How to draw snow on paper. A colorful house, a bunny and snowflakes - a fun winter

Painting snow, and even in watercolors, is often a difficult task for beginners. But we will help! Let's reveal a few secrets.

Masking fluid.

This liquid will help you recreate a natural, voluminous winter sky. Masking fluid is a viscous, translucent substance that can be used to cover certain parts of the design - those in this moment you don't want to paint over. When applied it is wet, and when dried it acquires a slightly sticky consistency. The "masked" areas will not be affected by the paint, even if you paint over a layer of masking agent.

Using this substance not only helps to get rid of dirt in your work, but also magically eliminates the need to write snow: just peel off what is pasted, and - voila! - snow will appear in your picture.

Let's illustrate this with an example. Let's say you have some ink and want to draw a picture of falling snow. How to do it?

First method: You can simply put dots on the sheet that imitate falling snowflakes. The advantages of this method are simplicity and control over the brush. The downside is that the look will be quite decorative, and it won't suit every job.

Second method, “tapping”: dip the brush in the masking liquid, move it over the sheet and, moving your hand, shake off droplets of liquid onto the canvas with careful taps. There is a little less control here, but the appearance of “snowflakes” will be more natural.

Third method, with a toothbrush: take an old one toothbrush and dip it in masking fluid. Now use your finger to gently pull and release the fibers above the sheet, causing liquid to splash onto it. This method of control has the least risk of going overboard and messing up, but the result is completely unique and natural.

Result

By selecting suitable way, apply masking fluid with it, and then get to work. It doesn’t matter what you work with: watercolor or ink. When finished, dry it and then simply remove the masking pieces. Here comes the snow!

Did you succeed? Write in the comments!

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For such Master class we will need the following materials: -

Thick sheet of white paper,

Simple pencil,

Paints - gouache for children's creativity,

Brush No. 3,

Cocktail tube.

1. Preliminary drawing made in pencil - a snowy mountain and a village on the horizon.

2. Paint the sky with black, purple, blue or cyan paint. The color of the sky will determine the time of day in the drawing. (night, evening or morning). We leave the wooden houses colorless for further painting.

3. Brown paint draw logs on the house and fences - and the windows are painted yellow (turn on the light).

4. Green paint on wavy line horizon, in several places can be indicated with the help of a few brush strokes - a fir and pine forest.

5. Blotography - a technique that has long been familiar to everyone - when from an inflated blot with the help of an additional drawing details, you can recognize the image. For further work we need black paint and a small amount of water. (mix water and paint in a container)- using a brush No. 3, we apply the watery trunks of the bush and, using a cocktail tube, we blow up the small branches. We blow strongly and sharply into the tube and direct our drop in different directions, now to the right, now to the left.

6. With the help of several applications of the brush, the drawing can be supplemented by a flock of birds that have flown in to rest or peck the remaining seeds.

7. We put our birds on branches and let them walk around snow.

8. Mix white and blue paint for blue flakes snow.

We dip a brush stick into the blue paint and begin to merrily knock on the entire surface of the sheet - let the snow fall on the houses, the bush, and the birds. Children get a little emotional release from the cheerful knocking and the drawing is ready when the blue flakes snow covers the entire leaf.

I wish my colleagues creative success!

Snow outside the window is a great reason to pick up a brush and depict all the beauty of winter. Show your kids several ways to draw snowdrifts, “crystal” trees, “horned” snowflakes, fluffy animals, and let winter “drawing games” bring the joy of creativity and decorate your home.

Music to which masterpieces are created

So, let's turn on some pleasant background music and... draw winter with the children!

Drawing with “snow”

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You can imitate snow in a drawing in different ways.

Option No. 1. Draw with PVA glue and semolina. Squeeze out the required amount of glue directly from the tube; if necessary, you can spread it with a brush (if you plan to cover large surfaces). Sprinkle the image with semolina. After drying, shake off excess cereal.

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Option number 2. Paint with salt and flour. Mix 1/2 cup of water with 1/2 cup of salt and the same amount of flour. Mix the “snow” well and draw winter!

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Option number 3. Draw with toothpaste. Toothpaste perfectly serves as “snow” in the drawings. It can be tinted with watercolor or gouache if you need to get a color image.

Drawings with white paste on dark paper look beautiful. And they SMELL delicious!

The greatest popularity toothpaste It probably won because it washes off easily, so you can paint with the paste on glass. Feel free to pick up the tubes and go decorate mirrors, windows and other glass surfaces in your home!

