How to draw a stove with a pencil step by step? Drawing of a Russian stove for children
I have a house in the village, a wonderful old log house, with two stoves - one Russian, the other Dutch, we live in the house until deep winter. One day, in December, the weather turned out to be wonderful, on Thursday it was a little positive and sunny, and on Friday I decided to give up everything and go to the village, alone, read books, take a steam bath. However, I forgot that I had already opened the house for the winter, that is, I opened the vents under the house, did not close the door from the summer half to the winter one, well, not that I forgot, but simply did not attach any importance - after all, it was pole three and the sun! When I arrived at the house, it was still warm, I lit both stoves.... but in the evening, in a place with the sun, frost came, I decided to heat the bathhouse on Saturday. I heated the stoves until they were “red”, it was impossible to touch them and it was quite warm... but only above the knees and when I finally went to bed I realized my mistake - the house had cooled down and I couldn’t warm it up in a day - the ground was under the house has cooled down. I foolishly went to bed on an ordinary bed, which was at knee level from the floor, but I should have lied on top of the stove. But I had already forgotten such simple survival skills, or rather, I didn’t pay attention to them! At night the temperature dropped to minus 17, in short, I haven’t been so cold since the army!
Why do we people need fire? It would seem that the answer is obvious, but... in different countries it will be answered differently. In hot Africa, you need fire to cook food... and that’s it, there they light a fire on the street so as not to start a fire, because there is nothing worse than a fire in Africa! :-)))
In winter in Russia or anywhere else, where there is winter and the snow does not melt, heat is needed for completely different reasons. Of course, cooking is very important. But even more important is warmth during sleep, specifically during sleep, since while moving you can keep warm in clothes, but in your sleep, if you don’t have fur clothes, and it’s minus ten outside, nothing can save you - you’ll die and won’t even notice! It’s also very important to wash yourself in a warm place, with warm water, you won’t be able to get in too much snow! And so fire is food, warmth, cleanliness, in other words, this is life! They can tell me that there are tribes of northern peoples where people live practically without fire..... well, no, they have fire and they use it correctly and skillfully, and most importantly, they did not create civilization, they live like no one else one of us won’t want to live and, most importantly, won’t be able to!
I propose to start researching people’s ability to use fire from “civilized” countries - from Europe. Where European rich and smart people lived - in castles, of course, and in a castle, of course, the source of fire is the fireplace.
Here is a classic fireplace in a castle, a real one! Can you guess what it is needed for? Let's take a look at the fireplaces...
I’ll tell you my version right away, so as not to torment people with thoughts - a fireplace is a device for using fire for cooking and nothing more!!!
Is it really possible to heat such a hall with such a fire? No!!! But it’s easy to prepare food, except for one thing, you can’t bake bread in the fireplace, it’s bad to get ahead of yourself, but... how is it that Europeans lived without bread??? We will deal with these separately.
So it turns out that in Europe, when castles were built, it was so warm that there were enough fireplaces for cooking? I suggest trying to figure out the heating problem using the example of the winter palace, because this palace is the result of the window that Peter the first cut through to Europe!
The history of the heating of the Winter Palace is dark; the first mentions speak of stove heating, but it is said that braziers were brought into the chambers to heat the royal bodies. These are like this or even more beautiful, but they don’t make you very warm!
When describing stove heating in the 18th century, a mention of a Dutch oven appears for the first time; everyone, of course, immediately imagines such a stove...
Even the description of the heating of the Kremlin chambers speaks of stoves that look very similar to Dutch ones... 
But if you dig a little deeper and look for old Dutch stoves, it turns out they are completely different - they are a cast iron stove, like a potbelly stove, and later, similar stoves, light and warm, began to be made from brick and, most importantly, they can be installed just like real Dutch stoves in the corner of the room, installing them where heating was not previously provided!
These are real Dutch ovens! By the way, in Europe they are called “Russians” for some reason.
This photo is especially interesting - this is the fort of Sevastopol, it is clear that during construction stove heating was not provided, potbelly stoves were inserted (but I wonder why potbelly stoves?) They called them Dutch stoves and they began to somehow heat the rooms, there used to be a hospital there!
