Among the many techniques and tools that are used contemporary artists, pastel stands out for its unusual texture and brightness of color. It is not easy to draw a portrait with a pastel, but if you are carried away by this direction, improving your own skills and making efforts to get the desired result, you can achieve what you want. Moreover, the process itself brings pleasure and carries you into work with your head.

Before you start drawing with pastels, it is important to understand the features of this technique, as well as acquire necessary materials for the creative process. For beginners and professionals, the same set of tools is not suitable, so the preparation for the creative process will be different. Only after that you can begin to figure out how to draw a portrait in pastel.

Benefits of drawing with pastels

Many artists different levels professionalism prefer to all other techniques it is pastel painting. A portrait in this technique looks unusual and allows you to convey the slightest features of the artist's mood. Other benefits of pastels include:

• simplicity of the process - pastel lays down easily, especially if all materials and tools are correctly selected;
• a variety of colors - pastel is known for its soft transitions and a combination of different shades;
• lightfastness - unlike many other paints, it does not fade in the sun;
• velvety surface.

These pluses contribute to the popularity and love among artists who are happy to use pastel: the portrait technique with this tool allows you to make a beautiful and unusual image of a person. Although it is not as easy as novice artists would like.

Drawing tools for beginners

Pastel drawing should begin with the preparation of materials and a place for future creativity. This artist's tool is of several types: dry, oil and wax pastel. Dry, in turn, can be soft and hard.

In addition, you will need:

• special paper;
• brushes;
• a drawing board or any other flat surface on which a drawing sheet can be fixed;
• an eraser with which you can carefully remove extra lines;
• ordinary sandpaper, with which you can sharpen the crayon if necessary.

These tools are essential for drawing portraits in pastels for beginners. To learn and comprehend the wisdom of this technique, such a set will be enough. And in the future, you will have to expand your arsenal of materials and tools.

Tools for professionals

Simple and affordable materials are used by beginners, but in the course of training and professional development, their assortment will grow and expand. You can also use later:

• fixatives - substances that are sprayed onto a sheet of paper before starting work to fix the future drawing;
• turpentine or other pastel thinner, which will even out and generalize layers of paints;
• a work mask to minimize the inhalation of chalk dust;
• canvas - used instead of paper.

Careful preparation and selection of all materials will make the process more comfortable and easy. In the process of work, each artist will be able to evaluate the usefulness and expediency of each tool.

Features of the choice of pastels

For beginners, dry pastel in the form of crayons is best suited. It can be soft or hard, you need to get both types and try to draw with both. When choosing paints, you must initially understand what will be drawn and what colors will be needed for this.

When purchasing a pastel, you need to pay attention to the quality of paints and the manufacturer. It is better to initially pay a little more, but buy suitable materials that will be comfortable to draw. Comprehending the subtleties and nuances of drawing with pastels, honing the skill, you can try to draw with oil and wax pastels. They differ in application technique, but with certain efforts they are not particularly difficult.

What kind of paper is needed for pastels

It is impossible to draw with such paints on ordinary paper, because the pastel portrait will blur, soak a thin sheet and be smeared. Therefore, it is better to take special paper. For pastels, the following varieties are suitable:

• paper with a coarse-grained surface that comes in a variety of colors;
• cold pressed watercolor paper;
• charcoal pencil paper - withstands pastel, but is more suitable for rough sketches and short-term sketches;
• paper with an "emery" coating - has a fine abrasive coating, so it holds the pastel perfectly.

The choice of paper is an important step in preparing for drawing, since not only the comfort of the process, but also the final result will depend on it.

Pastel drawing rules

In order for a pastel portrait to turn out beautiful and reliable, it is important to follow some rules for its image. And even if the first time the result does not turn out as we would like, as you acquire the skill and professionalism, it will come out realistic.

When creating a portrait using pastels, you need to remember the following recommendations:

1. To begin with, it is important to present a general image of the upcoming drawing and highlight the main features that will distinguish this person from all others. In the face of each person there is something unique, not like the others.
2. Before you start drawing, you need to determine the color scheme of the upcoming image. What shades prevail in the face and image of a person, how do they combine with each other?
3. Starting to draw, you must first make weak sketches and a contour, on which the entire portrait will then lie.
4. Despite the fact that the human face, as a rule, appears warm and requires appropriate colors, cold shades will also be present in it.
5. For a layered drawing, it is better to choose a soft pastel, then the layers will easily lie on top of each other.

There are many more rules for drawing with pastels, but with these simple recommendations you can start learning, and understand and apply the rest of the nuances in the process of practice.

Portrait drawing sequence

To draw a beautiful and believable portrait, you need to follow a certain sequence of drawing lines and layers of pastels.