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Option number 4. Draw with shaving foam. If you mix PVA glue with shaving foam (in equal proportion), you will get an excellent “snowy” paint.

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Option #5. Painting with salt. If you pour salt onto a pattern outlined with PVA glue, you will get a sparkling snowball.

Drawing on crumpled paper

An unusual effect can be achieved if you draw on previously crumpled paper. The paint will remain in the creases and form something like crackle.

Drawing with stencils

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Stencils make the drawing process easier for those who “don’t know how” (as they think). If you use several stencils at the same time, you can get an unexpected effect.

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By leaving the part of the image covered with the stencil unpainted, you can pay more attention to the background: sprinkle salt on the still wet surface, apply strokes in different directions with a hard brush, etc. Experiment!

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Several sequentially applied stencils and sprays. It is convenient to use an old toothbrush or a stiff bristle brush for these purposes.

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A knitted snowflake will help you create real lace on paper. Any thick paint will do: gouache, acrylic. You can use a spray can (spray from a short distance strictly vertically).

Drawing with wax

Drawings drawn with wax look unusual. Using a regular (not colored) candle, we draw a winter landscape, and then cover the sheet dark paint. The image “appears” right before your eyes!

Who are you? Seal?

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The effect of fluffy wool can be created by a simple technique: dip a flat brush in thick paint (gouache) and apply strokes with a “poke”. Drawings with white paint always look better against a dark, contrasting background. For winter motifs All shades of blue are great.

How to draw winter trees

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The crowns of these trees are made using a plastic bag. Dip in paint and blot in in the right places- that’s the whole secret of “snow caps” for trees.

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Finger painting is suitable for kids. Dip your index finger in thick gouache and generously sprinkle snow on the branches!

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Unusually beautiful snow-covered trees are obtained using cabbage leaves. Cover the sheet with white gouache Chinese cabbage- and voila! This painting looks especially impressive against a colored background.

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No cabbage - no problem. Any leaves with pronounced veins will do. You can even sacrifice your favorite ficus. The only BUT, remember that the juice of many plants is poisonous! Make sure your child doesn’t taste his new “brush.”

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The trunk is a handprint. And everything else is a matter of minutes.

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A favorite technique for many is blowing paint through a tube. We create “snowiness” using the little artist’s fingerprints.

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Not everyone will guess how this charming Birch Grove. The resourceful artist used masking tape! Cut strips of the required width and glue them onto a white sheet. Paint over the background and remove the paint. Draw the characteristic “dashes” so that the birch trees become recognizable. The moon is made in the same way. Thick paper is suitable for these purposes; the tape should not be too sticky so as not to damage the top layer of the design.

Drawing with bubble wrap

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Apply to bubble wrap white paint and apply it to the finished drawing. It's snowing!

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The same technique can be used in applications.

The snowman has melted. It's a pity…

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This idea is suitable for both young artists, and for those who want to give a gift “with humor.” Cut out “spare parts” for the snowman from colored paper in advance: nose, eyes, hat, twig arms, etc. Draw a melted puddle, wait for the paint to dry and glue what’s left of the poor fellow snowman. Such a drawing could become a great gift loved ones on behalf of the baby. More more ideas in our article.

Drawing with palms

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A simple way to create a surprisingly touching New Year's card- is to tell a story about funny snowmen. You can create a whole family if, based on a palm print, you add carrot noses, coal eyes, bright scarves, buttons, twig hands, and hats to your fingers.

What's there outside the window?

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What does a window look like from the street side? Unusual! Invite your child to look at the window through the eyes of Santa Claus or another character who may find himself outside in the most severe cold.

Dear readers! Surely you have your own “winter” drawing techniques. Tell us about them in the comments.

The topic “what color is snow” is another kindergarten, In my opinion. At least, I remember that I conducted such a lesson for children. And they confidently answered me that the color of snow is NOT white.

However, in the works of adults, I now and then come across extremely non-picturesque solutions using pure white and gray monochrome colors from a mixture of white and black.

So how to paint snow in a landscape? What color is snow if not white?

Let's leave aside jokes about yellow snow and the sadness of ecologists about black snow, let's turn to basic knowledge of physics and optics. And let's see how artists solve this problem, choosing the color of snow for a painting.

But first I’ll give a disclaimer -

In what case can snow be depicted as pure white?

If we talk about painting, i.e. painting with opaque paints and materials: oil, gouache, acrylic, pastel, and if we mean realistic painting (not decorative, where pure white is acceptable), then pure White color from the tube should be used with extreme caution.

