Rainy Day, Memory Drawing.

The monsoon brings fresh greenery, puddles for kids to stomp in and lots more. The rains are also when the new academic year begins and I vividly remember from my own school days,  doing  Rainy day as an art lesson. Well here we are after many many years and it is still a fun  lesson on season as well as a good memory drawing exercise. This can be easily done by children above the age of 7 and above. 

Let's begin, you will need 

• Paper, I'm using a half imperial size sheet, or A3. 

• Pencil, eraser,

• Sketch pen- black or brownr

• Oil pastels. 

1) Composing~ With the help of this simple grid you can see that the girl is placed a little off-centre to the right, and the child, with the paper boat is to the left.

2) Drawing the figures ~  Begin with the standing child, holding an umbrella. By altering the hair, you can draw either boy or a girl. 

Draw the rest of the girl (or boy), wearing a raincoat, and what we call in India gum boots, leave me a comment, telling me what they are called where you live!

Let's draw the second child who is about to float a paperboat. Draw his back in a continuous line, from the hood down, adding his hands, legs and finally connect limbs with belly. His face peeps in just a bit under his hood, as we are seeing him from the side.

3) Background~ Draw a puddle, the one nearer to them is bigger and the one farther away from them is smaller, follow the same when drawing the trees. Draw a horizon line, adding a hedge.

4) Colouring ~ With a black or brown sketch pen trace over your pencil drawing. A sketch pen will look bold whereas a brown one will soften the edges, appearing more natural. Once you've done that, lay out your oil pastels, feel free to colour your picture in colours you prefer, but keeping it looking realistic.

Oil pastels are really soft and great for blending, use medium and  dark browns for the  barks of trees, light and dark greens on the grass and tree canopies. I have used grey in the top half of the sky with a medium blue till the horizon.

The last and most enjoyable part is making dashes for raindrops all over your paper with a deep blue crayon or how else would it be a rainy day? 😊 and don't worry you are not going to ruin it, it's fun!

Tada! There you have it, a Rainy Day  !

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In today's gallery we have 7 year old Pranet.

This blog is still growing in content, and I hope to put out more this July, until then you can check out the previous post on Sun-Moon Scratch Art

Hope this lesson was helpful, see you in another post!

~ Sabrina.