Hello, artenauta! Today we bring you another easy and fun idea to work during these days with the little ones of the house: drawing and painting a Christmas tree.
This may be, par excellence, the drawing most often made during this period. In this case, we are going to give you some simple steps to draw the structure, leaving to your imagination the coloring and decoration you want to give it. The possibilities are endless!
How to paint a Christmas tree, step by step
As in previous activities, we recommend that, if you are going to do the activity with children, depending on their age and the materials to be used, they should always do it under adult supervision.
Step 1: Draw a roughly equilateral triangle:
Step 2: Draw a second triangle
Starting approximately from the center of the previous triangle. This time the triangle will have a slightly tighter angle at the apex:
Step 3: Draw a third triangle equal to the previous one, but smaller:
Step 4: Draw the last triangle
Smaller than the previous one (this time, if you look at the image, it does not start from the center of the previous one, but a little higher).
Step 5: outline the contour
Once we have the skeleton of our tree, we will outline the contour, reflecting the branches ending in a “beak”. We are going to give them a slight curvature to obtain greater realism:
Step 6: Color and decorate
Now that we have the structure, we start coloring and decorating, letting our imagination run wild. We can draw a star, Christmas balls, gifts at the bottom of the tree…
We can put the tree trunk inside a pot or draw it directly on the ground.
Once the drawing is finished, we start coloring. We recommend that you do it with colored pencils or markers.
As a final touch, you can apply a few touches of glitter, stickers or other decorative accessories that can give your tree a very nice and unique finish.
We hope you had a lot of fun doing this activity so full of Christmas spirit.
If you want to keep working on creativity while creating personalized Christmas decorations for your home, we recommend you to read how to draw a snowman to color, how to make personalized Christmas balls and Christmas cards.
To learn how to draw and paint like a professional, we recommend you to visit our Painting Course, where you will learn everything you need to control the stroke and color.
