Before making a vase, I thought for a long time to make a vessel, resembling an ancient Greek amphor, and, stopped at the option of making a vase from cardboard in the papier-mache technique. Here, I'll tell you step by step as I did and what happened in the end.
So, let's begin. Step 1. Preparation of materials for the manufacture of an outdoor vase. The following materials will be needed:
• Cardboard tube (I took from linoleum)
• Cardboard from boxes
• Glue "Titan" or Termoklay
• PVA glue (I took construction in the bucket)
• Many newspapers or paper
• scissors, stationery knife, pencil
• Polymer putty (for example, the finish "Hercules")
• Small sandpaper
• Acrylic paints
• Two-step cracker
• Acrylic lacquer
Step 2. Draw the form of a future vase. I decided that I would have an ancient Greek amphora form and therefore four details from cardboard will be with handles.
Step 3. Cut blanks from cardboard. Four blanks with handles. They approximately I got about 30 pieces.
Step 4. Experience the blanks to the pipe. Billets with handles glit from two sides of two.
Step 5. The workpiece is located close to each other at a distance of approximately 1 cm. So it should work.
Step 6. Purchase the resulting shape with newspaper pieces with PVA glue. It is relatively in several layers so that it is very tight and in order for the newspaper that the newspaper does not rush when applying the papier-mache mass.
Step 7. Machine cardboard eggs in water, then press and mix with plow glue mixer. After the mass was mixed, failed all the vase.
Step 8. When the vase will dry, turn the bottom up and also to be coiled, or you can apply a grid-sickle.
Step 9. Fracting the bottom of the vase with putty when it gets dry, fault the whole vase.
Step 10. When the vase dries, make it smooth using sandpaper.
Step 11. Pray a vase of aerosol paint gold color. In this case, I took an aerosol enamel color "Red Gold"
Step 12. We apply a drawing on a vase and paint. But before applying the drawing you need to pre-make a sketch of the vase to think about what a vase should be and how it will look like. I took two feathers Hercules: "Cretan Bull" and "Battle with Queen Amazon" (I really liked these drawings). Pictures are sampled from an ancient Greek vase. When applying the ornament, I did a stencil so that the pattern was smooth, drank a pencil and painted the thin brush.
Step13. We apply to the finished version of the two-having crackering to create small cracks and smear acrylic gold paint and immediately erase so that gold can only be in cracks.
Step 14. Covered with an acrylic varnish vase.
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