Types of non-traditional drawing. Drawing Basics: Pencil Drawing Techniques Drawing with Various Materials

In this article you will find many interesting ideas on how to diversify painting activities with your child and make them interesting and educational.

Eco-friendly paints for children

There are 3 types of safe paints for children, which parents prefer:

finger-shaped
gouache
watercolor

It’s better to start with finger paints; they are suitable for younger children. You can learn more about them from the article. Gouache and watercolor for older children.

A child is interested in exploring something new, but over time he may get tired of the monotonous procedure of coloring a sheet with paint. To prevent this from happening, parents need to show their child how to draw.

There are many ways to paint with the above paints. Various techniques will not let your child get bored and will show him a lot of new and interesting things that he has not seen before.

Finger painting for kids

This is the most interesting activity for little ones, because you first need to feel the paint before learning how to paint with it. Dip your index finger into the paint and use it to make spots on the paper, using them to draw a flower or a caterpillar. Draw lines with your finger, make rays of the sun. Show your child that you can draw like this and let him create on his own, let him draw what he wants.

Painting with a brush for children

When the child can already hold a brush in his hands, show him how to paint with it. Explain to your child that before taking a new color, it needs to be washed. Take the paint with a brush and apply it to a piece of paper. Try painting with brushes of different sizes and shapes, see what kind of drawing you get.

You can paint with a brush in the following ways:

Dot painting for kids

Show how you can draw with dots; for this you can use a brush, a finger, or a cotton swab. Dip your tool into the paint and quickly touch it to the paper. You can color simple pictures using this technique; kids really like this activity, and it is also very useful for developing fine motor skills.

Drawing with stamps for children

Apply paint to the stamp and apply it to the paper, press down. An imprint of the picture will remain on the paper. Show your child how to work with it. The stamps can be painted in different colors; instead of ready-made stamps, you can use homemade ones. For example, to make circles with straws, you can use figures from sorters, parts from construction sets, and even cut vegetables and fruits.

A very interesting texture is obtained if, instead of a stamp, you use a regular napkin with pimples. Dip it into the paint and, as if blotting, walk it over a sheet of paper.

Drawing with foam rubber

Cut a piece of foam and dip it in paint, then press it onto the paper and remove it. You can draw lines and paint over some shapes. Show your child how to draw. Your child will also be interested if you make different geometric shapes from foam rubber. You can attach them to a pencil or stick and use them as stamps. This way, by playing, you can learn not only colors, but also shapes. Then complicate the task, try to draw ornaments, first from two shapes, then use more shapes.

Drawing on wet paper

Wet a piece of drawing paper with water. Now draw on it with paint. The contours of the lines blur, become fuzzy, smooth transitions and haze are excellent. Just don’t overdo it with water; it will be better if you wipe it with a damp cotton swab. This technique is good for paintings with rain, images of fog, flowers behind a curtain.

Blotography

Teach your child to make blots, because then it’s so interesting to guess what they look like.

Take a sheet of paper, fold it in half, unfold it and put a few blots on the fold; you can make them the same color or different ones. Fold the sheet along the fold line and run your fingers from the center of the design to its edge. You can say something like “sim-salabim”.

Unfold the sheet and show your child what you came up with. When the child grows up a little, you can ask him what he sees in the drawing, what it reminds him of. When the drawing is dry, you can add small details with a felt-tip pen or outline the outline. This develops imagination and abstract thinking very well.

Nitcography

To do this you will need a sheet of thick paper and a woolen thread. Bend the sheet in half and unfold it, lower the thread into a jar of paint, then place it on the paper and fold it. Move the thread, pressing the sheet with your palm. Unfold and see what happens. You will see chaotic strokes of paint, look at them with your child, maybe you will see some familiar objects in them, circle them and complete the details, say what they are called. The combination of creativity, mental and speech work will help your child develop intellectually.

Wax painting

This is a very common and interesting technique. Draw a picture on a sheet of paper with a wax crayon or a piece of wax candle, and then with your child, paint over this sheet of paper with paint. Since the wax is greasy, the paint will not cover it and you will see your drawing. This method can also be used to make secret notes or write congratulations.

