Master class on painting with gouache “Weeping Willow”. Step by step drawing
Drawing an illustration for the Legend of the Weeping Willow step by step
Orlova Marina Sergeevna, teacher primary classes MAOU secondary school No. 64, Tomsk.
Purpose: painting as a gift for an exhibition of drawings. The material will be useful for working with children in art classes or extracurricular activities. Master class for children 10 – 12 years old, teachers, parents.
Target: formation of drawing skills based on the impressions after reading the legend.
Tasks:
- develop a sense of color, color combinations,
- develop creative imagination,
- improve the ability to work with gouache,
- expand your horizons in the field of literature,
- instill interest in fine arts and literature.
Materials: landscape sheet, gouache, brushes, glass of water.
Job description: I accidentally came across this poetic legend when I was looking for material for a report with my daughter. There are many legends about the weeping willow, but this one was especially touching. This is the story about great love, unjustly taken away by Death. I don’t know the name of the author of the poem, I only have a pseudonym - Faceless. But the man is truly incredibly talented. I wanted to draw an illustration for this legend.
The Legend of the Weeping Willow...
The legend will tell us the secret of Willow,
We will learn the secret of thousands of years...
The secret about the tree, its tears,
A secret about something that has been forgotten for a long time...
In one village, at the edge of the Earth,
Beyond the horizon, by the blue water
Lived, laughed and were loved
People who did not know tears at the grave...
People who have not known a child's cry
Those who did not know the life of an aging nag...
There lived a girl named Iva in a village,
Smart and slim, graceful, beautiful...
Hair - chestnut-colored curls,
The eyes are deep, the color of the ocean...
She loved and was loved,
Life gave her almost everything she needed...
Raoul was the name of her beloved,
He dreamed of happiness with his Willow...
One day in the middle of the night in a deep forest
An old woman appeared, clutching a scythe...
She learned about the corner of the earth,
Where there is happiness, love - up to the ceiling...
She wanted to play hide and seek with people,
The old woman is smart, but people are stupid...
She heard about Raoul and Iva,
There is no hotter love than this in the whole world...
Well, if nothing in the world can destroy love,
What about Death?...
Willow sat admiring the river,
I watched the sun play with the water...
- “Beauty, hey, why are you alone?
Maybe the river knows the offense? -
The old woman asked, sitting down near Willow.
- “You really are a local diva!”
- "Resentment... resentment... What is this word?"
- "Resentment - is this new to you?"
- “Yes, new... tell me, who are you?”
- “I am Death... I... am not from this region...
Have you heard my dear,
That in your river there is a stone of goodness...
Goodness and love, whatever you want,
Everything you wish for him will come true...
- “Keep it for yourself, I don’t need it,
Tomorrow Raoul will become my husband,
I am happy, glad, loved, love,
I lived without a stone and will live...
Well, it's the wedding day,
The bride is a flower...
Their love is beautiful, like a tender sprout...
What about Raoul? He decided for the bride
Give a stone of love from the bottom...
I stood by the river in the same place
Where Death tried to seduce Willow...
- “But there is a condition, my rare friend,
Together we fly to infinity,
You will hold my hand tightly,
And you will be with Iva forever!
And Raoul jumped for his Willow
With Death to the bottom of this river...
The water closed and it became darker...
The church candles went out...
Iva was waiting and calling for Raoul,
I searched until it got dark...
I went to the river with strange feelings,
Where I sat with Raoul at night...
And a drop of water rolled off my cheek,
Salt water is tears...
They rolled and fell into the river,
The wedding roses have wilted...
There was truth in the words of that old woman -
Raoul stood near Willow...
But Iva doesn't see
Raoul is only a soul...
Now they are forever united...
Willow waited and shed tears...
Hair turned into leaves...
You can't see your eyes, you can't see your face -
The skin is covered with bark...
To this day she is waiting for her groom,
Crying, speechless with grief,
Not knowing that Raul's soul
Eternity stands next to her...
Bezlika, 2008
Stages of work: The picture is dominated by cool colors. It is quite dark, without clear lines. The girl-tree and the background merge into one, this gives the picture mystery and allows one to convey sadness and sadness.
1. Place the landscape sheet horizontally. Using a wide brush, paint the background blue from side to side.
2.Using a thin brush using sea-colored paint, draw the silhouette of a girl.
3.Using a brush No. 3, 4, paint the silhouette with paint of the same color, add white to the face, chest, knees, adding volume where needed.
4.Draw the eyebrows and nose with a thin brush in sea green color, the eyes in blue, and the eyelashes in emerald color. Lips are bright pink. To make the Willow girl's face sad, the bases of the eyebrows should be raised and the ends lowered.
5. Use whitewash to mark the edges of the river.
6. Let's paint it over with its former self.
Technique for depicting a tree with just one with a simple pencil very difficult. It requires a lot of concentration and the ability to see in perspective. Before I show you how to draw a willow tree, I'll tell you about a couple important points, which will make this task easier.
In order to give your landscape clarity and display the right time of year, you need to study the properties of trees inherent in this time. Their branches covered with flowers indicate spring, and in summer their foliage becomes denser. Autumn falling leaves cover the ground. And in winter the tree is exposed, and its trunks and branches become very visible.
It will be easier for you to draw a tree if you understand their growth pattern and basic shapes. Coniferous trees are cone-shaped and usually symmetrical. They are thin and tall. Deciduous ones, on the contrary, are less slender. They have a wide crown and irregular shape. Just a willow shining example such trees. Its branches are repeatedly divided into smaller ones and end in thin branches from which leaves grow.
