Drawings from blots are a great idea that can diversify your creativity with your child. It was suggested to us by the talented St. Petersburg artist Sergei Rublev. For Galka-Player, Sergei has prepared a small master class that will allow you and your child to create your own unusual (and probably more than one) painting from blots. Try it, it's not at all difficult, and the result can be very impressive.
First, a little background. Last summer I spent a lot of time in the company of my nephew Mark, who was 4 years old at the time. When we were once again looking for something to do, I remembered watercolor blots, and we got down to business. And we got so carried away that in a couple of hours we ended up with about 50 blots. And it’s not so easy to get Mark interested in something, especially for a long time!
Later, while cleaning out my closet, I came across our artwork and decided to complete it with ink. So the blots turned into a series of urban and seascapes, and after several years of working and drawing on the computer, I fell in love with watercolors again.
Do you also want to try to create your own little masterpiece from blots? This will be interesting for children (and adults as well) different ages (Editor's note: with kids we use the “hand to hand” technique; it could also be great idea for mom's creativity). The technology is quite simple, and materials for creativity will probably be found at home.
1. We will need watercolor paints, 6-12 colors are enough. The paper can be any kind, for example, my nephew and I drew on ordinary office paper. It is best to take large brushes; they are easier and faster to paint over the sheet. A jar of water and a rag or paper towels will also come in handy.
2. Before drawing, fold the sheets of paper in half: on one side we will draw, on the other we will make a print.
3. Wet the brush with water and take the paint. There should be enough water so that the color spots can mix on the paper, then you will get a beautiful transition between colors. I recommend using no more than 3-4 colors, then the spots will turn out bright and saturated and do not risk turning into dirty gray.
4. When one side of the sheet is painted, you can fold it in half.
5. Smooth out the folded sheet to make the print clearer and brighter.
6. The blot is ready. Let's put it aside for now to dry, but for now you can do the next one.
7. When the blot has dried, we can finish drawing it with felt-tip pens, pencils and a gel pen.
How can we “revive” our blot? The plot can be thought out in advance or further imagined when the inkblot is ready. In the first case, it could be a flower, a butterfly, the sun or a heart (by the way, interesting idea for Valentine) - something symmetrical. Then you simply apply half of the desired design onto half of the sheet.
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Master- the class is designed for parents and educators, as well as children preschool age- from 3 to 6 years.
Purpose master class:
Nowadays, a rather non-standard look has become widespread. visual arts – blotography. Blotography is finishing drawing randomly applied to paper blots to a recognizable artistic image.
Unconventional forms of drawing arouse keen interest among children. Especially blotography t. k. usually for blots we make a remark, and when using this method on the contrary, we praise.
Doing blots(black and multi-colored) and looking at them, already a 3-year-old child can see images, objects or individual details. “What does it look like?”, “Who does she remind you of?”- such questions develop thinking and imagination.
Blotography- This great way have fun and useful time, experiment with colors, create unusual images. Inflating blots It is impossible to predict exactly how they will diverge, flow into each other, and what the final result will be. This activity will be interesting for both adults and children. And not only interesting - but also healthy: for example, as articulatory gymnastics. Also drawing blowing through a straw improves lung health and strength and respiratory system (which is especially useful for coughs).
I would like to note that using this type drawing well, it turns out, depict various trees (you get intricate trunks, branches, etc.). Try it, you will like the result!
Target: Getting to know this image method as blotography, show her expressive capabilities.
Tasks:
Arouse interest in "revival" unusual shapes (blots, learn complete the details of objects(blots, to give them completeness and similarity to real images; teach to see the unusual in the ordinary;
Develop creative thinking, flexibility of thinking, perception, imagination, fantasy, interest in creative activity; cultivate neatness in painting with paints.
Materials for work:
Album sheets;
Gouache or watercolor;
Large brush or you can use a pipette;
Straw for drinks;
Water in a jar;
A damp cloth - wipe your hands if they get dirty;
Cotton buds;
Plasticine;
- felt-tip pens.
GCD move:
Organizational part.
Educator: Guys, do you know what it is? blot?
Children's answers.
Educator: A blot is a trace, stain left by paint. Blot maybe there is a way drawing.
The teacher offers the children several ready-made drawings made by blotography.
