We are tonight in art

In the art Hello to all lovers of beauty on our beautiful community page @destasteem ! Together you are @camhir , and we are again talking about teaching drawing specifications to children.

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The last time there was an article about how I and the pupils painted parrots with colored pencils, and this time we will describe the goldfish.

The structure of the lesson will also be different. I will tell you how, initially, we drew a fish with a pencil with two girls, and then, in another lesson, we've made gouze in the same group as many kids.

Both lessons lasted an hour, though at first I wanted to divide the class and make it from two parts.

So we started with Vika and Sasha from the outline. The work with pencils is very common to them, the only thing I ask is to observe the proportions and layout.

In children aged 7-9 years, these important moments cause some difficulties, but we must pay tribute to the little students - they try to investigate them with great responsibility.

Next, I asked when building a shape to break the fish into segments, explaining to them the anatomy of his body. There is a separate body, head with big eyes, fins and tail.

Once done with the construction, we start inserting the colors in the image. I suggest starting with a light tone, gradually introducing a darker gradation. Originally yellow, orange, red. The shadow area can be made brown or burgundy, and the tip of the fin - gray or greenish

Difficulties for students appear only when it is necessary to give fish a round shape. I try to explain that everything is done in the direction of hatching and distribution of the correct part according to the light-semitone-shadow-refllex formula.

We try, as I say, for one lesson. The children took their fish, and two days later I got a lesson in another group, and there I decided to offer to do the same, but with gusto.

I have to say that children already know how to work as a solid gouache in my group, because we have some lessons in this technique. In fact, there is now a kind of test I do when I want to know how well the students have learned the lesson before.

We started with the fact that I hung on my board the pictures of the fish we painted with Vika and Sasha the day before. There, on the board, I drew a marker and explained the essence of the structure.

Then we were with the students wearing a few color palettes, which we had to work on. The image of the fish has been divided into several segments, then we will "fill it" each with its own color.

The children quickly understood the essence of the task, because I immediately began to explain what and what we did. In the group, I have two students around the same age as the previous two days. To small artists we will help by example, especially since the tables are placed in a tight circle with each other, and are not forbidden to spy on.

Working with gouache patches is easier than pencil, especially when the boundaries of the area in the picture are shown. Gradually, it all moved towards the end and I was even surprised that we finished drawing ahead of time for lessons.

Then I propose to describe the environment, the truth is an important point: if we paint water divorce, the fish will disappear with a blue background, so I ask the children just close the seaweed and let the water color transparent

Our fish is ready! Judging by the reactions of the students themselves, they were very fond of the work and the lessons were unanimously recognized as successful. Traditionally I made a small "briefing" and explained some important points in the process of working the children do not fully understand.

In the future I will try to document other lessons to be published in the future. After all, we are usually not limited to colored and gouache pencils. In our program there are works in watercolors, simple pencils, pastels and even optimists. Follow the community news and be sure to comment!

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Regards

by @destasteem