Waxing and waxing technique

Place something under a sheet of paper, such as a coin or other embossed object, rub the sheet with wax, paint on top and you will get an image of the object.

Drawings with salt

Sprinkle the finished drawing with salt. When the paint dries, the salt will remain on the sheet and give an interesting texture to the design. This way you can make a three-dimensional drawing, for example, highlighting stones or a path in the image. On blue paint, salt will look like snowflakes; if you sprinkle green leaves with salt, they will become like alive, translucent.

Drawings with masking tape

Molar tape sticks and peels off paper well, so it can be used in drawing and get interesting effects. For example, you can make a birch forest: cut out tree trunks from tape, you can glue twigs and branches from the leftovers, and glue the tape onto a sheet of paper. Paint everything on top with paint, when it dries, remove the tape, white stripes will remain under it. All you have to do is add details and the forest is ready!

You can cut out something more complex, such as houses and draw a whole city. The good thing about adhesive tape is that it can be used instead of a stencil, but paint drips are unlikely to get under it, and there is no need to fix it additionally.

You can also use the tape as a frame for the picture, when you remove it, the edges of the picture will be clear and it will be neat.

Drawing pictures using cling film

Yes, yes, you can also make interesting drawings using cling film. Lay it on a sheet of paper covered with wet paint and move it around a little. When you remove it, you will see interesting abstractions that resemble crystals.

Blowing paint through tubes

Thin the paint with water to make it thinner. Take one or two colors. Drop paint onto the sheet and blow into the tube, directing it in different directions onto the paint. What you draw will resemble the interweaving of tree branches, or you can add a face and it will be hair - let the child dream up.

Coloring drawings

Draw some animal on a piece of paper and ask the child to hide it, just show how first: paint it completely over it. You can tell a fairy tale, for example, that there was a mouse, she went for delicious cheese, and a cat was waiting for her, who wanted to eat the mouse. And ask your child how you can help the mouse? Of course, it must be hidden. And ask him to do it.

Leaf drawing

A very interesting way of drawing. For this you will need leaves from trees. Apply paint to the leaves, you can paint them in different colors, attach the leaf with paint to the paper and press it, then carefully remove it. You can make such a beautiful forest.

If you turn on a little imagination, you will come up with a lot of new ideas with which drawing will not only be a fun activity, but also educational, educational and useful.

In addition to paints, there are other tools for drawing. Your baby will definitely love wax pencils, markers, and crayons. More details about fine art and other types of creativity are described in the article

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The standard idea of drawing for many is associated with an album and drawing supplies: paints, pencils, brushes and felt-tip pens. Meanwhile, there are many ways to make a lesson unusual and exciting, one that will evoke positive emotions not only in children, but also in adults.

Unusual drawing techniques for children, using non-standard means and materials, are a great opportunity to show imagination and create spectacular, memorable crafts.

Draw with your hands

A very simple way to draw unusual and varied pictures using the tool that is always at hand, namely the hand of the artist himself. From a very young age you can use simple abstract pictures, and when the child gets older you can complicate the task. A child's hand provides ample opportunities for creating plots, here are the two simplest ones.

Butterfly

Take a sheet of paper and lay it horizontally. Fold it in half, secure the fold line well, then straighten the sheet. Put a little gouache on a brush (let the child choose the colors themselves) and paint the baby’s palm. If a child holds a brush well and confidently, then he can paint his own palm himself, this will give him a lot of pleasure. It is better to paint the fingertips and palm in different colors, this will make the drawing more vibrant.

The young artist places his painted palm on a sheet of paper. The base of the palm should be at the fold line of the sheet. Since a butterfly’s wing consists of two parts, the child places his palm once, with his fingers slightly turned downward in the design, and the second time, on the contrary, with his palm turned with his fingers up.

Then attach the second half of the sheet to the resulting handprint - and you will get a wonderful butterfly. For authenticity, you can draw the body and head of the butterfly by hand or cut them out of colored paper and glue them with glue.

