How to draw autumn leaves for children step by step with photos

Sredina Olga Stanislavovna, teacher, Central Children's Educational Institution No. 1 "Bear Cub", Yuryuzan, Chelyabinsk region.

Target:
Creation of educational or creative (competition, exhibition) work
Tasks:
Learn techniques for infusing color into color
Develop imagination and the ability to arrange objects of different sizes on a sheet of paper (in particular, leaves)
Improve practical brush skills
Cultivate artistic taste
Target Audience:
preschoolers and junior schoolchildren
Materials:
Paper, dried leaves, glue stick, wax crayons, watercolor (24 or 36 colors)
brushes No. 1, 3 (pony, squirrel or kolinsky)
Preliminary work:
Introduction to watercolor techniques
There are several watercolor techniques. This is glazing (multi-layer painting, when each layer is applied to the previous one only after complete drying), a la prima (in Italian Allaprima) - painting in the wet. They reveal the possibilities of watercolor in different ways, as do additional materials (salt, shaving foam, soap).

These are the beautiful stains that appear when color is poured into color.
Quote:
When the paint hits the wet surface of the paper, it spreads over it in a unique way, making the painting light, airy, transparent, and breathable. By combining various color combinations with a variety of tonal solutions, you can achieve amazing play and transitions between the finest shades. The a la prima method, since it does not involve multiple recordings, allows you to maintain maximum freshness and richness of colorful sounds.
Besides this, additional benefit This technique will save some time. As a rule, the work is written “in one go,” although, if necessary, you can additionally wet the paper during the creative process. This method is indispensable for quick sketches from life and sketches.
Introduction:
It is difficult for preschoolers to independently and realistically depict the casting of maple or oak. Therefore, we resort to the help of such technology as PHYTO PRINTING. By getting a real "photograph" or even an "X-ray" of the leaves, we can cut down on painting time and focus on working in color.

Work progress:
After creating a sufficiently large collection of dried leaves, you can leave some of it for creating applications, and use some for drawing.

To work, we will need to glue the dried leaves in advance in a certain order onto an A4 (landscape) sheet, or (optional) onto an A3 sheet. But the A3 format will be too big for preschoolers. Even if you use large oak and maple leaves. And you will need too many birch leaves to fill the space. Therefore, we will focus on the landscape format.
Children try to independently select and distribute the leaves of various tree species in random order. The teacher gives the following instructions:
1 - Take leaves various sizes, different breeds trees (you can take several small leaves)
2 - Use a small amount of material, do not clutter the space, leave “empty spaces”
3 - Some leaves overlap each other
4 – Do not place the leaves as in a herbarium, rotate them.
5 - Choose the format of the picture as desired (vertical or horizontal)
6 – Do not overload the middle of the sheet, but do not push against the edges.

Not all children immediately come up with an interesting composition. The teacher can give hints, but not interfere with the exciting creative process.
This stage can be done with children in advance, or during the process of creating applications.

After the teacher sees and approves the placement of the leaves, they can be glued. To do this you need to use a glue stick. It is better to coat the paper rather than the sheet, lifting the sheet and roughly, “by eye,” marking the place where the glue will be applied. Dried leaves are fragile. When placing them in the designated places, place a clean sheet of paper on top and lightly smooth them, pressing the sheets against each other.
Take a wax crayon brown and begin to go through the entire sheet, lightly touching the paper. When the outlines of the leaves appear, you need to press the chalk a little harder so that the veins and edges of the leaves become more clearly visible.

We remove bottom sheet with dried leaves glued to it (we may need it more than once) and take out the watercolor.
It is best to work on two drawings at once. This is necessary so that the watercolor from the leaves does not flow onto the background and does not merge with it (despite the fact that the wax chalk holds back the paint, such drips are quite possible for preschoolers). We will draw leaves falling on the grass and leaves falling on the water. You can use the same composition, create two different ones, or simply change with your neighbors.
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We draw a brush with some color along the outline of the leaf.
You can first moisten the leaves with water, and only then put paint on the brush, but it is difficult for preschoolers to follow the colorless line, so we start with color. Then you can fill the outline of the sheet with water and pour paint into the outline. You don’t have to do this, but simply use more water and less paint on the brush.

