Children and creativity are inseparable concepts. The child learns the world around us, trying to reflect it in play, modeling and drawing. After all, at heart, every child is a singer and musician, artist and sculptor. Creative impulses in children are often associated with artistic activity, and the child’s visual creativity is an ideal opportunity for the manifestation of his imagination. This is an important condition for the normal development of the baby.

Unconventional techniques drawing for children in kindergarten and school does not mean something complicated. Quite the opposite - such drawing turns an art lesson into fun fun. Here it is not at all necessary to have complex pencil and brush skills. IN simple techniques unconventional drawing the child is able to create beautiful drawings and paintings, and this will give him an amazing creative experience with an excellent final result. He himself will be drawn to art when he feels that he can create beauty with his own hands.

Unconventional drawing methods

For children, non-traditional drawing techniques are a wonderful way to create small masterpieces. It turns out that your palm can turn into a pink elephant, a simple blot can become a tree, and a carrot and potato can surprise you with unusual patterns.

For example, kids 3-4 years old we can suggest:

With kids 5-6 years you can try:

• prints-pictures
  
• plasticine printing
  
• leaf prints
  
• palm drawings
  
• painting with cotton swabs
• magic strings
  
• monotype.
  

And with children 7-8 years You can master more complex techniques:

• drawing with crumpled paper
  
• drawing with soap bubbles
  
• painting with salt
  
• blotography
  
• plasticineography
  
• grattage
  
• frottage.
  

For children, modeling from plasticine is a whole world full of variety and experiments! Under your careful guidance, a child can create all sorts of things, which will become the best guide for creating various fairy-tale characters, animals and plants.

Hand drawing

Drawing with pens is the first technique that little children can master very early. The drawing turns out quickly - this is extremely important, because kids cannot do one thing for a long time. Dip a child's hand in paint and let the child make an imprint on the surface of the paper. See what it's like. Ask your little one what needs to be completed to make an animal or bird. The missing details can be drawn with your fingers.

Technique for painting with watercolors on wet paper

To create small masterpieces you will need a sheet of thick paper, watercolor paints and a brush. Help your child wet the sheet evenly, but make sure there are no puddles. Let him put some paint on his brush and start creating. Each stroke spreads across the paper in a new tone, beautifully transitioning into a different shade. Now is the time to show your child how colors are mixed and explain what shades are.

Tell your child that all movements should be done easily and smoothly; there is no need to press the brush into the paper, as many children like to do. A light touch is enough. This technique works well for drawing backgrounds. And after drying, you can continue to draw the rest of the drawing.

Drawing using the Glue Pictures technique

To draw in this style you will need a glue gun. Help your child draw outlines on paper with hot glue and fill in the image with paint. Thanks to the glue, the paint does not flow beyond these contours. It turns out something like a stained glass image. Using this technique, you and your child can create a real stained glass window on glass, but then instead of a simple watercolor you will need to buy acrylic paints water based.

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Watercolor drawings with wax crayons

To draw a picture using this technique, you need: a landscape sheet, wax crayons, watercolor paints, a squirrel brush, leaf templates.

Let your child, with your help, draw several different leaves on the sheet. The drawing must be arranged according to the size of the leaves - first large, then smaller. Let the leaves overlap each other - this is exactly how nature does.

Now take wax crayons and trace the outlines of the leaves; for this you will need crayons in warm colors: yellow, red, orange, brown, burgundy. You can use several colors in one sheet. Don't forget to draw veins on each leaf, except rowan ones

Interesting! Paper fantasies or ideas for autumn paper crafts for school

And now it’s time to use watercolors - start painting not the leaves, but the album sheet from the upper left corner. Show your child how to add other colors so that one shade flows smoothly into another without clear boundaries. In this way we gradually fill our sheet with autumn colors.

Drawing with fun prints

1. Plasticine stamps

It is very simple and convenient to make stamps from plasticine - just give a piece of plasticine the desired shape, decorate it with patterns (lines, dots) and paint it in the desired color.

2. Thread stamps

To create interesting “striped stamps” you can use threads that need to be tightly wound around an object. Then the threads are painted with thick paint in the required color. Now only imagination will tell you how to apply a “striped pattern” to the surface of the paper.

3. Stamps made from folded cardboard

By rolling a piece of cardboard into a roll, you can get an original stamp for “roses”. And if you cut a “round piece” from a toilet paper roll and give it the shape of a leaf, then your child can create a beautiful composition on his own.