Tree

An excellent option for depicting a tree using the same hand, however, now you will need not only the palm, but also the part of the hand above the hand.

The technique is simple: the child paints the palm and a piece of the hand just above the wrist with brown gouache, and applies it to a vertical sheet of paper. It turns out to be a tree trunk that just needs to be painted with foliage. Options are also possible here: you can draw it yourself, or you can glue real leaves collected in the autumn forest.

Pictures in stamps

A creative solution that will make any drawing unexpected and eye-catching is to draw its elements with stamps.

What is a stamp? This is a piece of base on which the desired design is cut out or secured with improvised means.

Anything can be used as materials for making stamps:

raw potato tubers;
small apples cut in half;
plasticine;
Lego construction elements;
lids from small jars;
matchboxes and threads.

A universal and inexpensive material for making impressions that everyone can find.

Select small tubers, wash and peel them.
Cut the tuber in half. On the resulting surface of the stamp, draw the imprint you want to get, for example, it will be a leaf of a tree.
Use a knife to make cuts that imitate the structure of the leaf. Then dip the finished stamp in paint and make an impression on a previously prepared piece of paper.
To create a finished composition, you can make the necessary blank, for example, an image of a tree branch, the leaves on which can be drawn with the resulting stamp.

Attention: potatoes absorb paint quickly and well, so to obtain prints of different colors, each time you need to use a new stamp (potato tuber).

Stamps on plasticine

One of the kids' favorite ways to create their own stamps. To do this you will need: a piece of thick plasticine and a ballpoint pen (for small parts). For larger details that need to be extruded into the print, it is better to use a pencil with a thick lead.

Making an impression:

We roll a sausage 2-3 cm long from plasticine. Make the bottom of the sausage smooth and even.
We take a ballpoint pen and, pressing deeply inward, place a point in the middle of the base of the print. This will be the core of the flower.
We apply a ballpoint pen to the stamp as follows: with the pointed end towards the center, press well. We make several impressions, forming petals around the core of the flower.
We fill the resulting recesses of the stamp with paint, preferably acrylic paints or gouache. The watercolor will bleed, producing desaturated colors.
We print on paper. The composition can be diversified by making several stamps with different designs.

Apple cards

For this “delicious” painting technique you will need: several small apples, gouache or acrylic paints, two or three sheets of thick colored cardboard.

Cut the apples into halves, dilute a few colors in an additional bowl. In order for the prints to be saturated, do not thin the paints too much. Having dipped the cut side of the apple into the paint, invite your child to make several prints on pieces of colored cardboard.

Don’t let parents be scared by the fact that when children see bright and appetizing prints, they will have a desire to put them on cardboard in incredible quantities. When the prints are dry, the sheets of cardboard can be cut to fit the postcard format, or by cutting out a square with apple prints, stick it on a large piece of cardboard in a contrasting color. The tails of the apples can be painted separately. This makes a wonderful picture for the kitchen!

Thread stamps

This type of creativity attracts children with funny geometric patterns formed as a result of the use of ordinary threads.

The basic materials for this unusual technique are simple and affordable - these are boxes of matches (you only need boxes, no matches), thick threads of wool or synthetic yarn, and paints (all except watercolors).

In order to make a stamp, you need to take a small piece of thread and wrap it around a matchbox. The thread should not be too thin and should fit tightly around the box. We dip the resulting stamp in paint and get a spectacular print with a geometric pattern.

Unusual drawing and natural materials

The most interesting drawing techniques for children are associated with natural materials of various textures: wood, stone, plant seeds, and, of course, tree foliage.

When we collect leaves in the autumn forest with our children, we sometimes do not suspect what scope for flights of fancy and unusual designs lies in an ordinary dried oak or maple leaf.

Autumn Foliage Drawings

For these works you need any leaves: large and small, elongated and round, green, yellow, with or without cuttings. While walking in the forest, focus children's attention on the variety of shapes and colors of autumn leaves.

