Beautiful Paper Flowers

Ingredients:     Aluminum string     Crape     Cotton bend     Green tape

Method: Take aluminum string. Cut it into length of 10cm.now take a crape and cut it in petal shape. Each should have 5 petals in the same length. Now pull the paper the edges with help of scissors i.e., your thumb should be on the paper and scissors at the back of the paper now pull it. You will get nice petal shape. Now take cotton bend the wire like hook shape at the tip. Keep cotton on top of bend wire and tie. Now keep the crape paper at this tip slowly crush the edge and rotate and bring to flower shape. Then tie it with string. Later cover it with green tape. Your flower is ready.

Rose Flower

Material Required: » any colour lining cloth » binding wire » green tape » any thread for tying petals

Procedure: Cut lining cloth in small square pieces [depending on size of petal]and roll the 3 corners of square piece little and take each petal holding the unrolled corner and arrange to the binding wire one after the other as rose flower and tye it with thread tightly. At last put green tape to binding wire and finish the rose flower.

Knife Painting

Materials Required :  ›› Canvas Board ›› Oil Colours ›› Knives - 2 (one pointed and the other curved) ›› Brushes ›› Colour Palette ›› Old Cloth ›› Carbon Paper (Yellow) ›› Cello tape ›› Turpentine ›› Linseed Oil ›› Picture ›› Enlarged Photostat of the chosen picture

Procedure : In knife painting we apply the paint on the canvas with knives (special ones just for painting) instead of brushes. Two types of knives are available - pointed ones and curved ones. We make impressions on the paint with the knife to give it the distinct knife painting look. Usually the pointed knife is used, but for some situations we use the curved knife. While using a knife, we should make sure that only the front tip of the knife is used to apply the paint. The backside of the knife should not touch the painting at all. Other wise the painting will look like a normal FLAT oil painting.  Method : Before Painting:- Take the canvas board and cover it up with the carbon paper. Now stick the enlarged Photostat of the picture on the canvas board. Take a pencil and draw over all the objects in the picture. This can be done by looking at the real picture, because the objects in the Photostat might not be all that clear. This is done so that while we are painting, we will know where every object is placed on the canvas board. It is just to know the position of the object, so that we won't go wrong. After doing so, take off the Photostat and the carbon paper from the canvas board.  Preparation for Painting:- It is better to wear an apron while we paint with oil colours, so that our dress won't get stained. It is really hard to remove oil colours  from our clothes once it gets stained. Another thing to take care of whenever we are painting a picture is to start from one particular point, so that we finish it part-by-part and complete the whole picture without any complication. But if we do our painting here and there, at the end it will be a total mess and we wont even feel like painting the whole picture. So start from a particular point.  Points to note while Painting:- When we are painting a picture the colours and the colour combinations should be exactly like the ones in the picture. You could experiment with the colours, only if you are sure that the combinations will turn out good. If you are a beginner it is better to stick to the exact colours in the picture. A knife painting has a bumpy nature, so a large quantity of paint is required to do it when compared to all the other types of paintings. Be ready to use a whole lot of paint even for doing a small area. While painting, whenever we are taking a different colour, the knife should be properly cleaned or the colour may get mixed with the other colours and may give entirely wrong colour combinations. Whenever a different shade is used on the same object in a picture we should remember to merge the different shades on the object because if some shades are not merged then they will stick out and will give the product an artificial look. In the picture demonstrated, Cobalt Blue and white are the colours used for the blue part of the sky and yellow and white are used for the yellow part of the sky. Chrome yellow, lemon yellow, plume, crimson red, yellow occult and brown paints are used for the leaves of  the tree. A touch of orange colour in between gives a vermilion hue. Point the knife the way the leaves are falling to give a natural look. Black is given for the branches and crimson red in between for the shaded part.   After Painting:- The painting will take about 2-3 days to dry. So after it is dried, we can give it for framing. But before giving it for framing we should apply a coat of paint varnish on the painting. For applying the varnish, first we have to keep the painting under the sun for a little while. Remember to keep it upside down when kept under the sun. As the canvas gets heated up, quickly give a coat of varnish on the painting. After that coat dries, give one more coat. Now we can give it for framing. A knife painting is never framed with a glass cover. It is just put in a wooden frame. So a coat of varnish is given to protect the painting from the dirt and dust.

