Gzhel painting is truly amazing - there are only 2 colors, but any pattern made using this technology has such vibrancy and volume that it is difficult to believe in its nature. Gzhel masters create real masterpieces even from a few simple curls, and you want to join them. At home, without training with a professional, you can also master the basics Gzhel painting and try to decorate any ceramic product yourself.

Gzhel painting: basic technology

All the beauty of this pattern is achieved through mixing 2 colors, which allows you to get a large number of shades between pure royal blue and dazzling white. At the same time, the technology involves both contrasting transitions, stretching through shading, and even almost complete darkening of blue to black. All this is done by changing brushes, pre-mixing shades, and even combining them on the pile at the same time.

• The difficulty of Gzhel painting is mastering brush movements. The width and density of the stroke, the thickness of the paint layer on each part of the pile, its direction - there are no minor nuances here. Therefore, all beginners need to first work out the basic elements, where gradually, step by step, new and new techniques are added.
• The “cut-off spot” also plays a significant role. If you analyze the drawings made using this technology, you will notice that the shades are arranged in the composition according to a certain pattern. This is an almost smooth transition from a clean, light spot (which is the center of the picture), to dark edges, towards which the saturation and depth of color intensify. The opposite option is also quite possible, when small details along the edges disappear into an illuminated haze, and large central elements, on the contrary, are dark and dense.

It is important to remember that the elements of Gzhel painting are always accompanied by smoothness, softness, roundness of lines, ease of shade transitions, even if they have a contrasting joint (there will always be a slight stretch in it), and small details along the edge.

How are the elements of Gzhel painting done?

If you look at pictures of Gzhel painting, you will notice that the main elements that are repeated in absolutely any work are strokes and lines, complemented by floral patterns. This is due to the fact that the “plant” theme is the most popular direction in this technology, along with the “ornamental” theme, which is necessary for the design of the periphery.

There are several basic techniques in Gzhel painting, which differ in the position of the brush, the working length of its bristles, and the direction of movement. Of these, the following are considered basic:

• "Sitchik." A brush with thin, long bristles is used, with only the tip involved. Usually, this technology is used to decorate small details that are an ornament of one or another element - curls, waves, etc.: the basic patterns of Gzhel painting. In this case, a pure color is usually used, without a transition between them.
• "Chinese stroke". The most interesting and most complex technique, in which both colors, or 1, are immediately applied to the brush, but with pulling along the pile, and the elements are performed continuously with this brush, while the color saturation on the surface gradually fades away. Then the paint is picked up again, and again, as the elements are removed, the paint fades, becoming softer.

• "Brushstroke with shadow." According to some sources, it is a variety of “Chinese”: the paint is also applied to a common brush, the correct proportion of blue and white is first selected, and their thickness on the pile is adjusted. The brush movements are carried out so that the blue area is always thick, saturated, has a shadow, and the light area surrounds it with a light halo, dispersing the color.

Gzhelskaya painting: step-by-step drawing V technology shadow strokes

This technique is called the “double stroke” technique or “Chinese stroke”, and the resulting elements look impressive not only in the classic blue and white tones, but in other shades, as well as when drawing figures that are not related to Gzhel painting. To make such a simple flower, you will need:

• acrylic paint blue and white flowers(most convenient for training);
• water in a glass;
• mixing palette;
• a sheet of thick watercolor paper or a drawing surface to be decorated;
• brushes of different sizes with squirrel or taklon bristles, always flat, the cut can be petal-shaped, even or beveled: only the shape of the element you receive depends on this.

The drawing begins with practicing the “double stroke” technique: you will need paints, a brush and a palette.

1. Place a portion of white and blue paint next to each other on the palette. Gently pull their edges towards each other to introduce the shades into each other. Apply the brush to the drops so that the richest dark blue is at the base of the pile, the purest white is at its edge. Using the flat of the brush, you need to make a couple of caressing movements across the palette to finally shade the transition between shades.
2. A simple stroke is performed by simply laying the plane of the brush on the surface and holding it perpendicular to the hair. That is, the brushstroke should not mix the colors, as was the case when shading on the pile, but should bring them out in parallel. Watch the brush pressure so that there are no bald spots of color.
3. Did you manage to draw a uniform line? You can start to deform it. Lay the brush flat, but now redistribute the weight so that most of it is at the end of the bristles, and carefully move the brush to the side, giving it a slight 180-degree rotation. As you approach the end of the rotation, move the weight to the base of the pile and repeat the same action, but now relative to the new fulcrum. You should end up with a wave or an “S” shape laid on its side. Continuing to alternate zones with weight, produce a long, soft wave.
4. When this pattern is mastered, angularity is added to it: make an upward wave, but having dropped to the lowest point, do not transfer the weight to another zone - leave it there, at the edge of the pile, and bring the wave upward again. The same thing will need to be repeated separately in reverse. It is from such elements that the petals of most flowers in Gzhel painting are made up.
5. “Drops” in the shadow stroke technique are the most difficult to perform due to the special position and rotation of the brush, as well as the need to quickly and gracefully remove it from a sheet or other surface. Where the “head” of the drop will be, the brush is placed with its full weight, often with the base of the pile, then rotated around it and begins to stretch to the side. At the same time, the pressure decreases and the line narrows. As soon as it reaches the minimum thickness, the pile must be removed from the surface, allowing it to pass another 0.5-1 mm for the most graceful break.
6. When single “drops” are mastered, try performing them next to each other: these will be the side petals of the flower.
7. The last task that is set before you when mastering the shadow stroke is to combine all the worked out techniques in a single flower. The upper and lower semicircle as its center, drops as the framing petals. And the simplest elements - dots and lines - are in the core, for the stamens.

