Nature is an excellent artist. She paints his creations as talented that even such a trifle, like a bright red maple leaf, became a symbol for the flag of a whole state. Looking for samples that autumn presents us, you can learn how to create autumn leaves with your own hands from man-made materials.
There are many such materials, and this article presents the schemes of working with the most popular of them.
Paper art
Origami paper folding technique - Eastern art, which will help in imitation of autumn leaves. Below is a diagram of the addition of maple leaf.
From the combination of the autumn leaves folded in this technique, you can create collages, appliques, but even one, diligently made, the sheet can become a masterpiece.
Another art that allows you to portray the autumn leaf more voluminous, is quilling.
The leaves in this technique are obtained gentle, openwork. To create a maple leaf you need to cook:
- thinly sliced strips of the same width of yellow, red and orange color;
- cardboard sheet;
- album sheet;
- toothpick;
- PVA glue or silicate;
- printed or drawn on paper sheet template;
- Pins.
The template must be put on a sheet of cardboard and protect it from gluing with transparent polyethylene and (or) scotch. On the contour of the lines on the template with a pin to fix the frame of the future sheet of red paper strips.
Yellow and orange paper strips twisted in rolls, gluing the end of the strip with glue. Rolls will need to be modified, giving them the form "drops", "eyes" or "triangle". This is necessary in order to fill the shape of the template in the corners, making the drawing is dense, pre-lubricating the glue of the figure.
Attach the tail and down the contour to strengthen all the work, placing it with a red flat paper.
You can only use yellow stripes for the primary color, and the game tones can be transferred with the help of red ermen, by treating the sheets of the sheet edge.
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An interesting option of using paper for the manufacture of leaves is the technique of folding paper "accordion" by imitating the corrugation. It also gives the leaf an additional volume.
The difference is that, folding the paper by hand, as if corrugating it, the sheet turns out quite rigid. The factory corrugation has a slightly different purpose. It is very gentle and is not used for leaves, but for flowers.
Therefore, if we make leaves from corrugations, then corrugating colored paper yourself.
Universal plastic
Sometimes there is a need to make autumn leaves of different shapes themselves, since it is not on sale the necessary elements or they are too expensive. They can be made by themselves from the modern material - from Foamiran. This is a relatively new decorative material used for jewelry, floristics, wedding compositions and other spheres. It is environmentally friendly, paint is easily applied to it, it is elastic and represented by various colors.
The leaves differ from it by naturalness, compared with other materials. They look like real.
To make such leaves, you need:
- Several sheets of phoamyran under the color of autumn leaves.
Templates of leaves of various paper trees so that you can make a blank.
- Toothpicks draw contours in templates on the selected sheets. Cut billets.
- In nature, the leaves are rarely completely intact, so to give the leafs natural look, toothpick make holes in them.
- Acrylic or oil paints with a piece of sponge to apply paint along the edges and along the cherry.
- Lighter slightly sulk the edges of some leaves to "be" them.
- Old toothbrush spray leaves, spraying paint.
- With the help of a special mold template having a natural sheet texture, give the screens of a mesh pattern, like real leaves. To do this, it is necessary to heat the workpiece on the iron and immediately attach to Molda, so that the imprint time to form.
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- For the stiffness of the sheet on the pre-prepared floral wire toothpick to apply glue and press each sheet so that the stuffs (adhesive).
When working with babies, you can make beautiful autumn plasticine leaves.
On the cut out of paper, the template lay out and knead the pieces of plasticine of different colors will like it. The toothpick will need to draw the streaks, smooth the sheet. Plasticine bugs on them. The result will be bright and multicolored work.
Knitted autumn
Autumn motifs inspire transfer bright and multicolored images on clothing and textiles. Images of leaves look very romantic, being made in the form of a pattern with knitting needles. It remains only to pick up the color of the yarn, which will be to your face.
In addition to maple, oak and birch leaves are not less interesting, below the scheme and model.
Even big leaves look on sweaters quite harmoniously.
Video on the topic
Below is a video selection of the creation of autumn leaves from various materials, as well as products on their motives.