Leaf prints

Option one

We take a sheet of not very thick white paper and place it on the table in front of the children. It is better to secure its corners with tape; for this type of work it is important that the sheet does not slide on the table. We lay out three sheets of different shapes next to each other and “stamp” each sheet in turn, sketching it with colored wax crayon.

Second option

We “print” with leaves by first applying paint to them. This drawing method looks like this.

Take several large sheets and invite the children to work as autumn wizards. Let them paint one side of each sheet with their own colors - the way they like, in any order. Then have them place the colored side of the leaves on a white piece of paper. You will get bright, juicy prints.

This type of work will allow you to create interesting and bright collages on an autumn theme!

Making your own colored paper

Few people know that it is enough to simply create spectacular multi-colored paper at home yourself. As a result of this unusual technique, it will turn out to be a bizarre, unusual color, reminiscent of the pattern of a marble stone.

To create this type of colored paper you will need:

men's shaving foam;
watercolor or acrylic paints;
disposable paper plate for mixing paints;
paper;
a piece of thick cardboard.

Apply an even, dense layer of foam to the plate. Lightly dilute the paints with water; the colors should be rich and bright. Then we take a little paint of each color with a brush and “drip” a few drops of different shades onto a plate with foam in a random order.

The next part is the most favorite among children of any age. Taking a cotton swab (you can remove it with a cotton tip) or a toothpick, the child should dilute the colored drops in the foam. As a result, completely bizarre shapes are formed - blots, dots, stains and incredible color combinations.

Then you need to take a sheet of paper and place it flat on the multi-colored foam formed in the plate. Turn the sheet over and place it on the dry side on the table. Now you need to scrape off the remaining foam from the surface of the sheet. To do this, just take a piece of thick cardboard, and holding it vertically, remove excess foam.

A sheet of the resulting colored paper in bright and cheerful colors can be used when it dries.

All of the listed variety of works, performed by children and adults using unusual drawing techniques, are ideal for homemade arts lessons, creating drawings using collage techniques and designing family albums using scrapbooking techniques.

Teacher, child development center specialist
Druzhinina Elena

Painting technique- a set of techniques for using artistic materials and means.

Traditional painting techniques: encaustic, tempera, wall (lime), glue and other types. Since the 15th century, the technique of painting with oil paints has become popular; in the 20th century, synthetic paints with a polymer binder (acrylic, vinyl, etc.) appeared. Gouache, watercolor, Chinese ink and semi-drawing technique - pastel - are also classified as painting.

WATERCOLOR

Watercolor(from Italian “aquarello”) - means painting with water-based paints.

There are many artistic techniques in watercolor: working on wet paper (“A la Prima”), working on dry paper, pouring, washing, using watercolor pencils, ink, working with a dry brush, using a palette knife, salt, multi-layer painting, using mixed media.

Types of watercolor techniques:

dry - painting on dry paper, with each layer of paint drying before applying the next one

raw, wet watercolor, alla prima - painting on wet paper. The wet-on-wet technique uses the flow of watercolor and creates unusual color effects. Using this technique requires knowledge of the moisture level of the paper and experience in using the technique itself.

Alla prima (ala prime) (derived from the Italian alla prima - at the first moment) is a type of oil and watercolor painting technique that involves completing a painting (or a fragment thereof) in one session, without preliminary markings or underpainting.

Filling is a very interesting technique in watercolor. Smooth color transitions allow you to effectively depict the sky, water, and mountains.

The palette knife is used not only in oil painting, but also in watercolor painting. With a palette knife you can emphasize the outlines of mountains, stones, rocks, clouds, sea waves, and depict trees and flowers.

The absorbent properties of salt are used to produce interesting effects in watercolors. With the help of salt, you can decorate a meadow with flowers, get a moving air environment in the picture, moving tonal transitions.

Multilayer painting is rich in color. Multilayer painting uses all the artistic techniques of working with watercolors.

