Painting & Drawing
To turn your own fantasy into reality, you need the right tools. No matter whether you choose watercolours and brushes or the wooden crayon: With LAMY products, you have the right tool at hand to give free rein to your or your child's creativity. Breathe life into illustrations, pictures and drawings, because with our painting and drawing utensils, artists big and small bring their imagination to paper with ease.
Painting with aquaplus watercolours from LAMY
The aquaplus opaque paint box optionally with 12 or 24 colours, delivers pure, brilliant shades and has a high-yield, consistent colour quality. Thanks to easy-to-clean mixing fields including the LAMY star mixing field and opaque white, any desired colour can be mixed independently at any time. If your favourite colour in the opaque paint box is used up, you can buy all the colours separately. This way, there are no limits to creativity.
Five good reasons why researchers recommend getting creative with pen and brush
1. Creativity increases self-confidence
Did you know that painting and drawing makes us more self-confident? We express our thoughts and feelings and put them on paper - for everyone to see or just for ourselves. No matter what ends up on the paper or canvas, whether painted with oil paints, watercolours or simple crayons: We can always be proud of our work; something we have created with our own hands.
2. Drawing and painting helps to organise thoughts
While we are painting or drawing, we are indeed creative and concentrate fully on the picture we are working on. But when we are in such a mindset, it is easier for us to enter into inner dialogue and to deal with thoughts and feelings. Through painting and drawing we fall into a state that makes us think better.
3. Painting lays the foundation for a child's individual handwriting
Your own handwriting is something very personal and individual. Even with the first scribbles and small works of art, your child takes the first step towards his or her own handwriting.
4. Drawing trains fine motor skills
When children discover different colours and materials while painting, they train their fine motor skills at the same time. Precision and technique develop over time, but along the way children gain valuable experience, acquire a competence in materials and materials, and can apply this to other areas of everyday life.
5. Children learn patience and train their ability to concentrate
To concentrate on one thing, to focus and keep your mind on one task for a long period of time: These activities help your child's brain develop and encourage concentration and patience in little artists.
Drawing with colourplus coloured pencils from LAMY
The ideal crayon for everyone, young and old: Slim, timeless design, the ergonomic shape and an unbreakable refill guarantee a pleasant drawing experience.
Painting & Drawing with LAMY - how children learn it
Practice makes perfect! Even at kindergarten and pre-school age, children benefit from first attempts at painting. In small steps and with a lot of fun, they learn how to handle pencil and paper and develop motor skills.
This is helped by child-friendly writing utensils, such as the coloured pencils from the 3plus series. These help the very young to lay the foundations for their motor skills in their first works of art and encourage the 3-finger grip. With each picture your child draws, this foundation is further developed and refined.
Frequently asked questions
The coloured pencils from the plus series by LAMY are ideal for simple but also complex pictures. They are suitable for all ages from primary school onwards: The break-proof lead and the wide range of brilliant colours ensure distinct painting fun. The crayons are available in different set sizes and can be purchased individually from specialist retailers.
The graphite pencils from the plus series are suitable for sketches and also for the first steps in drawing: They are available in hardness grades B and HB and can, therefore, be used for fine, clear lines as well as for multi-layered shading.
The plus coloured pencils are not only also ideal for children to draw with, but also to paint with. Use it to create works of art with subtle colour gradients or build up the colours on the paper to intense luminosity.
The aquaplus is an opaque paint box. The opaque paint box with colour wheel according to Johannes Itten makes colour theory a playful experience. Ideal for mixing and trying out and also perfectly suited for use in the classroom.
The pencils in the colourplus series are coloured pencils that are suitable for all ages from primary school onwards. This coloured pencil is suitable for children, teenagers and adults and, thanks to its break-resistant lead and slim, triangular shape, it is the ideal pencil - both for simple drawings and for elaborate illustrations.
The aquaplus opaque paint box from LAMY is ideal for children and is perfect for school lessons. The paint box is equipped with either 12 or 24 colours and designed according to Johannes Itten's colour wheel theory. In addition to the paint box, brushes, opaque white and painting smocks are available in our online shop. The colours can also be purchased as individual colour trays.
The graphite pencils of the plus series are ideally suited for drawing. Depending on the degree of hardness, they are designed for different types of work.
If the pencil has a strength of B, it draws in a deep black tone and with a relatively broad line, as the lead is softer. These pencils are well suited for freehand drawing, for example.
A harder lead has been used for HB pencils. This causes the pencil to draw narrower lines, which is why it is best suited for free-style drawing.
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Thinking tools
Our tools for writing, drawing and painting help to create new forms of expression and make thoughts tangible.