No wonder they say that the best gift is one that is made by oneself. For the donor put his soul, imagination, diligence and patience, skill into it. And even if some nuances were not entirely successful, the desire to give joy and pleasure to the person for whom the present is intended outweigh the rest.
"Noble steed"
Suppose you want to make a souvenir for a middle-aged boy or teenager. And he reads books about Indians and cowboys, watches horse riding with enthusiasm, and his favorite animal is a horse. With your own hands you can make a picture with a burning device. What is needed for this? A piece of plywood of the format you need. Using a nail file and a jigsaw, give it the desired shape - a square, rectangle, oval, etc. Sand the edges to make them smooth and not scratch. Also with an emery cloth, only finer, well sand the front surface of the plywood so that it slightly reflects, is clean and even. Next, pick a good quality drawing that depicts a horse. With your own hands, first try to depict something similar to paper. It turns out - excellent. No - that's okay too. Just take a sheet of carbon paper, sticky side it on the front side of the plywood, on top - the pattern found. And with a simple pencil or with a pointed wooden stick, with a spoke, translate the drawing.
Just do not press hard and do not draw extra lines - the carbon copy is poorly removed from plywood. Carefully study the source and the
horse that you copied
with your own hands . Correct the details. Connect the
burning device to the network and, taking your time, trying to keep the needle at the same time in all parts of the picture, circle the image. Then, using the hatching techniques, shade or highlight certain places in the picture. Evaluate the end result - did you get the horse you wanted. With your own hands, correcting defects is better than asking someone about it. If you know how to use watercolors or gouache, add a little color to your picture (or slightly tint, it will turn out like a retouch, original). With a burning pencil, draw a frame. The picture is ready!
Option for a chandelier or lampshade
You can make a souvenir "horse" with your own hands in another way. But if you try, it will turn out very impressive, elegant, and the result will cause a lot of positive emotions. Buy colored paper, but not plain, thin, but thick, "velvet". Still - New Year's confetti, preferably with sparkles. Make horse stencils in one copy or in several - different silhouettes. Attach to sheets of paper using the mirror image technique, and redraw, cut. Glue the workpieces. Decorate the confetti. Now each
horse made of paper with its own hands needs to be attached to ropes, cords, chains, etc., so that it can then be hooked to lighting fixtures. Select the ropes long enough so that the horses are away from hot bulbs. 3-5 horses can be placed under one lampshade.
Creative ideas
What else can you offer interesting on a horse theme? Do you own brushes and paints? Paint a picture! Sculpt well? Try to make a sculpture of Pegasus from clay, clay. Or cut with carpentry tools. The silhouette of the horse can be embroidered with silk threads or beads. Make an applique. Or give a real Sivka-Burka!