Image stages include:

1. Representation of the general image of the face, separation of light and dark areas.
2. Weak drawing of lines, a sketch of the general concept of the drawing.
3. Detailing the contour, drawing the eyes, nose, lips according to the proportions of the human face.
4. Applying layers of nude pastels with a combination of warm and cold shades.
5. Guidance of the main parts of the face, detailing.
6. Finishing touches, giving the face a natural expression, drawing small elements.

Drawing a portrait is not an easy process, and from the first time it may seem to the artist that there are too many mistakes and flaws. But the diligence and desire to learn how to draw with pastels are worth the result that you get in the end. It is important to enjoy the process of drawing and not despair after the first unsuccessful attempt.

Pastel is a cross between colored pencils and colored crayons. It consists of colored pigments with chalk and binding elements. Pastel painting technique originated from drawing soft materials, such as charcoal pencils, charcoal, sepia. Pastel pencils have many shades, to a greater extent they are delicate, like milk, giving a special grace to the drawings.

If you want to learn the pastel technique, you should know that this technique is more suitable for drawings, where the atmosphere, color mood, background play the main role, since it is inconvenient to draw small details with pastel, these pencils are not intended for drawing details.

Pastel Drawing: Preparation

Before we tell you how to draw with pastels (especially important for a beginner), we will look at what is generally necessary for drawing, because pastel is not the most common material.

The choice of pastels

Three types of pastel can be distinguished: dry, wax, oil.

Dry, in turn, is divided into hard and soft.

Each type of pastel has its own characteristics, its own possibilities for working with a drawing. Choose at your discretion. We will talk about how to draw with dry pastels (below).

Pastel paper

Yes, it should be a special paper with a textured surface, because it is necessary that the pigment is retained. Most often, pastel is painted on colored paper, it allows you to fully convey the saturation of colors. The choice of color is individual, depending on the nature of the pattern.

Pastel Paper Types:

1. sandpaper(usually large format; for artistic purposes);
2. velvet paper;
3. pastel board (from tiny particles of cork).

Other

In addition, the following may come in handy: a blade, bristly brushes, rags, an eraser, a cotton pad - to correct the pattern; hairspray or a special fixative.

How to draw with dry pastels

1. The preliminary drawing is applied with a small pastel, slightly different from the tone of the paper. The lines are thin, applied lightly, just to see the contours. Use the correction materials (see above) if necessary. Don't use a graphite pencil, as it will be bad to draw with pastel on top.
2. Next is the background. We apply the main tones by placing the crayon flat. If the length of the chalk is large, do not be afraid, break off the desired size (conveniently, 2-3 cm). If the paper is colored, apply the main tones, only where necessary. There should be no gaps on white paper (use white chalk where necessary).
3. Outline the main subjects, proceed to refine the drawing. Use lines, dots, strokes. It is good to make shadows and color transitions with pastels. Use shading (rag, cotton wool, brush or your own finger) and rub the right places on the picture. In pastels, you can superimpose colors on top of each other, experiment.
4. What else you need to know about how to draw with pastels. For beginners, it is often difficult to keep the key. Decide in advance what will be the lightest in the picture, what will be a little darker, and what will be the darkest. Remember - each subject has its own tone.
5. Some disadvantage of dry pastels is that it is difficult to convey the saturation of the shadows. But this can be improved by adding color. Draw a shadow with gray or black chalk, and on top enter a color (of the object or area where the shadow is). Blend.
6. View the drawing from the side. Highlight the main details with clearer lines, blend out secondary or too contrasting areas.
7. Fixing the drawing. Use sandpaper or velvet paper to keep the design longer. You can use special aerosols to fix pastels. Hairspray will work too, but remember that the pattern will darken. You can also place the drawing under glass.

oil pastel

And a few words about how to draw with oil pastels.

1. It is better to use light paper.
2. A thinner is used as a shading oil paints(for example, pinene).
3. The preliminary drawing is applied with oil chalk or charcoal. At the same time, the charcoal is brushed off before applying the pastel, so that barely noticeable strokes remain.
4. Having applied the drawing with hatching, flat, we proceed to work with a brush. With a brush dipped in thinner, as if blurring the drawing.
5. We draw the details, refine the forms, texture. We complete the drawing.

You can draw not only with ordinary paints and brushes. There are many unusual and fun ways to draw that your children will love 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 legs. Like these ones interesting work can be made from prints of arms and legs, if you attach a little imagination.

