To the most beautiful natural phenomena One of the things that attract a person's gaze is the northern lights. This colored “curtain”, created by the Earth, the Sun and the air, has a charming effect and plunges a person into a state of aesthetic trance, enchantment. Most people do not have the opportunity to see it with their own eyes. Therefore, we suggest that you draw the northern lights yourself and be able to admire them whenever you want.
How to draw with a pencil step by step?
Perhaps the most painstaking way to depict the northern lights is to draw with pencils, since you will have to do a lot of even shading. The Northern Lights can also be depicted with a simple pencil. In this case, the entire emphasis will be based on the intensity of the shade of gray, with the help of which it will be possible to visually catch the color transition. How to draw the northern lights with a pencil step by step in color, see below.
- The Northern Lights consist of zigzag or smoother wavy lines of different colors - from shades of blue to red. In this case, the dark background of the sky is of great importance, against which the radiance stands out.
- First, you should draw the main lines of radiance in any of the selected colors. Usually it is light blue, blue or turquoise. The lines should be long and go in one chosen direction, for example, from the center to the upper right corner.
- Next, lines of other colors are gradually added: yellow, green, orange. It is better to change the intensity of the color with a stronger pressure of the pencil. This will create the effect of transfusion and a smooth transition of shades.
- The main part of the sheet will be occupied by the sky. To do this, it should be carefully shaded in dark blue or black. It is important that the edges of the northern lights stand out against the sky with lighter tones.
Painting the Northern Lights in Oil
Before you paint the northern lights with oil, you need to collect necessary materials and tools: oil paints, canvas, paint thinner, brushes, palette. Since the oil is distinguished by its dense texture, it is better to carry out all manipulations with and search for the desired shade on the palette. So, an option for depicting the northern lights using oil paints:
- mix white and green colors on the palette until light green or turquoise is formed (with the addition of blue);
- Using the resulting shade, depict the required position of the northern lights on the canvas, it is better to do this with hatched lines;
- mix dark blue, light blue and green until very dark and shade the upper part of the sky with it;
- gradually lightening the color to blue and light purple, fill the middle and lower part of the sky with them;
- mix a light green shade with white and mark the center of the northern lights - you should get its shining part;
- shade the boundaries of the northern lights - they should smoothly blend into the tone of the sky;
- to create the effect of color dispersion, the lower part of the northern lights should be shaded with vertical short strokes;
- the lower glow is painted with a mixture of white and yellow colors, the deepening of the radiance is painted with violet, the light highlights are painted with white;
- at the end, small drops of white paint are sprayed onto the entire canvas to depict stars.
How to paint the northern lights in watercolor step by step?
It’s easier to depict northern sowings with help than with other methods. After all, they allow you to make the smoothest transition between colors and achieve the desired shades. Next - how to paint the northern lights in watercolor. Stages:
- the work will be carried out on a black or dark blue sheet of paper; if this is not the case, a regular sheet should be tinted with the appropriate color and allowed to dry;
- with smooth movements, without taking your hands off the drawing, draw the lines of the northern lights with the main color (blue, azure or dark blue);
- in the same way, gradually add other colors for the northern lights (yellow, green, red, white), and it is desirable that the transition between shades be smooth - for this, the paint at the joints can be more abundantly diluted with water;
- blend with a mixture of the main color with the white edge of the northern lights.
Before you draw the northern lights, it is better to get a photograph and a picture that will depict the desired design. After all, this phenomenon can be more or less colorful, include additional elements (stars, horizon) or not.
To work with, you can take foam sponges, which are convenient for shading the color or filling the main part of the sheet with shade. It's also much faster and more uniform.
To draw stars, you can use ordinary, unnecessary toothbrush, which will distribute the paint in separate thin drops.
And finally: before you paint the northern lights, you should decide on the place where it is best to place the picture. An ideal option would be an area intended for reflection (an office, for example) or such a drawing would contribute to this.
Drawing on the theme: Winter step by step with photos. Primary School
Northern Lights in an unconventional drawing technique “Umka’s Mom.” Master class with step-by-step photos.
