Easy ways to draw. Unusual techniques and methods of drawing for children

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. The older the child, the greater his life experience, the more stable the stereotype of behavior and habits.

Children who started drawing early have no fear of a white sheet of paper in the future. In addition, it has been proven that everything we learn in early childhood remains 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 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 - fine motor skills of the hands develop, which means the development of speech improves. The baby’s speech becomes more active because another (and what an interesting!) reason for verbal communication between a child and an adult appears. A drawing is a mirror of your baby’s feelings, maturity, and development. You can learn a lot from the masterpieces of the little artist.

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 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 can indicate 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 the color 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 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.

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 geometric shapes chaotically. 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 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 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 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 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 preschool children.

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 flowers, fireworks, ice cream and much more are imprinted there 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 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.

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, 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 ball, pour a little paint of different colors onto a 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 of the right hand obeys the child 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 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 all of them.

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 a finger (no need for uniformity). 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. Clarity and vagueness are needed, for example, if a child wants to depict the following themes: “City in the fog,” “I had dreams,” “It’s raining,” “City at night,” “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. Therefore, it is recommended to soak a ball of cotton wool in clean water, 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 artistic design. 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, together with the children, you cut out a fairy-tale house with a grandmother in the window from a postcard and paste it on, then the preschooler, relying on his imagination, knowledge of fairy tales and visual skills, will undoubtedly add something to it.

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! 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’s better for the whole thing to fit in (this can be achieved by gluing two or three sheets of whatman paper together) 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 of different colors on several sheets of paper and scratch the surface in different ways. 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 piece of paper, 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); draw with dirty water, old tea leaves, coffee grounds, berry juice. 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. The adults and the child 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 in 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 is similar to 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 further. 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 a new car today! You probably want one?” But at the end of such a drawing, it is important to ask: “How does the drawn car differ 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 the seabed, space, a bird market, a kindergarten, a prehistoric land with ancient lizards, Africa or Antarctica, in general, everything that excites and interests the little artist at the moment. 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 of magical colors, extraordinary flowers, and 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. The color ratios can vary in their saturation, so yellowish, light blue, pink colors are obtained. 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 painting with colors through mixing them is 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, thickness 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.

Have a creative mood!

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Oksana Deneko

Probably all children really like it paint. And they especially welcome non-traditional drawing methods. But this plays into our hands, because any drawing helps development of creative thinking, imagination, creativity, expansion of ideas about the world around us. It also develops fine motor skills of the hand, trains the muscles of the hand, and prepares the hand for writing.

Shaving foam - very unusual surface for drawing. The paint on it can be stretched and twisted into beautiful lines, curls and other patterns. Sometimes it resembles paper quilling. Each drawing turns out unique! At drawing the principle of monotype is used on foam - drawing using unique prints. We use dried paper in classes, for wrapping gifts, and even for further drawing!

Materials and tools:

a flat tray, lid or plate, or just a sheet of A-4 format.

shaving foam,

We take ANY paint!

a thin brush or toothpicks, combs, foam swabs, brushes of different sizes.

Ruler (we took a plastic one) or strips of thick cardboard.

a pack of napkins, you can put a basin with water to rinse the ruler.

And also ENTHUSIASM, GOOD MOOD, CREATIVITY!

First, let's prepare the work surface)

Apply a little foam to a tray or A-4 sheet.

Use a ruler or a strip of cardboard to level and smooth the foam over the surface.

Armed with ANY COLOR, let's begin paint…

We painted today only with brushes, it turned out like this....

When the image is ready, attach a sheet of paper to it and press it so that the image is printed on the sheet, but do not press the sheet too hard.

Careful not to smudge the design, remove the paper and lay it foam side up for a few minutes to allow the paint to absorb.

Remove any remaining foam from the drawing by running a ruler or cardboard over it.

Let the drawing dry.

And this is what we ended up with...

And with the remaining foam you can come up with a lot of other things) For example, make something out of it

Or you can invite your child to play with multi-colored foam - touch it with your palm and remove your hand, touch it again, scoop the foam into your palm and clench your hand into a fist, stretch it or pass it between your fingers.

Relaxation of fingers and palms, unusual the child is provided with pleasant sensory sensations that are beneficial for development, as well as positive emotions

Role drawing in the formation of speech in a child is great. As we adults know, stimulation of fine motor skills, namely finger movement hands: fast, slow, conscious, leads to an increase and intensification of speech activity. The more attention is paid to this during the period when the child begins to speak, the faster the process of speech production goes.

Drawing in turn, performs two at once functions: aesthetic perception of the world through drawing and increased speech activity.

In addition, it is very pleasant to see joyful and desired fruits enlightenment: skills drawing, joy in the eyes of a child, the immense happiness that he receives from his creativity.

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All children love to draw. But sometimes things don’t turn out the way a child 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 there is sure to be a favorite one. After this, your child will probably want to invent something new.

website I have collected the most interesting techniques for you.

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

Having dipped a sponge in thick gouache, the child can draw landscapes, bouquets of flowers, lilac branches or animals.