Ice cube drawing

You will need:
- Thick paper
- Tempera (or watercolor)
- Form for ice
- Toothpicks
How to draw:
Pour water into the mold and place in the freezer. When the water is half frozen, insert a toothpick into each cube and let the water freeze completely. Then take out the ice. You will use the cubes as brushes by holding them by the toothpicks.
On the paper, apply a few spots of different colors (either dry tempera or crumble watercolor) and draw on them with ice! For example, one and the same cube can cross all the spots of paint, allowing them to play intricately.

milk painting

You will need:
- A quarter cup of condensed milk
- Food colors
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 colors
- Aluminium foil
How to draw:
Tear off a long sheet of foil and apply a few "heaps" of shaving foam to it. Let the child choose the colors of the paints and mix them into the foam. Paints are ready, now you can paint with brushes or fingers. The main thing is to explain to the children that the foam should not be put in the mouth. After the drawing dries, the foam will create an interesting texture. After drawing, the foam is easily washed off 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 with a pencil on gray paper and "brush" his teeth with a toothbrush and white paint. And then paint the face.

Bead drawing

Cut out a piece of thick colored cardboard and place it in the bottom of a pie dish, tray, or similar. Put a few drops of paint on the cardboard, and then, while the paint is still wet, put some glass beads on top and roll them around - and see what happens!

Drawing soap bubbles

Mix some watercolor into the bubble soap solution. Lay drawing paper on the floor and ask your child to blow bubbles - they will sit on the paper and create fancy patterns.

Straw blowing

Dilute some paint and pour a small amount onto the paper, give your child a straw and let them blow out any pattern (just make sure the child blows on the paint, not suck it up).

Another way to draw with soap bubbles: in a glass with a colored soap-foaming solution, bubble up more foam and lean paper on top of it.

Frosty patterns on glass - we make and draw our own window, photo, description

If the frost has not reached your windows, then let's make our own window with a frosty pattern. Nothing worse than the real thing.
Required material: gouache blue and white flowers, wide paintbrush, cocktail straw, glossy silver cardstock, pencil, glitter for decoration, masking tape 1.5 cm wide.
How we do:
1. Draw a window on the cardboard, stick masking tape along the contour.
2. Paint over the surface of the cardboard with blue gouache. There is a moment here: gouache cannot be diluted with water, otherwise too liquid paint will flow under the tape and the contours of the window will become fuzzy.

3.How to understand blue paint dry, dilute the white gouache with water, take a straw and blow out frosty patterns.

4. After the frosty patterns have dried well, carefully remove the tape. You should get a window with frosty patterns on glasses.

5. Decorate the picture with sparkles.

Mirror drawing

Fold a sheet of paper in half, draw a simple shape on one half - or maybe just sprinkle a little paint. Then straighten the sheet and lay the second half on top of the painted one. Allow the ink to print and straighten again, and then study the resulting mirror image 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 the surrounding surfaces from splashes. Then dilute the watercolors well, take a hard brush or toothbrush - and splatter the paint on the paper. Show your child that you can make beautiful splashes by running the bristles over a hard piece of paper or a wooden stick.

In the same way, you can make drawings using a stencil.

On the colored paper apply a stencil. It can be various flowers, silhouettes of houses, trees. In a jar of yogurt, liquidly dilute the paint. Dip your toothbrush into the paint and run the ruler along the bristles of the brush towards you, spattering the paint around the silhouette. Try to have the entire background covered with specks. Remove the stencil and draw details on the “clean” 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. To do this, it will be more convenient to take a large sheet of paper or even a piece of old wallpaper. It is best to draw outdoors like this.

Blotography

It consists in 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 the 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 inkblot look like?", "Whom or what does it remind you of?" - these questions are very useful, because develop thinking and imagination. After that, without forcing the child, but showing, we recommend moving on to the next step - tracing or drawing the blot. The result can be a whole story.

bitmap

Children love anything non-traditional. Drawing with dots is unusual, in this case, receptions. For implementation, you can take a felt-tip pen, a pencil or an ordinary ear cleaning stick. But here, bitmaps are best obtained with paints.

You will need a separate stick for each color. With this technique, lilac or mimosa flowers are perfectly obtained. Draw twig lines with a felt-tip pen. And already make clusters of flowers with chopsticks. But this is already aerobatics! No less pleasure will bring the child and drawing simpler things - flowers and berries (stalks can be drawn with a felt-tip pen). And you can cut out a dress from paper (a scarf, a tablecloth, mittens) and decorate it with an ornament of dots.

For some reason, we all tend to think that if we paint with paints, then we must also use a brush. Not always. Foam rubber can come to the rescue. We advise you to make a variety of various small geometric figures out of it, and then attach them with a thin wire to a stick or pencil (not sharpened). The tool is ready. It turns out a large brush without hairs. The stick is held strictly perpendicular to the surface of the sheet, without tilt. Now you can dip it in paint and use the stamp method to draw red triangles, yellow circles, green squares (all foam rubber, unlike cotton wool, is well washed). At first, children will randomly draw geometric figures. And then offer to make the simplest ornaments out of them - first from one type of figure, then from two, three.
The trace left by such a "brush" can imitate animal hair, tree crowns, snow. A stick with foam rubber is dipped in paint (the main thing is that there is not a lot of water), and the baby begins to cover the sheet with traces of it. Let him first just understand that with the help of the "magic wand" you can quickly and easily draw footprints. Then draw the branches of a tree or a bush with a black felt-tip pen, let the child finish the foliage with green, yellow, red or orange paint. Draw a simple contour of a bunny or a fox with a pencil, let the kid “stomp” it with his “magic tool” - 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 album sheet and invite the child to “trample” that part of the album sheet that is visible through the stencil hole. After the child has done this, let the work dry, then paint the eyes, mouth, mustache, stripes with a brush.

