{"id":26136,"date":"2023-06-16T11:13:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nazarevich-art.com\/art-therapy\/creative-workshop-five-steps-to-painting-mastery-3\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T11:13:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:13:06","slug":"creative-workshop-five-steps-to-painting-mastery-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nazarevich-art.com\/en\/creative-workshop-five-steps-to-painting-mastery-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Workshop: Five Steps to \u201cPainting Mastery\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1 “Manual” technique
As soon as the baby learns how to sit properly, you can invite him to paint with finger paints. Is it not working? This means that the child is not yet attracted to this activity. Some kids, by the way, do not like to draw in the bathroom. Wait a month or two and start painting “adult” – at the table, with a real palette. If there is no palette, then you can spread the paint on the sheet with a spoon. And the process will go on: the young artist will dip his fingers into the paint and smear it on a sheet of paper (and not only on the sheet, but also beyond its borders). He will learn to mix paints, will visually memorize colors, and at the same time their names (you should pronounce this).
2 “Adult” painting
Finger paints can also be used for brush painting. True, the kids, as a rule, do not have enough patience with this technique for a short time – for about ten minutes. When he tries to paint with a brush on paper, he must also show how to hold the sheet with his other hand so that it does not slip.
The process of rinsing the brush captivates the baby so much that he sometimes even forgets about the drawing itself. The young artist looks at the multi-colored water in a glass, trying to understand how a \u201cgray-brown-crimson\u201d solution is obtained from red, yellow, blue colors. He picks up the paint on the brush and immediately washes it off. Don’t worry, things will change soon!
3 Coloring
This is the most exciting “interactive” course for the baby: the mother draws primitive, but easily guessed contours – “bunnies”, “cats”, “dogs” and other animals already known to the baby, and he actively covers everything up. To the “coloring” bought in the store, the baby is unlikely to show such interest!
Observing the process of drawing simple images of objects and animals, the child acquires a general idea of \u200b\u200bwhat drawing is and how to draw.
Palette But a child of one and a half or two years old cannot draw yet – even \u201cprimitively\u201d. At this stage, fill the palette with a small amount of paint. Add it as you spend it, otherwise you will get a motley \u201cporridge\u201d on the sheet and on the palette, all the colors will simply mix up.
Brush The child not only does not draw paint into his mouth, but also does not want to get his fingers dirty? Give him a thick brush. In small jars, dilute the gouache thinner – for starters, one or two jars of paint are enough for one “session” of drawing.
“Spill-proof” A plastic cup with a special nozzle with a slot for a brush is a very useful thing: the baby will not spill water and will learn to wash the brush.
Stamp printing If it is still difficult for a child to master a brush, do not return to drawing by hand. Offer him a seal. Children’s prints can be bought and made with your own hands. Take a thick, even carrot and cut it into circles – here are the tools and ready: dip in paint and put an imprint on paper. If you cut out triangles, squares, stars, flowers and other shapes from carrots (by the way, potatoes are also suitable), it will be even more interesting for the baby to stamp. In addition, he will learn to recognize not only color, but also a more complex shape.
4 Plots
You taught your child how to hold a brush and how to use it correctly. (Depending on the perseverance of the child, this skill usually develops by the age of two or three.) Now you can draw “real” pictures. Let’s draw autumn.
Rain “What happens in autumn?” – we ask the young master, and if he still cannot answer, we say ourselves: \u201cIt rains in autumn, leaves fall in autumn.\u201d And then we offer: \u201cLet’s draw rain! How does he drip? Show me your finger! Like this: \u201cdrip-drip\u201d (on the palm of your hand). Dip the brush in the paint and draw droplets. What color is the rain? Surely you will choose the blue color, and then blue specks will remain on the sheet from the touch of the brush. The whole leaf is evenly dotted with these drops – the rain is falling everywhere, and there is a lot of it!
Falling leaves We draw it like rain – with the only difference that it is not drops of the same (blue) color that \u201cfall\u201d, but multi-colored autumn \u201cleaves\u201d: red, green, yellow, and even in the palette how many colors can be mixed and get different shades!
5 Creative freedom
Now that we have taught the child the basics of handling a brush and paints, it’s time to give him the opportunity to show his creative abilities. There are many interesting techniques based on the fact that you don\u2019t need to specifically teach children to draw – let them do everything themselves: come up with plots, choose the color and size of the brush. We only need to guide them a little. This childhood experience will not be in vain: a sense of color and harmony will develop, the child will experience the incomparable joy of creativity – something that will remain when he becomes an adult. But as for such important qualities as patience and the ability to concentrate, we need to purposefully educate them in our children.
In any case, it will be useful to him both in kindergarten and at school. You can draw, of course, not only with finger paints or gouache, but also with pencils, as well as markers, ordinary thin or washable felt-tip pens, pastel or wax crayons – whoever likes what more. The choice of technique is also the prerogative of a small artist. But children still have to follow certain rules: for example, you can\u2019t put your elbows on the drawing, run around the apartment with dirty hands and stain things with paints, immediately after drawing you need to wash brushes and jars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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