Children practice on an extra sheet of paper with one color.
Physical education minute "Children like paint»
So we took the paints in our hands, (clasp our hands together "lock", rotational movements round)
And there was no boredom in the house.
To make it more fun (Clap your hands)
Don't skimp on bright paint!
This is true! (Stand up, jerk your arms in front of your chest)
Well, what is there to hide?
Children love, love very much paint! (Turns the torso left and right, hands on the belt)
And on the window on the tram!
What kind of animal is this? (Hands on the belt, body tilted forward)
Many legs, one head?
Is it a centipede beast? (Jumping in place)
Is it a queue at the stall?
This is true! (Clap your hands)
Well, what is there to hide?
Children love, love very much paint! (Jumping in place)
On paper, on asphalt, on the wall
And on the window on the tram! (Clap your hands) (E. Uspensky)
Blotography can be combined with different technicians visual arts, such as monotype, appliqué and others. Some of them are presented in this master class.
This method drawing« blots» can be used with children 3-4 years old and older.
Dip the brush into diluted paint and spray it onto a sheet of paper. The thicker the paint, the richer color, but it is more difficult to blow out.
We take a tube and blow through it onto multi-colored drops of paint, they turn into blots. In this case, the sheet of paper can be rotated - blots turns out even more interesting!
Blotography using cotton swabs
Using a large brush we place blot in the corner of the sheet.
Using a straw, blow the paint into different directions. The result is a tree like this!
After thinking a little, this tree reminded me of a mountain ash growing alone on a slope. Using cotton swabs paint on the berries.
It is about such a rowan that she may have written a poem. "Rowan" Irina Tokmakova.
Red berry
Rowan gave me.
I thought it was sweet
And she is like a hina.
Is it this berry?
I'm just not ripe
Is it the cunning rowan tree?
Did you want to make a joke?
Blotography using a felt-tip pen
As well as in previous works put blot and blow out the trunk and branches using a straw. What kind of tree is this? Of course, pine!
Using green using a felt-tip pen to draw the needles.
Above the yellow scree of the cliff
The old pine tree bent down
Shyly bare roots
She leads with the wind. (Timofey Belozerov)
Having decorated all the branches with lush needles, we begin to design a clearing around the pine tree. We apply blots green and inflate with a straw. The result is flower stems!
Finishing the drawing on the stems there are leaves and flowers - dandelions. Now the lonely pine is not bored at all!
Blotography + plasticineography
Using plasticine we create a marine bottom: we sculpt bright fish and pebbles.
But is there something missing in this drawing? Seaweed, of course! By using magic blots and the tubes and sea grass appear! Blots are located between the pebbles, and if the paint slightly gets on the plasticine, it’s okay, you can easily wipe it with a cloth and the work will not be ruined.
Why not the seabed! Finishing the drawing bubbles and the drawing is ready!
The fish was catching up with the fish,
The fish wagged its tail
Poked in the abdomen - Caught up!
Hey girlfriend! How are you? (T. Vtorova)
And this method drawing suitable for older children (5 – 7 years). We take paint onto a brush and spray it onto a sheet of paper. Blow out using a straw magic blots. And now the most crucial moment - you need to turn on your imagination!
In each blot
Someone is there
If in blot
Get in with a brush.
In this blot -
Cat with a tail
Under the tail -
River with a bridge
On Bridge -
A weirdo with a weirdo.
Under the bridge -
Pike perch with pike perch.
The drawing needs to be examined from different sides and only then finish drawing individual details so that the image becomes more recognizable.
Blotography + monotopy
The background is prepared in advance using techniques - monotopy.
Apply to the dried layer blots different colors and blown out using a tube.
Here's just a small part of what you can do with « magic blots» - blotography. And with what others? technicians fine arts can be combined blotography– your imagination will tell you!
The result of GCD.
The teacher and the children examine the works and design the exhibition.
About the benefits of Pencil and Brush
(excerpt)
…. Blot brush for laughter
He will put it on us - what a hindrance!
This blot is very angry:
- It's not good for me to be a blot,
I won't blot is prose,
I'll be a daisy or a rose.
N. Alekseevskaya.
Blotography is a painting technique based on spontaneous spots and splashes.
It can be used for different purposes.
