A picture from plasticine is not just a beautiful decoration for a home interior. Working with this material is not only interesting, but also useful for both children and adults. Plasticine allows you to eliminate certain psychological problems, calm down, cheer up. And he perfectly develops creative abilities, imagination, perseverance, thinking.
Advantages of plasticine paintings
The presented products have a large number of advantages:
- help to decorate the room;
- develop personal and creative qualities of a person;
- plasticine allows you to make images of different sizes and colors;
- there are a large number of shades and types of material presented;
- plasticine is not an expensive product (of course, it all depends on the quality of the raw material and its producer);
- both adults and children can engage in such hobbies;
- in some cases, the manufacturers of such paintings can sell them for quite substantial sums, that is, such creativity can generate income;
- the material is widespread, that is, there is no plasticine deficiency;
- for work, you do not need any expensive materials, machines, tools or specially equipped rooms;
- It is possible to use the presented fine art technique both at home and in the classroom at educational institutions.
Naturally, in any case, you will need to prepare a place where you can safely work. In addition, you will have to adhere to a certain manufacturing technology of the product. However, a picture of plasticine is a real masterpiece that even a preschooler can make.
What materials are needed to work?
In order to produce an image, it is necessary to collect all the material and tools. For work you will need:
- cardboard (or other thick paper), plywood or a thin board - these materials will become the basis for your picture;
- scissors;
- brush for painting with a fairly hard pile;
- narrow shoulder blade;
- colored plasticine (of varying degrees of softness);
- natural materials and other elements that will decorate the picture from plasticine.
In principle, any base can be used for work, except glass (if you will create your masterpiece with your child). Naturally, all tools and materials should be as safe as possible for humans.
How to work with plasticine?
There are certain features that can make your product beautiful, or can ruin it. First of all, you should choose the style of the picture. For example, if you want to make a sculpture, then you need a fairly hard plasticine. Its feature is that it is quite difficult to work with it, especially to draw small details. To create such a product, a single piece of material is used.
If a picture of plasticine will be made on cardboard and involves mixing colors, then use soft raw materials. It is very easy to process, it is very easy to draw small details on it, so it makes it possible to create truly beautiful masterpieces that require delicate work.
In principle, a medium-sized picture can be made in a few hours. Although there are more complex compositions.
Features of the implementation of flat products
DIY plasticine paintings are easy to build. First of all, you need to get ready for work. To do this, prepare a dense base on which you will mount the clay. Now you need to warm up the raw materials so that it kneads well and sticks to the prepared base.
A very important part of the work is the sketch of the future product, drawn or printed on a standard sheet of paper (or several pages). This will make it easier for you to draw all the necessary details. Subsequently, the sketch must be transferred to the base. Now you can apply clay. To do this, smear small pieces of a certain color in the desired area of the picture.
Observe safety precautions during operation. In this case, the image should turn out to be very beautiful and neat. Make sure that the clay does not go beyond the edges of the base. Note that at the junction of parts you need to pay attention to the color transition. After the main elements of the picture are filled with plasticine, you can begin to design the background. To do this, you can use plastic and pencils. In principle, clay can be used for the same purpose.
How to make volumetric pictures: step by step instructions
So, if a planar image is easy to make, then with volumetric masterpieces certain difficulties may arise. All work must be done in a certain sequence.
- Selection of materials and the basis for the product.
- Plasticine preparation (it is necessary that the raw materials are soft enough).
- The location of the sketch on the base. In this case, you need to consider where the background will be located, how much space it will occupy.
- Making the necessary elements from pieces of plasticine. They can have different shapes and sizes. In the process, various techniques are used: rolling, flattening, pulling the part from the general shape.
- Attaching pieces of a given shape to the desired area.
The voluminous picture from plasticine is a real masterpiece that will become a wonderful decoration for your interior. Its plot may be different. For example, the image of the sea will be very beautiful. The product in this case will turn out pretty colorful. In order to make such a masterpiece, you will need to follow a certain sequence of actions:
- We start work from the top of the base. To do this, smear plasticine of white, blue and blue shades on the surface of the cardboard. Naturally, you can add gray or pearl color here. In order for the material to be well spread, it must be softened. To do this, heat the raw materials with a hairdryer. For a more impressive effect, all shades of plasticine can be mixed and only then smeared on the base. Although sometimes a blue background is first made.
- Once the sky is ready, you can begin to create water. To do this, use a dark blue color for the background. Next, determine whether waves will be present in the picture. If so, they may be lighter or darker than the background. In addition, you can apply shades of green and turquoise. In order for the wave to look voluminous, darker plasticine should be used.
- A separate element of the picture can be the setting sun. Usually it has a reddish tint and is located on the horizon. In addition, you must definitely make a solar path on the water.
- If in the picture you want to depict an island with a palm tree, then yellow, brown and green plasticine is used for this. At the same time, note that the tree can be made voluminous. To do this, you need to lay pieces of raw materials on top of each other. For the manufacture of palm leaves, green plasticine is necessarily used, from which oval elements roll and then flatten. Using the stack on the tree trunk, the corresponding pattern is made.
In principle, in a few hours you can build a real masterpiece, which should be placed in a frame. However, be careful, since plasticine can come under the glass, and the picture will no longer have its former appearance.
Useful Tips
In order for the product to please your eye for a long time, certain nuances should be taken into account during its manufacture. For example, the base should be light. If you have not practiced such art, then you can take transparent plastic as the basis, since it is easier to correct mistakes on it.
Crafts from plasticine (paintings in particular) will look very beautiful if the items are made correctly. For example, if you make flower petals or leaflets that should have the same shape, then you first need to make a small long roller from the material presented. To do this, you can use a syringe through which a well-heated plasticine is pressed.
It is better to start work from the top edge of the base. Otherwise, you may accidentally ruin the image with a careless hand movement. If you decide to make pictures from plasticine, the master class described above will help you get started and plan your work.