LEATHERETTE PICTURE

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Genuine or faux leather paintings are a great way to decorate an interior. They, made with their own hands, are an original gift for mom, for example, for the holiday of March 8. To create a still life "Bouquet. Callas" you will need: thick cardboard, self-adhesive paper, pieces of leather or its substitute, yellow yarn, waterproof glue, toothpicks, wire and scissors. At first, you need to make a pattern of paper. In the album, draw the desired number of petals and leaves. The size of the parts is chosen arbitrary, corresponding to the parameters of the base from the cardboard base.

Transfer paper patterns to the skin, cut out parts of the flower.

Grease half a cotton bud with glue, wrap with yellow yarn.

Cut the end of the thread. The stamen is ready.

We continue to work with the petals. Glue a piece of wire along the edges of the skin. In the future, this action will facilitate giving the flower or leaves the desired shape.

We get the result.

The top of the workpiece must be carefully cut, that is, remove excess skin. Leave the wire at the base. Glue the stamen in the middle of the petal and use the wire to wrap the edges of the flower inward.

Such buds should turn out.

At the next stage, we give the leaves a relief shape. To do this, apply glue along the pattern and bend the sheet in half.

The central vein is left to dry.

Other veins can be distinguished in the same way. If desired, glue the wire around the edges of the pattern and get a convex shape of the sheet.

We pass to the base of the picture. The cardboard surface is decorated with a self-adhesive film. A whole piece of film was not found, so we carefully work with two strips.

When the background is ready, apply the details. From a distance we appreciate the big picture. It may well be necessary to add or reduce the number of colors, change their location.

Attention! The crucial moment is the staining of the stems and leaves. When creating a picture of leather, craftsmen usually use acrylic paint. Here is not an ordinary professional case, but amateur performance. We will use gouache and watercolor. So that the paint is not taken up, for it we prepare a solution of water, vinegar and salt (2: 1: 1). Wet the brush and paint the leatherette.

Leave the leaves to dry for 8-12 hours.

Not bad, right? At the final stage, glue the parts to the base. We start with flowers and stems.

By the way, they forgot to talk about the frame. We will make it from leather rectangles. First we cut pieces of about 0.5x1.5 cm in size. Then we make strips with scissors, imitating a fringe.

We begin to glue the frame from the lower right corner, gradually moving up.

We design the lower and upper borders. We finish the work by gluing the fringe to the left edge of the cardboard base. The frame is ready.

It remains to add to the colors of the leaves. We choose the most favorable location for greens and take up the glue. Attention! A flame will help to make the surface of the skin embossed. If you hold the edges or the middle of the petal over the fire, convex tubercles will appear. With a leatherette such a trick will not work.