Kartashova Arina, studying at the Municipal Educational Institution of Preschool Children's and Youth Center, Dnestrovsk.
Age: 9 years
Supervisor: Ulyana Sergeevna, teacher of additional education at the Municipal Educational Institution of Preparatory Children and Youth Children's and Youth Center, Dnestrovsk, flew in.
Description: The master class is intended for children aged 7 years and older, educators, parents, additional education teachers, teachers of advanced education and technology.
This work will combine traditional painting techniques with salt painting. Non-traditional drawing techniques are an impetus for the development of imagination, creativity, the manifestation of independence, initiative, and expression of individuality.
Target: Development of artistic and creative abilities through the use of fine arts.
Tasks: Maintaining interest in working in watercolor techniques.
Improving artistic and graphic skills
Development of creative imagination, desire to experiment;
Development of attention, memory;
Fostering accuracy, hard work, and interest in the world around us.
Equipment:
Paper
Watercolor paints
Brushes
Simple pencil
Eraser
Salt
Ursa pattern
Progress.
The Northern Lights are a mystical, unpredictable and beautiful celestial glow that suddenly appears and just as suddenly disappears.
This spectacle is breathtaking and can last from ten minutes to several days.
In an instant, running colored rays and stripes appear, or a multicolored pulsating curtain flashes across the entire sky from east to west.
A long time ago, people believed that the play of colors in the heavens was nothing more than the dance of the gods. Some tribes saw malevolence in this phenomenon, and even took weapons for protection if they had to go out.
We will draw a polar bear, Umka’s mother, who is going to look for a playful bear cub against the backdrop of the aurora.
The sheet must be placed vertically. We leave the upper part of the sheet for the polar lights. At the bottom, at a distance of 2.5 - 3 centimeters from the edge, draw a foreground line and draw a bear in the center.
Next, we wet the sheet with water, without touching the foreground, and apply yellow watercolor paint.
Then, using a vertical movement, add paint of blue, purple, green and lilac colors.
While the leaf is still wet, sprinkle it with coarse salt.
Salt will give the work “frosty” patterns.
In some places, vertical strokes can enhance the expressiveness of our aurora.
Next, we begin to write out the first plan. The top border should be left white, this will create space and prevent unnecessary paint from flowing into the foreground.
Introduce blue paint into the bottom edge and blur it slightly. Add yellow color. For the first plan, two or three colors will be enough, do not overdo it.
When the background has dried, you can start drawing the bear. It will be blue. Apply blue paint along the outline of the bear and blur it towards the center. The outline needs to be soft. The far paws are completely covered in blue.
We draw the near legs with black and purple paint, outline the nose, mouth, eye and ear with black.
This is the kind of mama bear she turned out to be.
The work is ready! We frame it.
Thank you for your attention!
Drawing on the theme of Winter for older preschoolers. Master class with step by step photos
Sredina Olga Stanislavovna, teacher, Central Children's Educational Institution No. 1 "Bear Cub", Yuryuzan, Chelyabinsk region.
Target:
Educational or creative work
Tasks:
Getting to know the Russian north, its unique nature and natural phenomena
Development of fantasy and imagination
Improving practical skills in using graphic materials
Teaching shading techniques
Cultivating patience, perseverance, and the ability to finish a job
Materials:
Paper, markers (or colored pencils)
Preliminary work:
Guessing “polar” riddles. Getting acquainted with photographs depicting the northern lights.
Quote:
What are the polar (northern) lights?
The polar lights are the most beautiful and fascinating natural phenomenon. It looks like multi-colored stripes in the sky, huge iridescent curtains or rainbow ribbons. They can reach several hundred kilometers in width and several thousand kilometers in length. The aurora appears at an altitude of more than 80-100 kilometers. And although this is an earthly phenomenon, it is caused by processes occurring on the Sun. The so-called solar wind constantly blows on our planet. It consists of charged particles that are emitted by the solar corona. We see them.
Photos
Polar riddles
He is the king of the polar ice floes,
Black and white gentleman.
Wow, he's big for a bird,
Walking is very important.
Southernmost continent
Checked in bravely.
