How to draw a dandelion with paints and watercolors for children?
dandelion painted with watercolor
dandelions will appeal to children and adults because they can easily mix paints and adjust the drawing at their discretion.
For example, learn a couple of techniques with:
- wax crayons
- gel pen and pencil
In the first option, on a blank sheet of paper, draw the skeleton of the future dandelion, namely a stem, leaves, flowers and/or a fluffy umbrella.
In the second - when the work is dry, draw clear lines of the stem, peduncle, buds, and umbrellas of the dandelion with a pen.
To make your work light and airy, use large salt crystals. It absorbs wet paint and leaves white spots on the canvas.
How to draw a dandelion on the wall with a sponge?
the airy part of the dandelion is painted on the wall with a sponge
Continuing the theme of home interior decoration, pay attention to the technique of painting a dandelion on the wall with a sponge. It almost completely replaces brushes and brings special lightness and volume to the drawing.
Let us note several features of creating a dandelion on the wall with a sponge:
- it acts as a drawing tool for marking the stem and umbels of seeds.
- In addition to its wide part, use the thin one and one of the corners.
- The color saturation easily changes depending on the amount of paint on it and the side that leaves the imprint on the wall.
To ensure that your drawing has clear boundaries, set them with masking tape before you pick up the drawing sponge.
Step-by-step instructions for drawing a dandelion with a pencil
The dandelion (the drawing for children over 10 years old should be detailed) should be drawn with sharply sharpened pencils so that the lines are thin and graceful. The picture shows 2 stages of flower development at once: a bud and an inflorescence with seeds. You also need to draw a plant leaf with large teeth.
Sketch
Drawing should begin by marking the contours of the flower. For this you need a hard pencil.
Procedure:
- Draw 1 vertical line from the center of the sheet from bottom to top. It should not be straight, as if drawn with a ruler. On the contrary, you need to make it smooth, slightly curving. This is the base of the dandelion stem. These flowers do not grow straight. Their stems bend from the weight of the inflorescences and take on a curved shape.
- Draw 1 more line nearby. This will be the 2nd stem for another inflorescence. It can be drawn shorter or longer than the first one. It is important that the stems at the bottom come out from 1 point, and at the top they diverge in different directions. The distance between their pinwheels should be such that the flowers drawn next do not intersect with each other.
- Draw a 3rd line on the opposite side. It should be a little shorter than the previous 2. Its top needs to be taken away from others.
- The last line drawn is the middle of the dandelion leaf. Now you need to give it a shape, marking wide teeth on both sides, as well as a sharp top.
- Above 1 line indicate the shape of a fluffy hat with seeds. This should be done with thin, intermittent strokes.
- Above the 2nd line draw the shape of an unopened bud.
A sketch helps to maintain the correct proportions and correctly position all the small details in the drawing. When creating a sketch, you should not put pressure on the pencil. The lead should barely touch the paper and leave almost imperceptible marks.
When all the details are drawn in the picture, the lines made with a hard pencil will need to be erased. If the sketch is rich and clear, it will be difficult to remove it. The result will be a messy drawing.
Detailing
All details must be drawn with a hard-soft pencil.
Procedure:
- Next to each line that imitates the shape of the stem, you need to draw 1 more parallel line. It is important that it follows all the curves. The distance between these lines should be small. They are needed to make the flower stem voluminous.
- Draw sepals on the tops of the stems. They don't have to be straight either. Let the petals bend and twist in different directions. There should be 3-4 petals on 1 sepal.
- Where the shape of the bud is indicated, you need to draw folded leaves, and at the top the protruding ends of the petals.
- There will be a cap with seeds above the 2nd stem, so first you need to draw the core of the flower. It is oval in shape and protrudes above the surface of the sepals.
- Now from this core you need to draw many small lines of different sizes. They should stick out in different directions.
- Using a hard pencil, draw fluff to the top of each line.
- Above the fluffy hat you can depict flying seeds that have calved from the flower. First, draw a line, add fluff on top, and draw an elongated seed below using a soft pencil. The seeds should fly in different directions.
- Draw veins on the leaf of the flower.
The connection of the stems below can be covered with painted grass. Remove all extra lines with an eraser.
Hatching
To make the drawing look three-dimensional, you need to depict shadows. They are applied with strokes using a soft pencil.
Procedure:
- Shade the area under the flower.
- Apply horizontal strokes to 1 side of the stem.
- Mark the shadow under the sepals.
- Darken the middle of the sheet.
Gently rub all the strokes with your fingers. To shade the pencil inside the stem, you can use a cotton swab.
What do you need for drawing?
The list of necessary tools and materials for drawing can be viewed in the table.
| Simple pencils | You need 3 pencils of different degrees of hardness: hard, soft, hard-soft. |
| Sharpener | You need to draw thin and graceful lines with sharply sharpened pencils. |
| Eraser | It is advisable to purchase a double-sided eraser with a soft and rough end to effectively remove pencil lines of different thicknesses. |
| Helium pens | They may be needed to work out small details and perform final strokes. |
| Artistic brushes | To paint plants, you need thin brushes with soft bristles, as well as medium-thick brushes with short, stiff bristles. |
You can color the drawing with paints, colored pencils, pens or felt-tip pens.
What colors do artists use to paint dandelions:
- dark green;
- light green;
- yellow;
- orange;
- white;
- grey;
- brown.
Paints have different textures, so they will look different on paper. For example, a watercolor drawing will turn out gentle, without rough lines and bright shades. The colors will merge and smoothly transition from one to another. Gouache is a brighter and thicker paint, but when it dries it becomes lighter by 2 tones.
To get rich shades, the picture is painted in 2 layers.
How to draw a dandelion on a wall step by step?
dandelions painted on the wall
If you like to experiment and decorate the interior of your home yourself, paint some flowers/fluffy dandelions on the wall.
At the preparation stage, pay special attention to the choice of brushes for painting. They should be different in the thickness of the drawing part.
Sequence of work:
- draw the outlines of the future drawing with a simple pencil, highlighting the stems and head;
- Apply paint to the stems with a thick brush;
- with a thin brush, mark the stems of the seeds on the head of the dandelion and next to it, giving the design the effect of a blowing wind;
- With the third brush, place many dots around the air head of the plant. They will be seeds that break off and fly through the air. Remember that there are more of them near the dandelion and fewer as they separate from it;
- For the aerial seeds, add thin legs and umbrellas. The rays of the latter are directed in different directions and resemble the sun;
- draw similar umbrellas on the dandelion’s head;
- Around the stems under the fluffy heads of the plant, use a thin brush to paint 4-5 s-shaped leaves.