Blotography

One option: drop paint onto 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.

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.

Paint patterns

For such an application you need to apply a thick layer of paint onto the paper. Then, using 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 pastels. 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 with yellow acrylic paint. When it is completely dry, paint it again with diluted pink paint and immediately cover it with 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

Using watercolors, draw a simple shape 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. For prints you can use an apple, potato, carrot or celery.

Leaf prints

The principle is the same. We smear the leaves with paint and make prints on paper.

Elena Nikitina

Drawing one of the children's favorite activities. Drawing in unusual ways evokes even more positive emotions in children. Using unconventional drawing techniques development of thinking, imagination, fantasy, creative abilities. The child develops an interest in drawing, as a result, the desire to create.

Today I will tell you and show you how paint without using a brush.

1. Drawing with cotton swabs. We put paint on a stick and decorate the image on a sheet of paper with dots. (Christmas tree, snow, teapot, sundress, rowan branch).

2. Drawing with palms. Pour the paint into a flat container. Dip your palm and press it to a sheet of paper. (Flowers, fish, Santa Claus, swan, carrots).

3. Drawing with cotton pads. You can use cotton pads paint, folding them in half, quarter or whole. (Moon, snowdrifts, various flowers).

4. Drawing with prints. Simple drawing method: paint is applied to the surface to be printed and a print is placed on a sheet of paper. (Use: flowers, shells, fruits, vegetables).

5. Blotography. A spot or blot of watercolor paint is made on a sheet of paper. Take a tube and blow air onto the blot.

6. Drawing with a fork. We put paint on a fork from a flat plate and make an imprint with the flat surface of the fork. Can draw grass, fence, flowers, hedgehog.

7. Drawing with thread. The best thing draw with wool thread. We dip the thread in paint and apply it to a sheet of paper and create a pattern by imprinting with the movement of the thread. The wool thread creates a fancy pattern that is suitable for depicting clouds, clouds, sheep, or an unusual flower.

8. Drawing sponge or piece of foam rubber. We clamp a piece of foam rubber with a clothespin, dip it in paint and apply prints that create the texture of the object. They are used to paint animal fur, fluffy bunches of flowers, clouds, and tree crowns.

9. Splash painting. You will need a toothbrush and comb. Take a little paint on the brush and spray it with a comb. Move the brush over the comb over a sheet of paper. You can apply paints of different colors, it will turn out very beautiful.

10. Drawing with stamps. The stamp is easy to make from plasticine. We apply plasticine to a block, cube, etc. Using any sharp object, we depict some object or abstract pattern on it. The stamp is ready. We make a pillow from a sponge. Pour paint onto the sponge. We apply the stamp to the sponge with paint. Now you can make prints. A stamp can be made from the bottom of a plastic bottle, you get beautiful flowers.

11. Drawing imprints of cups and necks of different diameters. Pour the paint into a flat plate. Dip the glass in paint and apply the design to a sheet of paper.

12. Drawing with a comb. We will need a comb with fine teeth. Apply multi-colored paint (next to each other) on a sheet of paper in the shape of a drop. Then we run a comb over all the drops of paint, connecting and smearing them. It turns out to be an amazing rainbow. You can also draw different patterns, adding drops and moving the comb in different directions.

13. Drawing with wax crayons. Using colored wax pencils or wax crayons, apply the design to a sheet of paper. Then we cover it with one or several layers of watercolor. The result is an unusual and bright pattern. (Can draw stars, flowers).

14. Scratch (waxography). We paint the surface of the entire sheet of paper with wax crayons, then cover the sheet with black gouache. When everything is dry, scratch the paint and create a drawing with lines. You can scratch with a pointed stick, skewer, or toothpick.

15. Drawing with gauze. Apply a layer of gauze to a wet sheet of paper, straightening it. The gauze should remain motionless on the paper. Paint on top of the gauze with a brush and paint. Let the drawing dry. We remove the gauze - a pattern remains on the paper in the form of an imprint of the texture of the gauze fabric. (Landscape, sky, tree, grass)

16. Drawing using plastic film. Let's draw a picture. Before the paint has dried, quickly apply the film to the drawing in the right place and carefully, using rotating movements, create wrinkles of the film on the paper. The wrinkles collect paint. Allow to dry and carefully remove the tape.

17. Monotype. Drawing symmetrical objects. To do this, fold a sheet of paper in half and draw an object on one half. While the paint is still wet, fold the sheet in two again. A print will be made on the other half. After this, the image can be finish or decorate.

18. Drawing air bubble film. With the help of this wonderful material you can very easily draw falling snow. We apply white or pale blue paint to the film and apply it to a sheet of paper with a pattern. With this technology you can make an extraordinary background for winter applique.

19. Painting with salt. Apply a design to a sheet of colored cardboard using PVA glue. We draw a picture on the theme of winter. Sprinkle salt on top. When everything is dry, shake off the excess salt.

20. Drawing with semolina. For drawing in this technique Use colored paper or cardboard. PVA glue is applied to the outline of the design. Semolina is poured on top and a sheet of paper is placed tightly on top. Then remove the paper and shake off the excess semolina. So way the next part is created.