Negative
Glue a sheet of white and a sheet of black paper so that you end up with a large sheet, one half of which is black and the other is white. Give the child black and white gouache and offer to draw the same simple drawing first white on black, then black on white.

Gather some leaves and lay them out on a piece of paper. Prepare a well-diluted watercolor and a sponge. Dip the sponge into the paint and apply over the leaf, so that the area around it is painted. Then carefully remove the leaf.

Such an uncomplicated look artistic creativity, as an unconventional painting with leaf prints, great for little artists for whom the brush is still complex instrument. It turns out that a seemingly ordinary leaf (maple, poplar, oak or birch) can turn into a tool for artistic creativity no worse than a brush.

What will we need?
Paper
Leaves of different trees (preferably fallen);
Gouache
Brushes.
Progress:
The child covers a piece of wood with paints of different colors, then puts it on the paper with the painted side to get a print. Each time a new leaf is taken. The resulting drawing is finished with paints as desired. This is how it turns out:

Picture in passe-partout technique

On the sheet, draw an apple, a fish or a car in the center of the sheet. And now you need to cut out the object that you drew along the contour. It turned out to be a passport. In pictures, only part of the image can be cropped. The fish has part of the body, tail, fins. Give your child a piece of paper. Let the baby smear the paint, slap the palms on the sheet and leave marks. Stick a passe-partout on a sheet painted with crumbs. The kid will be very surprised and happy when he sees a multi-colored bright fish (car or girl).

"Figured" figurine

A very interesting way of drawing with a pencil, felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen according to 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 small children to trace shapes embossed inside the sheet. Many squares and rulers have such patterns. Attaching them to the album sheet, you ask the baby to circle the shapes. Then you remove the stencil and together with it you come up with how you can finish drawing this or that shape. Children 4.5-5 years old will be able to circle 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 the silhouettes of cars and planes, for girls - animals, nesting dolls, bows and houses. Having circled the patterns, children can paint over their images with felt-tip pens and paints, hatch with various lines: straight, wavy, zigzag, with loops, wavy with sharp tops. Stencils can help when creating your own drawings, they will complement what the baby himself has created.

You can start a game: the child circles various objects, and you guess what it is. First, not all items can be circled. Finding them, the baby will understand what is the difference between voluminous and flat objects or things that have at least one even 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 confuses the parents, and the adults try to find the answer. All this pleases the child, providing him with a surge of creative forces.

Mysterious thread drawings

Mysterious drawings can be obtained in the following way. A cardboard about 20x20 cm in size is taken. And it folds in half. Then a semi-woolen or woolen thread about 30 cm long is selected, its end is dipped in thick paint for 8-10 cm 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. It turns out a chaotic image, which is examined, outlined and completed by adults with children. It is extremely useful to give names to the resulting images. This complex mental and speech work, combined with visual work, will contribute to intellectual development preschool children.

Threads can be drawn in other ways. Cut a woolen thread about 20 cm long, dip it in paint and give it to the baby. Let him run the thread across the sheet of paper as he pleases. Then do the same with another thread and new paint. Multi-colored lines, zigzags, stains will remain on the sheet. In a word, a beautiful abstraction.

Drawing with crayons

Preschoolers love variety. These opportunities provide us with ordinary crayons, sanguine, coal. Smooth asphalt, porcelain, ceramic tiles, stones - this is the base on which chalk and coal fit well. So, asphalt disposes to a capacious image of plots. They (if there is no rain) can be developed the next day. And then make up stories according to the plots. And on ceramic tiles(which are sometimes stored in the remains somewhere in the pantry) we recommend depicting patterns, small objects with crayons or charcoal. Large stones (such as boulders) are asked to decorate them under the image of an animal's head or under a stump. It depends on what or whom the stone resembles in shape.

magic drawing method

This method is implemented like this. An image is drawn on white paper with the corner of a wax candle (a Christmas tree, a house, or maybe a whole plot). Then with a brush, and preferably with cotton wool or foam rubber, the paint is applied on top of the entire image. Due to the fact that the paint does not fall on the bold image with a candle - the drawing seems to appear suddenly before the eyes of the children, manifesting itself. You can get the same effect by first drawing with stationery glue or a piece of laundry soap. In this case, the selection of the background to the subject plays an important role. For example, it is better to paint over a snowman painted with a candle with blue paint, and a boat with green paint. No need to worry if candles or soap start to crumble while painting. It depends on their quality.

