New Year in the forest: pictures, photos, drawings for children

Forest landscapes are of interest not only to professional artists, but also to small young talents. Children get more delight from drawing mysterious creatures, dark forests and enigmatic atmosphere.

New Year in the forest can be truly magical. Interesting and wonderful events can happen here, because the enchanting winter nature, snow-covered road and fir trees in the twilight or morning rays of the sun look truly impressive and gracious.

Easy drawings on the theme of winter for copying

Even a preschooler can express New Year in the forest with paints or pencil. There are several options for depicting the festive mood on this topic.

Very young children can use the technique of copying an image using just a pencil. To do this, you need to choose a clear drawing that is suitable in size for an A4 sheet.

For work you may also need:

• slate pencils of varying degrees of hardness;
• eraser;
• paper density 160-180 g/m²;
• colored pencils, simple or watercolor;
• printed drawing for copying.

It is worth noting right away that it is not necessary to print out the drawing if the child can copy it independently. The finished image will be useful for those who cannot transfer lines at all or do not feel the size of proportions.

Then you can put the picture to the window and then copy it along the outline. The same can be done using the electronic version of the image.

For the New Year theme, drawings with the image of Santa Claus, the snowman Olaf and reindeer in a harness are suitable. As a rule, such fairy-tale characters and symbols of the New Year are depicted against the background of a snow-covered village. Around it there is a forest belt, a country road or hilly terrain.

To draw a winter forest and time the drawing to coincide with the New Year, you can use thematic plots:

• Animals living in the forest can look at Christmas tree decorations.
• Father Frost next to his sleigh against the backdrop of a forest is the prototype of any New Year.
• Forest dwellers with gifts in their hands will complement the illustration.
• Fairy tale characters from the tales "Twelve Months", "Silver Hoof" or "Umka" can be copied by hand.

The child can complement the drawing by decorating it with glitter. To repeat the plot by hand, it is enough to draw a sketch with a pencil. You can correct the lines with an eraser. Such a drawing will look like an independent picture.

New Year's landscape (drawing for kindergarten and school)

New Year in the forest among beautiful landscapes in the form of a picture can be timed to any crafts competition for a kindergarten or school. Each time, children are given tasks and creative ideas that they must implement at home with their parents.

To draw something unusual for kindergarten, you can use ideas from the Internet. The technique will depend on what the child wants to draw with.

Picture for kindergarten

There is a program for studying pencil technique for preschoolers.

Children can use colored pencils or watercolor pencils:

1. The easiest way is to prepare a sketch and then color the drawing with pencils or markers.
2. To create a background, it is enough to draw a horizon line and mark the area where the forest will be. In the distance, it has a darker color. You can paint it blue or aquamarine.
3. Small hills and elevations can be highlighted with a dark outline, and the entire area can be colored sky or blue.
4. Against the backdrop of a winter forest landscape, there must definitely be a New Year's accent.
5. Green and blue spruce trees should be present in the foreground. They can be painted dark green.
6. One of the trees can be drawn near a small house. It should be different - the presence of decorations and garlands will allow the tree to stand out from the others and set the New Year's mood.
7. And to bring more coziness, you can draw smoke in the chimney, a moon in the sky and a hare with Santa Claus. A fairy-tale character is not necessary, but he is very much loved by children.

Since the forest serves as a background and a basis for creating the main plot, the child can draw a thematic New Year's sketch, which is identified with the eve of the holiday.

Drawing for school

School exhibitions and competitions have always been and will be, especially when it comes to New Year's holidays. In elementary school, many children are already good at drawing, attend art clubs and have their own style.

Middle school students usually already work with different types of paints. And high school students just have to surpass everyone and create something grandiose.

Not everyone succeeds in painting with oils, and often graduates have to resort to tricks:

Filters	Sharpen and Unsharp Mask	The filter allows you to sharpen the image, which results in pixels. You can draw a picture using them.
Contour sharpening	Creating strokes	The finished strokes only need to be painted to create a complete picture.
Texturizer	Texturizer	The effect allows you to make the drawing clearer, and the illusion of a canvas is achieved by increasing the Amount parameter.
DALL-E	Software	The application is based on neural networks that create the desired pictures.