21. Drawing with a candle. On a thick sheet of paper or cardboard, children draw with a candle according to plan. The sheet is painted over with watercolor paint. Wax images will appear through the watercolor. (Christmas tree, snowflakes, animals).

You can also use the following techniques unconventional drawing: feather drawing, finger painting, drawing on a stencil with a stamp, drawing using the poke method, drawing with soap bubbles, drawing with crumpled paper, drawing with leaves.

Publications on the topic:

Introduction to non-traditional art techniques 1. “Introduction to non-traditional techniques of fine art activities” 2. slide Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy.

Consultation “Drawing in non-traditional ways” The development of the creative potential of the individual should be carried out from early childhood, when the child begins to master it under the guidance of adults.

The children in our group and I really enjoyed learning about various artistic techniques. The guys were so immersed in.

Notes on drawing with non-traditional techniques “Autumn Leaves” Age group: 2-junior Type: productive activity Form of organization:.

Introducing preschool children to non-traditional drawing techniques Municipal budgetary preschool educational institution MBDOU No. 33 “Malinka” METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT: “We introduce preschool children.

Master class “Drawing for the little ones.”

Shatokhina Rita Vyacheslavovna, teacher of additional education at the MBU DO “House of Children's Creativity in Kalininsk, Saratov Region.”
This master class is intended for additional education teachers and preschool teachers. The master class will also be of interest to little artists aged 4 years and older and their parents.
Purpose: This master class is a short drawing course for little ones, which shows how to draw with geometric shapes.
Target: creating conditions for acquiring drawing skills.
Tasks: teach your child how to draw familiar images using geometric shapes;
instill the skills to carefully work with paints and brushes;
develop creative imagination and fine motor skills.
The kids who come to my association for classes are still very young, but they really want to draw. From experience working with children, I realized that it is easier for them to draw with geometric shapes. Children draw according to my demonstration, step by step. When starting a lesson, I never tell the children what we are going to draw today. I know from experience that they find it more interesting. In the process, they guess who they are drawing, and this brings them a lot of joy. And everyone’s drawings are different.

Master class on drawing for children “Snail”

Prepare: A4 landscape sheet, watercolor paints, brushes of different sizes, a jar for water and a napkin.

Before we start painting, I tell the children that the paints are sleeping and need to be woken up by gently stroking them with a brush. Let’s wake up the yellow paint first and start painting.
Draw a bun in the center of the sheet, gradually unwinding the brush, and then draw an arc with brown paint.

We turn the arc into a loop.

We draw the horns and paint them over.

Decorating the snail's house.

We draw the eyes and mouth of the snail. Next, the children themselves come up with and decorate the background of the picture: where is the snail?

Children's works:

Master class on drawing for children “Turtle”.

Draw a “bun” in the center of the sheet with yellow paint, and draw 4 loops with brown paint.

The fifth loop is drawn larger in size; we paint over all the loops.

We draw circle eyes, first with white paint, then with black.

Decorate the turtle shell. The child can come up with his own pattern.

Master class on drawing for children “Fish”

We draw a “bun” with yellow paint, draw arcs: top and bottom, it looks like an eye.

Draw a triangle tail for the fish. Then we decorate the fish with red paint. draw with a brush: mouth, fins.

We draw scales and decorate the tail.

We “print” with a brush: we draw pebbles and water, draw lines with green algae paint.

Draw the eye of the fish with black paint. Black paint likes to play around, so we are especially careful with it.

"Winter meadow".

Take a sheet of blue color, A4 format. We paint the koloboks with white paint. We draw lines, draw snowdrifts.

Using brown paint we paint the trunk and branches of the trees, hands, eyes, mouth and broom of the snowman.

Decorate the drawing with snowflakes. Decorate the snowman: draw a bucket on his head and a scarf. Children complete the drawing and decorate it.

Using the same principle, you can draw an autumn forest, only initially the koloboks will be yellow, orange and green, and leaf fall, we draw by applying a brush, and print. Children's work:

Master class on drawing for children “Hedgehog”.

We draw the “bun” with brown paint.

Draw a triangle nose.

Child's work.
We draw a clearing for the hedgehog, the children fantasize.

Child's work:

Master class on drawing for children “Frog”.

Take a sheet of blue color, A4 format. Draw a “bun” in the center with green paint.

We draw another “bun”, and on top there are two “bridges”.

We draw the frog's legs, draw the children's attention to the fact that the frog's legs differ in their structure, which helps the frog to jump well and stay on even the most slippery surface.

We draw the frog's mouth and eyes. We decorate the picture after talking with the children: where does the frog live?

Master class on drawing for children “Cockerel”.

We draw a large bun - the body, a smaller bun - the head. We connect them with smooth lines, we get a neck.

We draw the cockerel's legs-triangles and tail, lines-arcs.

Use red paint to paint the cockerel's comb (bridges), beak and beard, and apply a brush.

Draw the cockerel's legs.