If you are not yet familiar with such a direction of needlework as assemblage, we advise you to learn about it in order to create unique works of art with your own hands. Assembling is a technique of visual art, for which whole objects or volumetric details are used, which are assembled, fixed on a plane, like a panel or a painting. For work, they use fabric, metal, wood, etc., supplementing these materials with paint, varnish.
We make panels using the assemblage technique
The term assemblage was coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953. He designated them as works of man-made art, the elements of which were made from objects and fragments of natural materials. The artist Cesar pressed material for his works. Sculptors Bill Woodrow and Tony Cragg made their works from the found debris and objects.
You have a unique opportunity - to feel like artists, surrealist sculptors and make amazing volumetric paintings and decorations out of waste material. Start with this painting.
- To make such a decorative panel, you need to glue a vase on a sheet of plywood, put flowers inside, then pour gypsum into it. You can paint the vase or not.
- Cut out the wings of the butterflies from cardboard, paint them. The body of these insects must be fashioned from salt dough, and the antennae must be made from wire.
- Let the dough dry, then glue the butterfly onto the decorative panel.
- Finally, this picture needs to be covered with furniture varnish with a brush or from a spray can.
You can decorate the panel with buttons, twine or beads. On this sample, it was done in the style of paper art. Make this picture or a similar one, with some differences. See how to make a similar panel using the assemblage technique.
For creativity, take:
- plywood sheet;
- dry blades of grass;
- plastic flowers;
- half a ceramic pot;
- hacksaw for metal;
- rubber glue No. 88 or a heat gun;
- PVA;
- spray paint;
- alabaster or gypsum;
- paper;
- acrylic gilding;
- varnish.
Saw the ceramic vase in half lengthwise with a metal hacksaw.
The clay pot can be replaced with a thick plastic glass. You will cut it with a knife heated over the flame.
Let's start decorating the background. For this, the papier-mâché technique is used. Tear the paper to shreds, immerse it in water, wait until it becomes limp. After that, take out the pieces, wring them out with your hands, put them on a towel so that the glass is water.
Lubricate a sheet of plywood generously with PVA, spread scraps of soaked paper on it, giving them the desired shape.
You can decorate the pot by gluing a rope to it in the form of flowers, leaves, or a pattern. You can squeeze out the rubber sealant with a construction gun and draw with it. But then the mass must be given time to dry.
To save time, glue flowers in the background, let all the blanks for the painting dry for one time.
Dilute alabaster or gypsum with water, stir. Carefully pour the resulting solution into a vase and insert the blades of grass with flowers that will be in the foreground of the painting.
Let the panel dry properly, then you can paint it. We do this with a spray can, and then, taking a piece of foam rubber, we apply a layer of acrylic gilding. Everything, you can hang the panel on the wall. He was helped to create the technique of assemblage and skillful handles.
How to make a brooch using the assemblage technique?
Usually, the craftswomen have scraps of materials, beads, let's turn all this into a fashionable decoration. Here's what you need to get out of your bins:
- coarse weave fabric;
- artificial flax fibers of golden color;
- glass and wooden beads;
- burlap (but not gray, but wheat-colored);
- glue web;
- needles with a wide eye;
- doublerin or coarse calico;
- decorative elements;
- threads.
First, we make a rose from fabric. To do this, cut out a strip 4 cm wide and 30 cm long from the canvas, fold it in half lengthwise and twist it in the form of a flower. To do this, first we make 3-4 turns, and then bend the strip at an angle of 45 °, we make securing stitches.
Next, to create a brooch with your own hands, cut a rectangle out of the burlap. Fluff the edges by pulling out the fibers around the perimeter around the edges. Fold the workpiece in half, slightly offsetting the corners.
To this burlap element you need to sew a fabric rose in a circle. After that, cut a triangle or a strip obliquely from the main fabric.
Further, to decorate a brooch with your own hands using the assemblage technique, laying folds, at the same time round off the workpiece. Sew it, stitch it to the bottom of the brooch. Now you need to decorate it with wooden beads. To do this, pull the burlap thread, remove it, fold it in half. Thread a large needle into the eyelet, twist it in half to make 4 folds of thread. We put on an oval bead at both ends, fix them with neat knots.
