Many parents are often puzzled over how to take their children away from tablets, phones and other gadgets and what to do. Coloring pages are ideal for kids of all ages. In addition, this is a good reason to introduce the kids to the Eastern calendar and tell them about the Ox symbol of 2021.
What can you paint
To make a black and white picture vivid and colorful, you can use a variety of writing instruments, which have their pros and cons.
- colored pencils are the simplest and most affordable option, of course, the picture is not as bright as with felt-tip pens and you need to make sure that children's fingers do not press the pencil with all their strength on the paper;
- felt-tip pens - a very bright picture is obtained with them, but they cannot be mixed to create new shades, like pencils and it will be difficult to paint small details if the tip of the rod is thicker than 1.5 mm;
- gel pens - will teach you discipline, since it will not work to fix flaws with an eraser, as is the case with pencils; New Year's coloring will turn out bright, but the pens have one drawback - the ink in them quickly runs out;
- watercolors - will allow you to try various drawing techniques on coloring, but the drawing must be printed on a fairly thick paper;
- gouache - it is easier for many to work with it than with watercolors, since there is no need to follow the rule of drawing from light to dark shades.
Tips: how to color beautifully
Regardless of how the space between the contours of the image will be filled with color, each of the writing instruments has its own secrets:
- Even large drawings should be colored with pencils in small areas, drawing short strokes close to each other. The direction of the hatching cannot be changed.
- Pencil-filled areas can be shaded by rubbing them with a paper towel or cotton pad. By the way, crafts made from cotton pads are another type of New Year's creativity).
- In order for the coloring pages with the Bull to be neat, coloring them with felt-tip pens, you need to put a blank sheet of paper under the drawing.
- The brightness of the color of the fragment, painted over with a pencil or felt-tip pen, can be made more saturated by applying strokes in several layers.
- Gel pens do not have to paint over the drawing with a solid color, you can simply create finer textures and patterns within the existing paths.
- In order not to climb into another area when painting a drawing with gouache, you first need to walk along the contours with a brush, and then move to the center.
- To paint the realistic wool of the Bull in watercolor, you need to apply paint on a brush, remove the excess with a napkin, straighten the hairs and apply paint with strokes on a dry surface painted with a background color.
- Another important point so that the child does not get dirty himself and does not stain the table at which he draws with paints, the baby needs to be dressed in an apron and oversleeves, and the table should be covered with oilcloth.
Now that the entire theoretical part is known, you can download free coloring pages with the Bull on our website and start practicing - coloring.