Watercolor is one of the most complex painting techniques. The main quality of watercolor is the transparency and airiness of the image. The apparent simplicity and ease of painting with watercolors is deceptive. Watercolor painting requires mastery of the brush, mastery of seeing tone and color, knowledge of the laws of mixing colors and applying a layer of paint to paper. There are many techniques in watercolor: working on dry paper, working on wet paper (“A la Prima”), using watercolor pencils, inks, multi-layer painting, working with a dry brush, pouring, washing off, using a palette knife, salt, using mixed media.

Watercolor, despite its apparent simplicity and ease of drawing, is a very complex painting technique. Watercolor painting requires mastery of the brush, mastery of seeing tone and color, knowledge of the laws of mixing colors and applying a layer of paint to paper.

For watercolor work, paper is one of the most important materials. What is important is its quality, type, relief, density, grain size, sizing. Depending on the quality of the paper, watercolor paints are applied to the paper, absorbed, and dried differently.

PENCIL

Pencil is a material for drawing. There are black graphite and colored pencils. Pencil drawings are done on paper using shading, tonal spots, and light and shade.

Watercolor pencils are a type of colored pencils that are water soluble. The techniques for using watercolor pencils are varied: blurring a drawing with a watercolor pencil with water, working with a watercolor pencil soaked in water, working with a pencil on wet paper, etc. It is more difficult to do a drawing.

With a pencil you can get infinitely many shades and gradations of tone. Pencils of varying degrees of softness are used in the drawing.

Work on a graphic drawing begins with a constructive drawing, i.e. drawing the external contours of an object using construction lines, usually with a medium-soft pencil H, HB, B, F, then in a tone drawing, in which there are no contour lines of objects, and the boundaries of objects are indicated by shading; if necessary, softer pencils are used. The hardest is 9H, the softest is 9B.

When drawing with a pencil, it is advisable to make as few corrections as possible and use an eraser carefully so as not to leave stains, so the drawing will look fresh and neat. It is better not to use shading in a pencil drawing for the same reasons. To apply tone, the technique of shading is used. Strokes can be different in direction, length, spacing, and pencil pressure. The direction of the stroke (horizontal, vertical, oblique) is determined by the shape, size of the object, and the movement of the surface in the drawing.

A pencil portrait turns out very realistic and filled with light. After all, with the help of a pencil you can convey many shades, depth and volume of the image, and chiaroscuro transitions.

The pencil drawing is fixed with a fixative, so the drawing does not lose its clarity, does not smear even when touched by hand, and is preserved for a long time.

OIL

Oil painting on canvas is the most popular painting technique. Oil painting gives the master an unlimited number of ways to depict and convey the mood of the surrounding world. Pasty or airy transparent strokes through which the canvas is visible, creating a relief with a palette knife, glazing, the use of transparent or opaque paints, various variations of color mixing - all this variety of oil painting techniques allows the artist to find and convey the mood, the volume of depicted objects, the air environment, and create the illusion space, convey the richness of shades of the surrounding world.

Oil painting has its own peculiarity - the picture is painted in several layers (2-3), each layer needs to dry for several days depending on the materials used, so usually an oil painting is painted from several days to several weeks.

The most suitable material for oil painting is linen canvas. Linen fabric is durable and has a vibrant texture. Linen canvases come in different grain sizes. For portraits and detailed paintings, fine-grained, smoother canvas is used. Coarse-grained canvas is suitable for painting with a pronounced texture (stones, rocks, trees), impasto painting and palette knife painting. Previously, painting used the technique of glazing, applying paint in thin layers, so the roughness of the linen layer gave the painting elegance. Nowadays, the technique of impasto strokes is often used in painting. However, the quality of the canvas is important for the expressiveness of the painting.

Cotton canvas is a durable and inexpensive material, suitable for painting with paste strokes.

Oil painting also uses such bases as burlap, plywood, hardboard, metal, and even paper.

Canvases are stretched on cardboard and on a stretcher. Canvases on cardboard are thin and usually do not come in large sizes, and do not exceed 50*70. They are lightweight and easy to transport. Canvases on a stretcher are more expensive; finished canvases on a stretcher can reach a size of 1.2m by 1.5m. The finished painting is framed.

