Usually, all attempts to introduce children to the visual arts come down to boring pencil drawings in the album. Children are often not interested in doing the same thing every time. In this workshop I will show you how to diversify and make drawing lessons memorable with young children, even the smallest!
Science and washable paints will help us. We will draw real masterpieces with simple concentric circles!
These children's drawings will look on the wall like real art canvases! Let's get started.
Step 1: Installing
There are many ways to make an installation for this type of drawing. We just need a stable stand for the pendulum, which will be dosed to spray paint on canvas or paper.
I made my stand out of wood. It consists of the following parts:
- Two slats 2x4 inches, 60 cm long
- Four slats 2x2 inches, 20 cm long
- One rod 75 cm long
- Screws and thread.
You can make supports from PVC tubes or cardboard boxes using a rod from a roll of paper towels as a rod. In general, this is a matter of creativity! This, after all, is an art :)
Step 2: what you need to draw
I used a couple of soft bottles with a narrow nose, filled them with tempera - washable, safe for children paint. These bottles will be used as applicators for applying paint to the sheet. I diluted a little paint with water to get a thinner consistency.
I used a square cut of the prepared canvas. It will lie on the floor (or other surface where the stand will stand), and we will drip paints on this canvas. You can use a stack of cardboard or a poster board - everything you want to outline :)
Step 3: Preparation
I drilled a small hole in the rod, where I will sell the thread with the paint applicator. This will be the pendulum.
Next, I cut the bottom of a soft plastic bottle, and made two small holes in the wall of the bottle, at a distance of 1 cm from the cut edge, opposite each other. A thread will thread through these two holes.
Cut off the tip to make a thicker hole for the outflow of paint.We made the paint thinner with water, so that it should flow out without any problems. I closed the paint hole with a lid so that it would not leak out ahead of time.
Step 4: Loosen the pendulum and look at the result!
I moved the pendulum in a circle to get compositions from concentric circles. And the effect that this technique creates is simply amazing!
I hope you enjoyed it!