You can paint not only with ordinary paints and brushes. There are many unusual and exciting ways to draw that your children will enjoy and instill in them a love of creativity.
Hand and foot prints
You can draw not only with your fingers, but also with your palms and even your legs. Like these ones interesting works can be made from hand and foot prints if you apply a little imagination.
Drawing with ice cubes
You will need:
- Thick paper
- Tempera (or watercolor)
- Form for ice
- Toothpicks
How to draw:
Pour water into the mold and place it in the freezer. When the water is half frozen, insert a toothpick into each cube and let the water freeze completely. After this, take out the ice. You will use the cubes as brushes, holding them by the toothpicks.
Apply a few spots on the paper different colors(either dry tempera or crushed watercolor) and paint over them using ice! For example, with the same cube you can cross all the spots of paint, allowing them to shimmer in a fantastic way.
Drawing with milk
You will need:
- A quarter glass of condensed milk
- Food paints
How to draw:
Mix condensed milk with paints, pour into separate containers (jars or molds) by color. The resulting paints must be applied in a thin layer, because they take a long time to dry.
Shaving foam drawing
You will need:
- Shaving foam
- Food paints
- Aluminium foil
How to draw:
Tear off a long sheet of foil and apply a few "heaps" of shaving foam to it. Let your child choose paint colors and mix them with foam. The paints are ready, now you can paint with brushes or fingers. The main thing is to explain to children that foam should not be put in their mouth. After the drawing dries, the foam will create interesting texture. After drawing, the foam is easily washed off from the skin and any household surfaces.
Drawing with a toothbrush
You will need:
- Old toothbrush
- Dye
- Paper
How to draw:
It's very simple: a toothbrush serves as a brush. You can draw a face on gray paper with a pencil and “brush” its teeth with a toothbrush and white paint. And then paint the face.
Drawing with beads
Cut out a piece of construction paper and place it in the bottom of a pie pan, tray, or similar. Apply a few drops of paint to the cardboard and then, while the paint is still wet, place some glass beads on top and roll them around - and see what happens!
Drawing with soap bubbles
Mix some watercolor into the soapy bubble solution. Place drawing paper on the floor and ask your child to blow bubbles - they will land on the paper and create fancy patterns.
Blowing with a straw
Dilute some paint and pour a small amount onto the paper, give the child a straw and let them blow out any design (just make sure the child blows on the paint rather than sucking it up).
Another way to draw with soap bubbles: bubble up more foam in a glass with a colored soap-foaming solution and place paper on top of it.
Frosty patterns on glass - we make and draw our own window, photo, description
If the frost hasn’t reached your windows, then let’s make our own window with a frosty pattern. It will turn out no worse than the real thing.
Required material: blue gouache and white flowers, wide brush, cocktail straw, glossy silver cardstock, pencil, glitter for decoration, 1.5 cm wide masking tape.
How we do it:
1.Draw a window on cardboard and stick masking tape along the outline.
2. Paint the surface of the cardboard with blue gouache. There is a point here: gouache cannot be diluted with water, otherwise too liquid paint will flow under the tape and the contours of the window will become unclear.
3.How to explain blue paint When it dries, dilute the white gouache with water, take a straw and blow out frosty patterns.
4.After the frosty patterns have dried well, carefully remove the tape. You should get a window with frosty patterns on glass.
5. Decorate the picture with sparkles.
Mirror drawing
Fold a piece of paper in half, draw a simple shape on one half - or maybe just splatter a little paint. Then straighten the sheet and place the second half on top of the painted one. Let the paint imprint and straighten it again, and then study the resulting mirror pattern together.
Cut out a large piece of cardboard and place it on a table or floor. Place a piece of drawing paper on top. The cardboard will protect surrounding surfaces from splashes. Then dilute the watercolor paints well, take a hard brush or toothbrush and splatter the paint on the paper. Show your child that you can make beautiful splashes by running the bristles over a hard piece of paper or a wooden stick.
In the same way, you can make drawings using a stencil.
On colored paper apply the stencil. 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.
Take an unnecessary spray bottle and fill it with water and paint - and go paint. For this it will be more convenient to take large leaf paper or even a piece of old wallpaper. It's best to paint this way outdoors.
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 an unusual technique in this case. 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.
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 figures. And then offer to make simple ornaments out of them - first from one type of figure, then from two, three.
