With paints
A rowan branch (a drawing for children can be made using both classical and non-traditional techniques) will be painted on paper if you prepare the following:
- squirrel brush size No. 7-10;
- gouache paint;
- water;
- paper poke;
- a small piece of fabric;
- paper.
When all materials and tools are prepared, you can start drawing.
The work will take place in the following stages:
| № | Stage | Description |
| 1 | Draw a rowan branch | For this, brown gouache paint is used. The branch should start on the left side of the paper sheet, go to the right and, decreasing in thickness, end on the other side of the paper. In this case, the branch will not be straight, it should be slightly rounded, as if sagging down. Several thinner lines should extend from this branch, which should also be depicted using brown paint. |
| 2 | Draw leaves | They adorn all thin and thick brown branches. A large brush is used for this. You need to dial 2 colors at once - green and yellow. In this case, yellow paint can be on the entire brush, and green paint only on the tip. This is the unusual nature of the technique. In order not to stain the gouache in the jar, you can use a palette. Before you start directly drawing rowan leaves, you need to take into account that they are complex in this plant. Each rowan leaf consists of several smaller leaves connected in pairs. The last leaf on the branch should be 1. The entire bristle of the brush should be applied to the place where you plan to create the leaf, so that you get a multi-colored print. This technique is called “double stroke”. This is how all sheets are created. You can use other color combinations, for example: · combine yellow with orange on one brush; · use yellow with red. In these cases, you will get autumn or winter leaves. It is recommended to use all these multi-colored options to create the same picture. There may be green-yellow leaves on one branch, yellow-orange on another, and orange-red on the third. |
| 3 | Draw berries | They are red and orange berries that accumulate in clusters on the branches. The same poking technology that was used to draw the leaves is used here. It’s easy to depict bunches of rowan berries: all that is required of the artist is to make a few pokes (from 5 to 10) under each of the thin branches. The berries can be red or orange at the discretion of the artist. At the last stage, you need to put 1 small black dot on each berry. |
| 4 | Complete the missing elements | It is possible that there are empty areas somewhere that would be better filled, for example, with leaves or berries. If, after admiring his own painting, the artist feels that everything is completely ready and there is no need to add anything, he can leave the painting as is. |
Rowan bush
Rowan is not always a tree; often it does not grow tall, but remains a bush.
To draw a rowan bush, you must do the following:
- Draw trunks and large branches with a pencil. The bush should be lush.
- On the main branches, mark smaller branches.
- Label rowan bunches. They should look massive because of the snow on them.
- Trace the branches and trunks with a dark brown felt-tip pen or paint.
- Paint the bottom of the rowan bunches in red or dark orange.
- Paint the tops of the grapes white.
- Color the background gray.
- At the bottom of the sheet, draw snow in white.
If you want to draw a full-fledged tree, you must adhere to the following universal sequence:
- In the center of the sheet draw a trunk and outline the foliage. You should not press hard on the pencil; some of the lines will need to be removed when making adjustments.
- Draw the trunk and sketch out the branches of the tree in more detail.
- Draw the foliage. It is done with rounded, careless lines. If the tree is expected to stand in windy weather, it is better to tilt the foliage slightly to the side.
- Use an eraser to remove the guide line and begin detailing the wood.
- Use sloppy lines to outline the relief of the bark.
- Draw the missing tree branches.
- Increase the volume of the cortex.
- Draw leaves on all branches of the tree.
- At the bottom of the sheet, mark the ground, if desired, add grass.
- Color the trunk and branches with a dark brown pencil, paint or marker.
- Without pressing hard on the pencil, paint over the left and right parts of the tree.
- Considering that the light falls on the tree from above, mark this at the top. It should be lighter than the bottom of the tree.
- Detail the leaves and take into account that they are located randomly on the branches.
- Mark the highlights in the drawing. To do this, just use an eraser to erase in the desired areas.
When autumn ends and the number of cloudy days increases, it is good to keep children busy with drawing. Outside the window at this time you can see a rowan branch, on which, despite the low temperature and snowfall, beautiful berries grow. Creating their image will not be a boring task, it will allow you to train your fingers and will subsequently delight you with the finished beautiful picture.
