Blots for children. Blotography
Blotography is a painting technique based on spontaneous spots and splashes.
It can be used for various purposes.
- To create decorative backgrounds (in postcards, for example)
- For fantasy exercises
- For art therapy - pulling out images of a problem from the subconscious and transforming them
- To create works of art.
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I’ll tell you about the last point another time, but for now let’s try what blotography is.
Materials:
In order to do blotting, you need paper. Lots of paper. For the process captures, and I want to “tarnish” as much space as possible. Therefore, take a simpler pile of paper - gray for writing or white for a printer.
Still need ink or ink. If they don't exist, they will fit. watercolor paints. Let's take a bigger brush. Even a paint brush will do.
Workspace preparation:
Before starting the process, cover the surface of the table with newspapers or film. Perhaps everything around will also have to be covered so that the spray flying in all directions does not stain the interior. It would be nice to protect your clothes with an apron - the mascara is practically not washed off.
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Blotography, technique for creating blots:
Now that everything is ready, you can start to fall into madness. 🙂
- Pick up the ink on the brush and shake it onto paper to make blots. Beauty?
You can impulsively move your hand over the paper, you can just drip ink, you can tilt the sheet so that the ink flows in different directions. And you can also blow on drops of paint, and they will spread in beautiful streaks. To do this, it is convenient to take a cocktail straw.
Here are a couple of stains that I got.
The first one reminds me of a flower. And the second causes some unpleasant associations with internal organs... True, it still looks like a bean with a sprout ...
I suggest that you also play mindlessly with your blots. This is exactly what was forbidden in childhood. And now we are adults and we can afford to fool around a little and fall into madness ... 🙂
Let go of your hand and let her paint whatever she wants. Let the subconscious, through the movements of the body, throw out what it needs.
Spontaneous splashes and “inflated” blots, of course, have little to do with the work of the subconscious, but they adorn the graphic sheet well. So try both. IN different options, and on the same sheet at the same time.
So, what is next?
- After you play enough, take a break, looking at the work. Choose the ones that tell you something or represent interesting compositions from spots.
- Now you can turn on your imagination and complete the paintings with a few neat strokes.
Here's what happened to me.
The second work with the “organ” I first revived with a flower sprouting from a seed. The result was still not pleasing, and therefore I shaded the black and white image with color. This is perfectly acceptable on the chart.
This picture clearly bears an art-therapeutic orientation.
Such works are important not for their artistic side, but for what they mean to us personally. They require us to make adjustments to them until we are satisfied with the changes that have taken place in them. Thus, we kind of give our subconscious a way to solve the problem.
But the picture with a flower was important precisely as a pictorial motif. I finalized it by drawing a flower stem, stamens, a caddisfly. This one can also be hung on the wall. 🙂
I hope that you have a similar way of creating graphic images will be to your liking. After all, they have something that attracts attention so much - the energy of movement, the play of spontaneity and awareness.
The blot technique can be successfully used to create a completely artwork. Such as we do on the course “Watercolor Fantasies”:
The watercolor technique includes many different techniques that awaken your imagination and help your inner Artist to open up.
I want you to try your hand at watercolor and love this wonderful medium.
Therefore, I offer you
Lydia Genyush
Master- the class is designed for parents and educators, as well as children preschool age- from 3 to 6 years.
Purpose master class:
In our time, a rather non-standard look has become widespread visual activity – blotography. Blotography is drawing applied to paper randomly blots to a recognizable artistic image.
Non-traditional forms of drawing are of great interest to children. Especially clackography t. to. usually for blots we make a remark, and when using this method on the contrary, praise.
Doing blots(black and multi-colored) and looking at them, already a 3-year-old child can see images, objects or individual details. "What does it look like?", "Who does she remind you of?"- such questions develop thinking and imagination.
Blotography- This great way have fun and usefully spend time, experiment with colors, create unusual images. Inflating blots it is impossible to predict exactly how they will disperse, overflow into each other, and what the final result will be. This activity will be interesting for both adults and children. And not only interesting, but also healthy: for example, as articulatory gymnastics. Also drawing blowing through a straw improves the health and strength of the lungs and respiratory system (which is especially useful for coughing).
