Felt-tip pens have replenished the line of stationery relatively recently - 50 years ago. Today they have become a familiar tool for children's creativity. Unlike paints, colored pencils, wax crayons, artists do not really welcome their use.
Agree, it’s quite difficult to find a book in which illustrations are created using felt-tip pens. Art schools and painting studios also do not hold lessons in drawing with these tools. Despite this, children are very fond of creating them, especially since now they can be very diverse.
One of the latest developments is air felt-tip pens. They are also called blopen. Today they are very popular with buyers.
What is the difference from conventional markers?
BLOpens aerial felt-tip pens are created for drawing in a somewhat unusual way - the image on paper is obtained with the help of a spray of a blown ink composition. Like some toys created for the development of babies' speech breathing , these seemingly ordinary devices strengthen and develop the respiratory system.
How to use air felt-tip pens?
Each of them has a case, which consists of two halves - transparent and color. Before you begin, you must:
- to take a felt-tip pen from a case;
- insert the writing end into the transparent half until it stops (tight);
- connect both halves;
- From the side of the colored half, blow into the felt-tip pen.
After completing the drawing, rearrange the markers so that the writing end points toward the colored half of the case. This will prevent it from drying out.
Air felt-tip pens (as usual) allow you to mix colors. To do this, it is necessary to blow on the same part of the drawing first with a felt-tip pen of one color, and then another.
You can adjust the color intensity. It depends on how long you will blow on the same part of the picture. You can make it soft and blurry or more dense and rich.
Felt pens allow you to develop a child’s imagination. Try to close part of the picture with him while painting with a piece of paper, use pieces of lace and braid as a stencil.
You can draw a wet brush on the drawing. So you can make beautiful backgrounds for applications and cards.
Stencils
Air felt-tip pens (depending on the set) are equipped with stencils. When they are mastered, in the store you can purchase them separately or make them yourself.
At what age can I use?
Manufacturers recommend felt-tip pens to children from four years old. In the process of working with them, the child develops an aesthetic taste and respiratory system.
Parents should not be afraid - ink in blopen is completely harmless. They are made on a water basis, and they will not harm the baby's health. It is important that the air felt-tip pens are filled with ink, which is easily washed off the fabric and washed off the skin.
The case of blopen is made of polypropylene - a durable material that, even if the felt-tip pen breaks, will not injure the child with fragments, since he will not have sharp edges when the kink is broken.
Unusual beautiful drawings, bright colors, simplicity and safety in use - all this is the advantage of air felt-tip pens, which will be a good gift for a child.