CREATIVE ART
Color knowledge
Can you imagine a world without colors? Life would be dull indeed! Colors make everything around us twice as beautiful! Red berries hanging on a green tree, light purple mountain ranges, a light blue sky; leaves and flowers of different colors and hues; dazzlingly colorful butterflies, animals, birds, - all these are nature's multi- hued gifts! And it is from nature that we learn the delightful art of bringing colors together - in other words, the art of combining colors.
To create a beautiful picture, it is important to understand some essential facts about colors and how they look when they come together.
Red, yellow and blue are the three primary colors. They cannot be prepared by mixing any other colors. That is why they are called the basic colors.
When two primary colors are mixed, we get a secondary color. For example, by mixing red and blue we get purple. When blue is mixed with yellow, we get the color green and mixing yellow and red, gives us orange. Purple, green and orange are known as secondary colors.
Drawing and coloring tips
All children love to draw, but they need guidance to foster their artistic ability. Here are a few tips for good drawing:
- Always and always draw lightly. All children have tendency to press the pencil hard to draw. If you are drawing hard and you need to erase your mistakes, you will still see the pencil marks.
- Follow the steps if given in the drawing.
- Start from top to bottom. If you are drawing a human figure always draw the head first and then the body. In any other drawing draw the main object first and then create the background.
- If you are using crayons or pencil color or water color, always first outline or trace your drawing with the black permanent marker before coloring but if you are using oil pastels, first color your drawing and then outline or trace with black oil pastel color to avoid smudging of black pastel color.
- Don’t leave any white space in your picture while coloring and also make sure that your color does not go out of your drawing.
Competition rules:
- You can print the drawing from Khaas Baat’s home page at www.khaasbaat.com (in the right column).
- Ages: 3 to 5 year will print and color the drawing in any medium.
- Ages: 6 to 12 year will free draw the drawing and then color it in any medium.
- Ages: 13 to 18 year will draw and color on a theme: “Republic Day of India”
- Write your name, age and contact information on your drawing sheet. Parents please do not help. Let your child’s in-built creativity come out by itself.
- Send you entries by January 31 to Shyama’s Art - 10217 N. Woodmere Road, Tampa, FL 33617
- Winner’s name will be printed in this column next time.
Remember: When it’s from HEART, its ART
Shyama Rangwala can be reached at (813) 843-6784, e-mail shyama_vn@hotmail.com or visit www.shyamshyama.com