Well, how was the issue with heating in the Winter Palace resolved? First, after the stove heating there was a terrible fire, everything burned down, and then they made a central one - first air, and then water - like now, a boiler room, radiators. Everything is in your mind! The fireplaces were left for beauty.
But let's get back to the fireplaces... the very name of the fireplace suggests that it was made of stone, pay attention to the photo where the fire is burning in the old fireplace - the walls and bottom of the fireplace are protected by iron plates and the fire is far from the walls of the fireplace. This is because when exposed to strong heat, the stone expands and bursts, the masonry suffers and the fireplace is destroyed.
Here is a modern fireplace - the fire is close to the walls, but the walls are made of refractory bricks or the fireplace itself is cast iron, and only surrounded by decorative bricks.
I think we need to dive into deep antiquity and see how people mastered fire, where it all began.
This is a heating stove, the mother and father of all stoves! Simply put, it’s already a hearth!
Pay attention to the logic of the reenactors - on the surface of this primitive furnace there are clay pots - ceramics, which require firing to be made, and for this a much more complex furnace is needed. This is how brain twisting gradually occurs.... well, this is such a lyrical digression! What can such a stove do? Heating? Yes, of course, especially if the house is not like that, but a little larger than a stove, and if you lie on top of it, it will be quite warm, you won’t die from the cold overnight! Is it possible to cook in it, I think it’s possible, but it’s very difficult! The fact that the pots are on top does not mean that the water will boil; for cooking, the pot must be placed inside! Can I wash myself? Well, in principle, you can probably heat the water and wash yourself in a warm room! That is, this is a prototype of a universal oven!!! One bad thing - there is no chimney and smoke goes into the ceiling. But people are smart creatures and of course began to look for solutions....
This is almost a Russian stove! What could be worse than smoke in the house - only fire! 
This is a real oven that can be molded from clay in a few hours; no brick is needed. Such stoves were widely used in winter huts at the beginning of the 20th century, and in the 19th century, many houses in the Russian village were still heated using black stoves, that is, there was no chimney and the smoke was drawn out into a special vent. The next step towards civilization in winter conditions is a brick, it is needed to make a pipe and it is very necessary! I think that such a stove, without which it is impossible to live in winter, became the progenitor of all modern civilization. Logic requires clarification.....
How they made such a heating stove - they wove a frame from branches, coated it with clay, let it dry, then again and again, and then heated it and warmed it up. I guess it all started as historians describe - fire was hard to get and it had to be protected and carried, they made a basket which was coated with clay from the inside, the clay burned and became hard and fireproof and waterproof and this is naturally easy to notice....well off we go.
The technology for making bricks is so simple and natural that it could not have been invented only in hot, hot Africa. Most likely, the first ovens were tried to be made from mud brick - they made a stove out of it, it was fired, and then they began to do the firing on purpose. The only question is clay and sand. Here in a film about the Victorian era (this is the end of the 19th century) on a farm, people were already quite calmly burning bricks as needed for their small needs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGyqrgqjSFE
And so the famous Russian stove was born!
Pay attention to its structure - it is essentially the same clay oven, but only with a pipe!
What a Russian oven gives you is that you can cook everything you need for a simple life in the oven, even bake bread. You can even wash yourself inside if the oven is large.
A very important nuance - when such a stove is fired, it is mainly the top that heats up - where all the heat goes, this was an inconvenience since the bottom of the stove remained cold and all the warm air went up, so we slept on the floors. Only in 1920, a Russian engineer came up with an improvement - a side heating with a hob, thanks to which it was possible to cook on the stove and the side wall was heated! That is, the Russian stove took its final form in the 20s of the 20th century.
I specifically learned how Russian noble estates were heated, that is, the housing of wealthy people, but still not palaces. It turned out that a stove was made for four rooms, similar to what we now call a large Dutch oven, such a stove was located in the middle, and was heated from one room. How does a Dutch brick stove differ from a Russian stove - it has only one function - to provide heat.