The trace 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 not a large amount of water), and the baby begins to cover the sheet 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 does this, let the work dry, then draw eyes, mouth, mustache, and stripes with a brush.
Negative
Glue a sheet of white paper and a sheet of black paper together so that you end up with a large sheet, one half of which is black and the other half is white. Give your child black and white gouache and ask them to draw the same simple drawing first with white paint on black, then with black paint on white.
Collect several leaves and place them on a piece of paper. Prepare well-diluted watercolors and a sponge. Dip the sponge into the paint and place it on top of the leaf so that the area around it is painted. Then carefully remove the leaf.
Such an uncomplicated look artistic creativity, as an unconventional drawing with leaf prints, is great for little artists for whom a brush is still complex instrument. It turns out that a seemingly ordinary leaf (maple, poplar, oak or birch) can turn into a tool for artistic creativity no worse than a brush.
What do we need?
Paper
Leaves different trees(preferably fallen ones);
Gouache
Brushes.
Progress:
The child covers a piece of wood with paints of different colors, then places it on the paper with the painted side to make a print. Each time a new sheet is taken. The resulting drawing is completed with paints as desired. This is how it turns out:
Painting using passe-partout technique
On a sheet of paper, draw an apple, a fish or a car in the center of the sheet. Now you need to cut out the contour of the object that you drew. It turned out to be a passe-partout. In pictures you can only cut out part of the image. The fish has a part of the body, a tail, and fins. Give your child a piece of paper. Let the baby smear the paint, slap the sheet with his palms and leave marks. Glue the passe-partout onto a sheet of paper painted with crumbs. The kid will be very surprised and happy when he sees a multi-colored bright fish (a car or a girl).
"Figured" figurine
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 a landscape sheet, you ask your 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 does not hold well 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 hatch them with various 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 thread 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. You can dye several threads in different colors at the same time. 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 preschool children.
You can draw with threads in other ways. Cut off wool thread about 20 cm long, dip it in paint and give it to your baby. Let him move the thread along the sheet of paper as he pleases. Then do the same with the other thread and new paint. Multi-colored lines, zigzags, and streaks will remain on the sheet. In short, a beautiful abstraction.
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.
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 office 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.
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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 tiles on a plane, on paper, less often on asphalt. large stones. 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 shape. 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, thick paint is applied to the pebble - 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's another way to depict the world: fingers, palm, fist, foot, and maybe chin, 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 will be better able to draw a tree with his hands than with other tools. With his finger he will draw out the trunk and branches, then (if it’s autumn) apply inner side hands yellow, green, orange paints and draws a crimson-mahogany tree on top. It’s also good to mix several colors and shades. For example, first you 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 are a number of objects, subjects, images that are better to draw on damp paper. There needs to be ambiguity and vagueness, for example, if a child wants to depict following topics: "City in the Fog", "I Dreamed", "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 and teach them how to cut out necessary images and stick it to the place, in 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 fairytale 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.
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 for application 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 various parts. For example, a car (reel - wheels, cubes - body and window); castle of a sorceress, animals, etc.
You can paint the wheels of a toy car and drive it around on paper.
An interesting rose-shaped print is made from the remains of a head of Chinese cabbage.
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 toothpaste, walk it along 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! You need to get a large sheet of 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 baby 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 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.
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 of different colors on several sheets of paper and 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. Glue the cut out elements onto Blank sheet 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.
The concept itself explains the meaning this method: several of the above are collected into it. 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. The limit to improvement and creativity in visual arts No.
English teacher-researcher Anna Rogovin recommends using everything that is at hand for drawing exercises: drawing with a cloth, paper napkin(folded many times); paint dirty water, old tea leaves, coffee grounds, berry juice. It is also useful to color cans and bottles, spools and boxes, etc.
Ecology of consumption. Children: If your child periodically gets upset, saying: “I can’t draw this” or “it didn’t turn out nicely,” stop trying...
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 spots of several colors of watercolor or gouache paint to 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 drip 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 pad 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 an 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 light pressure from the pencil, outlines the preliminary outline of the object, then, using a dot 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.
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, mixing the colors, creating a pattern. published
We recently looked at seven simple watercolor painting techniques, and if you've mastered them, then it's time to move on to something more complex and interesting. Today we will look at six more interesting techniques that will help you create your own masterpiece.
Spray
We wet the bottom of the paper to see what would happen.