4. Leaf prints

This technique is familiar to many. To stamp a leaf, you can take any pretty leaf and apply ink to the side with the veins. Then apply the painted side of the sheet to the paper and iron it. After a few seconds, you can carefully lift the leaf - its imprint will remain on the paper.

5. Prints with potatoes, carrots, apples

For kids early age This is a fairly popular technique. You will need any vegetable or fruit and gouache. Then everything is simple - dip the object in paint and make an imprint on paper.

Stamps can be made from apples, potatoes, carrots, peppers and other vegetables or fruits. The easiest way is to make a stamp from potatoes. If you have metal cookie cutters, simply press the cookie cutter into the potatoes and use a knife to carefully trim off any excess pieces around the edges.

Drawing with soap bubbles

It will be very interesting for the child to draw a picture with soap bubbles. To do this, add any soap solution and paint to a glass of water and use a straw to make a strong foam. Carefully place a sheet of paper on the bubbles and wait for the first patterns to appear. You can lift the paper - the bubble patterns are ready.

Painting with salt

To add a whimsical texture to the background of your painting, you can use salt when depicting any landscape. While the paint has not yet dried, the background must be sprinkled with salt. She absorbs excess water, sticks and creates a very interesting effect. Extra salt need to be gently shaken off after drying. Unusual light spots will remain in its place.

There is another extraordinary interesting option drawing with salt. To do this, you need to draw a picture with a pencil, and then circle it with PVA glue. It could be a simple flower, patterns or geometric shapes. We don't regret glue. Sprinkle the design generously with salt, and then carefully shake off the excess onto the tray. Now let's add colors - you can paint with a brush, or you can take a pipette and apply colored water drop by drop onto the drawing. You will be able to see how the drops spread and create bright patterns and shapes.

Drawing with crumpled paper.

Using a crumpled napkin or paper you can create an unusual texture. There are two ways to do this technique:

Monotype

This unusual drawing technique is based on a unique print that can only be produced in a single copy. Therefore, it is impossible to create two absolutely identical drawings.

I. Using various materials while drawing, you can achieve interesting effects:
1. to get blurry outlines, drip water (or vodka) onto a sheet covered with watercolors. This is a good way to depict a sky overcast with clouds;
2. effect "cereals", snowflakes, "ice crust" can be obtained by sprinkling salt on the applied watercolor image;

3. chaotic uneven retouching turns out thanks to crumpled paper;
4. drawing with a stencil has many options. Try placing the cut out figure on a piece of paper and covering them with watercolors. Now remove the stencil, allowing the paint to spread out. The outlines of the stencil image will be blurry, and the color will intensify from the center of the figure to the periphery;
5. interesting texture can be achieved using sandpaper;
6.emerging "second" layer possible with multilayer image. Draw crayons or candle something on a piece of paper and cover it with watercolors. In those places where something is drawn with chalk or a candle, the paint will not lie smoothly, and the image will show through from under it;

7. "scratching" paint paintings. Draw something crayons or candle on paper (or just color the sheet with crayons). Now cover the sheet of paper with the image with a thick layer of paint (gouache) and let it dry. After the paint has dried, you can start scratching out the image. In those places where there is chalk, the paint will come off well, in other places it will remain an even background;

8. another interesting way to draw crayons and gouache can be called " m1st image". Wax crayons An object is drawn on paper, and the entire space around it is also painted over with crayons. Now we carefully crumple this sheet, straighten it and cover it with gouache. Now quickly wash off the gouache using a sponge and water. The paint should remain only in the places where the paper is folded;

9. an interesting effect is obtained from drawing sponge. Invite your child to “draw” the crown of trees or the sea with a sponge;

10. give "fluffiness" image can be used using gauze or cellophane. It works well to use this effect with stencil. Cut out an animal figure from cardboard and attach it to a sheet of paper. Now we dip the gauze or cellophane into the paint diluted with water and light movements we follow the contour of the stencil. When you remove the stencil, you will see a clear figure of the animal, and its outline will look soft and fluffy (for example, like a bear drawn with gauze by Valeria Koryavikova).
Next to it is a drawing made according to the same principle, only without a stencil, and instead of gauze was used polyethylene bag;

11. try using it as an additional drawing tool threads. Good at drawing winding lines using woolen threads from a loose product;

12. amazing colorful circles are obtained if you paint not with a brush, but electrical toothbrush or massage brush.

