Let's sculpt a horse
Another common Dymkovo figurine (perhaps no less common than the Dymkovo young lady) is a horse. First of all, from the material chosen for work, we sculpt the torso, then the cones of the legs, as well as the head with a mane and a small tail.
All parts are combined into a single whole and glued together. The toy is sent to dry, which will also be followed by baking in the oven, whitewashing and painting.
Modeling is one of the types of artistic creativity. In kindergarten, school, art clubs, and just for fun, children and adults engage in modeling in their free time. The easiest way to sculpt is from plasticine.
The material is available in all stores, it is soft and plastic, it is easy to fashion an object of any shape from it. You can always take an old work and fashion a new artistic creation from a used piece.
The horse is a beautiful animal with a proudly arched neck, flowing mane, large body and thin strong legs. It is difficult to sculpt a horse in all its glory. More often they sculpt a stylized horse, reminiscent of folk toys.
The master class is intended for teaching sculpting to children in the preparatory group or in grades 1-2 at school. It will be useful for kindergarten teachers.
This activity continues to teach children how to sculpt animals, develops in children a sense of beauty, artistic taste, imaginative thinking, and trains fingers and fine motor skills. It also fosters a love for animals, teaches you to analyze: what a horse looks like, what parts a horse figurine consists of, how to sculpt a horse step by step.
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During the lesson, we repeat counting and geometric shapes with the children and correlate them with the shape of individual parts of the horse’s figure.
For sculpting you need the following materials:
- plasticine;
- modeling board;
- stack.
Before the start of the lesson, the leader reviews photos and drawings of horses
, while clarifying that the horse consists of an oblong body, a long curved neck with a small oval head. The horse's legs are long and cone-shaped. Long thick mane and tail.
To make it easier for children to work with plasticine, it should be kept in a warm room before class.
How to sculpt a horse:
A beautiful horse made of plasticine. Together with the children we admire the results of their work.
Using white, orange and black plasticine, you can make a plasticine horse that looks like the horse with apples from the cartoon.
Prepare for work
plasticine of the desired color, stacks, board for work.
How to make a horse:
Sculpting a unicorn and a zebra
White plasticine horses
They look beautiful and elegant, especially with decorations made of colored plasticine. You can mold a colored blanket, harness, or saddle onto a horse.
Using white plasticine, using the above master class, you can make a unicorn or zebra.
According to legend, the unicorn has a multi-colored tail and mane, and a long multi-colored sharp horn on its face. To make a unicorn
, you need to take a large piece of white plasticine and a little of different colors.
We sculpt a figure from white plasticine as for a white horse: we also make ears, eyes, nostrils, and a mouth. From colored plasticine we roll out many thin sausages for the mane and tail. You can adapt a garlic press and use it to make sausages. We beautifully decorate the lush, long multi-colored mane and tail.
Unicorn horn
You can make it in the form of a cone from multi-colored plasticine, attach a star made of foil to the tip, or make the entire horn from shiny foil.
zebra
easy to mold from white plasticine with black stripes. Make it like a horse, stick strips of black sausages on a white back. The short mane and tail are also black. On the face there is a black nose, and the legs end in black hooves.
How to make a Dymkovo horse from plasticine
Dymkovo horses
They are made from clay and painted with various patterns: dots, circles, mesh.
You can make a horse from white and colored plasticine, the same as the Dymkovo horse:
The plasticine horse is ready, it can be painted with water-based paints in the style of Dymkovo patterns.
In the old days, every city and large village on the territory of our homeland had its own craft, and in some cases even several. Having come up with an unusual method for producing a high-quality product in large quantities, the artisans continued to keep their secrets secret and passed them on to their children. Some ancient crafts continue to exist in our time.
The history of the origin of the Dymkovo toy
Clay is a special material that is distinguished by its plasticity in its raw form, and it also acquires high strength after firing. Due to these characteristics of the material, clay products have been widely popular from ancient times to the present day. In ancient times, dishes and clay figurines were created in almost every region of our homeland.
Moreover, each locality had its own figure shapes, author’s traditions of decorating and painting the resulting toys. The village of Dymkovo (Kirov region) became known throughout the country for its skilled craftsmen who created small, bright toys that made different sounds. It is curious that the traditional toy was made not to entertain children, but to protect one’s home from evil spirits.
In the old days they thought that evil spirits were very afraid of loud sounds. It is for this reason that in those days all toys could whistle, rattle and make sounds. They were traditionally created for the festival of Pandemonium, during which people drove out evil spirits and had fun with the whole village.
Features of toys from masters
Today, in the village of Dymkovo itself, you can find not only rattles and whistles, but also simple toys in the form of figurines that cannot make any loud sounds. The main feature of this product is its relatively small size. Craftsmen who remain faithful to ancient traditions most often make figurines of birds (turkeys), animals (deer), young ladies, and in some cases, men.
However, you can also find products that are more complex in shape: women holding a loaf of bread in their hand, or good fellows riding a beautiful horse. A simple pattern and a small number of colors when painting the structure are what distinguishes the toy for the most part.
You can create a horse from plasticine with your own hands in the style of such a folk craft. This is done quite easily: the shape of the figurine should be distinguished by its simplicity in execution, and simple dots and lines are used to paint the finished product. It is worth noting that in traditional creation the background must be white, but today you can very often find toys that are painted in different colors.