We begin to fill the leaf in random order with autumn, warm colors: (cadmium lemon, cadmium yellow medium, yellow ocher, natural sienna, golden ocher).

We work quickly before the paint dries.

Using a thin brush, we draw several veins along the damp surface of the leaf. Brem for this is dark green.

We begin to color the second maple leaf without first drawing the entire contour line.

We continue to use the entire autumn palette, but in different proportions and combinations

Draw the veins in dark brown.

Each small leaf has its own palette: one is yellow-green, another is dark red, with a drop of yellow, the third is almost entirely written in ocher.

We finish the veins and leave the sheet to dry.

2 Take the second sheet and start working with small birch leaves

We draw veins with ocher

We write two maple leaves mainly in scarlet and red (kraplak, carmine),

Here are both drawings prepared. All that remains is to add the background.

Let's start with the grass. We use all ready-made green colors (yellow-green, emerald green), mixing them with other paints and different amounts water, brightening, intensifying, chaotically pouring into each other, carefully avoiding the contours of the leaves.

Rotate the sheet in the way that suits you best.

Once again we clarify and draw the veins

Select the final format (vertical) and draw blades of grass with a thin brush.

We depict water on the second sheet by pouring in various shades (blue, violet, blue, turquoise)

Adding small waves (ripples on the water)

If you have no imagination or want to plunge a little into the autumn magic, spend time with your child drawing a maple leaf. This interesting activity with many bright colors and a positive charge of emotions.

The maple leaf is one of the most beautiful. Besides what he has original shape with five pointed ends, its color is very bright and colorful. It doesn’t matter for what purpose you need to draw this drawing, for children's competition or autumn landscape, This a useful pastime for anyone.

Drawing a maple leaf is easy. They will help you with this step by step sketches:

• First of all, you should draw the frame of the leaf. To do this, you need to draw an arched vertical line - this is the stem of the leaf.
• Then draw two horizontal crossing lines by hand. This is the basis for its five-pointed shape.
• Trace the ends of the drawn lines, and then erase the sketch inside the drawing. The base is ready!

How to draw a maple leaf step by step?

After that, start detailing your drawing. It is necessary to make sharp tips along the edges of the leaf so that it looks realistic.

Detailing the drawing

After this, erase the extra lines of the sketch and draw characteristic veins on the leaf.

Veins on a maple leaf

After that, all you have to do is paint the sheet in colorful colors: yellow, orange, brick, brown, red, green. The sheet can be plain or have many shades.

Maple leaf coloring option

Image and outline of a maple leaf, template

If you don't have the artistic skills, time, or even desire to painstakingly draw a maple leaf, you may template will come in handy. This template can be circle on a blank sheet of paper and then color it to your liking. This is how you get neat and beautiful drawing.

Templates for drawing a maple leaf:

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Maple leaf, template. Option No. 4

Autumn maple leaf: drawings for children

You can get ideas for creativity and draw a maple leaf (one or a whole bouquet) with your child by studying ready-made works.

Drawings for children with maple leaves:

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Video: “How to draw a maple leaf correctly?”

Autumn leaves drawing lesson

Master class. Autumn leaf image

The topic of the lesson is “The diversity of the color palette of autumn nature and the three main colors of paints. Image of an autumn leaf"

2nd grade, Fine Arts Program edited by B.M. Nemensky, 1st quarter, 1st lesson.

Target. This master class is intended to develop the skills of 2nd grade students, independently or with partial help from the teacher, to create images of any shape of autumn leaves and convey their specific color.

Master class objectives: educational: learn

Rules for depicting some plant forms of the surrounding world that have equal halves;

Master primary painting skills; mix paints to get desired color using three primary colors and their combinations;

The ability to analyze your work from an aesthetic and moral point of view.

developing: develop

Ideas about the concept of “symmetry”;

Attention, observance towards color combinations in nature.

raising: bring up

Mutual respect, love of work;

Patience, accuracy, work discipline.