It should be noted that with this type drawing well, it turns out, depict various trees (intricate trunks, branches, etc. are obtained). Try it, you will like the result!
Target: Getting to know the display method such as blotography to show its expressive possibilities.
Tasks:
Generate interest in "revitalization" unusual shapes (blot, learn draw the details of objects(blot, to give them completeness and resemblance to real images; to learn to see the unusual in the ordinary;
Develop creative thinking, flexibility of thinking, perception, imagination, fantasy, interest in creative activity; cultivate care in painting with paints.
Work materials:
Album sheets;
Gouache or watercolor;
Large brush or you can use a pipette;
Straw for drinks;
Water in a jar;
Wet cloth - wipe your hands if they get dirty;
Cotton buds;
Plasticine;
- markers.
GCD progress:
organizational part.
caregiver: Guys, do you know what blot?
Children's answers.
caregiver: A blot is a trace, spot left by paint. Blot may be the way drawing.
The teacher offers the attention of the children several ready-made drawings made by the technique blotography.
Children practice on an additional sheet of paper with one color.
Physical education minute "Children like paint»
So we took the paints in our hands, (Close the hands in "lock", rotary movements round)
And there was no boredom in the house.
To make it more fun (clapping hands)
Don't skimp on bright colors!
This is true! (Stand up, jerking hands in front of chest)
Well, what is there to hide?
Children love, love very much paint! (Turns of the body to the left and right of the hand on the belt)
And in the tram on the window!
What kind of animal is this (Hands on the belt, torso tilt forward)
Many legs, one head?
Whether the animal is a shrimp, (Jumping in place)
Is it the queue at the stall?
This is true! (clap you hands)
Well, what is there to hide?
Children love, love very much paint! (Jumping in place)
On paper, on asphalt, on the wall
And in the tram on the window! (clapping hands) (E. Uspensky)
Blotography can be combined with different technicians visual arts, such as monotype, appliqué and others. Some of them are presented in this master class.
This way drawing« blots» can be used with children 3-4 years and older.
We dip the brush into the diluted paint and splatter on a sheet of paper. The thicker the paint, the richer the color, but the more difficult it is to blow out.
We take a tube and blow through it on multi-colored drops of paint, they turn into blots. In this case, a sheet of paper can be rotated - blots become even more interesting!
Blotography using cotton swabs
Using a large brush, set blot in the corner of the sheet.
With the help of a tube, we inflate the paint in different directions. It turned out such a tree!
After a little thought, this tree reminded me of a mountain ash growing alone on a slope. With cotton swabs paint on the berries.
It was about such a mountain ash, perhaps, that she wrote a poem "Rowan" Irina Tokmakova.
red berry
The rowan gave me.
I thought it was sweet
And she is like a hen.
Is this berry
Just not mature
Is it a sly mountain ash
Want to play a joke?
Blotography using a felt-tip pen
As in previous works, we set blot and blow out the trunk and branches with a tube. And what kind of tree is this? Of course, pine!
With the help of green felt-tip pens draw needles.
Over the yellow scree of the cliff
The old pine bent
Bare roots fearfully
She leads the wind. (Timofey Belozerov)
Having decorated all the branches with lush needles, we proceed to the design of the clearing around the pine. Apply blots green and inflate with a straw. We got flower stalks!
Finishing leaves and flowers on stalks - dandelions. Now a lonely pine tree is not at all bored!
Blotography + plasticineography
With the help of plasticine we create a marine bottom: we sculpt bright fish and pebbles.
But what is missing in this picture? Of course, seaweed! By using magic blots and tubules appear and sea grass! blots are located between the pebbles, and if the paint slightly goes on the plasticine, it's okay, you can easily wipe it with a cloth and the work will not be spoiled.
Why not the seabed! Finishing bubbles and drawing is ready!
The fish was chasing the fish
The fish wagged its tail
Poked in the abdomen - Caught up!