These techniques allow children and teenagers to create paintings in a simpler way. If you do not know how to hold a brush and work with a color palette, you can borrow the skills of programs and applications. However, many children prefer to work with drawings on their own.

New Year's themes in school classes before the holidays also create a festive atmosphere. Children take part in competitions and exhibitions. The youngest are given certificates, older children are praised in their diaries, and adults are even given excellent marks for their efforts.

Landscapes, forest motifs and home comfort become frequent paintings.

To prepare a drawing for a school exhibition, you need to choose a subject and drawing technique:

• Winter nature in the forest is characterized by an abundance of snow. For this you will need blue and light blue pencils.
• The tree crowns will be conditionally lush due to the snow lying on them. Therefore, it will be necessary to highlight the depth in the background.
• Forest edges should never be marked with a clear line. The horizon will blend in, so it is easier to draw it with pencils or paints.
• The spruce should be drawn with a blue pencil, diluting the strokes with a green tint.

Next, you can choose a drawing that the child is able to draw to the best of his abilities. The technique of drawing with pencils is suitable for children in elementary school, but acrylic paints or gouache will be easier for older children to master.

To understand the sequence in pencil technique, you must first set the background of the picture, and then draw the details. This can be done using several pictures as an example.

In the first case, the painting is completed in several stages:

1. First you need to make a background using blue and purple colors.
2. The winter sun should be drawn in yellow, and the rays at this time of year should be marked with a cold green shade.
3. Snowdrifts can also be highlighted in yellow, giving them an unusual bright shine. This looks beautiful against a background of dark and light blue shades.
4. The tree in the foreground remains invariably brown. And in the background they acquire a common color on par with the snowdrifts. The crowns can be highlighted with green and blue.
5. You can draw crows on a tree, drawing their feathers and beaks in detail.
6. Tree houses are places for fairy tale characters.
7. But you can draw an elf to your taste if you don’t have any skills.
8. The fairytale characters' sleighs contain treats and gifts. You can also fill them to your taste.
9. Snow in the form of snowflakes can be made using cotton swabs and white paint.

This plot may well be suitable for a drawing competition. And the second picture is suitable for younger children who already own paints. Acrylics will be the most suitable for such a picture.

1. First you need to draw a circle.
2. In the background, you need to draw a forest. The closer it is, the darker the color will be. The distant firs should be made light-colored.
3. Place the hut schematically in the center of the circle and draw the logs. The easiest way to do this is with a thin brush and two shades of brown.
4. You can place snow on the roof and outline it in blue.
5. The circle itself needs to be turned into a ball using shadows. To do this, you need to draw curved lines and give them volume.
6. The color of blue and purple paint should be used to paint the highlights. Do not make them dense. Acrylic and watercolor paints can be made translucent.
7. Since the picture is drawn inside the sphere, the sky will repeat the contour. The sky is reflected inside by highlights. They can be placed inside the circle as a second contour.

The New Year in the forest in this picture is traced by the very shape of the drawing. The New Year's ball with a toy inside resembles a festive winter decoration. The picture can be hung in the classroom or used to decorate the school corridor.

Such drawings can be made with paints. And the larger they are in scale, the easier it will be to decorate them. For example, a picture in a ball symbolizes a Christmas tree toy, and a forest landscape gives it a festive mood. A bow will serve as a hook for the tree, as well as a simple decoration.

Step by step gouache drawing

Gouache can be used to paint simple drawings that do not require shading or layering. As with any painting, a background is needed.

This can be done in several ways - using a pencil to mark the contours of the snowdrifts, or using gouache to paint a color background, separating the foreground and background with shades. Much will depend on the level of the horizon, the integrity of the drawing and its scale.

1. When marking with a pencil, it is important to consider the height of the snowdrifts in the forest. The smaller the forest, the larger the snowdrifts will be. The same is true vice versa. The wider the forest, the less noticeable the snow boulders.
2. After pencil marking, you can mark the places where the huts will be located. It is worth noting that the close location of the houses will allow them to be placed inside the snowdrifts.
3. After marking with a pencil, you can start coloring the sky. It can be made light or dark.
4. Using a thin brush and black gouache, you need to make the edges of the houses on one side. This will be the unlit part where the shadow falls.
5. Using yellow gouache, you need to paint the light in the windows and the reflections on the snowdrifts.
6. Snowy hills can be shaded. On one side, add violet, light blue and blue colors.
7. The chimney of the house should be painted brown with a thin brush. The smoke can be made gray or diluted with black.
8. When mixing gouache colors, you need to consider its ability to contaminate the drawing. Therefore, when applying two layers, you should wait for the previous one to dry.
9. Snow in the light can be painted with white paint with a blue tint.
10. The sky should be half a tone darker than the snow cover.

