Drawing with cotton swabs. Technique of drawing with cotton swabs

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Q-tips, it turns out, can be used not only for their intended purpose. With their help, you can also draw, and in the process of creativity, develop children, memorize colors, introduce kids to nature, develop fine motor skills, enrich the child’s vocabulary, and many more useful functions are performed by this simple hygiene item. But first things first.

Unconventional drawing

In order to arouse interest in drawing in children, it is necessary to turn this process into a game or a fairy tale. At first, the child draws with pleasure with his fingers, then with pencils and brushes. Time passes, and interest in drawing is lost.

To encourage children to create, you can offer them non-traditional drawing techniques. In such cases, it is allowed to draw what you want and how you want.

But adults always direct the child in some direction, so they can offer him certain types of drawing. For example, blotting, the basis of which is a sheet of paper folded in half and a few drops of paint. Or drawing with a candle when first on paperan invisible pattern is applied, and then the child covers the sheet with paint. The contours of the pattern remain colorless. Or drawing with cotton swabs.

Pointillism

Drawing with cotton swabs can be called one of the types of pointillism.

Pointillism is a unique trend in painting, which in French means “to write in dots”. Pictures of this plan were written by many artists. For example, paintings by Georges Seurat are recognized as masterpieces. He is considered the founder of this technique.

Drawing with cotton buds is a very unusual technique, interesting not only for younger students, but also for kids who are just getting acquainted with various tools for painting.

Pointillism for a child

Children usually welcome the technique of drawing with cotton swabs, since you can create the same picture in completely different ways.

1. When working, you can take a template as a basis and fill in all the details of the picture with dots of a certain color.
2. You can not fill the entire drawing, but make multi-colored dots only the outline of the details.
3. It's fun to add dots to ready-made drawings and templates. This option is especially convenient for very young artists: when mom suggests drawing eyes to some animal or people, and it’s also interesting to create snow or rain with cotton swabs.
4. School-age children can be encouraged to create more complex work, for example, reproduce a mosaic picture.

Drawing with cotton swabs forbeginners

Children aged 1 to 3 years are much easier to draw with sticks than with a brush. In order to interest the baby, you must first show him how to draw a beautiful line or put a dot, then another one, and then another color.

For the first lesson, you will need the following inventory:

• paints for drawing, for example, finger paint or regular gouache, if there is no fear that the child will pull the paint into his mouth;
• paper;
• templates with black-and-white drawings or thematic pictures on which you want to finish something;
• lots of cotton swabs;
• palette.

A plastic palette is useful in order to prevent a child from having a whole jar of paint at his disposal. Very often, children have a desire to use such an abundance of material for other purposes. On the palette, it is convenient to dilute paints of several colors with water and put your wand next to each. After everything is ready, you can start drawing pictures with cotton swabs on some interesting topic.

It is better to think over the topic of the upcoming lesson in advance, choose suitable rhymes or riddles. Don't neglect finger play in the middle of drawing because toddlers 1 to 3 are often distracted. And they need a constant change of activity.

Pointillism for preschoolers

In working with preschoolers, it is worth paying attention to the story about the pointillism technique itself. It is necessary to provide the minimum information thata drawing is created using separate strokes or dots of different colors.

It is advisable to prepare a few paintings created using the pointillism technique, to show them to the child in order to arouse deeper interest.

It is important that paints cannot be mixed together when creating a picture. In this case, the distance from one point to another can be large, or, on the contrary, you can place the points close to each other.

If you wish, in the future it is not necessary to use paints for drawing pictures using the pointillism technique, you can replace cotton swabs with markers, pens or felt-tip pens.

Age nuances

There are various secrets and nuances in each drawing technique. Pointillism is no exception. There are some points that you should focus on in order to get the most satisfactory result.

1. For babies in the first lessons, it is better to offer only one color of paint. Pictures should be chosen as simple as possible: sun, apple or snow, rain.
2. Older children are given tasks more difficult. The number of colors is increasing. This will allow young artists to express their imagination.
3. And older students can try themselves as artists, creating whole paintings in the technique of pointillism.

An example of one of the classes - "A branch of mountain ash"

Drawing rowan with cotton buds is an activity that can be done both in kindergarten groups and with children at home. It is aimed at introducing children to a new drawing technique, as well as callingthey have an interest in nature.

At the lesson, the child will learn how to draw a bunch of mountain ash using the pointillism technique.

You will need the following equipment for this activity:

• bunch of mountain ash (picture or real);
• red paint (gouache or finger paint);
• templates with the image of a twig;
• silhouettes of bullfinches.

Progress of the lesson.

1. A riddle is made: “In winter, there are apples on the branches! Collect them quickly! And suddenly the apples fluttered, because they are … (Bullfinches)”.
2. Bullfinches came to visit the children. Bullfinches arrive at the end of autumn, at the beginning of winter, so it is appropriate to talk about changes in nature during these seasons: leaves fly from trees, birds fly to warmer climes, berries ripen on some trees, for example, on mountain ash.
3. It is necessary to consider a rowan branch. Introduce a new word "brush": there are a lot of berries, they are all very close to each other. The concept of the “circle” shape is also repeated and the knowledge of the red color is consolidated.
4. Show the blanks to the children and say that there was a problem. A strong wind came up, and all the rowan berries fell off. And the guests were very upset. Invite the children to please their feathered friends and draw them a new treat.
5. The drawing technique is described. Be sure to spell out the sequence of actions: first, the stick is wetted in water, then lowered into the paint, only after that we put a dot-berry on the template.
6. Drawing with cotton swabs the picture "Sprig of rowan".



7. Physical minutes are held during the lessonBullfinches.

   Bullfinches fly, flap their wings.

   They can't sit still, Spin like a top

   Jump - jump, jump - jump.

   Let's fly for lunch, But all around is snow and snow.

   Good thing im a feeder, Made a kind person!