Mimosa is clearly associated with the spring holiday, international women's day. Nowadays, giving a sprig of mimosa on March 8 is no longer so relevant. But once this plant was brought to all major cities in unimaginable quantities. In general, mimosa is one of the varieties of acacia. In total there are about 1200 species. Mostly they grow in Africa, South America and Australia. African varieties have spines. From here their name Akis (gr.) Came - means "spearhead". By the way, in France, at the end of February, a mimosa festival takes place every year. It was introduced in the XIX century, since then it has been found throughout the south of this country. Many believe that silver acacia is a shrub. It is not always so.
Sometimes acacia reaches 25 meters in height. Her bark is smooth, dark gray. The tree is sprawling and evergreen. It is covered with bright yellow fluffy balls, and under them are small silver-green leaves. One of the available ways to admire a fluffy tree is to draw it on paper. About how to draw a mimosa, and it will be discussed. Let's consider several ways that will allow each person (both the baby and his parents) to feel like a real artist.
How to draw a mimosa in stages?
Drawing mimosa on a piece of paper is a snap. But the process requires some patience. How to draw mimosa with a pencil in stages? To get started, prepare a sheet of paper, colored pencils, an eraser, hard and soft pencils. Define a place for flowers and leaves. With a simple hard pencil you need to apply the contours of the stain. It can be of any form. It all depends on your imagination. Further, the place where the balls will be located must be circled by a circle of arbitrary shape. In the place where the leaves will be, draw straight lines in different directions. Thin lines should come from them. In areas that are intended for flowers, you need to draw a lot of circles and give them volume in zigzag strokes. Depicting leaves is even easier. On the small lines coming from the branch, draw short strokes. Things will go faster if you draw strokes without tearing off your hands in a zigzag fashion. Thus, you need to display all the leaves.
March 8
How to draw mimosa on a postcard? Everything is very simple here. A sprig of mimosa can be made in the form of the number "8". To do this, draw a volume eight on the top side of the card with a simple pencil. Further from the numbers you need to draw branches on both sides. They will look better if made asymmetric. On the figured eight gouache of yellow color you need to depict mimosa balls. Next, take a light brown paint and fill it with the space between the balls. Then color the twigs in green. Postcard is ready. It remains only to write a congratulatory verse.
Gouache
If we talk about how to draw mimosa with paints, then everything is also simple here. Prepare jars of gouache, cotton buds, brushes of different sizes, a sheet of paper and a cloth to wipe tools and hands. Take a wide brush and moisten the sheet with water. Next, with the same brush, you need to make several strokes of green and blue flowers in different shades. There should be a lot of paint. Then paint over the entire sheet with the already applied paint. No need to wait until it dries. Take a skewer or a brush and mark the side of the stem with mimosa branches, from which small stems will come out at an angle of 45 °. If you didn’t like something, you can simply paint over and start over. Then you can draw a little dark yellow or light brown paint on the little finger and apply circles to the twigs. After that, with a cotton swab, on which orange paint is accumulated, it is also necessary to apply circles. Change the wand and apply the yellow balls in the same way. If you wish, you can add very few white dots. The drawing is ready. Such a mimosa can be drawn both independently and with a child. He will like it very much.
Napkins
Another way to draw mimosa. First, you need to mark with a pencil a branch with branches. Bottom should be fern-like leaves. You can circle the branch with a brown pencil, and the leaves with green.
In order to make fluffy balls, you need to take yellow napkins, roll balls from them and stick them on the branches of mimosa using PVA. This is probably the easiest way to draw mimosa.
The role of co-creation
Mimosa is the easiest flower to draw. Even the smallest child who can cope with pencils and paints can cope with it. And joint work with parents, as a rule, brings together. The child begins to trust parents more, to share their experiences. Want to make emotional contact with your child? Feel free to grasp paints and pencils. And how to draw a mimosa, you already know.