We sculpt a lady using the Dymkovo technique
Craftsmen from the village of Dymkovo have been making figurines of women since ancient times. Among them there are real ladies in kokoshniks, and simple peasant women with children in their arms or buckets on rocker arms. Despite the variety of decorative options, all female figures have a fairly simple shape, thanks to which you can immediately understand that this is a Dymkovo toy. How to make a lady from plasticine? For a full skirt you will need a frame - it is convenient to take the cut off neck of a plastic bottle. Cover it with a thin layer of plasticine, maintaining its shape. Then, based on the bottle cap, form a body and attach a ball-head to it. Next, you can give free rein to your imagination - sculpt your hands, hair and headdress. You can add some other decor, give the young lady something in her hands. Cover the finished figurine with primer and paint.
If the topic of your creative activity today is a Dymkovo plasticine toy, a photo of the finished figurine or even the figurine itself as a sample should always be before your eyes
It is especially important to have a role model for children; do not forget that children do not have much life experience. If you want to decorate the finished toy with complex patterns, be sure to try making them on paper
In fact, by combining circles and stripes you can achieve various and interesting effects, the main thing is to choose the right colors. Red, yellow, blue, green, orange - all these are the colors in which the Dymkovo toy is traditionally painted. You already know how to make such a figurine from plasticine at home. If desired, you can also use orange or pink paint during the painting process, and highlight individual elements with gilding. Don’t forget that you don’t need to carefully draw the face; just outline it schematically.
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The Dymkovo young lady amazes with the brightness of her colors, amazing ornaments, and the feeling of the fullness of real Russian life. It may seem that a modern person, a resident of a big city, is unlikely to be able to make one with his own hands. But that's not true. It can be molded from clay - in accordance with the traditions of the Vyatka town of Dymkovo (where the craft originated), or from salt dough, which, of course, is much easier in a city apartment. After all, a clay toy must not only be molded, but then carefully fired - preferably in a special oven, although a kitchen oven will do.
For sculpting, red clay purchased in a specialized store, or mined with your own hands from a garden plot, is suitable.
It is important to prepare the workplace well. You will need:
- oilcloth on the table at which the modeling will take place;
- a glass of water that can be moistened when gluing parts of a future figurine made of clay or dough;
- rags to wipe your hands with;
- wooden spatula, in order to trim the resulting figures.
Choosing the character you want to create is an individual matter. But in the Dymkovo toy, as in any craft with traditions, the set of heroes has long been quite strictly defined: the Dymkovo toy lady, a rider on a horse and just a Dymkovo toy horse, a turkey with a huge tail, a plump pig, “a deer with golden horns,” a cockerel , as well as all kinds of whistles.
When the toy is already dry...
The fact that the toy has dried will be clear from the color - the clay will become light. Now the toy can be sent to the stove or oven, where it will be fired. After this, the toy is whitewashed (simple waterproof paint that does not contain varnish will do). The whitewash must be applied in two layers, and after that, begin painting with tempera paint. The ornaments of the Dymkovo toy are circles, diamonds, rings, multi-colored stripes. By the way, the ornaments of ladies and young ladies are different: city dwellers often paint themselves with circles, while peasant women’s aprons and skirts are decorated in a more formal checkered or striped pattern.
Materials for creativity at home
Making Dymkovo toys at home is a good idea for children to create together with their parents. Plasticine is considered the most accessible and cheapest material. To create figures according to the traditions of the village of Dymkovo, it would be more logical to use white material. But since plasticine is usually sold in whole sets, which include a large number of colors, you can mix them together and sculpt beautiful figures from them.
The finished figure is usually coated with a primer; only after it has dried can you begin painting. In the traditional method of creation, the toy is not varnished, but is left with a matte structure. If you use unstable paints when creating, it makes sense to secure them additionally.
The most cozy style of Christmas tree outfit
In modern times, the handmade style in decorating a holiday tree is becoming increasingly popular. This is not surprising, because the New Year is a family holiday, which should bring peace and comfort to the house, unite families together, and such an important detail as a Christmas tree greatly contributes to creating the right atmosphere in the house.
In addition, pre-New Year preparations are a great opportunity to spend time with your family and children, captivate them with the process of creating New Year's toys with your own hands and then decorating the tree together. How to decorate a Christmas tree for the New Year in 2021 by making decorations with your own hands?
There can be a huge number of ideas for this. Perhaps you have a hobby that will help you make interesting handmade Christmas tree decorations. Sewing and knitting are the most common ways to make toys, but other unusual methods can also be used.
Do-it-yourself edible decorations will be one of the most enjoyable ways to decorate a holiday tree for a child, because it is not only entertaining and beautiful, but also delicious.
Small gingerbread cookies of various shapes, covered with brightly colored confectionery glaze, candies in shiny wrappers, chocolate - all this will help you decorate the tree in an unusual way, just do not forget that chocolate, additionally heated by New Year's garlands, tends to melt quickly. Therefore, a tree decorated in this way is unlikely to stay with you throughout the holidays.
Gifts of nature
You can start preparing for the holiday in advance, from the beginning of the year, by collecting any items with which you will later decorate the tree. These can be dried fruits, shells, pine cones, flowers from the herbarium, which need to be coated with varnish and glitter before the holiday.
You can make very beautiful and unusual New Year's toys with your own hands from natural materials.
Your hobby
Collecting is another hobby that can help you create an unusual outfit for a coniferous beauty. If you collect any items - stamps, coins, badges, then you can use them in decorating your holiday interior.
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