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photocopy

We draw a drawing with a candle on a white sheet. Paint over with black ink.

Drawing small pebbles

Of course, most often the child depicts on a plane, on paper, less often on asphalt, tiles of large stones. A flat image of a house, trees, cars, animals on paper is not as attractive as creating volumetric own creations. In this regard, sea pebbles are ideally used. They are smooth, small and have a 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 under a frog, another under a bug, and a wonderful fungus will come out of the third. Bright thick paint is applied to the pebble - and the image is ready. And it’s better to finish it like this: after the pebble dries, cover it with a colorless varnish. In this case, a voluminous beetle or a frog made by children's hands shines, brightly shimmers. This toy will participate in independent children's games more than once and bring considerable benefits to its owner.

strange patterns

Take whatman paper and a small orange (tangerine) or a ball, pour a little paint of a different color on a sheet and roll the ball along the sheet in different directions. Then "revive" the received.

Finger painting method

Here is another way to represent the world: fingers, palm, fist, foot, and maybe chin, nose. Not everyone will take such a statement seriously. Where is the line between prank and drawing? And why should we draw only with a brush or felt-tip pen? After all, a hand or individual fingers is such a help. And the index finger right hand obeys the child better than a pencil. Well, if the pencil is broken, the brush is wiped off, the felt-tip pens are over - but you want to draw. There is another reason: sometimes the theme just asks for a child's hand or finger. For example, a child will better 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 the hand and draw a crimson-mahogany tree on top. It is good to mix several colors and shades. For example, first apply yellow paint, and then brown or orange, it turns out fluffy!
Well, if we teach children to use their fingers rationally: not just one index finger, but everyone.

Monotopy method

Two words about this, unfortunately, rarely used method. And in vain. Because he is fraught with a lot of tempting 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 uniformity is needed). The paint should be thick and bright. And immediately, until the paint has dried, turn the cellophane face down onto white thick paper and, as it were, they get the drawing wet, and then lift it up. It turns out two drawings. Sometimes the image remains on cellophane, sometimes on paper.

Drawing under the film

We squeeze out the paint onto cardboard or paper, put the film on top and smooth it with cotton wool, then sharply pull the film away. In this way, the sunset, the sea, the fire are good ...

Drawing on wet paper

Until recently, it was believed that you can only draw on dry paper, because the paint is sufficiently diluted with water. But there are a number of objects, plots, images that are better to draw on wet paper. We need ambiguity, vagueness, for example, if the child wants to depict the following topics: "City in the fog", "I had dreams", "It's raining", "Night city", "Flowers behind the curtain", etc. You need to teach a preschooler to make the paper a little wet. If the paper is too wet, the drawing may not work. Therefore, it is recommended to soak in clean water a lump of cotton wool, squeeze it out and draw it either over the entire sheet of paper, or (if required) only over a separate part. And the paper is ready to produce vague images.

Drawing with postcards

Almost every house has a lot of old postcards. Go through old postcards with your children, teach them how to cut desired images and stick to the place, in 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- and even five-year-old child to draw a dog and a beetle. You can take them ready-made, and let him add the sun, rain to the dog and the bug and he will be very happy. Or if, together with the children, cut out from a postcard and stick on a fairy-tale house with a grandmother in the window, then a preschooler, guided by his imagination, knowledge of fairy tales and visual skills, will undoubtedly draw something for him.

Whose footprint

Another way of drawing, or rather, printing, is based on the ability of many objects to leave colorful prints on paper. You take a potato, cut it in half and cut out a square, a triangle, a rhombus, a flower or something interesting from one half. Moreover, one side of the print should be flat for applying to the paper, and you will hold on to the other side with your hand. Then you or a child dip such a signet in paint (preferably gouache) and apply it to paper. As you can guess, it leaves an imprint. With the help of these prints, you can make beads, ornaments, patterns, mosaics.
Not only potatoes can serve as a stamp, but also bottle caps, caps from felt-tip pens, buttons, small boxes, etc.
You can try to depict something according to the principle of designing from different parts. For example, a car (coil - wheels, cubes - body and window); the castle of the sorceress, animals, etc.

You can paint the wheels of a toy car with paint and drive it around on paper.
An interesting print in the form of a rose is obtained from the remains of a head of Peking (Chinese) cabbage.

salty drawings

But what if you paint with glue, and sprinkle salt on top of these areas? Then you get amazing snow pictures. They will look more impressive if they are performed on blue, blue, pink colored paper. Try it, it's very exciting!

tooth paint

Or let's create winter landscapes in another way - by painting with toothpaste. Beforehand, the kid needs to be explained that this is a creative search, and such use of toothpaste does not give him the right to squeeze it out on the floor, shelves and tables. Together with the baby, outline with a pencil the light contours of trees, houses, snowdrifts. Slowly squeezing out 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.