Hey girlfriend! How are you? (T. Vtorova)
And this way drawing suitable for older children (5 – 7 years old). We collect the paint on the brush and sprinkle it on a sheet of paper. Blow out with a tube magic blots. And now the most crucial moment - you need to turn on your imagination!
In each blot
Someone is there
If in blot
Get in with a brush.
In this blot -
cat with a tail,
Under the tail
River with a bridge
On Bridge -
A weirdo with a weirdo.
Under the bridge -
Pike perch with perch.
The drawing needs to be considered from different angles, and only then draw individual details to make the image more recognizable.
Blotography + monotopy
The background is prepared in advance with techniques - monotopy.
Apply to the dried layer blots different color and blown out with a tube.
Here is just a small part of what can be done with « magic blots» - blotography. And with what else technicians fine arts can be combined blotting- it will tell your imagination!
Summary of NOD.
The teacher, together with the children, examine the work, draw up an exhibition.
About the benefits of Pencil and Brush
(excerpt)
…. Inkblot brush for laughter
We put - that's a hindrance!
This blot is very angry:
- I'm not good enough to be a blob,
I won't blot is prose,
I will be a chamomile or a rose.
N. Alekseevskaya.
Watercolor technique is one of the most "rich" for all kinds of special effects. Watercolor is very often used in decorative painting such as when creating illustrations for books and magazines. Here the artist's imagination is not limited to observations from real life. Clear, documentary sketches can meet with unsteady blurry images, like a dream with reality.
The ways in which decorative works are created can seem as unusual as the result. Drawings are sprinkled with salt, sprinkled with paint or clean water, wrinkle and scratch the paper.
From the side it may seem that the artist is playing and playing. But such watercolor games allow you to achieve interesting and even unexpected effects.
We put blots
As you know, painting with watercolor is not easy. It's very easy to ruin a drawing - a random drop of paint in the wrong place, and you can start over. And what happens if you put blots on purpose? Light colored splashes can diversify the background and even complement the composition of the picture. So just a good watercolor turns into a unique author's work. The secret of decorativeness is in harmoniously matched colors.
However, blots can also be made with clean water on a drawing that has not yet dried up. There will be characteristic blurry traces that will make the texture of objects more interesting.
Learning to splash is easy. It is enough to draw paint on a brush, and then at a short distance from the paper, tap it on another brush or pencil.
The resulting drops can be left to dry, or you can play with them further. If you lift the sheet on one side, the paint will begin to drain, leaving color tracks. And if you sprinkle it with water from a spray bottle, then creeping spots will create intricate patterns. It is difficult to predict the result, you need to try.
Lisa, Megan Ashward pour salt
Unexpectedly, but true: if you sprinkle a wet watercolor with salt, then the salt seems to disperse the paint in different directions. Light stars and colored smudges are formed. The effect is more noticeable, the larger the salt crystals. Salt makes sense to pour on wet paper when the paint has not yet been absorbed. And after the pattern has dried, the crystals can be gently shaken off.
It is not necessary to sprinkle salt on the entire work. Sometimes this technique is used for individual fragments of the picture in order to focus on them.
Waxing
Wax is used in various painting techniques in order to leave part of the work surface unpainted. Often used in batik, this technique is well suited for watercolor. You need to take a piece of white wax and rub it on a sheet of textured paper. Next, you can safely do a color fill. After the paint has dried, the wax can be easily removed with a dull knife.
Wax rubbed like blank paper, and pre-toned. The more textured its structure, the more interesting the effect. Ripples on the water, old and worn surfaces, light clouds - all this can be depicted in a naturalistic way with the help of wax.
crumpling paper
At school, they scolded for crumpled drawings. But in fact, drawing on a crumpled sheet is a decorative artistic technique.
The work done in this way is covered with a network of small cracks, like an old fresco. ?
How to "spoil" the paper?
To do this, take a not very dense sheet, firmly crush it into a ball and straighten it. The desired creases appear. To make them clearer, the sheet is primed with a light shade of a suitable color. After the paper has completely dried, it must be smoothed out well and glued onto the cardboard, bending and gluing the edges - pull the sheet onto the cardboard base. To do this, a piece of cardboard should be slightly smaller than the prepared paper. And then - paint with watercolors, as usual.