Thus, it turns out that if you need to heat a room, it’s not difficult, if only you had clay and sand, you make bricks, and from the bricks you make stoves!
What do we have with ancient Rome and China? It turns out to be very interesting! In both China and Rome, it turns out that the heating system was the same type - underfloor heating!
And here is "ancient China".
This house is called “ondol” and the photo shows a completely modern house built in the 20th century! They heat and cook outside on one side, the smoke goes under the floor and comes out through a small pipe on the other side. In ancient Rome and ancient China it is the same, and I came across an interesting clause that this method is called “Russian”, like that, but I can’t vouch for it!
But most importantly, for those who have not yet understood what I am leading to...
If you lay floors on this heating stove instead of pots, then it will be a Roman-Chinese heated floor!!!
I’m already silent about the fantasies of historians about the ancient Roman bath, where with such a firebox both the floor and the water in the pool were heated, and so on, although Turkish baths are the same as Roman ones, I didn’t notice the difference, but in Turkish baths everything is a little different, more complicated .
And how they washed in the baths of Europe - simply, in an ordinary Russian bath, as we are all used to! With a good Russian brick sauna stove!
There is not much left to figure out with the kitchen, everything is clear with Russian cuisine, but where it is hot, the stove is taken outside, even in Ukraine where there is snow in winter, as a rule, there are summer kitchens, not to mention Uzbekistan. Where it is hot there is no need for stoves in the house! In extreme cases, there are potbelly stoves. 
What happens? Fireplaces are not at all suitable for heating large rooms, but are needed only for cooking and are essentially a primitive hearth where they cook over an open fire. The development of stoves is a rapid improvement that reached its peak in the 20th century. Where there is no urgent need for heat for survival, the development of ovens remained at a sufficient but primitive level - baking bread and other delicacies of national cuisine! That is, if you do not take the antiquity of Rome and China seriously, but fit them into the 18th century, just in terms of the level of stove technology, then everything is fine! The only thing...fireplaces, it seems that before it was warm in Europe and it was possible to build large rooms of stone and not heat it, but in the 19th century, after the first fires, inept stokers began to seriously work on stoves??? And in Russia we get the same picture, if the furnace was formed only in the 19th century, what kind of development of Siberia in the 16th century can we talk about...well, or was it warm??? Some questions and no connections, however...
Where to start
When considering how to draw a stove, you should start with a simple pencil sketch:
- The main proportions and dimensions are marked.
- The base of the stove is drawn, resembling a house.
- A pipe and brickwork on it are added.
- A semicircular hole is outlined (this is a cavity for cooking food).
- Technological openings are outlined to prevent smoke from entering the house.
- Suitable details are added - a poker next to the stove, a towel, a blanket, brickwork, firewood under the stove, etc.
- Excess construction lines are erased using an eraser.
Thus, it becomes clear how to draw a stove. A pencil sketch can be completed with a pencil - adding volume to the object through careful shading. You can also color the stove yourself or give it to your child for coloring.
The task of how to draw a stove in a hut is more creative and involves an understanding of perspective. In addition to the object itself, you need to add a floor, wall, window or door. It is worth keeping in mind that it is better to draw wooden floors and walls. The decorations in such a hut are homemade rugs and simple curtains.
How to supplement the work
Depending on the task at hand, the Russian stove in the picture can be supplemented with adults, children, fairy-tale characters, elements of magic, or simply cozy details (a rug, a samovar, pies, etc.). In addition, mushrooms, berries, and plants were often hung to dry next to the stove, so they can also be used in your work. In children's drawings, any child's imagination can serve as a background.
After reading this article, the question of how to draw a stove should not cause any difficulties. The finished work can be hung on the wall or made into a postcard.
In the modern world it is used less and less. Previously, not a single house could do without it - it both warmed the inhabitants and served as a cooking place. It also appears in many fairy tales and cartoons, for example, heroes lie on it and gain strength, and Emelya even traveled on the stove. In this article we will look at how to draw a stove so that the drawing turns out beautiful and interesting.