Relief drawing

Flour is added to the paint, applied to the sheet. The cardboard strip is cut into teeth and we draw patterns along and across. Cut out a shape from a dried sheet, for example a vase. We draw flowers on a white sheet, and then glue them. You can draw with a stick, toothpick, fork, match.

glue picture

We squeeze glue onto the image on paper, let it dry, and then paint it over with paint, we get a relief.

Like an artist to an artist

But completely unusual way! You need to get a large piece of paper. You ask the baby to lie on such a sheet and circle it. Of course, it is better that it fits all (this can be achieved by gluing two or three sheets of whatman paper) or, in extreme cases, to fit the torso and head. You circled the baby, and now his time has come - let him try to decorate the silhouette: draw eyes, mouth, hair, jewelry, clothes. If the child is small, then do this work together - the kid offers, and you, admiring his imagination, draw with him.

rainy fantasy
Another option non-traditional drawing is as follows: 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 leaf. And this is what we were striving for. Bad weather tracks can now be traced and turned into fabulous creatures. They can also be connected to each other, guessing what kind of image is obtained.

Point drawing

An adult prepares a drawing scheme in advance, placing contour points. They say to the child: “Do you want to be surprised? Then connect the dots with each other in order!” Offer to finish the resulting contour, 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, colored pencils. First you need to paint over a sheet of cardboard with any paint (an old cardboard folder will do). Immediately, before the paint is dry, place a sheet of plain white paper (preferably writing paper) on top. Attach the paper with paper clips and let the child draw something with a colored pencil on a white sheet. If you want, you can use a coloring book, but the drawing should be simple - some kind of object. When the drawing is finished, unfasten and remove the paper. See what happened - on the side that was pressed against the folder, we got a color picture with a convex, as if imprinted pattern.

Take a thick paint that is not diluted with water (it is better to use acrylic or gouache) and draw a colored spot. Scratch the lines with a piece of cardboard or crochet hook. Or you can cut out the cardboard with cloves and scratch the scallops in the paint. Crochet through different curls. With the edge of the cardboard, extrude the lines crosswise. Make prints with the cap of a felt-tip pen. After the child has mastered this technique, you can begin to create a picture. To do this, apply paint of different colors on several sheets of paper and different ways scratch the surface. Now assemble the composition. For example, cut a pond from a piece with scallops, a sky with clouds from curls, make a snake from a scaly surface, and so on. Paste the cut out elements on a blank sheet of paper.

We draw with gouache using the poke method

You will need gouache, a brush, landscape sheets. The child holds a brush in his hands and puts it perpendicularly on the paper. Show how your brush jumps! With this poke method, you can draw a salute, 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 of this method: several of the above are collected in it. In general, ideally, the following seems important to us: 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 children of 5-6 years old decided to draw summer, and for this he uses a bitmap (flowers), and the child draws the sun with his finger, he cuts fruits and vegetables from postcards, depicts the sky and clouds with fabrics, etc. There is no limit to improvement and creativity in visual activity.

English teacher-researcher Anna Rogovin recommends using everything that is at hand for drawing exercises: draw with a cloth, paper napkin (folded many times); draw with dirty water, old tea leaves, coffee grounds, pomace from berries. It is also useful to paint cans and bottles, reels and boxes, etc.

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

Top 40 Unusual Drawing Ways!

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

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

Thanks to this idea, the crumbs will be able to better explore the colors and their combinations. And the method will surprise them for sure!
We make magical colored milk!

We have a great idea for you on how to entertain your baby while developing his Creative skills. It will not take you much time and money, but the idea will definitely cheer up the crumbs!
Spray painting!

If it suddenly started raining 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, arrange races, roll your favorite toys and give your parents a back massage in the morning) Have you tried using them as a drawing tool? We want to offer you and your fidgets 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 only the most curious and informative ideas for you and your crumbs! And this time we offer you to make bright ice paints! In the process of drawing, the baby will easily learn colors and their combinations.

Have you ever painted in 3D? We have found for you and your kids an unusual idea for creativity, which combines painting, paper sculpture and the study of nature! It is very simple to implement it, but how much joy and new discoveries this lesson 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 of ​​how you can use them. Keep drawing with them, just a little differently! Make them paint!

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

This time we again want to invite your kids to draw, only now with ice crayons in butter! 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 ripen, there is a riot of greenery on the street, flowers bloom and give us their aroma. We offer you and your children to try one interesting summer fun - to make a natural watercolor! And if it's cold outside, you can buy flowers in the store. This paint will be completely natural and safe, plus so much fun to make! Try it yourself!