- To create decorative backgrounds (in postcards, for example)
- For exercises to develop imagination
- For art therapy – pulling out images of problems from the subconscious and transforming them
- To create works of art.
More materials on the topic:
I’ll tell you about the last point another time, but for now let’s try what blotography is.
Materials:
In order to do blotography, you need paper. Lots of paper. Because the process is exciting, and you want to “stain” as much space as possible. Therefore, take a pile of simpler paper - gray for writing or white for the printer.
You also need ink or ink. If you don’t have them, then watercolor paints will do. Take a larger brush. Even a paint brush will do.
Preparing the workspace:
Before starting the process, cover the table surface with newspapers or film. Perhaps everything around will also have to be covered so that the splashes flying in all directions do not stain the interior. It would be a good idea to protect your clothes with an apron - mascara practically cannot be washed off.
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Blotography, technique for creating blots:
Now that everything is ready, you can start going crazy. 🙂
- Put some mascara on the brush and shake it onto the paper to make blots. Beauty?
You can impulsively move your hand over the paper, you can simply drip ink, you can tilt the sheet so that the ink flows in different directions. You can also blow on drops of paint, and they will spread in beautiful drips. To do this, it is convenient to take a cocktail straw.
Here are a couple of spots that I ended up with.
The first one reminds me of a flower. And the second causes some unpleasant associations with internal organs... True, it still looks like a bean with a sprout...
I invite you to play mindlessly with your blots. This is exactly what was forbidden in childhood. And now we are adults and can afford to be a little naughty and fall into madness... :)
Let go of your hand and let it paint whatever it wants. Let the subconscious, through body movements, spill out what it needs.
Spontaneous splashes and “blown” blots, of course, have little to do with the work of the subconscious, but they decorate the graphic sheet well. So try both. IN different options, and on one sheet at the same time.
So, what is next?
- After you've played enough, take a break and look at the works. Choose those that tell you something or represent something interesting compositions from spots.
- Now you can use your imagination and complete the paintings with a few neat strokes.
This is what happened to me.
The second work with the “organ” I first enlivened with a flower sprouting from a seed. The result was still not pleasing, so I shaded the black and white image with color. In graphics this is quite acceptable.
This picture clearly has an art therapeutic focus.
Such works are important not for their artistic side, but for what they mean to us personally. They require us to make adjustments to them until we are satisfied with the changes that have occurred in them. In this way, we seem to give our subconscious a way to solve the problem.
But the picture with a flower was important precisely as a pictorial motif. I finalized it by drawing a flower stem, stamen, and caddis dragonfly. This one can be hung on the wall. 🙂
I hope that you have a similar method of creating graphic images you'll like it. After all, they have something that attracts attention so much - the energy of movement, the play of spontaneity and awareness.
The blotography technique can be successfully used to create completely artwork. Such as we do in the “Watercolor Fantasies” course:
The watercolor technique includes many different techniques that awaken your imagination and help you unleash your inner Artist.
I want you to try your hand at watercolors and fall in love with this wonderful medium.
Therefore I suggest you
Lesson topic: Blotography and watercolor
Children's age- 4-6 years
Target: development creativity children through acquaintance with unconventional methods drawing.
Tasks:
Educational- mastery of blotography technology and the dipping method watercolor paints.
Developmental- development creativity, imagination, fantasy based on familiarization with unconventional drawing methods.
Educating- to instill in students accuracy, composure when performing work techniques, hard work, and the ability to listen.
Methodological equipment:
Samples of previously completed works, illustrations for children's books.
Necessary materials: a sheet of coated paper, A-3 format, ink, palette, watercolor paints, a jar of water, brushes.
Progress of the lesson.
1. Introduction.
Blotography is one of the techniques that is loved by both children and adults. With the help of blots and a stream of air, unusual silhouettes appear, which artists then turn into trees, fairy tale characters, flowers and much more.
Today we will get acquainted with only one method of blotography, but first we will get acquainted with the illustrations famous artists who used this drawing method in their works. This is the work of Eric Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev.
What do you think helped these artists create the image of a dense forest?
Right! Blots!
There are different types of blots: scary and cute, evil and kind. It all depends on the artist’s imagination.
Listen to a poem about blots.
Wonderful blot.
In every blot
Someone is there
If in a blot
Finger in.