Before working with oil, the canvases are glued and primed. This is necessary so that the oil paint does not destroy the canvas, and so that the paint adheres well to the canvas.

Oil paintings are most often done by placing the canvas on an easel. Oil painting uses a palette knife technique. A palette knife is a tool made of flexible steel in the form of a knife or spatula with a curved handle. Different shapes of the palette knife help to achieve different textures, relief, and volume. You can also apply even, smooth strokes with a palette knife. The blade of a palette knife can also be used to create fine lines - vertical, horizontal, chaotic.

PASTEL

Pastel(from Latin pasta - dough) - a technique of painting and drawing on the rough surface of paper and cardboard with pastels. Pastel is one of the very unusual types of visual materials. Pastel painting is airy and gentle. The subtlety and elegance of the pastel technique gives the paintings a lively, sometimes fabulous and magical quality. In the “dry” pastel technique, the “shading” technique is widely used, which gives the effect of soft transitions and delicacy of color. Pastel is applied to rough paper. The color of the paper matters. The background color, appearing through the strokes of the pastel, evokes a certain mood, weakening or enhancing the color effects of the drawing. Pastel paintings are fixed with fixative and stored under glass.

The pastel technique gained wide popularity and reached its peak in the 18th century. Pastel has the property of imparting extraordinary softness and tenderness to any subject. Using this technique, you can create any subjects - from landscapes to drawings of people.

The advantages of pastel are great freedom for the artist: it allows you to remove and cover entire layers of painting, stop and resume work at any time. Pastel combines the possibilities of painting and drawing. You can draw and write with it, work with shading or a painterly spot, with a dry or wet brush.

Pastel types:

dry- produced from pigment by pressing without adding oil

oil- made from pigment with linseed oil by pressing.

waxy- produced from pigment by pressing with the addition of wax

The techniques for working with pastels are varied. Pastel touches are rubbed in with fingers, special brushes, leather rollers, silk square brushes, and soft swabs. The pastel technique is very subtle and complex in its overlays of pastel “glaze” color on color. Pastel is applied in spots, strokes, and glazes.

To work with pastel pencils, you need bases that hold the pastel and prevent it from falling off. Pastels are used on rough types of paper, such as torchon, whatman paper, sandpaper, on loose, fleecy cardboard, suede, parchment, and canvas. The best base is suede, on which some classic works are written. Pastel drawings are secured with special fixatives that prevent the pastel from falling off.

Edgar Degas was an unsurpassed pastel master. Degas had a keen eye and an infallible drawing, which allowed him to achieve unprecedented effects in pastels. Never before have pastel drawings been so reverent, masterfully careless and so precious in color. In his later works, reminiscent of a festive kaleidoscope of lights, E. Degas was obsessed with the desire to convey the rhythm and movement of the scene. To give the paints a special shine and make them glow, the artist dissolved the pastel with hot water, turning it into a kind of oil paint, and applied it to the canvas with a brush. In February 2007, at a Sotheby’s auction in London, Degas’s pastel “Three Dancers in Purple Skirts” was sold for $7.87 million. In Russia, masters such as Repin, Serov, Levitan, Kustodiev, and Petrov-Vodkin worked in pastels.

SANGUINE

The color range of sanguine, a material for drawing, ranges from brown to close to red. With the help of sanguine, the tones of the human body are well conveyed, so portraits made with sanguine look very natural. The technique of drawing from life using sanguine has been known since the Renaissance (Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael). Sanguine is often combined with charcoal or Italian pencil. To ensure greater durability, sanguine drawings are fixed with a fixative or placed under glass.

Sanguina has been known since antiquity. It was then that sanguine allowed the introduction of flesh color into the drawing. The technique of drawing with sanguine became widespread during the Renaissance. Renaissance artists developed and widely used the “three pencils” technique: they painted a drawing in sanguine or sepia and charcoal on toned paper, and then highlighted the desired areas with white chalk.