This technique is quite simple. Just put paint on the brush and start tapping the bristles of the brush on your finger so that the splashes scatter chaotically
If your brush is too wet, it will be difficult to control the splatter. Therefore, shake a few drops off it, and only then get to work.
If you don't like hitting your fingers with the brush, you can use any improvised means, a pen, for example.
Before we start splashing our paint, we'll place some pieces of paper in the top corner of our canvas.
We also wet the bottom edge of the sheet clean water and painted it light purple.
Find an old toothbrush, rinse it and remove any remaining toothpaste. And get ready for chaos.
There are several ways to get paint onto your toothbrush. You can dip it in paint, which makes it very difficult to fill the bristles with paint. You can try filling your toothbrush using a brush. This way you can control the amount of paint.
Take a toothbrush and swipe thumb along the stubble. You can also use improvised means. Choose a tool that you can use to spray paint off the bristles. Notice how the speed of your movements and the distance of the brush from the paper affect the paint atomization.
When you want to spray paint of a different color, rinse your toothbrush thoroughly and dry it with a towel.
Don't worry if you don't get this technique as well as you'd like. Practice and you will succeed.
As you can see, it turns out to be quite an interesting effect. Use the available tools that you have, use your imagination and be creative in your drawing.
Sgraffito and stamps
Sgraffito is an Italian term that refers to a scraping technique associated with wearing away the top coating of pottery to expose the layers underneath.
In the example, we scraped off the paint using a pocket knife. If you scrape off paint that has not yet dried and has soaked deep into the paper, you will get dark lines.
If you use this technique wisely, you can use it to create interesting landscapes, scraping out the shapes of trees and other flora.
You can use old ones credit cards to scrape off the paint. Use a smooth side card to sweep away any remaining paint.
Many brushes have a pointed edge. You can use these brushes to create fine lines.
It is very important to understand at what interval you need to start scraping. Practice on a separate sheet of the same paper and with the same colors.
A stamp is the application of paint by pressing other objects onto paper. You can choose any material to create stamps. Try everything you can get your hands on.
In this example, we are using facial tissues. Fill them with paint and stamp on the top of the paper.
You can also use a sponge. With its help we will depict grass.
You can play with textures using various materials. Experiment!
Don't be afraid to use body parts for stamps. Everything can be used!
Washing out
Relatively simple technique will help you create unusual and interesting textures.
First, cover the top of the paper with blue paint.
Then quickly paint the rest of the canvas red. This is what our drawing will look like at this stage.
Now rinse your brush thoroughly and refill it with clean water. Using light brush strokes, sprinkle drops of water onto the still wet paint.
Continue spraying water until you are satisfied with the result.
How far the paint has dried can be determined by the force of the water on it. Notice that the more water applied to the same area, the lighter the color of the paint became.
Don't be discouraged if you can't control the blur. You most likely will not succeed, since it is quite difficult to influence this process.
Experiment with the amount of water, colors and how dry the paint is. This technique can help you create an interesting and textured background.
We use alcohol
You will need cotton swabs and alcohol.
Paint your sheet thickly with paint.
Create the background color you want and get ready for the fun.
Dip cotton swab into alcohol and start dripping it onto the paint.
Alcohol, when it gets on the paint, repels it, creating a light spot.
Try dripping alcohol onto the paint as it dries to see the effect.
It turns out quite nice, doesn't it?
This interesting technique allows you to create unusual textures.
We use salt
Obviously we will need salt for this technique.
Let's draw the sky and the hill.
Our second hill will be raspberry in color, let's mix it a little with the first hill to get an interesting transition.
Now take salt and sprinkle it on our drawing. After a few minutes, add a little more salt. It pushes the paint away from itself, creating an unusual texture.
Let's wait until it all dries and see what happens next.
Once the design has dried, the effect the salt created becomes more visible.
Shake the salt off the drawing and enjoy the result.
It is better to use a sponge to brush off the salt. This way you don't damage the paint. Clean the drawing with light movements, try not to rub it.
The salt absorbed the paint, creating a huge number of star-like specks.
It is worth noting that coarse salt will leave larger specks, and fine salt will leave smaller ones.
In this article you will find 11 interesting ways drawing with children.
Monotype
Draw something with your child on cellophane or glass, and then print it on a piece of paper.
Blotography
Place a few bold blots or draw lines on one half of the sheet. Then fold it in half. Unfold again. Now look closely at this drawing with your child to see images, objects, or come up with a whole plot.