Materials and techniques
Before you start drawing, you need to choose a technique and suitable materials. Gouache is also best suited for children's creativity. It is interesting for a child to draw bright, colorful pictures. For an adult, the choice of materials is wider - a simple pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolor or
Where to start
When considering how to draw a stove, you should start with a simple pencil sketch:
- The main proportions and dimensions are marked.
- The base of the stove is drawn, resembling a house.
- A pipe and brickwork on it are added.
- A semicircular hole is outlined (this is a cavity for cooking food).
- Technological openings are outlined to prevent smoke from entering the house.
- Suitable details are added - a poker next to the stove, a towel, a blanket, brickwork, firewood under the stove, etc.
- Excess construction lines are erased using an eraser.
Thus, it becomes clear how to draw a stove. A pencil sketch can be completed with a pencil - adding volume to the object through careful shading. You can also color the stove yourself or give it to your child for coloring.
The task of how to draw a stove in a hut is more creative and involves an understanding of perspective. In addition to the object itself, you need to add a floor, wall, window or door. It is worth keeping in mind that it is better to draw wooden floors and walls. The decorations in such a hut are homemade rugs and simple curtains.
How to supplement the work
Depending on the task at hand, the Russian stove in the picture can be supplemented with adults, children, fairy-tale characters, elements of magic, or simply cozy details (a rug, a samovar, pies, etc.). In addition, mushrooms, berries, and plants were often hung to dry next to the stove, so they can also be used in your work. In children's drawings, any child's imagination can serve as a background.
After reading this article, the question of how to draw a stove should not cause any difficulties. The finished work can be hung on the wall or made into a postcard.
The best option for heating a country house is a real Russian stove with a pattern. It can become indispensable, especially if the house will not be used all year round. With its help, you can not only heat the room, but also heat water, dry fruits collected on the site, and prepare tasty and healthy food.
The functions of the Russian stove are varied. But don't forget about the interior. The structure occupies a significant part of the room, so it is worth paying attention to its decoration - lining or painting the Russian stove with your own hands.
The first stage is surface preparation. First of all, the walls of the new oven are covered with a layer of plaster, then coated with clay. If it is old and the plaster is falling off in places, you need to re-plaster these places. You should choose a special plaster that is heat-resistant; you can buy it or make it yourself.
The treated surface is left to dry. This process may take two days. Less is not needed, since the plaster may not dry out and then it will quickly fall off.
After two days, the stove is heated at least three times. This is necessary so that the clay layer becomes as strong as possible. But at first you should not heat the oven too much: its walls should become slightly warm.
If the old plaster holds up well, it only needs to be cleaned of dirt and soot. Soot stains can be easily removed with a wire brush or dish scrubber. To remove greasy marks from the surface, use a caustic solution (2%). Rust stains are removed with a solution of copper sulfate in a proportion of 100 g of powder and 1 liter of water.
Methods for whitewashing a stove
After preparing the surface, the question arises of how and with what you can whitewash the stove in the country. Traditional options that come from time immemorial are lime or chalk.
Lime is good because it is harmless to humans and resistant to high temperatures. Lime whitewashing of the stove is non-toxic and can be used even in rooms with high humidity and in a bathhouse.
Lime powder must be diluted with saline solution to the state of liquid sour cream. Salt will make the coating strong and not prone to cracking.
A liter of diluted lime is enough to paint 2 square meters. m area. If drops get on the floor, they can be easily washed off, the main thing is to do it quickly, before the lime is eaten away.
Do-it-yourself whitewashing with chalk allows you to get a bright white beautiful color. The disadvantage of the coating is that upon contact with the surface, white marks remain on the clothing.
It is recommended to dilute it not with water, but with milk. To make the coating stronger and not “whitewash”, you can add wood glue.
The powder is sifted and diluted in milk, mixed, and additional components are added. The mixture with lime is heated, avoiding boiling, until all components are completely dissolved. The resulting solution must be filtered and only then proceed to staining.