II. "Punching": the child might like it" stamp" objects or to "draw" something in this way. Any objects can be "stamped", these can be cubes (a set of geometric shapes) or an elastic band back side pencil:

Prints can be made natural materials, for example, a spruce branch or a large leaf from a plant:

III. The baby may like to draw on a sheet if it lies on some convex surfaces. You can make a curly one yourself stencil For "imprints", for example, like this:

IV. If you draw over a wet watercolor drawing back of the brush, then you get " grooves", as in the picture with the trees. So you can “draw” on the wet one with scissors, in which case the “grooves” will be the same and two at a time.
V. Spray: Interesting effects and images can be created by spraying paint from a brush or toothbrush onto a sheet of paper. The same can be done by placing an object on the sheet. Then there will be a “dotted background” around the object, and the image of the object will be colorless.

With the help splash you can paint the whole picture:

VI. Blots: drop and let the paint spread over the sheet. You can blow into the center of the blot through a straw. You can make images from blots mirrored, if you first fold the sheet in half (or twist it), then straighten it and drip paint onto it. Now fold the sheet again and press lightly. Next is a matter of your imagination. See what the blots look like and add the necessary details. Below is a mirror drawing from a blot by Yulia Mitko.

VII.Monotype. This technique works well for postcards.Apply colorful stripes or patterns to glass (or any other material that does not absorb paint). Now place a sheet of paper on top and press down lightly. Remove the sheet of glass and examine the printed design.

VIII.Foam drawing.

1. Whisk foam and pick it up with a sponge. Now squeeze out the sponge so that the foam ends up in the paint container. Stir and use a brush to apply foam and paint onto the paper. When the drawing is dry, the excess foam can be blown off.

2. To create effect use different shades take the colors shaving foam and gouache of the color you need. Mix shaving foam and paint in a bowl and apply it to the drawing with a brush.

IX. Drawings with glue

1.Glue lining.Draw some object on the sheet with a pencil. Through a small hole in a tube of stationery glue, squeeze out the glue along the contour of the image and leave it to dry. Then fill in the space inside the outline.

Unusual ways to draw

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. Such 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)
- Ice tray
- 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
- Aluminum 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 design dries, the foam will create an 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.
Materials needed: blue and white gouache, wide brush, cocktail straw, glossy silver cardboard, 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. Once the blue paint has dried, 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 end up with a window with frosty patterns on the 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.

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.

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 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 no large quantity water), and the baby begins to cover the leaf with traces of it. Let him first simply understand that with the help of " magic wand» you can quickly and easily draw footprints. 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, and let the baby “trample” it with his “ magic instrument“- the bunny and the 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 the child black and white gouache and offer 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, like non-traditional drawing with leaf prints, is great for little artists for whom a brush is still a difficult tool. 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 of different trees (preferably fallen);
Gouache
Brushes.
Work 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 works:

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. Paste the passe-partout onto a piece 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 is poorly held on outside patterns 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-speech work in combination with visual work will contribute intellectual development children preschool age.

You can draw with threads in other ways. Cut a woolen 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 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 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 ball, pour a little paint different colors onto a sheet and roll the ball along the sheet 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 even your 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 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’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 apply yellow paint, and then brown or orange, it turns out fluffy!
It’s good if we teach children to use their fingers rationally: not just one index finger, but by everyone.

Monotopy method

A few words about this, unfortunately, rarely used method. And in vain. Because it contains a lot of tempting things for preschoolers. In short, this is an image on cellophane, which is then transferred to paper. On smooth cellophane I paint with paint using a brush, or a match with cotton wool, or my finger (no uniformity needed). The paint should be thick and bright. And immediately, before the paint has dried, they turn the cellophane over with the image down onto white thick paper and, as it were, blot the drawing, and then lift it up. This results in two drawings. Sometimes the image remains on cellophane, sometimes on paper.

Drawing under the film

Squeeze the paint onto cardboard or paper, put a film on top and smooth it with cotton wool, then sharply pull the film away. This way you get a good sunset, sea, fire...