Drawing on wet paper
Moisten the paper with clean water. Next, paint with paints.
Drawing with dots
You will need a cotton swab and paints. Use poking to draw flowers, berries, or whatever you want.
Drawing with threads
To do this, you need to dip a woolen thread in thick paint and then press it between two sheets of cardboard. Next, pull the end and move the thread inside the cardboard. The result will be an interesting image in which you can see many interesting images.
Prints
Make different figures from foam rubber. Then dip it in paint and make prints. Start chaotically, then draw a pattern. Prints can also be made using vegetables or fruits. Cut the apple in half, or take a head of Chinese cabbage. Dip in paint and stamp on paper.
Foam drawing
Mix water, shampoo and a little paint in a glass. Take a cocktail straw, place it in a glass and blow into it until the bubbles rise above the glass. Then apply the paper to this foam and see what happens.
Magic drawing
Draw on white paper wax candle or wax pencil image. Then apply paint over this image. The paint will not stick to the greasy candle image. The drawing you made seems to appear.
Finger drawing
You can draw with your fingers, fists, palms, feet, and even your nose!
Painting with salt
First, draw with glue. And then sprinkle the drawing with salt.
Relief drawings
Add flour to the paint. Paint with this paint, and when it dries, you will see the result.
The standard idea of drawing for many is associated with an album and drawing supplies: paints, pencils, brushes and felt-tip pens. Meanwhile, there are many ways to make a lesson unusual and exciting, one that will evoke positive emotions not only in children, but also in adults.
Unusual techniques Drawing for children, using non-standard means and materials, is a great opportunity to show imagination and create spectacular, memorable crafts.
Draw with your hands
A very simple way to draw unusual and varied pictures using the tool that is always at hand, namely the hand of the artist himself. From a very young age you can use simple abstract pictures, and when the child gets older you can complicate the task. A child's hand provides ample opportunities for creating plots, here are the two simplest ones.
Butterfly
Take a sheet of paper and lay it horizontally. Fold it in half, secure the fold line well, then straighten the sheet. Put a little gouache on a brush (let the child choose the colors themselves) and paint the baby’s palm. If a child holds a brush well and confidently, then he can paint his own palm himself, this will give him a lot of pleasure. It is better to paint the fingertips and palm in different colors, this will make the drawing more vibrant.
Painted palm young artist attaches to a piece of paper. The base of the palm should be at the fold line of the sheet. Since a butterfly’s wing consists of two parts, the child places his palm once, with his fingers slightly turned downward in the design, and the second time, on the contrary, with his palm turned with his fingers up.
Then attach the second half of the sheet to the resulting handprint - and you will get a wonderful butterfly. For authenticity, you can draw the body and head of the butterfly by hand or cut them out of colored paper and glue them with glue.
Tree
An excellent option for depicting a tree using the same hand, however, now you will need not only the palm, but also the part of the hand above the hand.
The technique is simple: the child paints the palm and a piece of the hand just above the wrist with brown gouache, and places it on a vertical sheet of paper. It turns out to be a tree trunk that just needs to be painted with foliage. Options are also possible here: you can draw it yourself, or you can glue real leaves collected in autumn forest.
Pictures in stamps
A creative solution that will make any drawing unexpected and eye-catching is to draw its elements with stamps.
What is a stamp? This is a piece of base on which the desired design is cut out or secured with improvised means.
Anything can be used as materials for making stamps:
- raw potato tubers;
- small apples cut in half;
- plasticine;
- Lego construction elements;
- lids from small jars;
- matchboxes and threads.
A universal and inexpensive material for making impressions that everyone can find.
- Select small tubers, wash and peel them.
- Cut the tuber in half. On the resulting surface of the stamp, draw the imprint you want to get, for example, it will be a leaf of a tree.
- Use a knife to make cuts that imitate the structure of the leaf. Then dip the finished stamp in paint and make an impression on a previously prepared piece of paper.
- To create a finished composition, you can make the necessary blank, for example, an image of a tree branch, the leaves on which can be drawn with the resulting stamp.
Attention: potatoes absorb paint quickly and well, so to obtain prints of different colors, each time you need to use a new stamp (potato tuber).
Stamps on plasticine
One of the kids' favorite ways to create their own stamps. To do this you will need: a piece of thick plasticine and a ballpoint pen (for small parts). For larger details that need to be extruded into the print, it is better to use a pencil with a thick lead.