(Penguin)
Polar night, never mind,
Cold, gloomy.
Harness us into a harness -
We'll take you to the plague.
Nature has a strict disposition
Beyond the Arctic Circle.
To the man, woof-woof-woof,
It's easier with a true friend.
(Like dogs)
Even though he only eats moss
In the rocky tundra,
This beast is not bad looking
And the horns are branchy.
(Reindeer)
Sitting on a block of ice,
I catch fish for breakfast.
I am known as snow-white
And I live in the North.
And the taiga brown brother
I'm happy with honey and raspberries.
(Polar bear)
White block of ice
It stood like a wall in the ocean.
Every captain knows
How dangerous the giant is.
(Iceberg)
How beautiful the poles are
The skies are sparkling there!
A bright flash here and there,
Only it's not fireworks.
(Polar Lights)
In these dark six months
Lighting is difficult.
Nature lives in the dark
Beyond the Arctic Circle.
(Polar night)
Where the poles are close,
Miracles happen.
The sun is moving around in the sky
And it doesn’t come for six months.
(Polar day)
I'm making my way to the poles
On wide skis
To scientific miracles
Get closer. (Polar explorer)
Introduction:
The ability to hatch and color drawings evenly and accurately seems easy. What's so special about it? Much more important is probably the ability to depict houses, people and animals, and to create interesting decorative compositions. But that's not true. More precisely, not quite like that.
Hatching makes the young artist’s hand strong, develops fine motor skills, and shading according to the shape of the object allows you to show its authentic, and not “crumpled” appearance. Careless, disorderly shading only spoils the drawing. It needs to be organized.
However, practicing shading on a blank sheet of paper is a boring task. The image of the northern lights is much more interesting!
Progress:
1
Draw an arbitrary horizon line. Knowing that it will house a snow fortress or a snow queen’s castle, we make part of the line more even.
2
Drawing distant mountains. Shade them tightly in blue.
3
If this is a royal castle, then it will resemble Gothic cathedrals. Each roof or tower is like an inverted icicle. Doors, windows, architectural details, each young artist comes up with his own ideas. I advise children to close their eyes and imagine a castle. It is to imagine, and not to remember a drawing from a book or a frame from a cartoon.
The teacher draws with the children, but the children do not follow him
4
The most interesting moment comes. You can turn the sheet (this will make it a little easier to hatch), or you don’t have to turn it over.
The colors are juicy and bright. More often than others, emerald shades can be distinguished in the atmosphere. The felt-tip pen draws one endless line, shading the sky in a zigzag. The stripe can change width and direction, “walking” across the sky. But it should be quite dense, not “leaky”. You can first practice drawing such lines - snakes at an easel or on a draft.
5
The next color “runs just above or below the first line. It easily runs into the first color, narrows or expands, sways like a light curtain.
6
The next color may be more saturated in tone or paler. Children choose colors randomly. The entire cold range can be used. These are blue, blue, violet shades. From warm colors we choose scarlet, pink, red or orange.
7
When shading close to the ground or at the edge of the sheet, we place a piece of thick paper or cardboard so as not to run over the image. You can simply put a “barrier” to the felt-tip pen with your finger.
8
When the entire surface of the sky sparkles with bright colors, you can enhance the contrast somewhere or weaken it.
9
Now we can move on to the foreground. Let's depict several trees on it. For example, pine trees. Let's choose the darkest felt-tip pen for this. First, of course, we draw the trunks.
10
We finish drawing branches, twigs, pine needles.
11
Now we draw the snowdrifts. Closer to the viewer they are larger, further away they are smaller.
12
At the last stage, you can use a soft brush and water. The felt-tip pen blurs quite easily. At the same time, the northern lights become more blurry and lighter.
SECOND OPTION – COLORED PENCILS
"Snow Fortress"
You can also use colored pencils when depicting the northern lights. The coloring turns out to be more muted, soft and calm. Shadows from snowdrifts are drawn with pencils easily, without pressure. But drawing the radiance itself without pressure is perhaps impossible. The magic multi-color pencil, however, did not help much. All its shades merged into a gray mass under strong pressure.