Dark shades of colors should be used in the darkest areas, light colors - only in illuminated places. Such pictures can be drawn even by preschoolers who can draw schematically, and also feel the difference in shades.

Older children can draw a picture that will be distinguished by the presence of bright colors, chiaroscuro, contrasts. These minor nuances give the picture fullness, and detailed small reflections give it a finished image.

More complex paintings will take more time, but it is worth it. In approximately this direction of the theme, you can come up with a landscape, where forest motifs, New Year's mood and a festive accent will be concentrated.

To make the painting colorful and bright, you need to work in several stages. Some layers of paint need to be dried so that the paints do not smear.

First of all, you need to create a background:

1. From the center of the sheet, you need to delimit the areas where the river will flow. Using a pencil, you can also schematically arrange the fir trees and houses.
2. The horizon line will be relatively higher than the center. Linear perspective allows you to arrange the fir trees so that they are equidistant from the edges of the sheet.
3. The sky should be immediately marked by placing the moon on it. Then you can immediately start working with paints. You need to paint the sky with blue, then take a little blue paint on the edge of the brush, and make several strokes. You will get a gradient.
4. Light blue should be used to paint all the snow fields. Then you will need to add shadow using dark tones. Since the moonlight falls on the surface of the snowdrifts, the tops will be the lightest.
5. In the distance, the fir trees will be lighter as they move away from the center. The further they are, the more haze appears in the drawing. It is enough to add green gouache mixed with a blue tint.
6. A lighter shade of green can be obtained by adding white. This is necessary to add snow cover on the branches. With a dry flat brush with paint, you need to lightly draw over the dried layer of green and blue colors.
7. Then you need to draw the fir trees that are closer to the observer. You should draw triangles of the desired height with black paint, and then apply white paint on the dry one. It should lie on the sheet in an arbitrary shape, forming the branches of the fir trees.
8. Bright lights should be painted with a dry brush after the white dots have been formed. This can be done in the same way as painting snow on fir trees.
9. Using blue paint mixed with black, you can now mark the boundaries of the river.
10. There are already trees in the middle ground. You can draw a sketch using a pencil, and then paint them brown. The shadow can be made of thin white lines along the trunks.
11. The tree roots will have shadows on the left and right in the corresponding parts of the drawing. The bases on the opposite side need to be lightened.
12. Snowdrifts, the sides of which are clearly visible to the observer, need to be darkened.
13. On the right, the house is in perspective. The snow lying on the roof needs to be lightened on the side where there are garlands.
14. The central tree looks more lush, so the snow needs to be made voluminous due to shadows. Yellow paint should be used to make snow layers where the light from the garland hits.
15. The fence on both sides is equidistant in perspective. Brown color will suit the whole fence, and light brown - for the illuminated parts.
16. The windows in the house and the ornament can be done in any color. The lantern with New Year's decorations should be drawn in the same way. The darker side will be on the left. There are no shadows on the right because of the lighting.

Using the same principle, you need to add shadows to all the snowdrifts, the roof, and the garlands.

New Year in the forest can be marked with various decorations. These can be bright garlands, thematic images, fairy-tale characters and more. Children can draw large pictures where there are no small details. High school students will be more interested in drawing a forest with small New Year elements just to maintain the festive mood.

The New Year theme in any drawing is not only winter, but also fairy-tale characters. The easiest way to recreate an illustration is one that already has typical ornaments.

The winter fairy tale can be complemented by anything, be it a beautiful Christmas tree or a sleigh with a bag of gifts. Traditionally, on this holiday, children carol and play snowballs. But the spirit of the holiday and the atmosphere of mystery are felt better in the forest role.

Video about drawing New Year in the forest

Snowy firs in the forest in gouache: