Paper Mangoes

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Leaf painting

Leaf art painting...

The leaves used for painting are peepal tree leaf or banyan tree leaf. Once the green leaves are plucked from the tree, they are soaked in water for about 10-15 days...Water should be changed every 3-4 days to prevent decay of leaves. Once the outer layers are completely removed, the leaves are taken out and washed with water. The remaining layers can be removed using toothbrush. This process requires a lot of patience. Once the cleaning is done the leaf skeleton will be white in colour. This has to be dried completely before starting to paint.

Dried leaf skeleton

Paint the outline with a thin brush.

Complete the design. We need to be very carfel when applying paint with brush as the leaves are very delicate.

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

5 pointed 3D paper stars

3D paper stars. Can be used as tree toppers or can be hung from the ceiling.

Monday, February 19, 2018

Miniature violin

"Music is what feelings sound like.."

Draw a basic violin shape

Cut two pieces out of cardboard based on the above pic. Cut two F-hole shapes on one of the pieces.

Glue them together to form the basic shape. Attach a cardboard strip to get the 3D structure.

Cut a few pieces of paper (newspaper or paper napkins can be used).

Glue them to the body of the violin using glue and water mixture. This will make the structure sturdy.

It will look like this once complete. Let it dry completely.

Cut out other shapes( neck, tailpiece,turning pegs, scrolls) and repeat the same steps to cover them all with paper strips.

Attach the pegs to the scrolls . Make 4 holes using a needle on the tailpiece. This is to thread the strings.

Apply acrylic colours

Attach threads through the holes in the tailpieces and glue them down below the pegs.

Apply a coat of varnish or clear nail polish to get the glossy finish.

And we have a miniature violin :)

Sunday, January 14, 2018

3D papercut

The Golden Dream...

The base legs , middle portion , the tower and the dome were all drawn on white computer paper.
Each section was drawn 4 times for each face.
These were cut separately and glued together... Then painted with golden acrylic colour.

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Newspaper door sign

Kids room door sign

Newspaper was rolled into long tubes and attached together. This was painted with blue acrylic colour. The letters of the name are cut from thin cardboard and painted with yellow and red acrylic colours. Paper alphabets, foam doll and giraffe, musical notes etc. were added to create various themes.