Scratching the drawing
A sheet of paper can not only be wrinkled, but also scratched. Preliminary drawing is most often done in pencil. But you can gently push it with an awl or a breadboard knife. Hardly noticeable at first, the applied lines will appear after filling with paint.
The bark of trees, the veins on the leaves, the feathers and hairs of animals, the details of buildings - all this looks more elegant when it is scratched in advance, and not traced with a thin brush.
The punching technique is often used for small illustrations.
All these artistic tricks have one thing in common - you can never predict exactly what the result will be. The main thing is to dare to try and experiment. Or maybe you will come up with your own decorative technique?
You can learn about these and other methods of working with watercolor in the course "Fruits in Watercolor".
This article completes a series of articles about watercolor. Previous publications:
Recently, we analyzed seven simple watercolor painting techniques, and if you have mastered them, then it's time to move on to something more complex and interesting. Today we're going to look at six more interesting techniques that will help you create your own masterpiece.
Spray
We wetted the bottom of the paper to see what happens.
This technique is quite simple. Just fill the brush with paint and start tapping the bristles of the brush on your finger so that the splashes scatter randomly
If your brush is too wet, it will be difficult for you to control the spray. Therefore, shake off a few drops from it, and only then get to work.
If you don't like hitting your fingers with your brush, you can use any handy tool, a pen, for example.
Before we start splattering our paint, let's put the pieces of paper in upper corner our canvas.
We also wet the bottom edge of the sheet with clean water and tinted it with a light purple color.
Look for an old toothbrush, rinse it, and remove any remaining toothpaste. And get ready for the mess.
There are several ways to get paint on your toothbrush. You can dip it in paint, it's very difficult to fill the bristles with paint that way. You can try filling your toothbrush with a brush. This way you can control the amount of paint.
Take your toothbrush and run your thumb over the bristles. You can also use improvised means. Choose a tool with which you will be comfortable spraying paint from the bristles. Notice how the speed of the movements and the distance of the brush from the paper affect the atomization of the paint.
When you want to spray a different color paint, give your toothbrush a good rinse and dry it with a towel.
Don't worry if you don't do this technique as well as you would like. Practice and you will succeed.
As you can see, it turns out quite an interesting effect. Use the tools at hand that you have, use your imagination and get creative with drawing.
Sgraffito and stamps
Sgraffito is an Italian term that refers to the scraping technique associated with abrading the top coat of a pottery to expose the underlying layers.
In the example, we scraped off the paint with a penknife. If you scrape off the paint that has not yet dried, which has soaked deep into the paper, you will get dark lines.
If used wisely, this technique can create interesting landscapes by scraping out the shapes of trees and other flora.
You can use old credit cards to scrape off the paint. With a smooth side card, you can sweep away paint residue.
Many brushes have a pointed edge. You can use these brushes to create thin lines.
It is very important to understand after what interval you need to start scraping. Practice on a separate sheet of the same paper and with the same paints.
A stamp is the application of paint by pressing other objects onto paper. You can choose any material in order to create stamps. Try everything that comes your way.
On this example we use face wipes. Fill them with paint and apply stamps to the top of the paper.
You can also use a sponge. With its help, we will depict the grass.
You can play with textures using various materials. Experiment!
Don't be afraid to use body parts for stamps. Everything has its own use!
Washout
Relatively simple technique will help you create unusual and interesting textures.
First, cover the top of the paper with blue paint.
Then quickly paint over the rest of the canvas with red. This is what our drawing will look like at this stage.
Now rinse the brush well and refill it with clean water. Light movements spray the brushes with drops of water on the still wet paint.
Keep splashing water until you are satisfied with the result.
The extent to which the paint has dried can be understood by the strength of the effect of water on it. Note that what more water fell on the same area, the lighter the shade of paint became there.
Don't get frustrated if you can't control the blur. You, most likely, will not succeed, since it is quite difficult to influence this process.
Experiment with the amount of water, colors, and how dry the paint is. This technique can help you create interesting and textured backgrounds.