We want to tell you about one artist, whose name is Jackson Pollock, and about his drawing technique, which your children will certainly enjoy. The most remarkable thing about this technique is that you need to “splatter” the paint for your own pleasure! Jason Pollock's technique is that the canvas is placed on the floor, and the paint is sprayed from the brushes, without touching the brush to the canvas. In 2006, a painting called "Number 5, 1948" was sold at Sotheby's for $140 million!

We are sure that you have never painted with frozen paint! Today is the day to discover new horizons and try this fun type of drawing.

Is it still raining or has it already stopped and you didn't manage to see the rainbow?! No problem! Today we will make our 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 the rainbow. With our rainbow, we can admire it at any moment, regardless of the weather and season!

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

Usually, balloons become obligatory guests at every holiday. But time passes, and the balls begin to deflate. You think they can no longer bring joy, but you are mistaken! Today we will show you how to create a wonderful portrait using a balloon. We guarantee fun! :)

We want to talk about another funny kind of art - painting with a film with pimples. So it's time to get the box from under the TV, mixer or juicer that has not yet been thrown out, 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 connect water balloon tossing and art! What can we do? Of course, great entertainment for a warm summer day! Intrigued? ;)
Let's paint with watercolor pencils!

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

We decided to show you a recipe on how to make body paint at home. The best part about this recipe is that the paint is absolutely safe for your baby's skin! If your children have grown up, then be sure to let them make the paint themselves, imagine their pleasure when different materials they make real body paint!

Everyone knows about drawing on asphalt with crayons! Today we will tell you about another interesting idea of ​​​​asphalt art - painting with paints, and also give a recipe on how to make these paints from improvised materials! With this idea, you will always have in stock the answer to your child's question "What are we going to do today ?!"

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

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

Coloring is always a fun pastime for kids. After reading this article, you will learn how easy it is to make your own unique drawing templates and color them! Abstract coloring encourages kids to use their imagination and can keep them busy all day long. Also, drawing is actively developing fine motor skills which favorably affects the development of speech and mental abilities.

Let's be artists today, shall we? But we will create our creative masterpieces in a very unusual way - to put multi-colored stamps made from ordinary pepper. This simple way will allow even the smallest creators to create their first artwork, and for older artists to show their imagination and understand that there are practically no limits for creativity.

We invite you to show your child what miracles 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!

For sure, every child loves to embody his flight of fantasy in drawings. But conventional paints And pencils have had time to get bored? Try giving your little artist a new way to paint with salt and glue. You will be surprised how much delight and emotion this unusual way of drawing will cause. After all, it is so interesting to observe how the colors themselves "disperse" according to the drawing, and the picture turns out to be bright and voluminous.

For many, autumn is a time of inspiration, someone begins to write poems or entire poems, someone conveys what they saw in stories, and for someone the creative process results in autumn pictures. 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 in the autumn park and enjoy the rustle 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 at your home - we will make leaves with unusual, creative colors.

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

Drawing, as you know, develops the creativity and imagination of the child, so we decided to offer you another unusual way of drawing, namely painting with soap bubbles. You will get an unusual picture in which you can search and represent animals, plants or even various cartoon characters.

The experiment is very interesting and magical. You will see how white flowers become colored. In addition, on the nose is a wonderful holiday on March 8 and such a spring bouquet will become great gift for moms and grandmas!

If your toddler is often frustrated that he can’t draw, or the drawing doesn’t turn out the way he expected, suggest that the crumbs do not draw according to the model, but use alternative drawing techniques that will captivate him and become excellent motivators for creativity!

We offer you 20 options for non-traditional drawing techniques for a child that will reveal his personality!

PASSPARTOU

In this drawing technique for children, the child's careless "crabs" are inserted into a sheet with a cut out shape of an animal, tree, flower, etc. You need to cut out a template, for example, in the form of a chamomile and put it on top of the baby's daub. Thus, an unremarkable drawing will become part of a special idea.

FROTTAGE

A sheet of paper should be placed on a flat relief object and shaded with a colored pencil on its surface. You will get a beautiful picture-print, with the silhouette of the object-substrate! Children who have tried to draw on a table with relief wood probably know that sometimes this technique is “plugged in” into a drawing quite by accident.

AIR PAINTS

To prepare this paint, mix in a small bowl:

• 250 g flour, half a teaspoon of soda, half a teaspoon of citric acid
• a couple of drops of food coloring
• 1 st. l salt

Drawing technique:

1. Pour a little water into the dishes with the above ingredients to make the paint the desired density.
2. Apply paint to thick cardboard with a brush or cotton buds.
3. Put the drawing in the microwave for 20 - 30 seconds until the mass dries. Drying time depends on how thick your paint turned out and what layer of it you made in the drawing.