To whitewash the stove, you can use a roller or a wide brush. There is no need to heat it before bleaching - it should be cold.
First, the surface is moistened with water and the first layer is applied. To paint a wall without streaks, it is applied horizontally. Without waiting for the first layer to dry completely, apply the second, but horizontally. The whitewash should be left until completely dry, and only then proceed to applying a design or ornament to the stove.
Painting
Initially, beautiful Russian stoves were white, as if symbolizing the purity of the thoughts of the owners of the house. But in the modern world, stoves have not been installed in every home for a long time, so the meaning has gradually been forgotten. Many people find a simple white stove uninteresting, so they often make unusual paintings of stoves.
In order to paint a stove with your own hands, you do not need to be a great artist. Now it’s enough to choose the right stencil. You can find it in the store - a stencil for painting walls. Another option to make a stencil of a design for the stove is to find any image and print it on thick paper. The stencil is fixed to the surface of the oven using adhesive tape (or, if the stencil is “purchased”, it already has a self-adhesive base). It is then transferred to the surface using a colored pencil.
If this is your first time dealing with such work, it is better to choose a simple design for a Russian stove. National patterns may be the best option: they will look harmonious on the stove, and also consist of individual simple elements that can be easily mastered.
You can color the pattern using whitewash, to which a coloring agent is added. It can be simple gouache, but it is better to purchase acrylic paints, which can withstand high temperatures much better.
The drawing itself is applied using ordinary artistic brushes of different sizes.
After the drawing on the Russian stove is ready, it is not recommended to heat it for at least two days so that the paint can dry.
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Furnace lining
In the old days, in rich houses, stoves were covered with tiles, but now they are almost completely out of use: tiles are more often used to cover Russian stoves in summer cottages.
You can also do it yourself. First, a layer of plaster is removed from the walls. The surface is covered with a mesh and secured with dowels. Then a layer of a mixture of cement and clay is applied. Using a level, level the surface so that it is perfectly smooth. After this, the stove is heated well so that the mixture “sets” and hardens.
After this, you can proceed to surface finishing. The tiles are laid and secured using an adhesive mixture. When tiling the stove, you cannot do without a tool such as a tile cutter - you will need it to trim the tiles. The last stage of work is grouting the joints. This requires a special mixture, but you can use the same one that was used for gluing. At this point, the cladding work is considered completed.
It is enough to put in a little effort - and the result will be a beautiful Russian stove, which will become not only a “heating method”, but also the real soul of a country house.
Many city residents have a hard time imagining life without gas; spoiled by central heating, we are scared of the stove and don’t have a very good idea of how to use it.
In fact, the stove is closer to us than we think. For a long time, the stove in the house was his warm and loving heart.
Our ancestors not only cooked in the stove, they washed themselves in it, received medical treatment, carried babies to term, prepared brides for weddings and provided rest for the elderly. 
The love for a stove bench is connected with another feature of the Russian stove - it warms up only from the hearth (the shelf in front of the mouth of the stove), because of this the floor always remains cold. Therefore, in winter they wore felt boots in the house and went to bed higher off the floor.
There is a well-known saying associated with the furnace hearth: “every cricket knows its own hearth.” Which meant that a cricket living in a nest under a pole was correct and decent, but if the cricket crawled higher, severe punishment awaited it.
Because The furnace of the Russian stove is large; it was often used as a bathhouse. The warm stove was cleaned of ash and soot, lined with straw and climbed inside. From the ashes they made lye - soapy water, and bathed with it.
Washing in the stove is a rare pleasure, although it looks like a picture from a fairy tale - children were placed in the stove on a wooden shovel, exactly as Baba Yaga did. Moreover, if there was a choice - to wash in a bathhouse or in a stove, the choice was up to the stove - after all, the stove in the house is always already heated.
We all know the expression: “We will dance from the stove.” It has an interesting history - the settlers who arrived in the new lands of the vast expanses of Rus' often did not enjoy the love of the old-timers. They built their own houses, but they were not happy with newcomers; their houses were destroyed in retaliation. There was one rule that gave the right to join an existing community - to build a house and light a stove within 24 hours.
