Halloween - it's not our tradition, but, nevertheless, the Russians with pleasure dipped in this orgy. Children come up with funny costumes, adults decorate the house in different "horror stories", and on the verge of - certainly light pumpkin with nightmarish grin. But there are options and terrible pumpkin. For example, the author of YouTube-Channel Where The Gnomes Live I showed how to do this nochnichok that it is better not to wake up at night. By the way, he - a great gift on the occasion of the "import" of the holiday and make it possible with their hands in just a single day.
Agree, just horror takes from this shimmering look. It is not necessary to give a nightlight for children, unless you want to that day they slept with you
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1 What will it take to create a lamp of your nightmares
2 How to make a frame Night of the Scarecrow
3 Working with papier-mache: imitate wood
4 Toning and lamp decoration for Halloween
What will it take to create a lamp of your nightmares
The whole composition is based on the technique of papier-mache, and make it not difficult, if you follow this master class.
To create the lamp you will need paper towels, preferably without a pattern and PVA glue and masking tapeTinted product is to be painted black, and shades of brown. You can use the paint with a bronze and a greenish tint. The more colors you pick, the more interesting and natural to get resultGlowing look sinister stump will provide a small LED light that simulates the candle. Buy this is easy - look at least at Fiksprays shelves. And yet, prepare a small flap of a thin cloth or yellow or orangeLama frame will be made of the usual food foil, require almost a whole roll
How to make a frame Night of the Scarecrow
To keep the shape of the product is good, it will require a rigid frame. It is best to come in handy food foil for this purpose. It is thin enough to easily wrinkle hands and give contours. In addition to the foil at this stage need masking tape.
Begin to form the basis of need immediately with a hole to insert a candle. For this purpose, in the rear make a suitable recess in which the lamp housing is fixed firmly without additional devices"Sculpt" the details of the foil and secure them to the base housing via masking tapeThe most delicate work in the creation of the body - to make thin fingers, nails. Secure the folded several times a foil on hand and cut it into stripsShape of segments sharp long fingersIn order to firmly fix the position of the fingers, they also wrap masking tape, cutting it in the right places to get a tight windingWhen the main frame is ready, add it "nodularity", as it should be the old tree. For this blind small lumps foil and secure them in the ground phalanxes of fingers, hands and body with the same adhesive tapeCome up with a face terrible: usually advantageous light appear slanted eyes and crooked mouth with drooping corners. Draw it on the workpiece and the contours cut with scissors with pointed tipsClipped contours smooth out small pieces of tape, wrapping them through the incisionsThe lamp is inserted into the housing, and it is better that it is not visible from above. So your need hemp "hat." Make it the same foil, leaving a groove. Then it is possible to put, for example, sweets - a traditional feast for the holidayThe final touch in the frame - frowning Scarecrow. Form of foil tape and Prilep
Working with papier-mache: imitate wood
Ready frame already looks ominous, but it is not reminiscent of the animated stump. To bring the product to perfection to do an imitation of old wood with bark and horny hollow. It is time to work with paper towels and PVA glue.
Pour the glue into a shallow bowl and slightly dilute with water. After unrolling the strip of towels, moisten them into the adhesive and superposed on the preformApply in one direction of the strip, deforming and compressing them so that the uneven surface was obtainedAlong the way, create a "face" Scarecrow - make the nose, eyebrows, chin
After you close the entire surface of the napkin body, allow the glue to dry thoroughly. If you take your time - help the process of warm hairdryer.
Toning and lamp decoration for Halloween
The more paint colors you pick, the more "lively" Get your stump. But the first layer - just black. Carefully paint over all grooves to the white color of towels is nowhere.
Then successively apply different shades of brown to the workpiece using a semi-dry and dry brush. First - the darker tones, in the end - the lightestWhen all the layers of paint are applied, emphasize places dark recesses strokesTo detail the lamp is not too stood out, fill it bottom of a brown paintBefore installing the "candle" lay into "head" colored cloth or towelDecorate the finished pieces of the stump or artificial moss, leaves, pine cones and thin branchesHere's a turned frightened, which is worth a look! However, in the same technique, you can do quite a stump and cheerful, you only need to change the expression of faces
How do you like the idea of the author? Would you like to try to do something similar with your own hands? Write about it in the comments. And at the end of the theme, we offer you a short video with other ideas of decorating the house on Halloween:
