An ordinary glass bottle can be turned into a masterpiece of art on your own. Decorated using the "Terra" technique, it will be a great gift. Feel like an artist, choosing colors and materials for your work to your taste.
It is necessary
- - acetone
- - white acrylic enamel
- - jet printer
- - paper
- - decoupage glue
- - craquelure
- - structural paste
- - hairdryer
- - fine-grained sandpaper
- - dried flowers
- - PVA glue
- - putty
- - acrylic lacquer
- - gold paint
- - White Spirit
Instructions
Step 1
Peel the labels off the bottle. Wash with dishwashing liquid, dry and degrease with acetone or alcohol. Prime the vessel completely with white acrylic enamel. Leave to dry. Then sand and reapply the enamel. Also sand after the layer has dried.
Step 2
Select and print on an inkjet printer any image you like, worthy to take center stage in the decoration of the vessel. Cut out a section of the size corresponding to the wall of the bottle.
Step 3
Lay the paper down on a flat surface, pattern side down, and spray the back with water. Rub gently with your fingers, peeling off the layers of paper in rolls, until a thin layer of pattern remains.
Step 4
Place the picture on the bottle and apply decoupage glue on top of it. Dry it. Then evenly brush over the picture with a layer of craquelure to give the image an aging effect. After this layer becomes transparent, apply the next one, completely covering the first one.
Step 5
After a while, the second layer will dry and crack. Rub them with dry eye shadow and porporina. Then rinse the last layer with the grout with water and dry with a hair dryer. Never touch the drawing with your hands. Cover it with aerosol varnish and, after drying, apply a layer of acrylic.
Step 6
Border the motif with Structural Paste and add more patterns if desired. When the paste is dry, lightly sand it.
Step 7
To decorate a bottle using the Terra technique, take branches of dried plants (you can use cereals, dried flowers, pebbles, shells, etc.). Mix putty and PVA glue in a container. Cover the bottle completely with this mixture. Apply it with your hands, a palette knife or a spatula.
Step 8
In random order, forming the composition, gently press the plant branches into the putty on the vessel. Cover the gaps that are not filled with buckwheat, millet or pebbles. Leave the product to dry overnight.
Step 9
Several times generously coat all plants with PVA glue with intermediate drying. This will make the dried flowers tough and ready to paint.
Step 10
Cover the entire piece with gold or silver paint in two coats. Then apply bitumen over the entire surface and immediately remove excess. To highlight the relief, after an hour, wipe off bitumen from the protruding areas with cotton swabs dipped in white spirit.
Step 11
Cover the relief with shellac varnish. Decorate the protruding parts with light gold paint and cover the entire product with a layer of acrylic varnish.