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Gzhel painting is a technology accessible even to children. Professionals recommend starting training with simple “copybooks” made by yourself: print out the basic elements individually, leave an outline and a sufficient amount of free space next to them, and try to repeat. And when you no longer need to follow the blanks, try to perform the same patterns separately and together with each other in order to gradually reach full-fledged patterns.

Gzhel painting. How to draw?

Painting of Gzhel plates. Master Class

Purpose: You can paint plates to decorate the walls in the kitchen with children preparatory group in art classes.

Step-by-step painting process

Simple pattern

From shades of paint,

White clay, porcelain -

Attributes of a fairy tale!

Like a child's hand

On pieces of clay

Painted in three strokes

Blue paintings.

For work we will need:

Plastic plate

White acrylic paint

Blue, blue gouache

Brushes of different sizes

Acrylic varnish

Palette

We make a sketch on the plate with a blue marker. I will draw a bunch of grapes, which means we will draw grapes and individual elements of Gzhel painting: leaves, flowers, tendrils

In the palette we put white and blue paint, I have blue and dark blue paint. We start with grapes, first draw light blue on each grape

Add white acrylic paint and draw the grapes.

The paint colors mix with themselves and create beautiful shimmers.

While our grapes are drying, we draw the remaining details of the leaves and flowers

We return to the grapes, again we alternately draw, now white, now blue

Now the bunch needs to dry out. We transform the plate, mixing blue and white. Use the resulting blue paint to paint the edge of the plate.

The edge of the plate is ready

Make strokes with blue paint

The final stage is to make strokes on the grapes with white paint.

And we immediately finish with dark blue

When the plate dries, which is 2-3 hours, coat it with varnish.

Our plate is ready

And this is how the plates decorate my kitchen

I will be glad if my idea is useful to you.

Publications in the Traditions section

Mysteries of Russian painting patterns

Have Gzhel dishes always been blue and white, what traditional painting was born after the October Revolution, and why do painted boxes glow? We understand the secrets of folk art crafts.

Golden bowls. Khokhloma painting

Golden bowls. Khokhloma painting

Golden bowls. Khokhloma painting

The master began work by beating the baclush - he prepared wooden blocks (baklushi) from linden, aspen or birch. Wooden spoons and ladles, cups and salt shakers were made from them. Dishes not yet decorated with painting were called linen. The linen was primed and dried several times, and then painted in yellow, red and black tones. Popular motifs were floral patterns, flowers, berries, and lace branches. Forest birds on Khokhloma dishes reminded the peasants of the Firebird from Russian fairy tales; they said: “The Firebird flew past the house and touched the bowl with its wing, and the bowl became golden.”.

After applying the design, the product was coated with drying oil two or three times, tin or aluminum powder was rubbed into the surface and dried in an oven. After hardening with heat, they acquired a honey hue and really shone like gold.

At the beginning of the 18th century, dishes began to be brought to the Makaryevskaya Fair, where sellers and buyers from all over Russia gathered. Khokhloma products turned out to be known throughout the country. Since the 19th century, when guests from all over Europe and Asia began to come to the Nizhny Novgorod fair, painted dishes have appeared in many parts of the world. Russian merchants sold products in India and Turkey.

Snow background and blue patterns. Gzhel

Snow background and blue patterns. Gzhel. Photo: rusnardom.ru

Snow background and blue patterns. Gzhel. Photo: gzhel-spb.ru

Snow background and blue patterns. Gzhel. Photo: Sergey Lavrentiev / Lori Photobank

Gzhel clay has been known since the time of Ivan Kalita - since the 14th century. Local craftsmen used it to create “vessels for apothecary needs,” dishes and children’s toys. IN early XIX century, factories appeared in the Gzhel volost where porcelain was made. The first enterprise here was founded in 1810 by merchant Pavel Kulichkov. At first, painting on porcelain dishes was colored, but in the middle of the 19th century, the fashion for blue and white Dutch tiles and Chinese porcelain of the same shades came to Russia. Soon blue patterns on a snowy background became a distinctive feature of Gzhel painting.

To check the quality of porcelain, before painting, the product was dipped in magenta, a red aniline dye. The porcelain was painted an even pink color, and any crack was visible on it. The masters painted with cobalt paint - before firing it looks black. Using special techniques, working only with a brush and paint, the artists created more than 20 shades of blue.

Gzhel subjects are lush roses (they were called “agashkas” here), winter landscapes, scenes from folk tales. Children are sledding, Emelya is catching pike in the pond, villagers are celebrating Maslenitsa... After applying the design, the dishes were covered with glaze and fired. Pink products with black patterns took on their traditional look.