How to draw Willow with a pencil step by step
Step one. Let's sketch a sketch. You can do this using geometric shapes. This is especially useful when depicting conifers. Since this is a willow, you can just use clouds: 
Step two. Let's draw the trunk and main branches. 
Step three. 
Step four. Let's take on the small branches. There are many of them, but there is no need to rush. The crown of a tree occupies a large spatial volume; if you forget about this, you will end up with a flat and lifeless tree. 
Step five. Erase the auxiliary lines. 
Well, the sixth step. Last. Let's add shading for volume and realism. 
We have lessons on drawing other trees.
The technique of depicting a tree with just a simple pencil is very complex. It requires a lot of concentration and the ability to see in perspective. Before I show you how to draw a willow tree, I'll tell you a couple of important points that will make this task easier.
In order to give your landscape clarity and display the right time of year, you need to study the properties of trees inherent in this time. Their branches covered with flowers indicate spring, and in summer their foliage becomes denser. Autumn falling leaves cover the ground. And in winter the tree is exposed, and its trunks and branches become very visible.
It will be easier for you to draw a tree if you understand their growth pattern and basic shapes. Coniferous trees are cone-shaped and usually symmetrical. They are thin and tall. Deciduous ones, on the contrary, are less slender. They have a wide crown and irregular shape. Willow is a prime example of such trees. Its branches are repeatedly divided into smaller ones and end in thin branches from which leaves grow.
How to draw Willow with a pencil step by step
Step one. Let's sketch a sketch. This can be done using geometric shapes. This is especially useful when depicting conifers. Since this is a willow, you can just use clouds:
Step two. Let's draw the trunk and main branches.
Step three.
Step four. Let's take on the small branches. There are many of them, but there is no need to rush. The crown of a tree occupies a large spatial volume; if you forget about this, you will end up with a flat and lifeless tree.
Step five. Erase the auxiliary lines.
Many stories have been invented about the willow, this interesting “weeping” tree. Why does it still “cry”? Few people know that this plant is capable of accumulating a lot of water, sometimes too much. Therefore, in the morning or at night, silvery drops of moisture collect on the leaves, they roll along the leaves, fall to the ground and it seems that the tree is shedding its tears. Some believe that the willow lowers its branches to touch the water and cries over its variability. After all, the water runs without stopping, and the tree is sad because it is impossible to “catch” it and stop it even for a moment. Willows often grow along the banks of rivers and ponds, so let's try to draw a willow over a river. To draw a willow, we will need an eraser, special paper and any watercolor paint or acrylic, gouache, whatever suits you.
The drawing is quite difficult for beginning artists, so be patient and we will figure out how to draw a willow step by step.
- First of all, with a pencil we make a light sketch of our future landscape. We will have several “plans” of the drawing - in the foreground there is water and the willow itself, in the background there is a bush behind it and in the background there is a small grove. It is important to correctly outline the contour of the willow, to show how its branches and lashes descend in a cascade. Anyone who has held a willow in their hands or simply watched how a willow grows in nature knows how flexible its branches are. Under the weight of the leaves they will hang smoothly like a frozen waterfall. Let's denote the river bank, a small bush and a background with a solid wall of trees.
- To avoid messing up anything when coloring, mark where the shadows will be. Dark areas will also be on the water and under the willow.
- Let's start painting with watercolors. Using transparent paint with added water, we paint the sky. This will be a gradient from saturated blue to transparent soft pink with the addition of purple. We make the river with cooler shades. We paint the tree with yellow-green watercolor with small shades of green on the right, in the shadow. We draw the background in general, only in silhouette, using blue, violet and light blue shades. We outline the second plan with warm green paint.
- At this stage we paint shadows, but be careful in the area where the willow branches come into contact with the surface of the water. This piece needs to be carefully written out, we need to show the structure of the branches, thin drooping leaves. Since this place in the drawing will be the brightest and most contrasting, try to make it clearer and with a thin brush. We make the shadows a little lighter throughout the tree; the thickest ones will be below, near the ground. Making a reflection in the water. We draw a slightly blurry shape of the willow, intensifying the shades of blue and blue, and also adding short strokes of dark green watercolor and ocher.
- With an almost dry thin brush you need to show the direction of the narrow leaves of the tree, as they are lowered down. We make the shadows in the depths of the foliage more contrasting, but do not forget that the densest shadow will be at the bottom, and towards the top the shadows will be shorter and not so thick.
- Wait until the previous layers dry completely. Using a soft, damp, wide brush, create a general shadow on the tree on the right; it will be a cool blue shade. We increase the contrast in the foreground, the reflection in the water will be very dark. Aquatic plants - water lilies or duckweed - usually float on the surface of the river, so we do not paint over the light green “islands”, but simply outline them. Closer to us the water becomes lighter, add more water to the watercolor. Draw the background with the bush, make it more voluminous due to the shadows below. With a thin, almost dry brush, paint the reeds on the shore, use dark ocher with the addition of blue or light blue so that the whole drawing is in the same color scheme. The sky above can be enhanced by adding blue or purple. The area above the distant trees - we almost do not touch the thin strip and do not paint over it. If you go to the river bank in the summer, take a sketchbook with you to draw a willow tree or a landscape with these unusual trees that will probably be there.
