What is unconventional painting?
Non-traditional drawing are alternative ways of creating drawings that do not require the use of brushes or pencils at all. Its advantage is that the child's fantasy is not limited by any framework.
Drawing has a beneficial effect on the fine motor skills of the child, as well as on the visual-motor memory. In the process of using different techniques, the imagination develops very well. Plus, non-traditional drawing can be a great positive hobby for the whole family, keeping parents and children close.
Hand drawing
A technique suitable even for very young children. To create a picture, you only need paints and your own hands. The child dips his palms in paint and applies it to paper, getting various interesting pictures.
Attention! To draw in this technique, you need to buy special finger paints. Plain gouache or watercolors can harm your baby's health.
Sponge painting
In this technique, you need to use a regular dishwashing sponge or just a piece of foam rubber as tools. With its help, you can create backgrounds for future paintings.
Splashing
Paints are applied to the paper using a toothbrush and a comb (preferably with fine teeth). The child draws paint on the tips of the brush, holds the comb over the paper and gently runs the brush over it with the bristles. As a result, splashes will fly over the paper. So you can depict fireworks, stars, etc.
This technique requires some coordination, so it is more suitable for children from 6 years old.
Bitmap
Colored dots are applied to the paper using ordinary cotton swabs (or toothpicks with cotton wool). Thus, you can not only create a beautiful ornament from scratch, but also decorate an already finished image.
Drawing on wet paper
This technique requires heavy paper and watercolor. The sheet needs to be wetted so that it is damp but not wet. A light brush stroke will spread by 2-3 centimeters, so you don't need to press on the paper. With this method, you can paint very beautiful backgrounds for other images.
Seals from improvised means
Figurines made of cardboard or plasticine, halves of apples and autumn leaves - all these objects can become tools for a young artist. To do this, they need to be dipped in paint and imprinted on paper. This way you can get a ready-made silhouette of almost any object. And then, if you wish, finish drawing what you want with a brush or pencil.
Monotype
A drawing is applied to half a sheet of paper, after which it is folded in half. Thus, on the second half of the sheet, the image is repeated like a reflection in a mirror (for example, a butterfly or a leaf of a tree). Thus, you can demonstrate to children what symmetry is.
Voskography (scratchboard)
A sheet of paper or cardboard is painted over with colored wax crayons, and then covered with a layer of black gouache. As soon as it dries on the sheet, you can start creating.
In this technique, the picture is scraped out using an empty rod from a pen, pencil, or clerical knife. Therefore, it is suitable for older children from 5-7 years old.