Basic Concepts: symmetry, wet painting, primary colors, additional colors, color tone, color palette, diversity, nature.

Interdisciplinary connections: literature, music.

Resources.

For the teacher: presentation on the topic “Image of an autumn leaf”, chalk, board, pencil, paints, brushes, napkin, water, paper, palette.

For students: paper, pencil, eraser, paints, brushes, napkin, water, palette.

Autumn leaf tutorial

1. Organizational part.

To determine the topic and assignment of the lesson, I invite students to solve riddles. I accompany the students’ answers by showing slides about autumn, about the different states of nature in autumn bad weather or on fine days, and slides depicting autumn leaves.

Empty fields

The ground gets wet

The rain is pouring down.

When does this happen?

(autumn)

I paint with yellow paint

Field, forest, valleys.

And I love the sound of rain,

Call me!

(autumn)

The trees change their outfit,

The leaves are slowly losing their leaves.

It’s clear to everyone how twice makes two -

Came...

(autumn time)

The branches in the park rustle,

They shed their outfit.

He is near the oak and birch trees

Multi-colored, bright, catchy.

(Leaf fall)

Red Egorka

Fell on the lake

I didn't drown myself

And he didn’t stir up the water.

(autumn leaf)

2. Motivation and goal setting.

Having looked through even such a small number of slides, it becomes obvious: why is autumn in different times inspired writers, poets, musicians and, of course, artists to create beautiful works that convey the variety of colors of the autumn palette. Nature is good at this time of year: the sky and the forest as a single whole, and the reflection of the forest in the water, and each individual tree is unique and beautiful, and the earth is covered with a carpet of many different ones - different leaves, and every leaf from any tree is interesting and good in its own way. I really want to capture this beauty. Let's formulate the first part of the topic.

Nature. In everyday life, the word “nature” is often used to mean natural habitat (everything that is not created by man).

Color palette (color palette) is a fixed set (range) of colors and shades.

Diversity - variety, abundance of something different.

Let's look at individual leaves. We observe a difference between leaves in shape and color, but between leaves with different trees, there is something in common. And this commonality is the sameness of the halves of a leaf of any tree relative to an imaginary line dividing the leaf into two parts and running along the petiole-stem. The halves of the sheet are identical and symmetrical. At the moment we are observing the manifestation of symmetry in nature using the example of a tree leaf.

Symmetry, bilateral symmetry means that right and left side relative to any plane they look the same (axis of symmetry, center line, symmetrical halves).

Each leaf of a tree has a certain shape and, accordingly, structure. Today we will not depict a tree, and if not a tree, what then... Of course, a leaf and... a leaf of a beautiful, not simple shape, filled with different color spots... that's right, it's a maple leaf. The title of the second part of the lesson topic sounds.

Consider a maple leaf. He has complex shape, but if you follow in the image certain rules, the appearance of a maple leaf will not be difficult to convey. The leaf has a median imaginary line; it runs through the middle of the leaf blade and goes into the petiole. And there is an imaginary point at the end of the leaf blade and the beginning of the petiole, from which the most visible veins emerge, located equally to the right and left of the axis of symmetry of the leaf. Like this.

3. Updating basic knowledge and methods of action.

Let's use this fact in the image of the leaf. And so, the first thing we do is conduct with a simple pencil in the center of the format is a vertical line, which will be the middle line of the tree leaf. Next, we mark the vanishing point of the veins on a given line and mark the veins located symmetrically relative to the center line. Like this.

Next, around the veins we draw lines in shape resembling a crown, consisting of three pointed elements, smoothly connecting to each other through arcs. The middle element of each of the “crowns” is larger in size than the two side ones. In our case, there are three “crowns” in total (but it could be different). They are depicted around a central vein-axis and two side veins next to the central one and on both sides of it. And near the remaining veins we draw lines like an arrowhead.

Then we gradually connect the crowns and arrows to each other with smooth deep arcs, add different lines that convey the finished look to the shape of the tree leaf, and in general the sketch for working with paints is ready.

