New Year's decoupage of a picture from a napkin for a postcard - Christmas master class
Decoupage techniques are widely used andare widespread throughout the world as one of the most interesting and unique types of modern art. With a minimum amount of materials, we can decoupage a wide variety of paintings with our own hands. Using decoupage cards, or variations of decoupage paintings made with special and unique means, such as napkins.
New Year's decoupage of a picture from a napkin for a postcard - Christmas master class
Even the New Year's holiday can be decorated,using standard decoupage tools that you don't necessarily have to buy. Most of the materials you can find at home. Let's imagine a situation where we need to make a New Year's, gift and beautiful postcard. But we don't have enough opportunities and resources. Decoupage is a real way out. After all, from the most ordinary napkins on a New Year's theme, we can prepare unique objects and works of art that can decorate shelves and please our friends.Decoupage on a postcard is comparativelya modern art form that appeared thanks to the use of decoupage properties on layers of thick paper. So, if you have all the necessary kit, as well as the desire to diversify your picture with an unusually beautiful illustration from a napkin - you can start. New Year's decoupage - materials For our work, we will need a certain set of materials. To begin with, you should buy regular PVA glue, or find it at home. Also, degreasing agents and, of course, tools. The final work will be carried out with a picture. It will be the most important element of the decor of any decoupage work. And of course, for a more beautiful composition, you should use other methods of decoration, if possible. What we need:
- Prepare a three-layer napkin on the New Year theme
- Take paper for watercolor, or Whatman (thick cardboard)
- PVA glue
- A brush with bristles, depending on the area of work (for a small postcard - a small brush)
Let's look at three popular decorating optionsour cards using a napkin. There are three well-known methods by which you can design and improve any drawing and each composition of a card. To begin with, you should prepare our napkin. Keep in mind that we will have to transfer the drawing from it to a hard surface and therefore, you should decide on the method of work in advance. Fragments from a napkinFor the first option of work we need to think throughthe original composition solution. You can use the entire pattern of our napkin, but make your own version of the picture from them. To begin with, we take and mark the boundaries on the object of our work: be it Whatman paper, paper, or cardboard. In these areas, we will begin placing our pictures in the future (or rather, fragments of the composition). This is necessary if you will cut the picture to the required format, so as not to accidentally get rid of the necessary details. You can also take ready-made picture blanks. It is necessary to separate the layer from the paper, which is supplied with the picture. Next, you need to choose which part of the picture will be needed to complete the desired composition. After that, you need to cut out the napkin objects, and then - lay them out on our base. After that - you need to apply glue and glue the picture. We act with strokes from the central part to the edges. This is necessary in order to avoid air space getting under our work. When the napkin is completely saturated with glue, one movement can ruin the napkin.After the glue has been applied, let the design dry. Background napkin optionFirst, you need to glue the napkin,using a solid drawing. Be sure to take into account the fact that the wet area of your napkin will deform during the work, but - this is not a defect. To smooth the surface, you need to separate the drawing layer and then put it on the Whatman paper, then apply glue. After, using the same method as in the previous lesson, place the picture on your base.Fragments for the background This option looks likesomewhat chaotic, but gives more opportunities to fantasize over the drawing. We tear off pieces of napkin one by one and glue them in the right places to form our future composition. We do this until we get the desired version of the drawing. The element of surprise will allow us to recreate a special version of the composition. In this way, it is easy to implement small drawings, and the shortcomings can be corrected with the help of decoration.That's all!With this simple method, you can modernize any postcard and make it much more attractive than before. Moreover, each method is suitable for its own task and has its own capabilities. In the first method, you can plan everything in advance, but if the composition turns out unsuccessfully - it will be difficult to redo anything. The second method is distinguished by speed and integrity, but the drawing may not live up to expectations. The third method suggests using your imagination, and you can decorate the flaws with the help of various effects.