Artificial snow, diorama stones, material for artificial flowers and food models - easy to do yourself and with just two cheap components.
I want to share a way to make snow for winter compositions and the ideas that came to my mind about other possibilities for using this material.
I needed artificial snow for this alteration. According to the original idea, the sled in front was to be thrown with clods of snow from under the hooves, that is, I needed particles of different sizes.
Technology - it couldn't be easier: we take a little paint (I have it - acrylic facade) and add semolina. At first I took a little, just to test how the materials would interact. My experience with facade paints is not at all great and I only painted semolina with acrylic paints on finished works, where it was used to imitate sand or rust.
The main difficulty in coloring semolina is that you can not add a lot of water. The cereal will swell quite quickly and turn into porridge.
When it became clear that nothing would stick together immediately and tightly, I added both paints and decoys to make it more convenient to work, but also it’s not a pity to throw it away if something goes wrong.
The idea is to carefully distribute small portions of paint and separate the resulting lumps. I checked whether it would be more convenient and faster to destroy the lumps between the palms. On such a volume - no, it’s not more convenient and not faster, only your hands are more dirty and you need a larger container so as not to litter. If you need to do a lot, in some kind of basin - then - yes, it will be faster.
While the lumps are kneading, the paint is already drying up and you can add the next portion. And so on until the whole grain is evenly and densely dyed.
That's the whole technology. The procedure requires almost no visual control, so you can do it while watching a movie or talking on the phone. You can disassemble the semolina to the state of individual grains or leave a part in lumps, the size of which is also adjustable for your tasks. After complete drying, these lumps can no longer be broken with your fingers.
My attention was drawn to the fact that when the cereal is already well colored, at the stage of adding a new portion of paint, while the lumps are still large, it is very similar to cottage cheese. And I began to fantasize how this observation could be used.
Obviously, such a thing can be useful in the manufacture of dummies of products and ready meals. In the end, this is already a whole industry and a separate direction in creativity.
Here's what I came up with for use:
1. Bench modeling and creation of any landscape compositions: clods of snow, earth, pebbles of different fractions.
2. Creation of artificial flowers and plants for miniatures. You can form a whole bush, add lumps painted in other shades of green and flowers to the main tone.
3. Applications, bas-relief, three-dimensional painting...
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Hey! My name is Oksana, I live in Siberia. I love my garden very much, all the plants in it and all its inhabitants. I learned how to make fairy houses from the video from @Creative Mom .
I like to experiment, surprise people and share my ideas. I try to leave less garbage behind, so I willingly use in my work what normal people would throw away: cardboard, newspapers, plastic bottles, glass and metal cans, unnecessary clothes, fabric scraps, remnants of building and finishing materials. From all this you can do with your own hands a lot of necessary, useful and beautiful things.
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15 янв 2022
