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It happens: in a cozy interior there is a lack of a small touch. It can be a floor lamp, an elephant figurine or a floor vase. A standing interior vase is quite an expensive pleasure. But it is possible to make just such a vase from improvised material that will fit in color, shape and size using old dishes, a broken flower pot and toilet paper.
Materials for work:
  • Deep pan with a lid - 1 pc.;
  • Plastic salad bowl - 1 pc.;
  • High flower pot - 1 pc.;
  • Plaster bandage - 1 pc.;
  • Hooks from the window planter - 2 pcs.;
  • "Cold welding" - 3 whetstones;
  • Gouache paint “bronze”, glue “liquid nails”, clerical knife, plastic (or self-hardening clay), toilet paper, construction PVA glue, varnish, gouache, putty, eggshell, rolling pin, craquelure varnish.

Stages of the work:


The first stage: preparation of the basis.
We select containers that are suitable in size (in this MK we used a deep frying pan with a lid, a plastic salad bowl, a high flower pot).
suitable containers

Cut the bottom of the pot and salad bowl.
Cut the bottom

We glue the pot and salad bowl with glue “liquid nails”.
Glue the pot

Glue the pot

We complement the design with a pan (having previously got rid of its handle) and an inverted lid, gluing the elements with “liquid nails”.
We complement the design with a pan

Second stage: decorative handles.


We fasten the handle bandage to the sides (hooks from the window planter, can be made of large wire). We fix the bandage with the help of "liquid nails". Sushim.
decorative handles

The third stage: we give the design the desired shape.


The gypsum bandage is gradually untwisted, carefully sprayed with water.
give the design the desired shape

give the design the desired shape

We cover the entire surface with a bandage, moving from top to bottom. Gypsum needs to be moistened strongly and the entire surface, immediately smoothing it with a palm. Dry the day.
Cover the entire surface with a bandage.

Cover the entire surface with a bandage.

All roughnesses and irregularities are covered with a thin layer of putty (I used the already induced, creamy consistency).
close with a thin layer of putty

The fourth stage: we draw up the lower part.


To simulate masonry, we use eggshells. We glue PVA thickly over a small part of the surface of the vase, put pieces of eggshell on it and generously moisten it again with PVA. Sushim.
draw up the bottom

We cover the shell with toilet paper (we put the paper on it, apply liquid PVA over the surface with a soft brush, align and squeeze out air bubbles).
Close the shell with toilet paper

We wrap the very bottom of the vase all the way with toilet paper.
all the toilet paper

Strongly wet the paper with liquid PVA, lay the folds.
Wet paper heavily

Sushim.
Sushim

Fifth stage: we draw up the upper part.


With a simple pencil, we draw a picture of old towers, arches, tree trunks (you can use printer prints, transferring a picture from them through a carbon copy).
make out the top

make out the top

make out the top

make out the top

Sixth stage: create volume.


To create volume in the figures, cut the toilet paper into strips.
create volume

We twist the strips into spirals and wet them in liquid PVA.
create volume

We stick spirals along the contours of the drawings.
We stick spirals

We stick spirals

We make foliage from moistened PVA and crumpled toilet paper.
We make leaves from wet

Seventh stage: we make roses from plastic.


To create roses, you can use plastic or self-hardening clay, a cap from drops, a rolling pin.
make plastic roses

We roll out a small piece of plastic very, very thinly. Cut the mugs into a cap and stack them on top of each other (5-6 pieces each).
make plastic roses

We twist the folded circles, pinch them in the center with a thick thread. Sushim.
make plastic roses

From each twist you get two tiny roses.
it turns out two tiny roses

The eighth stage: we decorate a vase with roses.


Dip each rose into “liquid nails” glue and attach to the upper and lower parts of the vase.
decorate a vase with roses

decorate a vase with roses

The ninth stage: colorize the volumetric image.


To color the trees, we apply black strips of gouache on the left side of the trunks.
color the volumetric picture

color the volumetric picture

We circle black the hollows around the eggshells.
Circle black troughs

Circle black troughs

Add brown to the trunks and branches.
Add brown

And paint over the "brickwork".
And paint the brickwork

Matting trunks and masonry white.
Matting trunks

Matting trunks

The point of the foliage is pale brown.
Add dark brown pokes

Add languid brown pokes with a brush.
Draw the dark brown branches

Draw the dark brown branches.
Color the turrets and the arch in the same way.

Color the turrets and the arch in the same way.
Color the turrets and the arch in the same way.

Color the turrets and the arch in the same way.

decor of the top and bottom of the vase

Red-brown color draw (in places) leaves.
decor of the top and bottom of the vase

decor of the top and bottom of the vase

Read decor top and bottom of the vase.
decor of the top and bottom of the vase

Draw the leaves.
Draw leaves

We cover the roses themselves with bronze paint.
We cover the roses themselves with bronze paint

In places we draw leaves

In places we draw leaves.
In places we draw leaves

apply craquelure varnish to the surface

Tenth stage: craquelorim.


On all surfaces not covered by the pattern, apply craquelure varnish. Sushim.
apply craquelure varnish to the surface

Overwrite the cracks with brown paint. Sushim.
Overwrite the cracks with brown paint

With a wet disk, remove the excess color (without pressing the disk). Sushim.
Wet disc removed

Eleventh stage: make the neck.


For the width of the neck, you can use a plastic bucket, having previously cut the bottom. In order for water to be poured into a vase, we fasten a rolled bar of cold welding to a flower pot. It is necessary to fix it at such a height that the plastic bucket inserted inside rests against welding. Fill in “liquid nails” (to seal possible cracks and holes)
make the neck

After the hardening of the welding, we “plug” the distance between the pot and the bucket of toilet paper.
hardening welding

On a surface of toilet paper we roll out a couple of “cold welded” whetstones, which blocks the ingress of water inside. Sushim. We paint with bronze.
roll out a couple of whetstones

Varnish a vase with several layers of colorless varnish, pre-drying each.
Varnish a vase in several layers

All! We calculate savings and boast of beauty!
Handmade floor vase

Handmade floor vase

Handmade floor vase

Handmade floor vase
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Comments (1)
  1. Gulnara Krutova
    #1 Gulnara Krutova Guests January 3, 2017 10:48
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    Thanks to the masters!

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