Abstract of GCD of artistic and aesthetic development. Drawing “Late Autumn”.

How to draw autumn with gouache

It’s hard to imagine children’s creativity without gouache drawings. The advantage of gouache is that it allows you to highlight additional details on top of the main background.

To work you need to prepare

• album sheet,
• gouache,
• brushes,
• a glass of clean water.

This master class will help you master the art of displaying the beauty of autumn nature on paper.

1. The first step is to draw a horizon line using blue paint. Paint the sky blue too: make the upper part a darker shade.
2. The rest of the background should be painted in a soft blue color. This will be a river.
3. In the upper part of the sheet, use round strokes to mark white clouds.
4. At the bottom and in the middle, paint the ground with brown and yellow, leaving a blue stripe of the river in the middle.
5. Draw the trees in dark brown.
6. Draw the reflection of the trees on the surface of the river.
7. Draw autumn leaves on the trees. Apply paint in dotted strokes.
8. Gouache makes it possible to create a bright multi-layered drawing. Therefore, the crowns of autumn trees can be made in two shades, combining yellow with red, orange or brown.
9. Trees can also be drawn in the foreground. A bright green spot can indicate a Christmas tree.
10. Against the background of the river, mark the ripples with thin white strokes.

Gouache creations

Step-by-step instructions for children:

1. Draw a blue horizontal ruler just below the middle of the sheet.
2. On top of it there is a sky of the same shade, darkening towards the top, with white clouds.
3. Below the main feature a pale blue river flows.
4. Closer to the edge, the earth is drawn in yellowish and brown colors.
5. Dark brown trees are reflected in the water surface with ripples.

Foliage in red, burgundy, and orange tones is scattered on them, emphasizing the naturalistic autumn color, but the spruce will act as a greenish accent.

Watercolor

A sketch that includes several trees and a small village house will help you draw autumn step by step.

Execution order:

1. On the central hill we place the main object - a large tree. Elevation will allow you to present the foreground and background in a new way.
2. Fill the sky with an uneven background.
3. In the same way, distant plantings characterized by blurriness are designed.
4. Now the grass and bushes in the background stand out. Tall specimens are darker than grass.
5. The house is accentuated by the light color of the nearby tree, which attracts attention. We add windows and a roof to it.
6. We add volume to the central elements by playing with chiaroscuro.
7. We draw a winding path and add some crimson to the bushes.
8. Using strokes we highlight the color tints of the crowns.
9. Using warm shades we accentuate the background; it has pronounced detail.

The picture needs to be dried and individual details drawn with colored pencils. The final step is checkmark birds flying to warm countries.

Ideas for kids

Sketches can look like mushrooms in a basket, or a vegetable still life. Toddlers will especially enjoy working with prints. Their small palm, printed on paper, will appear as a tree on which they will place numerous colored leaf dots with cotton swabs. They also operate with an ordinary toothbrush.

• The leaf blades of acacia, ash, birch, and maple have a diverse configuration and color. They are outlined and painted, repeating the characteristic veins and patterns.
• After covering with paint, the samples are applied to the painted pot, obtaining a believable bouquet, to which it is easy to attach an image of fruits - acorns, chestnuts, rose hips, a bunch of rowan berries “blazing” with fire.

The overlay method is the answer to the question of how to draw autumn easily and quickly. This way you can depict a real multi-colored forest by painting on the tree trunks and sprinkling an orange scattering of droplets from below.

In the same way, they recreate a whole armful of leaves on the territory of the park, over which birds fly in a flock, and if the adults reproduce a girl’s face, the children will happily imitate the hair of an autumn girl with leaf prints.

In addition to the aesthetic pleasure of creativity, children learn to understand types of vegetation, which will undoubtedly benefit them.

The simplest options

Young artists are able to depict the sad natural season.

Master class for beginners step by step with a pencil:

1. The paper canvas is divided by the horizon line.
2. The foreground will be occupied by trees whose dark, as if saturated with moisture, trunks have different thicknesses and are located with a slight slope. Their bases are slightly wavy.
3. Next, a river with an uneven bank is identified.
4. Tree branches, bushes, grass and fallen leaves are drawn in the coastal area.
5. Shade the trunk shadow.
6. The background has a blurred appearance associated with dampness and cloudiness.
7. The sky is filled with heavy clouds.
8. A flock of birds flying away for the winter will add to the realism.

The pencil technique conveys light and shade and the three-dimensionality of objects, and errors are corrected with an eraser. Instead of a river, a road in a park alley may be shown, narrowing into the distance, a lonely figure wandering along it, lanterns on the side of the road.

• Having sketched the sketch, trace the contours with a felt-tip pen.
• The crowns are yellow, shaded on one side with a light brown pencil.
• The green spot represents the ground and fir trees.
• Give color to the human silhouette.

When thinking about how to draw autumn with a pencil, they turn to their own subjects or copy from the base.

An interesting idea - an umbrella forgotten on a bench.

1. The legs of the bench are drawn at an angle.
2. On the open dome there are knitting needles and a handle.
3. Puddles and leaves on the asphalt are drawn with strokes.
4. You can add oblique lines of a rainfall.

It turns out to be a very nostalgic picture.

What is the beauty of autumn?

Autumn is a wonderful time of year, representing calm and preparation of the surrounding weather for winter. Fall of colorful leaves, the ground covered with old robes of trees, a rich harvest of ripe berries, fruits and vegetables, warm but no longer scorching sun - real autumn weather, painted with rich and noble colors.

And if the autumn season inspires adults with peace of mind, pleasant chores of harvesting and active recreation in nature, then a playful form will help to attract the child to complete the task. As an option: collecting leaves to create a herbarium, active recreation, sports games (football, basketball), competition for the best drawing.

Extraordinary picture

A suggestion on how to beautifully draw a landscape of a non-standard nature.

1. In the upper left corner, a circle is applied with white paint, then, adding blue, we continue to make circular movements with the brush, expanding the coverage area, switching to a blue gradient.
2. Having marked the horizon, we paint the bottom dark blue, and in the center we draw a dark green island with blurred edges.
3. Using a thin black brush we depict a tree with branched branches and roots.
4. We decorate the leafy cap with a sponge in a reddish color scheme, with an elongated trajectory covering the moon.
5. On top of the intricate crown there are additional strokes of yellow color, resulting in snow-white.
6. We highlight the lunar disk in relief, chaotically draw falling leaves, and spray stars at the top.