Designing and Making Paper Items

Designing and Making Paper Items

There are several ways of redecorating paper. Most of the techniques had been born out of experimentation of the artist with the colors and different substances found within the surroundings. This means that aside from the ones strategies with a view to be exact, every artist have to endeavour to create new methods of designing paper objects.

1. Marbling (controlled and out of control) 

2. Comb-pattern 

3. Wax resist 

four. Doodling 

5. Spraying 

6. Roller and cord sample 

7. Ink-blowing

1. Marbling (controlled and out of control) 

Marbling is a technique of making decorative patterns on paper by means of transferring coloration from the floor of a liquid onto paper. Tools and materials required for marbling include paper, brushes, thinner, basin or trough, various colorings of oil paint, cooked starch, empty tins, stick, and water. 

Controlled Marbling

Process:

1. Fill a trough with cooked starch in a fair consistency. 

2. Sprinkle exceptional colours of oil paint at the starch. 

3. With the aid of the stick, stir gently for the colors to combine on the surface of the starch as a way to make the styles. 

Four. Place paper flat on pinnacle of the starch and tap the returned to cast off trapped air. 

Five. Hold one fringe of the paper and eliminate it through dragging it alongside the brink of the trough to get rid of the starch. 

6. Excess starch is washed off with water and hanged to dry.

Uncontrolled Marbling

Process:

1. Fill a trough with water. 

2. Sprinkle exceptional shades at the water. 

3. Stir in different guidelines for the colors to come back collectively over water. 

Four. Place paper flat on top of the trough and faucet the again to put off trapped air. 

5. Hold one fringe of the paper and get rid of it via dragging it along the brink of the trough.

2. Comb-sample 

The equipment and materials are massive brush, paper or hair comb, cooked starch, water, powder colors, paper.

Process:

1. Mix powder color with cooked starch to an excellent consistency to shape a skinny paste. 

2. The brush is used to paint paste over the entire surface of paper. 

3. The comb is utilized in making rhythmic patterns at the sheet. 

4. It is hanged to dry.

3. Wax face up to 

Tools and substances required for this paper pattern making technique consist of brush, crayon or candle, powder colour, paper.

Process:

1. A sheet of paper is folded and creased to create parallel lines. 

2. Wax is used to draw strains within the folded traces. 

Three. Go over the lines for a 2nd run. 

Four. Colours are blended and painted over the waxed paper.

Another technique is to sprinkle molten wax on paper. It is painted over with any excessive key coloration. Wax is sprinkled once more and painted over with a low-key coloration. After drying it, place the paper among  sheets of newspaper and iron to take away the wax leaving the patterned layout.

Four. Doodling 

The tools and substances used consist of pencil, colors, paper, and brushes.

Process:

1. Create doodles to cowl the entire sheet. Doodles are scribbles make on paper without any forethought plan. 

2. Different colors are combined to color familiar shapes created through the doodles. 

Three. Erase the extensions created by the pencil.

5. Spraying 

Tools and materials used encompass spray diffuser or shoe brush, paper, shade, reduce out shapes, natural objects.

Process:

1. Arrange the herbal gadgets or patterned templates and keep their positions with drawing pins at the sheet of paper. 

2. Spray shades at the patterns the usage of the spray diffuser or an empty pen barrel with a mesh held at one cease. 

Three. Gently do away with the drawing pins and the reduce out patterns. 

Four. The sprayed patterns at the paper is left to dry.

6. Roller and cord sample 

Tools and materials used encompass paper, printing ink,  hand rollers, rags, twine, thinner, glass slab.

Process:

1. Twine is wound round one hand curler. 

2. Printing ink is positioned on glass slab and rolled over with the second curler. 

3. Printing ink is transferred onto the twined curler by means of rolling it over the glass slab. 

4. The inked twined roller is rolled over the paper from the threshold to facet and protected throughout. 

Five. The rollers are wiped clean with thinner and a different coloration is used to move over the already created sample to provide a two coloured effect.

7. Ink-blowing 

Tools and substances used encompass ink, paper, and empty pen barrel.

Process:

1. Sprinkle the paint at special sections at the paper. 

2. Blow the paint to sprinkle it in a coiffure manner the usage of the empty pen barrel. 

Three. Leave the paper to dry.