In paints the tonal range is much smaller than in nature. That's why mistaken for pure white or bright glare or, if we take Krymov’s teaching, illuminated bright sun white wall.

Snow has a slightly different structure from a wall (I’ll talk about this below), so you shouldn’t paint it with pure white. At the very least, such areas in the picture must be justified in some way.

A. Savrasov "Village in winter", 1880-1890

And here's where let's say pure white, this is in watercolor.

Or rather, we are not talking about the use of white paint here, but about areas of unpainted paper that takes on the role of pure white.

IN in this case watercolor acts as a graphic material, and in graphics this is quite acceptable.

Having made this reservation, let's return to painting.

WHAT COLOR TO PAINT SNOW IN REALISTIC PAINTING

Let's look at the pictures famous artists to understand what colors they used to paint white snow.

For clarity, I measured the required areas in Photoshop and displayed them separately:

A. Savrasov "Winter Road"

In this painting by Savrasov we see that the snow is written different shades grey. They are almost achromatic, i.e. contain a minimum of pure spectral color, more white and black.

However pure color is still necessarily present in the mixture of these shades, without it, gray would seem foreign, dead.

So, in this picture, gray has admixtures of pink, orange, ocher, and violet. (I can’t tell you what paints Savrasov mixed; technically, you can use different variants, I'm talking about the presence of color tone).

How do you know what pure spectral color is used in a gray shade?

Warm shades in the color of snow, as in this painting by Savrasov, are found in “old” snow, i.e. compacted, dense.

If the snow is fresh, then even in bright sun it will be more likely to be bluish.

Paul Gauguin "Breton village in the snow"

Why bluish?

Because we know that bright sunlight- warm, and the shadows are cold. And white objects in the sun will have a warm tint.

However, snow is a slightly different matter. It consists of many crystals of frozen water. And a crystal, as we know, has edges that reflect light.

A. Kuindzhi "Winter"

So, a ray of light, hitting the edges of these crystals, is reflected multiple times. And the fresher the snow, the more loose and airy it is, the stronger the light wave is lost in the depths of this snow cover and returns reflected, having lost some of the color waves.

This is why fresh snow differs in color from more mature, compacted snow, which will be closer in properties to ordinary surfaces.

I. Levitan "March"

If we talk about the color of shadows on the snow, then they will acquire an even more powerful cold sound.

On a bright sunny day, even a person with poorly developed color perception sees that the shadows have a blue tint.

B. Kustodiev "Skiers"

Not big house ik with a snow-covered roof, fir trees and bushes stand in snowdrifts - here you have winter drawing, depicted with colored pencils. Of course, you can add other details - a snowman, a sleigh with children, falling snow, animals or birds from behind the Christmas trees, branches of a snow-covered rowan or coniferous tree on foreground. This list can be enumerated endlessly, because everyone associates winter differently.

If you don’t know how to draw winter step by step with colored pencils, then this lesson is just for you.

Necessary materials:

• - colored pencils in green, blue, brown and black tones;
• — Blank sheet paper;
• - a simple pencil;
• - eraser.

Drawing steps:

1. When depicting any landscape, the first step should be special role attributed to the horizon in the drawing. Finding the cent of the future winter picture and draw three tubercles one after another.

1. Now let’s place three Christmas trees on the first hill on the left side, but on the right side in the foreground there will be only one conifer tree. Since this is a sketch, we depict the Christmas trees in the form of simple lines.

1. In the background we will place a large house. Let's draw the lower part in the form of a cube, and the upper part in the form of a volumetric triangle.

1. Around the house and on the third hillock we will draw bushes and trees in the form of lines.

1. Let's add details to the winter drawing. On each tree we will draw snow and tree branches. Draw a window and a door on the front of the house. There will also be snow on its roof and other areas. Let's draw a small path on the first and second hillocks, which leads to the entrance to the house. Trees and bushes can also be detailed and snow placed on their branches.

1. Using green pencils of different tones, we begin to decorate the branches of the Christmas tree, which are visible under a thick layer of snow.

1. Use a light blue pencil to color the snow on each branch of the tree, as well as on the roof of the house and its small parts. The hills of the landscape should be completely decorated with this pencil.

1. Darker tones of blue color We add depth and volume to the snow cover in all areas of the winter pattern.

1. Let's move to the background. Use brown and black pencil to decorate the branches of bushes and trees. There will also be snow on each branch. Therefore, we use blue pencils.

1. Finally, we work on the house: roof, walls, window and door. We use brown and black pencil.

The winter drawing with colored pencils is now complete. You can place it in a frame under glass and admire the painting every day.