10 unusual drawing ideas for your kids

If your child periodically gets frustrated, saying “I can’t draw this” or “it didn’t turn out beautifully”, stop trying to draw from a model, as they do in various drawing circles, and try spontaneous drawing techniques, not standard ones.

We offer you 10 OPTIONS of similar techniques, peeped on the site http://chipolinka.ru/neobichnoe-risovanie/ , which will help to reveal the individuality of the child.

1. Passepartout

There is a great way to turn little ones into masterpieces of art. You need to learn how to make children's passe-partouts with kalyaks - this is when the latter are inserted into a sheet with some form cut out. Those. cut out a template, for example, butterflies and put it on top of the baby's "scribbling". As a result, the work of the child forms a unique pattern of butterfly wings.

2. Drawing with feet

Tape a sheet of paper to the floor. It can be finger paints, even watercolors (they are easy to clean). You can create simultaneously with two feet on one sheet of paper. The main desire!

You can wrap the foot with a plastic bag. Or you can put a pencil between your toes and ask your child to draw something.

3. Frottage

A sheet of paper is placed on a flat embossed object and then, moving with an unsharpened colored pencil over the surface, you get an impression that imitates the main texture. You can rub the pencil crumbs in the same way over the relief surface.

In order to draw using the frottage technique, you can use absolutely any uneven surface. For example, combs, shoe soles, various plastic packaging for food and sweets, lace, wallpaper, designer details, mosaic boards and everything that comes to hand. Drawings can be done by yourself, or you can take ready-made coloring pages.

4. Blotography

Let the kid drip paint on the sheet, tilt it in different directions, and then finish drawing the blot so that some kind of image is obtained. Or the child dips the brush into the paint, then puts an inkblot on a sheet of paper and folds the sheet in half so that the “blot” is printed on the second half of the sheet. Then he unfolds the sheet and tries to understand who or what the drawing looks like.

You can also inflate blots through a straw.

5. Drawing with a washcloth / sponge

Certain details are very well drawn with a washcloth. With its help, you can draw, for example, a sea, a river or a crown of trees. Having dipped a sponge in thick gouache, a child can draw landscapes, bouquets of flowers, lilac branches, apple trees.

The missing details must be completed with a brush or felt-tip pen.

6. Drawing on crumpled paper

Works made on such a sheet of paper look completely different than on a smooth background, and using shading with water, you can achieve very unusual effects.

You just need to crumple the sheet correctly. It is better to entrust this work to an adult: wipe the landscape sheet with a dampened napkin and gently crumple and crumple the sheet. We straighten and draw on a damp surface.

7. Soap painting

You can mix paints with soapy water and then apply patterns and shapes with a brush. When drawing, soap bubbles are formed, which create the texture of colorful strokes.

Older kids can blow out pictures with bright soapy foam.

8. Thread printing

Thread drawing. Yes Yes! Woolen threads can also be used as a drawing medium. You can draw winding lines with threads by wetting them in paint. Simply magical!

9. Pointillism

Dot drawing. The adult outlines the preliminary outline of the object, and the kid then fills the space inside it with dot technique, using felt-tip pens, pencils of different colors or cotton swabs and paints. The older the child, the more difficult the objects can be.

Many famous artists actively use this technique in their work. The last photo is by Paul Signac. Capo di Noli.

10. Spray Painting

The most important thing here is to master the technique of "spraying". On a dry toothbrush with fairly stiff bristles, apply gouache, a little less than you usually put toothpaste. The consistency of paint is slightly thicker than paste, so water is usually not needed here. Hold the brush in your left hand with the bristles down at a distance of 3-4 cm from the paper and scrape the bristles towards you with a stick.

Very beautiful multi-colored "spray" (salute) and yellow-red (golden autumn) on a white sheet; white "splash" on a dark blue background (winter landscape).

This technique of drawing was also mastered by professional artists. Below are the works of Chinese artist Chen Yingjie.

11. Bonus - Magic Balls

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