Often, in cases where you need to make some kind of banner, a clear picture or draw up a wall newspaper, stencils are required. Most often, such art is relevant in schools and kindergartens, where a symbolic poster is made for each holiday. For example, on the day of the harvest or on the holiday of autumn, the room is decorated with thematic pictures and details, among which the yellowed foliage occupies a place of honor. That is why the maple leaf outline, which can be transferred to a large drawing, or to make an application with it, is most often used as a stencil.
How to make a stencil
A similar layout can be made from natural material. To do this, it is enough to outline on the cardboard the outline of the maple leaf that you will find on the street, then cut it out and apply it later when necessary. It will be great if you also depict all the streaks and stripes on this stencil. In place of these lines, you can make thin cuts with an office knife, and then transfer them with a pencil to any picture, poster, etc.
Possible options for making the layout
Professional artists can do the contour of a maple leaf with their own hands. Most often, stencils are drawn by hand in cases where the required proportions do not match the real ones. For example, you need a too large layout of the leaf or, conversely, a small, barely noticeable one. Such layouts can be copied from nature, but at the same time increase or decrease all proportions. If the artist is fluent in the art of painting, he can depict such a simple detail as a maple leaf from memory.
Why do we need such a layout?
Often the outline of a maple leaf helps to learn to draw for young children and all those who do not yet own a pencil. Outlining the stencil, working out every detail of it, our hands remember these movements. In the future, drawing maple leaves by hand will be much easier: you will remember all their bends, shapes and transitions. You will know the structure of this detail, the layout of veins.
Everything is simple and affordable.
If you need a ready-made outline of a maple leaf, the pictures presented in the article can become a stencil for you. Just print the images in the size you need and stick them on the cardboard. Then cut and (optionally) make cuts at the site of the veins. Such a layout for drawing can be painted with paints or pencils to make it look more attractive. This is most often done when a child learns to draw. In bright colors, it is easier and more understandable for him to perceive any new figures.
How to draw foliage
It is worth noting that in a professional picture, like any other subject, a maple leaf can also be depicted in the future. The contour in this case can be useful only as a nature, and only if this part is not bent or deformed. You can try to draw a yellow sheet in the fall, in ¾, inclined relative to the verticals of the picture or parallels. It is advisable that you also catch how the shadows fall in this case, how the colors in which the sheet is painted look.