shadows with pencils marked B, 2B and 4B, but not HB.
2. Drawing from photographs
Every artist begins to draw from photographs. But very often photographs do not convey enough facial features to good drawing. When a person's face is positioned from the front, it will be difficult to correctly model their face on paper, since the perspective from behind the head disappears. Try taking a photo where the person's head is tilted slightly to the side. This way the portrait will be more realistic and with best transmission shadows
3. Wrong basic proportions
Very often people begin to immediately pay attention to details, drawing them completely without sketching the entire drawing. This is wrong because you are not planning the correct proportions in advance. First, it is advisable to sketch out the entire drawing, and only then draw in detail the details.
4. Crooked features
We are used to looking at a person directly and aligning them when drawing. As a result, the portrait comes out quite distorted. When drawing complex objects, first try to outline guidelines along which it will be easier to build the drawing later.
5. Drawing of animals
Usually we look down at our animal. This makes the head seem larger to us than the whole body, and normal proportionality is lost. Try to distract the animal so that it turns its muzzle to the side, then the drawing will come out more truthful.
6. Strokes
If you draw each hair or blade of grass separately, the drawing will come out disgusting. Try to make sharp sketches, going from dark to light.
7. Trees
Do not try to draw trees, flowers, and leaves with the correct shapes. Use outlines and penumbra for realism.
8. Wrong paper
Before you buy paper, test it on a sample piece of something light. The paper may be too smooth and the design will be faded. Also, the paper may be too stiff and the design will be quite flat.
9. Volume
When conveying volume, try not to use clear lines for the edges. They can be outlined by light lines of different tones.
10. Shadows
Very often it is not possible to apply shadows evenly. Try to use the full color range of the pencil, going from lightest to darkest. If you are afraid to overdo it with the dark, put a piece of paper under the edge, and all the black will be on it.
At first it may seem that pencil drawings are too ordinary and dull. But with a pencil you can convey huge amount emotions.
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