In this version, instead of pine trees, we will draw a fluffy spruce.
Children's works:
(senior group)
One of the most beautiful natural phenomena that attracts the human eye is the northern lights. This colored “curtain”, created by the Earth, the Sun and the air, has a charming effect and plunges a person into a state of aesthetic trance, enchantment. Most people do not have the opportunity to see it with their own eyes. Therefore, we suggest that you draw the northern lights yourself and be able to admire them whenever you want.
How to draw northern lights pencil step by step?
Perhaps the most painstaking way to depict the northern lights is to draw with pencils, since you will have to do a lot of even shading. The Northern Lights can also be depicted with a simple pencil. In this case, the entire emphasis will be based on the intensity of the shade of gray, with the help of which it will be possible to visually catch the color transition. How to draw the northern lights with a pencil step by step in color, see below.
- The Northern Lights consist of zigzag or smoother wavy lines of different colors - from shades of blue to red. In this case, the dark background of the sky is of great importance, against which the radiance stands out.
- First, you should draw the main lines of radiance in any of the selected colors. Usually it is light blue, blue or turquoise. The lines should be long and go in one chosen direction, for example, from the center to the upper right corner.
- Next, lines of other colors are gradually added: yellow, green, orange. It is better to change the intensity of the color with a stronger pressure of the pencil. This will create the effect of transfusion and a smooth transition of shades.
- The main part of the sheet will be occupied by the sky. To do this, it should be carefully shaded in dark blue or black. It is important that the edges of the northern lights stand out against the sky with lighter tones.
Painting the Northern Lights in Oil
Before you paint the northern lights with oil, you need to collect the necessary materials and tools: oil paints, canvas, paint thinner, brushes, palette. Since the oil is distinguished by its dense texture, all manipulations with mixing colors and the search for the desired shade is best done on the palette. So, an option for depicting the northern lights using oil paints:
- mix white and green colors on the palette until light green or turquoise is formed (with the addition of blue);
- Using the resulting shade, depict the required position of the northern lights on the canvas, it is better to do this with hatched lines;
- mix dark blue, light blue and green until very dark indigo and shade the upper part of the sky with it;
- gradually lightening the color to blue and light purple, fill the middle and lower part of the sky with them;
- mix a light green shade with white and mark the center of the northern lights - you should get its shining part;
- dry brush shade the boundaries of the northern lights - they should smoothly blend into the tone of the sky;
- to create the effect of color dispersion, the lower part of the northern lights should be shaded with vertical short strokes;
- the lower glow is painted with a mixture of white and yellow colors, the deepening of the radiance is painted with violet, the light highlights are painted with white;
- at the end, small drops of white paint are sprayed onto the entire canvas to depict stars.
How to paint the northern lights in watercolor step by step?
By using watercolor paints It is easier to depict northern sowings than with other methods. After all, they allow you to make the smoothest transition between colors and achieve the desired shades. Next - how to paint the northern lights in watercolor. Stages:
- the work will be carried out on a black or dark blue sheet of paper; if this is not the case, a regular sheet should be tinted with the appropriate color and allowed to dry;
- with smooth movements, without taking your hands off the drawing, draw the lines of the northern lights with the main color (blue, azure or dark blue);
- in the same way, gradually add other colors for the northern lights (yellow, green, red, white), and it is desirable that the transition between shades be smooth - for this, the paint at the joints can be more abundantly diluted with water;
- blend with a mixture of the main color with the white edge of the northern lights.
Before you draw the northern lights, it is better to get a photograph and a picture that will depict the desired design. After all, this phenomenon can be more or less colorful, include additional elements (stars, horizon) or not.
To work with watercolor paints, you can take foam sponges, which are convenient for shading the color or filling the main part of the sheet with shade. It's also much faster and more uniform.
To paint the stars, you can use a regular, unnecessary toothbrush, which will distribute the paint in separate thin drops.
And finally: before you paint the northern lights, you should decide on the place where it is best to place the picture. An ideal option would be an area intended for reflection (an office, for example) or psychological relief. Such a drawing will contribute to this.