In this blot -
Cat with a tail
Under the tail -
River with a bridge
navigable river
For ships and zander.
On Bridge -
A weirdo with a weirdo.
Under the bridge -
Pike perch with pike perch,
And they float back and forth
All kinds of vessels:
They are sailing there with boats,
They're sailing here with the girls here,
Reflected in the river
Walleyes with eccentrics,
Weirdos with zanders.
This blot is over
We need to make a new one
There is a huge palace in it
And a balcony with a cow!
2. Preparing children for practical classes.
Guys, today you and I will create with the help of blots various images trees. And a magic jar of ink will help us with this. The ink doesn't wash off from clothes, so we make sure everyone has aprons and sleeves.
3. Practical lesson.
Now let's start creating the blotography. To do this, place a large blot of ink in the middle of the sheet and start blowing. We blow in such a way that our blot grows upward, turning into a tree.
(Teacher’s commentary on each stage of production, assistance to children in the process of work). The blots need to be blown out. Therefore, children get tired quickly.
Physical education minute:
Once - rise, stretch,
Two - bend over, straighten up,
Three - clap, three claps,
Three nods of the head.
Four - arms wider,
Five - wave your arms,
Six - sit down quietly.
After our trees are ready, we begin to complete the work using the brushing method with watercolor paints. Mix yellow and blue colors. It turns out various shades green. Apply brush strokes to create tree leaves and grass.
Little children love to leave blots on paper. Parents, underestimating the “masterpieces” of their own children, get rid of incomprehensible drawings. But it turns out that you can create a unique drawing from the leftover blots. By the way, there is even such a drawing technique - blotography.
POSITIVE ASPECTS OF BLOCKOGRAPHY
IN last years Blotography is gaining unprecedented popularity. And this moment is not at all connected with the latest fashion trends. It turns out that thanks to this drawing technique, the child’s creative imagination intensively develops.
It would seem that a baby can learn something useful from an ordinary blot. In fact, a spot made by accident with paint has a unique, non-repeating shape and size. And if you apply a little imagination, you can give an ordinary blot the outline of an object or create the image of an animal. By the way, this unconventional technology Adults are often interested in drawing too.
Blotography drawing technique
To create a unique drawing, you need to prepare the following material:
— An artistic brush. It is advisable to use hard brushes. Sometimes children, to depict a blot big size resort to using a toothbrush.
- Paints. In this art form, only liquid watercolor is used. If you don’t have suitable paints on hand, you can simply dilute your existing watercolors with water. By the way, multi-colored ink has the consistency necessary for drawing. It can also be used when drawing.
— Cardboard or a sheet of white paper.
— Water container.
- Cotton buds.
- A damp cloth. Used to remove dirt from hands.
Stages of the creative process
So, blotography is a drawing technique.
Where to begin?
If you are new to this area, then you should first decide on the topic of the future drawing.
Here it is extremely important to direct mental activity in the right direction, in other words, set the direction.
After making a blot on a piece of paper, turn on your imagination and try to see in it the outlines of an object or living creature. Maybe she's positioned herself in front of you amazing planet or the picturesque underwater world.
There are several ways to create a drawing using blotography.
The most common one is drip method.
Here you will need a wide, voluminous brush. It should be thoroughly saturated with paint, and then, placing it over a piece of paper, begin to spray watercolor. If you want the drops to irrigate a small area, tap the brush on your finger or hand. When the brush is simply shaken, the spray area increases. For spot application of paint, use a pipette. By the way, with its help you can create a large blot, thus depicting, for example, the sun. Most often, landscapes are created using this method of blotography.
In the second method, blotography is used spreading method.
To do this, apply a large blot to the corner of the sheet using a brush. It is important that the paint must be very liquid. Then, using a drinking straw, they begin to blow the paint over the surface of the paper. It is advisable to direct the watercolor in different directions. Now take a closer look at the resulting drawing, what does it remind you of? Maybe a rowan bush?
If yes, then you should complete the drawing by drawing red fruits on the branch. To do this, use cotton swab. Just soak the “tool” in paint desired color and draw rowan leaves and berries. The resulting drawing can be decorated with an original frame if desired.
The child may need adult help for the first few lessons. Most often, children cannot immediately discern familiar outlines in a blot.
Drawings made using the blotography technique.