Make sure that the cardboard does not contain synthetic materials and films. Choose either the most common version of it, or take colored thick paper.

MARBLE PAPER

For this drawing technique you will need:

• shaving foam
• watercolors or food coloring
• flatware
• paper
• scraper

Work plan:

1. Apply a thick layer of shaving foam to any flat dish.
2. Make a saturated solution of each paint color with water - dilute the dyes to a liquid state.
3. Take a pipette (or a simple brush) and drip a few drops of paint of different shades onto a layer of foam.
4. With a brush, smear the paint over the surface, try to do it in such a way that you get beautiful lines and shapes. This stage can be considered the most creative and interesting!
5. Place a blank sheet of paper on top of such foam with a pattern.
6. Lay the sheet on a flat surface and remove any foam from it with a piece of cardboard.
7. Under the foam, you can see unusual marble stains that look like northern lights! Now you need to put the picture in a dry place for 2 hours so that it dries.

SOAP PAINTING

Mix the paints with a few drops of ordinary liquid soap, then apply with a brush to paper. You will see that small soap bubbles appear from the paint, which create a beautiful texture of the drawing.

BLOTGRAPHY

To perform this technique, you can use a straw to blow out a blot, or you can do without it. Have your child drip paint onto a sheet of paper, then tilt it different sides, and then draw something to the blot to get a beautiful drawing.

You can also make a blot, and then fold the sheet in half so that it is printed on the second half of it. Then let the child dream up what the blot looks like and ask them to draw the necessary elements.

DRAWING ON A WET SURFACE

Moisten the paper sheet with water and leave to dry for literally half a minute, and then start painting on it with watercolors. The paints will spread in different directions and you will get very original streaks with streaks.

BUNCH OF PENCILS

Carefully collect 5-6 colored pencils in a bundle, tie them with duct tape and let the baby draw.

CRAYONS AND STARCH

Make a starch solution and moisten a clean sheet of paper with it. Give the baby crayons, let him try to draw on such a slippery base. Use the main colors of the crayons and they will give new shades on paper!

MULTICOLOR GLUE

Prepare several empty containers and pour PVA glue into them, then drop a couple of drops of different colors of paint into each cup. With this colored glue, draw whatever your heart desires! Especially beautiful are the drawings in the "drip technique"

DRAWING SALT

draw with a simple pencil sketch on paper, go over the outline of the drawing with a wet brush, and then generously sprinkle with salt. After 10 minutes, shake off the salt, finish the missing elements. With the help of salt, you can beautifully draw butterflies, birds, snow.

WAX DRAWING

On a white sheet, draw the outlines of people, trees or flowers with a wax candle. When the child begins to paint the drawing with watercolor, he will "create" beautiful white images. You can also cover the entire sheet with multi-colored paint, dry it, then wax it liberally.

Apply a thick layer of dark gouache on top of the wax and let dry. After that, with a thin needle or wooden stick, you can “scratch out” a bright pattern on a dark background.

FOAM OR SPONGE

By wetting a sponge or piece of foam rubber with gouache, the baby can draw the crown of trees, flowers, winter landscapes and much more.

DRAWING WITH COTTON STICKS

Tie a bunch of cotton swabs with adhesive tape or an elastic band, invite your child to dip it in paint and draw clouds, trees, snowdrifts, snow. Missing details can be finished with a simple brush.

DRAWING WITH DOTS

First, the baby must draw the outline of the object, and then fill its entire background with multi-colored dots, using paint or a felt-tip pen. To make the drawing colorful, you need to alternate the colors of the dots.

SPLASH PAINTING

Take a dry toothbrush and grease it with gouache. Do not overdo it, the paint should not be much, but it should be thick. Place the sheet on the table, lean over it, hold the paint brush in one hand, and scrape the bristles in your direction with the other. The bristles must be turned down to the pattern, otherwise you and your child risk splashing the whole house.

If you put several colors on the brush, you can create a salute. Yellow and orange scales are suitable for an autumn-themed drawing, and blue will help create a beautiful winter landscape.

PRINT DRAWING

Take an apple, cut it in half and create beautiful drawings, dipping the halves in the paint. For this unconventional drawing technique, you can use other interesting "stamps" that you find at home!

DRAWING WITH BALLS

This technique will require: box lid, balls, paint, paper, brushes.

Lay a sheet of paper at the bottom of a flat box (or on top of any other) and splatter liberally with watercolor paint. Then throw some glass balls (or balls from bearings) in the same place and shake the box a little so that they roll, thereby mixing the color splashes on the sheet and creating a pattern.

DRAWING WITH FEET

This drawing technique for kids is very relaxing and develops the child's imagination! Tape a sheet of paper to the floor. Put a pencil between your toes and ask your child to draw something.

You can also paint with paints, wetting your toes in gouache and creating beautiful prints on paper.