Making an impression:
- We roll a sausage 2-3 cm long from plasticine. Make the bottom of the sausage smooth and even.
- We take a ballpoint pen and, pressing deeply inward, place a point in the middle of the base of the print. This will be the core of the flower.
- We apply a ballpoint pen to the stamp as follows: with the pointed end towards the center, press well. We make several impressions, forming petals around the core of the flower.
- We fill the resulting recesses of the stamp with paint, it is better if they are acrylic paints or gouache. The watercolor will bleed, producing desaturated colors.
- We print on paper. The composition can be diversified by making several stamps with different designs.
Apple cards
For this “delicious” painting technique you will need: several small apples, gouache or acrylic paints, two or three sheets of thick colored cardboard.
Cut the apples into halves, dilute a few colors in an additional bowl. In order for the prints to be saturated, do not thin the paints too much. Having dipped the cut side of the apple into the paint, invite your child to make several prints on pieces of colored cardboard.
Don’t let parents be scared by the fact that when children see bright and appetizing prints, they will want to put them on cardboard in incredible quantities. When the prints are dry, the sheets of cardboard can be cut to fit the postcard format, or by cutting out a square with apple prints, stick it on a large piece of cardboard in a contrasting color. The tails of the apples can be painted separately. It turns out wonderful picture for kitchen!
Thread stamps
This type of creativity attracts children with funny geometric designs, formed as a result of the use of ordinary threads.
The basic materials for this unusual technique are simple and affordable - these are boxes of matches (you only need boxes, no matches), thick threads of wool or synthetic yarn, and paints (all except watercolors).
In order to make a stamp, you need to take a small piece of thread and wrap it around a matchbox. The thread should not be too thin and should fit tightly around the box. We dip the resulting stamp in paint and get a spectacular print with a geometric pattern.
Unusual drawing and natural materials
The most interesting drawing techniques for children are related to natural materials various textures: wood, stone, plant seeds, and, of course, tree foliage.
When we collect leaves in the autumn forest with our children, we sometimes don’t suspect how much space there is for flights of fancy and imagination. unusual drawings hidden in an ordinary dried oak or maple leaf.
Autumn Foliage Drawings
For these works you need any leaves: large and small, elongated and round, green, yellow, with or without cuttings. While walking in the forest, focus children's attention on the variety of shapes and colors of autumn leaves.
Leaf prints
Option one
We take a sheet of not very thick white paper and place it on the table in front of the children. It is better to secure its corners with tape; for this type of work it is important that the sheet does not slide on the table. Lay out three sheets different shapes next to each other and “stamp” each sheet in turn, sketching it with colored wax crayon.
Second option
We “print” with leaves by first applying paint to them. This drawing method looks like this.
Take several large sheets and invite the children to work as autumn wizards. Let them paint one side of each sheet with their own colors - the way they like, in any order. Then have the leaves touch the colored side to a white piece of paper. You will get bright, juicy prints.
This type of work will allow you to create interesting and bright collages on an autumn theme!
Making your own colored paper
Few people know that it is enough to simply create spectacular multi-colored paper at home yourself. As a result of this unusual technique, it will turn out to be a bizarre, unusual color, reminiscent of the pattern of a marble stone.
To create this type of colored paper you will need:
- men's shaving foam;
- watercolor or acrylic paints;
- disposable paper plate for mixing paints;
- paper;
- a piece of thick cardboard.
Apply an even, dense layer of foam to the plate. Lightly dilute the paints with water; the colors should be rich and bright. Then take a little paint of each color with a brush and “drip” a few drops different shades on a plate with foam in random order.
The next part is the most favorite among children of any age. Taking a cotton swab (you can remove it with a cotton tip) or a toothpick, the child should dilute the colored drops in the foam. 
As a result, completely bizarre shapes are formed - blots, dots, stains and incredible color combinations.
Then you need to take a sheet of paper and place it flat on the multi-colored foam formed in the plate. Turn the sheet over and place it on the dry side on the table. Now you need to scrape off the remaining foam from the surface of the sheet. To do this, just take a piece of thick cardboard, and holding it vertically, remove excess foam.
A sheet of the resulting colored paper in bright and cheerful colors can be used when it dries.
All of the above variety of works, done by children and adults using unusual drawing techniques, are ideal for lessons. home creativity, creating drawings using collage techniques and designing family albums using scrapbooking techniques.
Teacher, child development center specialist
Druzhinina Elena