Sangina(from the Latin "sanguineus" - "blood red") - these are pencils of red-brown tones. Sanguine is made from finely ground burnt sienna and clay. Like pastel, charcoal and sauce, sanguine is a soft material that is shaped into tetrahedral or round crayons during production.

With the help of sanguine, the tones of the human body are well conveyed, so portraits made with sanguine look very natural.

The technique of working with sanguine is characterized by a combination of broad strokes and shading with strokes of sharply sharpened sanguine blocks. Beautiful sanguine drawings are obtained on a toned background, especially when charcoal and chalk are added to the base material (the “three pencils” technique).

For the drawing, choose sanguine of a shade that better suits the characteristics of nature. For example, it is good to paint a naked body with reddish sanguine, and a landscape with grayish-brown or sepia-colored sanguine.

Sometimes sanguine is combined with charcoal, which produces cool shades. The contrast of warm and cold shades gives a special charm to such works.

To ensure greater durability, sanguine designs can be secured with a fixative or placed under glass.

TEMPERA

Tempera(from the Latin "temperare" - to connect) - a binder of paints, consisting of a natural or artificial emulsion. Before the improvement of oil paints by J. Van Eyck (15th century), medieval egg tempera was one of the most popular and widespread types of painting in Europe, but gradually it lost its importance.

In the second half of the 19th century, the disappointment that came with later oil painting served as the beginning of the search for new binders for paints, and the forgotten tempera, the well-preserved works of which speak eloquently for themselves, again attracted interest.

In contrast to oil painting and old tempera, new tempera does not require the artist to have a specific system for painting, giving him complete freedom in this regard, which he can use without any damage to the strength of the painting. Tempera, unlike oil, dries quickly. Tempera paintings coated with varnish are not inferior to oil paintings in terms of color, and in terms of immutability and durability, tempera paints are even superior to oil paints.

Graphic materials and techniques are varied, but, as a rule, the basis is a paper sheet. The color and texture of the paper play a big role. Colorful materials and techniques are determined by the type of graphics.

Hot enamel(from French email) - an enamel technique in which a pasty mass colored with metal oxides is applied to a specially treated surface and fired, resulting in the appearance of a glassy colored layer.

There are several types of enamels depending on the technique of its production:

Miniature on enamel, enamel- an artistic enameling technique that uses the technique of brush easel painting. The first registration of the image is carried out on a white enamel background of a copper base plate. After underpainting, the plate is dried, fired in a muffle furnace at 800 degrees and painted again. To obtain maximum color sophistication and detail of the design, the enamel artist repeats this process many times.
Painted (picturesque) enamel- on the front side, the outline of the image and its details are written using rich-colored enamel paint. Since the enamel is applied in fragments, firing is done 10-15 times, taking into account the different levels of melting temperature of the enamels used.
Cloisonne enamel- to make it, a thin metal plate is taken, on which the outline of the future image is cut through. Then thin metal strips are soldered along this contour, obtaining an image from cells of various shapes and sizes. Each cell is filled with enamel of a different color to the upper edge of the partitions and the enamel is fired.
Enamel on filigree (filigree)- a floral or geometric ornament made of intertwined metal wire is soldered onto a metal surface, which forms cells. Each cell is filled to the brim with enamel of a different color, which, after firing, settles and appears below the filigree ornament. As a result, filigree enamel is not polished.
Champlevé enamel- a plot or ornamental image is deeply cut out (taken out) on a metal plate. The resulting depressions are filled with transparent or opaque enamel and the enamel is fired. In the champlevé enamel technique, several techniques are known to achieve an artistic effect.
Engraving enamel is a type of champlevé enamel technique.
Guilloche enamel- a type of enamel engraving technique. Engraving is performed mechanically using a special machine. In the guilloche enamel technique, exclusively transparent enamels of the widest range of colors are used.
Casting enamel- the image is obtained by casting it together with a metal base plate. Then the recess on the plate is filled with enamel.
Relief enamel- a technique used for artistic enameling in high relief, when the enamel coating follows the shape of a metal relief image, acting as a glaze.