Luminous brooches and boxes. Fedoskino lacquer miniature

Luminous brooches and boxes. Fedoskino lacquer miniature

Luminous brooches and boxes. Fedoskino lacquer miniature

“When we organized the artel, for seven people we had only one collected works of Pushkin... This largely explains the fact that we wrote most of our miniatures based on Pushkin’s subjects.”

Alexander Kotukhin, miniaturist

In 1932, Palekh artists met with Maxim Gorky, who called Palekh lacquer miniature "one of the miracles created by the October Revolution". At his request, Ivan Golikov painted miniatures for the deluxe edition of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign.”

Gzhel painting belongs to the varieties of native Russian art. This is not the first time that toys, dishes, and souvenirs have been painted in this style. A characteristic feature of this painting is the use of only a few colors (white and blue, as well as dark blue, closer to blue), as well as strokes of a certain shape.

Gzhel painting: patterns

Easy Gzhel drawings consist of simple individual elements that, with due diligence, even a 4-5 year old child can master. These patterns include:

Diagonally drawn lines. Similar strokes are drawn to them at right angles, and patterns - dots - are placed in the resulting cells.

Points– the simplest flowers are formed from them, which are usually used to decorate the borders of products (plates, cutting boards, etc.).

Wavy lines. Borders will also be drawn from them.

Droplets. A slightly more complex artistic element. It will consist of flower petals, leaves, and complex branches with leaves.

Stroke with shadow. The essence of the element is in its name - a stroke is made with a brush, and then a stripe is drawn in the upper or left (right) part of the stroke again. It turns out to be a shadow. Three-dimensional flower buds are made from such elements.

The simplest Gzhel patterns for children are dots and lines, as well as simple strokes without shadows. Even with their help you can create a characteristic painting.

Gzhel painting step by step

The main motives of this type of painting are plant and animal ornaments (birds, flowers, animals). Let's try to do something in the style of Gzhel painting - how to draw an ornament on a plate.

Tools and materials:

White clay plate, not covered with glaze,

Paints

Brush

Simple pencil

So, first we draw a diagram of the future drawing with a simple pencil. The design will consist of a simple ornament and a large flower in the center of the plate.

The border, or border, is drawn without first applying it with a pencil. This can be a wavy line with dots placed in every second indentation (“wave”).

To draw a flower, make a mark in the center of the plate.

Rose petals are drawn with shadowed strokes. It is from the bud that we begin our painting. Then we move on to drawing the petals. As a result, we should get an image like this:

The border can be made like this or simpler, in one of these styles:

So, Gzhel painting (pictures of which you have already studied with us) is not difficult and very beautiful. And it is also accessible even to children, especially if patient parents come to their aid. Draw together, and you will succeed, even painting dishes or small souvenirs using this technique.

From time immemorial, Gzhel was one of the most beautiful paintings. The name appeared thanks to a vast area called the “Gzhel Bush”, located about one and a half kilometers from Moscow. Basically, Gzhel includes cool colors, usually black, blue, light blue. It is customary to paint dishes, sets, ceramic figurines with Gzhel, Lately There was a tendency to paint nails like Gzhel. If you are new to this field, I will show you how to draw under Gzhel with instructions in pictures.

Now you know a few elements. I will show you how to draw a Gzhel painting step by step.

Materials for work

• Acrylic paint in tubes (blue or blue, white).
• Mug.
• Brushes (Squirrel is ideal, nylon is also suitable) with numbers 4, 2, 1.
• Acetone.
• Cotton wool.
• Pencil.
• Paper.
• Pliers.

Gzhel painting: master class

To start work, let's prepare the surface for work - clean the mug with acetone and cotton wool.

Then we sketch a sketch on a piece of paper.

Squeeze brush No. 4 No. 2 slightly with pliers. Apply blue or blue paint to the top and white paint to the bottom; use a brush to make a back-and-forth motion on the leaf to create a gradient.

On the mug, select the place where the petals will be drawn. Or, as in the picture, make a circle with your finger.

At the bottom of the circle we draw petals; if you are not sure of yourself, draw on paper first.

Wait for the petals to dry (acrylic dries quickly, but it's best to wait about thirty seconds), then draw the next ones and finish the rose.

When the rose is dry, add stamens to the middle of the rose using a #1 brush. Using the same brush we draw a stem, you can also decorate it with leaves.

We finish drawing the berries, or fill the empty space with leaves. This concludes our work. The last action to complete the composition is the tea in this cup.

In addition to dishes, ceramic figurines are painted. For example, this figurine - the horse is painted in Gzhel style. You can give this figurine to your family and friends.

All these animals are also painted with Gzhel. Well, isn't this wonderful?

But this kind of work 50 years ago would have seemed outlandish. Although at this time, I think the word wildness is disappearing.

There is also such a wonderful job with the service.

Initially, only dishes and figurines were painted with Gzhel, but nowadays almost everything is painted with Gzhel: even cabinets in the kitchen and glass jars into which housewives pour spices. If only there was desire and imagination. In addition, such works would be an original gift for friends or relatives. Have fun creating.

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