Drawing on wet paper

Until recently, it was believed that painting could only be done on dry paper, because the paint was sufficiently diluted with water. But there is a whole series objects, plots, images that are best drawn on damp paper. Clarity and vagueness are needed, for example, if a child wants to depict the following themes: “A city in the fog,” “I had a dream,” “It’s raining,” “ Night city", "Flowers behind the curtain", etc. You need to teach your preschooler to make the paper a little damp. If the paper is too wet, the drawing may not work out. Therefore, it is recommended to wet it in clean water a lump of cotton wool, squeeze it out and rub it either over the entire sheet of paper, or (if required) only over a separate part. And the paper is ready to produce unclear images.

Drawing with postcards

Almost every home has a lot of old postcards. Go through old postcards with your children 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 fairy house with his grandmother in the window, then the preschooler, relying on his imagination, knowledge of fairy tales and visual skills, will undoubtedly finish drawing something for him.

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 different 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 offers, 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, it turned out 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 in different ways scratch the surface. Now assemble the composition. For example, cut out a pond from a piece with scallops, cut out a sky with clouds from curls, make a snake from a scaly surface, and so on. Glue the cut out elements onto blank slate 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, the following ideally seems important to us: it is good when a preschooler is not only familiar with various depiction techniques, but also does not forget about them, but uses them appropriately when performing 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 rag, a paper napkin (folded many times); paint dirty water, old tea leaves, coffee grounds, squeezed berries. It is also useful to color cans and bottles, spools and boxes, etc.

What to do at home with your baby when it's cold outside? Of course, creativity! And we have made for you just a huge selection in which we talked about all sorts of unusual ways of drawing. Let's get started soon!

Top 40: unusual ways of drawing!

If you have a pencil at home with an eraser on the other end, then this idea is for you! A little time for preparation, and you can create bright pictures. You will appreciate the simplicity and accessibility of this type of creativity, and your little one will have a fun and useful time.
Let's draw with an eraser!

We have an entertaining idea for you and your little ones that combines creativity and the study of the laws of physics! This activity will captivate the whole family!

Thanks to this idea, little ones will be able to better explore colors and their combinations. And the method will definitely surprise them!
Making magical colored milk!

We have it for you great idea how to entertain your baby while developing him creativity. It won’t take a lot of your time and money, but the idea will definitely amuse your little one!
Let's spray paint!

If it suddenly starts to rain outside, this is not a reason to be sad! We offer you and your kids entertainment in inclement weather. Just don't forget to wear raincoats)

What are machines for? Of course, organize races, roll your favorite toys and give parents a back massage in the morning) Have you tried using them as a drawing tool? We would like to offer you and your restless ones a simple, but very unusual idea.

All kids love to do something unusual and interesting, discovering a lot of new fun. Therefore, we try to find for you and your little ones only the most curious and educational ideas! And this time we invite you to make bright ice colors! In the process of drawing, the baby will easily learn colors and their combinations.

Have you ever drawn in 3D? We have found an extraordinary idea for creativity for you and your kids, which combines painting, paper sculpture and exploring nature! It’s very simple to implement, but how much joy and new discoveries this activity will bring you!

After drawing with crayons, small “stubs” remain, which are no longer so convenient to use. We want to give you an idea on how you can use them. Keep drawing with them, just a little differently! Make paint out of them!

We will need: crayons, thick food bags, a hammer.
Place crayons of the same shades in a bag and close tightly. Tap the bag with a hammer to turn the crayons into powder. Be careful not to hit too hard, otherwise the bag may tear. Pour the resulting powder into a bowl and add water. The paint is ready! It's that simple! This paint will lay softly on paper or any other surface. Draw with pleasure!

This time we again want to invite your kids to draw, only now with ice-cold crayons! It turns out very beautiful and cool, besides, in the process the baby observes that the oil does not mix with water, and this can be used as an artistic technique.

In summer, nature appears before us in all its glory! Berries, fruits and vegetables are ripening, there is a riot of greenery outside, flowers are blooming and giving us their aroma. We invite you and your children to try one interesting summer fun - make natural watercolors! And if it’s cold outside, you can buy flowers in the store. This dye is completely natural and safe, plus it's so much fun to make! Try it yourself!

We want to tell you about one artist, whose name is Jackson Pollock, and about his painting technique, which your children will certainly enjoy. The great thing about this technique is that you get to “splatter” paint to your heart’s content! Jason Pollock's technique involves placing the canvas on the floor and spraying paint from the brushes without touching the brush to the canvas. In 2006, a painting titled “Number 5, 1948” was sold at Sotheby’s for $140 million!