We use alcohol
You will need cotton swabs and alcohol.
Thickly paint over your sheet with paint.
Create the background shade you want and get ready for the fun.
Dip a Q-tip in alcohol and begin to drip it onto the paint.
Alcohol, falling on the paint, repels it, as it were, creating a bright spot.
Try dripping rubbing alcohol onto the paint as it dries to see the effect.
It turns out pretty nice, doesn't it?
This interesting technique allows you to create unusual textures.
We use salt
Obviously, we will need salt for this technique.
Let's draw the sky and the hill.
The second hill we will have is crimson, mix it a little with the first hill to get an interesting transition.
Now take the salt and sprinkle our drawing with it. After a few minutes, add some more salt. She pushes the paint away from herself, creating an unusual texture.
Let's wait for it all to dry and see what happens next.
After the drawing has dried, the effect that the salt has given becomes more visible.
Shake the salt off the drawing and enjoy the result.
It is better to use a sponge to brush off the salt. This way you don't damage the paint. Lightly clean the drawing, try not to rub it.
The salt absorbed the paint, creating a huge amount of star-like specks.
It is worth noting that coarse salt will leave larger spots, and fine, respectively, smaller ones.
Young children love to leave blots on paper. Parents, underestimating the "masterpieces" of their own children, get rid of incomprehensible drawings. But it turns out that from the left blots you can create a unique pattern. By the way, there is even such a drawing technique - blotography.
POSITIVE SIDES
IN last years blotography is gaining unprecedented popularity. And this moment is not at all connected with the latest fashion trends. It turns out that thanks to this drawing technique, the child's creative imagination is intensively developing.
It would seem that a baby can learn something useful from an ordinary blot. In fact, a randomly made paint spot has a unique, non-repeating shape and size. And if you apply a little imagination, then an ordinary blot can be given the outline of an object or create an image of an animal. By the way, this non-traditional technique drawings are often addicted to adults.
Blotography drawing technique
To create a unique drawing, you need to prepare the following material:
- An art brush. It is advisable to use hard brushes. Sometimes children, to portray a blot big size use a toothbrush.
— Paints. In this art form, only liquid watercolor is used. If there are no suitable paints at hand, then you can simply dilute the existing watercolor with water. By the way, multi-colored ink has the necessary consistency for drawing. It can also be used for drawing.
- Cardboard or white paper.
- Water tank.
- Cotton buds.
- Wet rag. Used to remove dirt from hands.
Stages of the creative process
So, blotography is a drawing technique.
Where to begin?
If you are new to this area, then you should first decide on the theme of the future drawing.
Here it is extremely important to direct mental activity in the right direction, in other words, to set the direction.
Having made a blot on a piece of paper, turn on your fantasy and try to see in it the outlines of an object or living being. Maybe you have an amazing planet or a picturesque underwater world in front of you.
There are several ways to create a drawing using blotography.
The most common - drip method.
Here you need a wide, voluminous brush. It should be carefully saturated with paint, and then, placing it over a piece of paper, begin to spray watercolor. If you want the drops to irrigate a small area, tap the brush on your finger or hand. When the brush is simply shaken, the spatter area increases. For spot application of paint, use a pipette. By the way, with its help, you can create a large blot, thus depicting, for example, the sun. Most often, landscapes are created using this method of blotting.
In the second method of blotting use spreading method.
To do this, a large blot is applied to the corner of the sheet with a brush. Importantly, the paint must be very liquid. Then, using a drinking tube, they begin to inflate the paint on the surface of the paper. It is advisable to direct the watercolor in different directions. Now take a closer look at the resulting picture, what does it remind you of? Maybe a rowan bush?
If yes, then you should complete the drawing by drawing red fruits on the branch. To do this, use a cotton swab. Just dip the "tool" in the paint desired color and draw rowan leaves and berries. The resulting drawing, if desired, can be decorated with an original frame.
For the first few lessons, the child may need adult help. Most often, kids cannot immediately make out familiar outlines in a blot.
Drawings made in the technique of blotography.