Title: Unconventional drawing using the “Griffinage” technique

Composition “Secrets of the Ocean”

The master class is designed for everyone who loves to imagine and create, who is not afraid to experiment and try their hand at something new and unusual.

Target: create a unique composition “Secrets of the Ocean” using the non-traditional drawing technique “Grifonage”.

Tasks:

1. Expanding your horizons by gaining theoretical knowledge about a new drawing technique.

2. Acquaintance with the technique of performing griffonage drawings.

3. Development of mental qualities: attention, perception, imagination.

4. Increasing self-esteem, confidence in one’s abilities and strengths.

5. Creating a positive attitude towards creative activity, the ability to receive pleasure from one’s creativity.

4. Development of aesthetic taste, the ability to see and appreciate the beauty of the surrounding world, to convey this beauty in creative work.

5. Nurturing strong-willed personality traits: perseverance, composure, diligence, accuracy.

Purpose of the composition: the composition can be used to decorate the interior, design themed stands and corners, as an original gift.

Introduction:

Can you draw?

Absolutely - yes. It is safe to say that everyone who views this MK is a magnificent artist.

Don't believe me?

Then I'm ready to prove it to you. The non-traditional drawing technique “Grifonage” will help me with this.

Grifonage translated from French means - maranje, scribble, from (griffonner - write with scribbles, draw in a hurry), therefore the second name for this drawing technique is “Doodle”.

Many writers and scientists made quick sketches of an improvisational nature using the “Griffinage” technique in the drafts of their great creations.

Modern artists and designers create original paintings and sculptures using the Grifonage technique.

Grifonage- this is not only an unusual way of drawing, it is also an inviting mystery, an amazing riddle, an amazing intrigue. When starting to make a drawing, it is impossible to say exactly what the result will be; everything depends on the randomly drawn lines and on the imagination of the person drawing.

Where can you “go” with this drawing technique to create something bizarre, amazing, hitherto unprecedented and unknown?

That's right, you can travel to the vast expanses of the universe, plunge into the mysterious depths of the ocean, find yourself in the wild jungle or find yourself in the fairy-tale world of books.

Along with this master class, I invite you to go on an underwater journey. As a result, you will create a unique artistic composition on the theme “Secrets of the Ocean.”

Tips for preparing for the “trip”:

1. Remember what you know about the ocean and its inhabitants. Find more information about this on the Internet, look at illustrations and photographs, watch a feature film or documentary.

2. Train your imagination:

· If possible, then look at the clouds, try to guess the figures of different animals, birds, fish in them.

· You can look for different shapes in the patterns on the carpet or wallpaper.

3. Prepare music that will help create the mood appropriate for the “journey”.

4. Prepare the necessary materials and tools: 1 whole landscape sheet, 1 landscape sheet cut in half, watercolor paints, paint brushes of different thicknesses, a piece of sponge, a simple pencil, felt-tip pens, scissors, a glue stick or PVA glue.

Let's get to work

On half of the album sheet, use a simple pencil to scribble something. To do this, first draw a long line in any direction, and then “circle” freely around the paper, drawing loops and bends, intersecting the already drawn lines with new ones. At the same time, try not to lift the pencil from the paper. When you feel there are enough lines, stop. You've got a doodle.

Look carefully at the resulting scribbles. “Turn on” your imagination and look among the lines for sea animals, birds, and fish. If you can't do this and you don't see any images, turn over the sheet of paper and continue your search. On one sheet of paper you can find only one figure, or you can find several objects at once. To ensure that the images you find do not get lost among the lines, highlight them with a felt-tip pen.

I managed to spot a dolphin, a flounder, and a fish with a large tail.

Use watercolor paints to paint the figures of sea creatures.

Using a thin brush, add details: eyes, fins, scales, etc.

Think about what elements, besides fish, you will include in your future composition. Look for these elements among the remaining lines. If you find them, circle them with a felt-tip pen.

I found underwater pebbles.

Color new elements of the composition.

Take the second half of the album sheet. Draw some doodles.