We're sure you've never painted with frozen paint before! Today is the day to discover new horizons and try this fun form of drawing.

Is it still raining or has it stopped, but you didn’t get to see the rainbow?! No problem! Today we will make our own rainbow from colored rice (we will also tell you how to color it), and at the same time we will repeat all the colors and learn a funny rhyme about a rainbow. We can admire our rainbow at any time, regardless of the weather and time of year!

Have you ever thought about how you become an artist? That's right, with practice and training. In general, drawing teachers have a lot of interesting and entertaining exercises, while doing them you can’t even say that you are undergoing training. That’s exactly how we treat them – as creative entertainment! Today we will share with you one of them - drawing circles.

Usually at every holiday the obligatory guests are balloons. But then time passes, and the balloons begin to deflate. You think they can no longer bring joy, but you’re wrong! Today we will tell you how to create a wonderful portrait using a balloon. Fun guaranteed! :)

We want to talk about another fun type of art - drawing with film with pimples. So it’s time to get out the box from under the TV, mixer or juicer that has not been thrown away, the film from there will be very useful to us today in the creative process;)

Today we invite you to bring our hooligan idea to life. Let's combine water balloon throwing and art! What will we get? Of course, great entertainment for a warm day summer day! Intrigued? ;)
Let's draw with watercolor pencils!

We decided to invite you and your children to master unusual look drawing, which is sure to amuse the whole family with its slightly hooligan attitude! Today we invite you to draw using old pieces of yarn or thick threads, which are probably found in every home!

We decided to show you a recipe on how to make body paints at home. The best part about this recipe is that the dye is absolutely safe for your baby’s skin! If your children are older, be sure to let them make their own paint, imagine their pleasure when... different materials they will make the most real body paint!

Everyone knows about drawing on asphalt with crayons! Today we will tell you about another interesting idea for asphalt art - painting with paints, and we will also give you a recipe on how to make these paints from scrap materials! With this idea, you will always have an answer to your child’s question “What are we going to do today?!”

Everyone knows about painting with fingers, palms or a brush. Have you tried to draw with a living flower?

Want to learn another unusual type of drawing? Then this idea is for you, because today we will draw on stones. The idea is very simple, but, nevertheless, it can successfully keep your child occupied for a very long time. This unusual drawing develops imagination and contributes to the development of a creative self in your fidget.

Coloring is always a fun activity for children. After reading this article, you will learn how easy it is to make your own unique drawing templates and color them! Abstract coloring encourages children to use their imagination and can keep them busy throughout the day. Drawing also actively develops fine motor skills, which has a beneficial effect on the development of speech and mental abilities.

Let's become artists today? But we will create our creative masterpieces in a very unusual way - by putting multi-colored stamps made from ordinary pepper. This simple method will allow even the youngest creators to create their first artistic work, and older artists will be able to show their imagination and understand that there are practically no limits to creativity.

We invite you to show your child what miracles there are in the world of science. Has your child ever seen colors grow before their eyes? If not, then try this unusual experiment. The child will be delighted when he sees that the picture has become three-dimensional!

Every child probably loves to embody their flights of fantasy in drawings. But regular paints Have you already gotten tired of pencils? Try to suggest little artist new way drawing with salt and glue. You will be surprised how much delight and emotion this will cause unusual way drawing. It’s so interesting to watch how the colors themselves “diverge” throughout the design, and the picture turns out bright and voluminous.

For many, autumn is a time of inspiration, some begin to write poetry or entire poems, some convey what they see in stories, and for others creative process pours into autumn paintings. It is on drawing that we want to stop and tell you about another unusual type - drawing on autumn leaves.

How wonderful it is when you can walk through the autumn park and enjoy the rustling autumn leaves. But the weather is not always conducive to such a walk. Today we invite you, together with your fidgets, to create a unique autumn mood in your home - we will make leaves with unusual, creative colors.

To make your walks more vibrant and colorful, we suggest you pour paint into spray bottles and paint a snowman you have built or draw a whole picture in the snow.

Drawing, as you know, develops a child’s creativity and imagination, so we decided to offer you another unusual way of drawing, namely drawing with soap bubbles. You can do it unusual picture, in which you can search for and represent animals, plants, or even various cartoon characters.

The experiment is very interesting and magical. You will see white flowers turn into colors. In addition, the wonderful holiday of March 8th is coming up and such a spring bouquet will become a great gift for mothers and grandmothers!

