Nature is the best artist. All of her creations are beautiful by their appearance, form, color: trees, flowers, grasses, fruits and leaves. In their art crafts, you can safely use all these components. Let's try to create a composition with a fairy-tale character - a gnome, which will be made entirely of natural materials. First of all, you need a cut of the tree - an inclined one, no more than 2 cm wide, otherwise it will be difficult to carry, hang.
You can always find a cut tree (and in the city too) and bona fide performers. These people will not refuse you to make a "cutting" - the thin one has drunk off the trunk of the sawn wood. On the edge of this cut you need to save the bark: this is a natural frame and will become the frame for our composition.
On the existing cut of the tree from the back side, you need to make either a groove for the nail on which you hang your creation, or attach, glue a strip of skin. In general, the creator should not think about it: this phase in our creative process is work for men - our assistants. Your mission is to check the quality of the performance.
And now (presumably you are at the dacha, near the forest) we are going to collect raw materials. Remember, you will have to carry a heavy bag, so an assistant will be needed!
In the forest, as in the city, health and illness coexist side by side. Healthy, young trees have a clean, smooth trunk, and old, already fallen trees are very rich in "raw materials" for our crafts. These are mushrooms. They talk about the disease of the tree or its death. They are called "trutoviki".
For people, they are safe. Mushrooms are:
- with a black top and orange or red edging around, a variety of shades of noble green-marsh color;
- with the presence of blue and blue in the color of the fungus;
- yellow-brown.
- The underside of the cap of these mushrooms has a delicate creamy-creamy color and texture of the sponge. As a rule, they easily break. But some, the largest, can only be obtained with the help of your assistant, putting considerable strength to tear off the mushroom from the tree.
All the fruits of the forest will be useful for you in your work: nuts, dry berries, chestnuts, cones, acorns, flying seeds, dry grass, attracted your attention the colored feathers of birds lost by them. Also suitable are twigs and twigs covered with moss and beautiful patterned algae. They can inspire you to new compositions.
To work, you need a very good gel-like strong adhesive, and prepare a good sharp knife, such as a scalpel, with a thin and sharp blade. At hand, there should be a choice of bright ribbons, beads for the eyes, fur or fringe for the beard and manicure varnishes of different colors, as well as a sprayed hairspray.
Progress
- Pick up mushrooms in the right amount for the head, trunk, legs, nose, hands, feet and background.
- Pick up acorns, pieces of bark, cones, grass (natural or made of leather and wire), feathers for the hat.
- Wash mushrooms with detergent or soap and soak them in clean water for 1-2 hours.
- At the cut of the tree, chart the location of the figure of the gnome, a place for gluing the bark, cones, twigs, grass, small fungi, etc.
- Remove the mushrooms from the water, pat dry with a cloth and allow to dry slightly. The peculiarity of mushrooms after soaking is that they are easy to cut with a sharp knife: they have the elasticity of turnips or pears.
- You can look for and find a fused double mushroom (the upper part of the face with the lip and the lower part of the face). And you can pick up 2 details, fold them, figure out which hills to remove, and start cutting. Cautiously, but strongly. It is necessary to connect two planes.
- It can be rubbed with chalk, after the joint you can see the place of the stop, which must be cut off and connected by glue (according to the instructions) and wait for complete drying - this applies to all the parts to be joined. There is one more variant of connecting the details: between the mushrooms lay a layer of sheet of sintepon, drink it with glue and connect it, then tint it in the color of the mushroom.
- Be sure to carefully connect the mushroom neck for the trunk with the head and tightly glue it to the cut.
- Take the mushroom, designed for the manufacture of legs, according to a pre-printed pattern, cut the inside between the legs, leaving a bright line outside, like a lamp. Cut the soles of your feet from prepared mushrooms, prepare an ideal docking of the bottom of the trousers and feet.
- Make a brush. To do this, carefully cut out your fingers, try to make them round and prepare the connection of the bottom of the sleeve and hands.
- Take a small fungus, designed to make a nose, try it on the plane of the upper tube. Fit the connection of parts, cut out the nostrils, glue it (according to the instructions, waiting for a pause before connecting).
- Choose the material for the beard (fur, fringe, loofah - what you like) and stick a beard.
- Mix the belly and pants with a bright tape (with gold). Stick. Tint trousers with black (or other manicure lacquer in tone, you can use a marker).
- On the plane lay and glue testes, pieces of bark, a branch with algae, small mushrooms (3 pieces), stump, cone, 2 acorns, thin mushrooms, tubs, grass. Then attach the feathers to the bonnet, eyes from lentils or beads. In the eyes to draw pupils - a varnish or a helium handle.
- Attach and glue hands and feet feet to gain patience until the glue dries completely (do not touch the product for at least 24 hours).
- Tinted herbs and objects on the plane with manicure lacquers: cones, acorns, a branch with algae, mushrooms, seed carriers. Your taste and imagination will appear here - after all, everything in the fairy tale comes true.
- To fix the grass (if it is natural) and the beard, use a hair spray.
When you want to make another composition, remember that in nature there are many more miracles; flowers, shells, fish, butterflies, dragonflies, etc. They can be created from the most unexpected material and decorated with any gifts of nature.