Drawing a maple leaf is very easy! Watch the first step-by-step lesson in drawing a maple leaf for beginners and you will see that there is nothing complicated. It is better to draw a glue sheet with a pencil in order to be able to remove the auxiliary lines at the final stage. Then you can of course trace and color with anything/

If you need to draw other leaves or download autumn leaf templates and stencils, check out the post

An easy way to draw a maple leaf step by step

Draw a triangle with a curved base

On top of the triangle, draw zigzag lines that will look like a crown.

Draw more zigzag lines on the left and right sides triangle.

Draw a long U-shape at the bottom of the triangle.

Maple leaf can be painted

An advanced way to draw a maple leaf

Draw a cross.
The lines don't have to be completely straight.
Place a horizontal line just below the center.

Draw two slanted lines connected to the center of the cross.

Draw more slanted lines connected to your previous lines.
These will be the veins of your leaf.

Outline your leaf with curves and zigzag lines.

Finish your drawing and remove unnecessary lines.

Can be colored

Maple leaf template for cutting

Need a template for printing and cutting out a maple leaf? Just open the image in a new tab and print. Pictures adapted to A4

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Drawing is a fun and useful activity that not only develops your artistic taste, fine motor skills And logical thinking. Creating even a simple drawing trains memory, increases attentiveness and develops imagination.

Autumn time pleases us not only with a rich harvest, but with a riot of colors. The bright decorations that “dress” the trees will leave few people indifferent. Colorful images of autumn foliage will help you preserve a bit of autumn on a winter day. How to create them?

Drawing autumn leaves: maple

To obtain an image of a maple leaf, you can use several techniques.

Scheme 1

• Draw an oval.
• Draw a vertical line dividing the image in half (line A).
• On each half, lay 3 vein lines, dividing each sector into 4 unequal parts. All lines originate from one point located in the lower third of line A.
• Using chaotic teeth, you connect the intersection points of the lines and the oval.
• Turn the lower third of line A into the base of the sheet.

Scheme 2

• You begin the work by drawing the veins of the leaf - a central line and 2 side lines coming out of it.
• Then proceed to the contour in the form of a jagged line, which you lay on a short distance from veins.
• Add smaller details.

Scheme 3

• Draw a square with emphasis on one of the vertices.
• Use a vertical line to divide it in half. Continue the line a little down beyond the square.
• On each half you depict 3 veins.
• Draw soft teeth around each of the veins.

Drawing autumn leaves: oak

Scheme 1

• You start with an oval image, narrowed on one side.
• Draw a winding vein line through the middle of the oval, and smaller strokes from it.
• Use a wavy line to mark the edges of the sheet (within the oval).
• Remove the excess outline.

Scheme 2

• Draw the outline of the leaf in the form of an elongated hexagon.
• Divide it in half and draw smaller veins from the middle line (3 - 4 on each side).
• Form a wavy outline around them.

Drawing autumn leaves: linden

The linden leaf is one of the simplest graphic images.

• Draw a vertical, but with a slight slope, line - the central vein.
• Make 2–3 strokes from it on both sides. Even smaller veins can be drawn from them.
• Draw the outline of the leaf in the form of a rounded triangle. At the place where the tail is attached, draw the outline of the sheet in the form of 2 converging arcs.

Unusual techniques for drawing autumn leaves

Stencil

• On work surface arrange the autumn leaf.
• Place a sheet of paper on top of it.
• Pressing the paper tightly, lightly stroke the surface of the sheet with a wax crayon.
• You will see how not only the contours of the leaf appear on the paper, but also all its veins.

Leaf Seal

If you are bored with working with a pencil and want to learn new techniques for creating autumn motifs, prepare foliage and paints. It is best to work with gouache, but if you don’t have it, watercolor is also suitable for these purposes.

• Apply paint to the sheet special attention focusing on the veins. Use multiple colors to create brighter, more whimsical patterns.
• Turn the sheet over and make an imprint on the paper.

If the leaves are large enough, you can get not only colorful foliage, but entire trees.

As you can see, drawing leaves is quite simple. A little patience and skill and autumn colors burst into bright fireworks.