Sew this rope blank with a rose. You can decorate it with other elements.
After the front is ready, take care of the back. Here we sew coarse calico and fasten a doublerin or an adhesive spider web. In order for the brooch to have the required rigidity, lay a layer of the upper edging and padding polyester with large pieces of glue spiderweb.
We fix the detail made of dublein or coarse calico - bending the fabric, stitching it with a seam over the edge. Glue the curling edges with a cobweb.
To attach a glue web, put a sheet of paper on it, iron it with a hot iron. Then remove the paper. Attach the brooch clasp.
You can leave the brooch as it is or give it a different color using spray paint.
Antique painting with your own hands
Looking at the next canvas, it seems that it hung on the wall in the castle during the era of the knights. You will not immediately guess that this is not chasing from bronze, but a panel, also made using the assemblage technique.
To create such a masterpiece, take:
- fiberboard sheet;
- salty dough;
- styrofoam border;
- acrylic paints;
- plaster bandages;
- bottles;
- a plate;
- foil;
- putty;
- acrylic lacquer;
- sandpaper;
- glue;
- fruits;
- to decorate the plate you need: semolina, shells, jute twine.
Wrap bottles and a plate separately in foil, wrap with plaster bandages, having moistened them with water.
Apply a layer of about 5 mm of plaster on top, only half on the bottles. Wait for the solution to dry, remove the prints from the base.
Putty the blanks, and let this layer dry.
Draw an ornament on the plate. To do this, while the putty is still damp, put jute twine on it, slightly pressing it into the solution. For a stronger connection, you can put on PVA. Break the shell, decorate the petals of the resulting flower with it, and the outer elements with semolina.
Put putty on the fiberboard, attach a plate, decorated bottles.
When the filler is dry, rub over the surface with fine sandpaper.
We "mold" the halves of the fruit using the same technology: first we wrap them in foil, but then we coat them not with gypsum, but wrap them with salted dough, immediately sticking the peppercorns with peas.
We glue these elements to the picture.
Next, we sculpt smaller fruits from salted dough - grapes, olives. We also make grape leaves from dough, you can cut them yourself or use a template. We cover individual elements with gold acrylic paint, decorating the panel with it.
Now paint the painting with black acrylic paint, and when it dries - also gold. Such a wonderful creation helped create an interesting direction called assemblage.
How to make a clock and a plate using the assemblage technique?
We will make all the watches using the same assembly technique. See how original the product will turn out.
Here are the materials and tools you need for this:
- plywood;
- ruler;
- saw;
- pencils;
- brushes;
- glue;
- nails;
- bolts;
- numbers and their designations;
- clockwork;
- drill;
- colored cardboard;
- protractor.
You can pick up numbers from 1 to 12 from the most unexpected materials. For example, instead of a five, use a glove with 5 fingers, and instead of 10 - a ten-ruble coin. And some numbers can replace plates with the apartment number, dominoes.
Take the clockwork.
Paint the plywood, let it dry.
Mark the location of the numbers, glue a triangle of colored cardboard near each, or mark these areas with paint.
When dry, stick the numbers.
To make the coating durable, you can paint the watch with varnish.
To make a sign for a toilet and a bath all in the same technique, you will need:
- base for plates;
- primer;
- texture paste;
- a sheet of thick wallpaper;
- putty knife;
- toothpick;
- sandpaper;
- acrylic: varnish, contour, paints.
First you need to draw a sketch. You can take advantage of the proposed by attaching the sheet to the monitor screen.
Enlarge the drawing so that it fits the size of your plywood blank.
Cut out the templates, attach them to the base, outline to mark the location.
To make the drawing three-dimensional, we will make a stencil from thick wallpaper.
Apply a pattern to the wallpaper along the contour of the pattern, cut it out - you get a stencil. Fill the resulting holes with a putty knife and textured paste.
Carefully remove this stencil. Take a toothpick in your hands and draw the missing lines and elements in the picture.
When the paste is dry, lightly rub over the pattern with emery cloth. To give it color, tint with acrylic paint diluted with water using a sponge. Apply a darker tone to the indentations. Remove excess paint with a napkin.
It remains to go over the plate with an acrylic contour, and after drying, varnish it in several layers.
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