The construction of the house began with the stove and all subsequent measurements of the house were taken from it. These movements from the stove to the sides were a kind of “dance”. Often they managed to light the stove within a day, when the house around it was built very “conventionally”. 
But this was enough - not only hard work, but also ingenuity was valued in new people. Therefore, if you are faced with an overwhelmingly difficult task that absolutely must be completed, dance away from the stove. 
Modern stoves are equipped not only with convenient stoves and ovens, but also have built-in water tanks, which serve as the basis for the heating system for the home.
Often the oven doors are made of heat-resistant glass, which allows you to admire the live fire.
The old masters made each stove for the owner - after all, she would have to work at the stove all day. The size of the stove was determined by the size of the housewife herself. 
So the height of the stove vault was calculated as follows: the hostess was seated on a chair and the distance from the seat to the top button of the blouse was the required size. The height of the mouth of the stove should be equal to the width of the hostess’s shoulders, and the width of the mouth should be 10 cm larger. 
The height of the stove is equal to the height of the housewife plus two matchboxes. The width of the pole is equal to the size from the elbow to the tip of the outstretched fingers. 
The stove includes not only the brickwork itself, but also “stove benches”. The largest extension was the golbets, it was actually a closet with all kinds of shelves. The surface of the roof together with the flooring of the golbets formed a spacious bed. 
“It’s good to lie on the stove with your feet in a warm place.” The owner, who had been frozen during the day, could quickly put the bones in order on the stove; it was not for nothing that people said: “It’s hot summer on the stove even in winter.” 
“Don’t feed him for at least three days, and don’t drive him out of the oven.” A healthy man lying on a stove deserved condemnation: “If a man had not been lying on a stove, he would have equipped ships for the sea.” 
What could drive a person away from such an attractive stove? “Happiness will come and drive you away from the stove.” 
If you are interested in how to make a stove with your own hands, then you can use ready-made drawings of furnace laying, which are made by experienced stove makers and comply with SNiPs.
The stove in the house is a symbol of vitality, the healing and unifying energy of the family. In the evening, from the fire in the stove, the housewife lit candles in the house with a prayer - this was an important moment at this time it was forbidden to cry, swear, kiss or sing.
The living fire in the stove, according to our ancestors, is a living creature that must be given respect and care. It was sacrilege to pour water on the fire in the stove or, God forbid, to spit into the stove. 
The fire did not allow the owners to thoughtlessly share the coals from the stove - generous owners do not go for coals. This ban was especially effective on the first day of spring plowing, when the harvest and well-being of the family for the whole year were laid down. 
Experienced housewives tried to appease the fire in the oven by always offering the first spoon to the fire or throwing the first pancake into the oven. 
Any dream in which there was a fire or a stove foreshadowed a joyful event and the ability to control one’s destiny. 
Wedding rituals are also closely connected with the stove; at the end of the wedding, guests were served a pot of porridge, and when the pot became empty, one of the guests broke it on the stove with the words: “As many shards, so many children.” 
It was believed that the future could be predicted by the way the fire behaved in the stove. 
If you hit a fallen coal from the stove with a poker, then a large number of sparks foreshadows wealth; if there are few sparks, then your luck does not depend on material wealth. 
Housewives told fortunes not only by the fire, but also by the bread baked on cabbage leaves. After the bread was taken out of the oven and the sheet was removed, the imagination could draw its own magical pictures from the imprint on the bottom of the loaf. 
“If you don’t go to the forest, you’ll freeze on the stove” - a good owner has a stock of firewood stocked for 2-3 years. During this time, the firewood dries out and burns hotly without soot in the stove. Less thrifty owners were forced to heat with freshly cut raw wood, which did not burn well, smoked and spoiled the stove with dampness. 
Whatever stove design you choose for your home, much will depend on your ingenuity, hard work and inquisitiveness - after all, most stoves were built by ordinary ordinary people who did not have wide access to information as in modern times.