Drawing with salt and watercolors: a description of the technique, techniques and reviews

More and more original ways of creating paintings with children come up with inventors. Drawing with salt and watercolor paints is a new kind of creativity, based on the ability of salt to absorb colored pigments.

We draw with children from two years

Drawing with watercolors and salt, and glue for children from two years old is a very interesting and creative occupation. If you are properly prepared for work, then after such a lesson your child will always ask to repeat this miracle.

For work you will need:

• a pack of table salt;
• cardboard;
• stationery glue;
• watercolor (preferably liquid)
• tassel.

Working process:

1. For such a creative drawing, stencils do not need to be made in advance, although you can print any sketch with simple shapes if you wish.
2. Glue some pattern on the cardboard, such as a flower or a vase, with glue.
3. Put it in a baking dish and sprinkle it well with salt. The form is needed so as not to sprinkle salt everywhere.
4. After the glue has set, shake off any excess grains.
5. Dip the brush in the desired color. Gently touch the salt line and see how the color spreads along the contour.
6. Use different colors in different parts of the picture, they will mix very nicely on the transitions.
7. Fill all glued lines with color and leave to dry. It may take one to two days to dry completely.

Such paintings can be on any topic, for example, painting with salt and watercolors "Winter" will be a wonderful New Year's gift to relatives from a young talent.

Volume paint for children from 1.5 years

Drawing with salt and watercolors is suitable for any age, even for the smallest. From the age of 1.5, you can make your child a voluminous paint, which he can water directly from the bottle.

To create such a miracle of paint you will need:

• 1 cup of salt;
• 1 cup flour;
• 1 glass of water;
• multi-colored gouache or watercolor;
• cardboard;
• plastic bottle for squeezing paint (can be taken from under the ketchup).

Now mix salt, flour and water, pour the resulting liquid into three containers and add the desired color to each. Reviews say that young children really like squeezing such a mass onto cardboard, creating flickering patterns.

Option using wax pencils

This master class "We draw watercolors with salt" implies the use of wax pencils. It is suitable for older children, and if you choose a complex sketch, then an adult will also like this work.

Materials:

• white wax pencil;
• water color paints;
• thick sheet A4;
• water;
• rock salt;
• coloring.

Having prepared all the necessary material, you can start drawing with salt and watercolors:

1. Print a picture or draw a sketch yourself. For example, take a fox in winter.
2. With a wax pencil we draw snowflakes and the outline of the chanterelle on white paper.
3. Wet the leaf and fill the sky, moon, clouds with watercolors. You can use different shades to make the picture more saturated.
4. Sprinkle the sheet with salt until it dries completely, which absorbs the paint and sparkles.
5. Let the work dry, then shake off excess salt.

Thanks to the wax contour, the snowflakes and the fox did not merge with the background, and the salt added a fabulous sparkle to the landscape. Such work can be done as a postcard. It is not necessary to take a fox, you can sparkle any winter landscape with salt.

Master class for kindergarten

Kindergarten teachers most often wonder about how to diversify the creative activities of children, which are aimed at developing perseverance and attention. So, drawing with salt and watercolor paints is perfect for different age groups of pupils.

For crafts you will need:

• colored paper;
• white paper (thick) A4 size;
• scissors;
• PVA glue;
• glue stick;
• watercolor paints and brushes;
• water tank.

For background, it is better to use colored paper in warm colors. We proceed to the work:

1. We take white paper and fold it four times and make a vase outline on one folded half.
2. Cut it and paste it on the background.
3. We give children stencils so that they independently cut out three circles - the core of the flowers.
4. Glue them on a sheet so that there is room for stems and petals.
5. Now works with PVA glue. We draw stems and petals for them, as well as leaves of flowers.
6. Then we draw a vase with glue. To do this, first draw a contour, then make a "mesh" on the general background of the vase.
7. Pour abundantly with salt a picture, wait for it to dry and shake off excess salt.
8. When the salt and glue have dried, we proceed to coloring. To make the picture bright, use different colors. Allow the children to dream up at this point.

The saline solution with glue absorbs paint well, so the colors will turn out bright.

Master class "Butterfly"

You can also draw in a different way with salt and watercolors. A master class will help make a beautiful butterfly. It will be performed on the same principle as a vase. Only the stencil needs to be cut out in the shape of a butterfly.

The course of creativity:

1. Stick a butterfly on the background.
2. Draw PVA glue contour and pattern on a butterfly.
3. Apply a layer of glue.
4. When dry, colorize.

Give the children an opportunity to express themselves and allow them to make any pattern for a beautiful butterfly, do not forget to draw a mustache.

Effects of different types of salt

When you sprinkle salt on an unpainted watercolor, it collects water and repels pigment. Therefore, the type of salt can produce a different effect (reviews confirm this).

If you apply the option of fine salt "extra", then you get small dots that look like fine snow or fog. The main thing in this technique is to catch the moment when the pattern is not completely wet, so as not to dissolve the crystals, but not dry, otherwise nothing will come of it.

You can even use coarse sea salt. With its help, you can create various curls. Well suited for winter landscapes, for example, if you want to draw a blizzard.

The use of such a technique is very wide, it all depends on your imagination. Suitable for almost all watercolor painting options.

Watercolor Painting Techniques

If you like to experiment in your work, we suggest you look at how the painting technique with the help of watercolors can produce real masterpieces.

The very first way to apply paint is with brushes. It is common and everyone knows it from early childhood.

The second option, which is like a miracle, parents show us is the use of wax chalk. First, a sketch is drawn in chalk on paper, and then the background is filled. The property of the wax is to repel moisture, so white streaks will remain in place of the stencil.

Another interesting option is bleaching paint. To do this, after applying the background, blot in the right places with a napkin or toilet paper. Since the paint still does not have time to absorb, this way you can, for example, draw Christmas trees.

There are many techniques for watercolor painting (spraying, sponge application and others). We examined only a part of them, and also saw what remarkable effects can be achieved using ordinary salt. Reviews say that such unusual tricks are very popular with children.