This article will focus on drawing with a pencil. If you want to learn how to draw, but can't get started, now is the time to start learning. Take a sheet of paper, a pencil and try it :) Let's start with drawing techniques.

Pencil drawing technique

There are two main drawing techniques - shading and pencil shading.

Hatching

Using strokes (short lines) you can very successfully convey the tone of an object. Depending on the number of strokes drawn, you can get different levels tone saturation (the fewer strokes, the lighter the tone, the more strokes, the darker). By the direction of the strokes you can convey the texture of the surface of the figure. For example, horizontal strokes will convey the surface of the water well, and vertical strokes will convey the grass.

Basically, shading is done with short, straight strokes with approximately the same distance between them. The strokes are applied to the paper with a pencil torn off. One is done first thin line, then the pencil returns to the starting line, and in this way all other strokes are applied.

Cross hatching can be used to enhance the depth of tone. For example, horizontal shading is applied to the oblique shading, darkening the tone, then on what came out, you can apply oblique shading in the opposite direction to the first - this will darken it even more. The darkest in this case will be the tone where shading in all directions is combined.

Feathering

Shading is one of the main techniques that can be used when drawing for beginning artists. Using gradation of tone, you can add volume to your figure. In general, shading is special case shading. After applying the strokes, using the properties of pencil graphite and a special shading tool, they are shaded (smeared) until a uniform tone is obtained.

However, the implementation of shading itself has a number of features.

1. Shading of strokes must be done along the strokes, but not across. By shading along the strokes, you will achieve a more natural toning.
2. For shading they are used not only simple shading, but also zigzag strokes.

With the help of such techniques, you can depict anything on paper.

10 common mistakes that beginners make

Most people who like to draw take their first steps on their own. And even if it's just a hobby, they still make various sketches. We want to write about 10 possible errors, which all aspiring artists probably encounter.

1. Wrong pencil

If your shadows aren't coming out well, check the markings on your pencil. Most likely it is too hard. It is recommended to draw shadows with pencils marked B, 2B and 4B, but not HB.

2. Drawing from photographs

Every artist begins to draw from photographs. But very often photographs do not convey enough facial features to good drawing. When a person's face is positioned from the front, it will be difficult to correctly model their face on paper, since the perspective from behind the head disappears. Try taking a photo where the person's head is tilted slightly to the side. This way the portrait will be more realistic and have better shadows.

3. Wrong basic proportions

Very often, people begin to immediately pay attention to details, drawing them completely without sketching the entire drawing. It's wrong because you don't plan correct proportions in advance. First, it is advisable to sketch out the entire drawing, and only then draw in detail the details.

4. Crooked features

We are used to looking at a person directly and aligning them when drawing. As a result, the portrait comes out quite distorted. When drawing complex objects, first try to outline guidelines along which it will be easier to build the drawing later.

5. Drawing of animals

Usually we look down at our animal. This makes the head seem larger to us than the whole body, and normal proportionality is lost. Try to distract the animal so that it turns its muzzle to the side, then the drawing will come out more truthful.

6. Strokes

If you draw each hair or blade of grass separately, the drawing will come out disgusting. Try to make sharp sketches, going from dark to light.

7. Trees

Do not try to draw trees, flowers, and leaves with the correct shapes. Use outlines and penumbra for realism.

8. Wrong paper

Before you buy paper, test it on a sample piece of something light. The paper may be too smooth and the design will be faded. Also, the paper may be too stiff and the design will be quite flat.

9. Volume

When conveying volume, try not to use clear lines for the edges. They can be outlined by light lines of different tones.

10. Shadows

Very often it is not possible to apply shadows evenly. Try to use the full color range of the pencil, going from lightest to darkest. If you are afraid to overdo it with the dark, place a piece of paper under the edge, and all the black will be on it.

At first it may seem that pencil drawings are too ordinary and dull. But with a pencil you can convey huge amount emotions.

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From the author: If you are interested in painting, drawing, composition, and art in general, then this is the place for you! By profession I am a Painter-Monumentalist. Graduated from MGAHI named after. Surikov. On the Art Shima channel you will find videos in which I draw and paint in oils, and videos with tips. Since I know many techniques, you can feel free to ask questions, and I will be happy to answer them. By subscribing to my channel, you will be able to see all my new videos.

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