Nib Painting

Painting is the art in which colours and lines make the visual impression. Besides painting with brushes, knives, spatula, nibs and even twigs are used for painting.

Here, we are going to do a nib painting.

What You need.

1. Design
2. Felt
3. Hard board
4. Oil paint
5. Tracing Paper
6. Pencil Carbon
7. Glue

Tools/Accessories

Nibs- 3 types of nibs are available.

1. Rounded tip to do circle designs
2. Long tip to do lines
3. Short pointed tip to draw small sharp lines.

How to Do:

Using glue stick the felt on the hard board. Trace down the design on the felt. Now you are ready to paint the design. Two things should be always taken care while doing nib painting. One, you should always start painting from top so as to move your hand freely towards down part. Secondly, you should move your hand evenly while doing your painting. This gives the painting a real look.

Decide on the shade scheme of your design.  Since the petals are not of the same shade, white and pink paint should be used in good combination to get the double shade. Put the paint straight onto the felt. Press on it or score on the paint using the nib. Wherever a round design is required use the nib with round tip and wherever the small sharp lines are drawn short pointed tip nip is used. Generally long tip nib is used  to do the lines. You can also take the paint on the nib and press it against the surface to create the design. You may take 2-3 days to finish off with a design. But do it patiently. You will enjoy this. The design will dry off very slowly, say by 10- days or more. The consistency of the paint is very thick. After the design is fully dried, get it framed.

Natural Flower Paint

Items required:
Square piece of cotton cloth
Transparent plastic sheet
Few fresh colorful flowers	-	Rose, Hibiscus etc
Stone or hammer Method: Place the cotton cloth on the flat surface. Remove the petals from the flowers and place it on the cloth to get a random design. Place the plastic sheet on top of it and bang it with stone or hammer nicely. Now remove the plastic sheet and petals and your natural flower paint is ready on the cloth. Frame it.

Glass Painting

Materials  :
››	Square Glass piece
››	M- seal (A paste used for sealing cracks and leaks)
››	Glass paint
››	Thinner
››	Glue
››	Brushes
››	Aluminum foil
››	Boldly traced design
	Talcum powder. Method: First a traced design is placed on the table and the plain glass is placed above the design, so that the design is clearly seen through the glass. Now mix the two coloured pastes of the mseal in equal proportion to get a wax finish. With the help of talcum powder roll the dough (Mseal Mixture) into thin and even strings. This string is stuck with glue over the glass on the outline of the trace which is kept under the glass and allowed to dry. When it dries colour it with black glass paint. Before you start painting the colour, test your shades on the corner of the glass and wipe it off with the thinner. The colour choice should be perfect  because the stained glass paint gets dried up fast and the correction cannot be done easily. While painting, the colour blending should be done quickly and carefully. When the whole painting and the mseal border gets dried, remove the trace. Now place a crushed aluminum foil behind the picture and get it framed.

Fabric Painting

Materials Required:

1. Cloth
2. Fabric Paints (Fevicryl)
3. Brushes (different numbers)
4. Frame
5. Palette
6. White Tracing Paper
7. Design
8. Pencil
9. Water
10. Waste Cloth

Procedure :

1. Rinse the cloth to remove its starch.
2. Iron the cloth in order to make it wrinkle free.
3. Using a white tracing paper, trace the design onto the cloth.
4.  Fix the frame around the design on the cloth. 
5. Always paint the complete design with white colour as a base before using other colours, to give a better finish to the design. 
6. Now choose your colours and paint the design. Always paint the lighter shades first then the darker ones.
7. Let it dry for 24hrs.
8. For the painting to last longer, iron the back side of the design. The ironing should be done only after 24 hrs.

Here we have painted on a white cloth and used the colours white (For Base), orange, green and yellow.  After painting the white base, start painting with other colours while it is still wet.  If the base is completely dry wet the design slightly with a brush dipped in water. Mix orange paint and white paint together to get a Light orange shade for the petals. 

Brushes are available in different numbers depending on the thickness of the bristles. You can use thin brushes in narrow spaces and thicker brushes on broader areas at your discretion.

Ordinary fabric paints can be mixed with water but metallic fabric colours have to be mixed with a medium. Medium can be bought from shops. The consistency of the mixed paints should not be too watery.