Portrait of an African woman made of flowers – paper decor in technique «quilling»
People have always strived for beauty. The desire to surround yourself with beautiful things is quite natural, as they evoke positive emotions, improve mood and even give strength. It is pleasant to contemplate the beautiful, but it is much more interesting to create it with your own hands and feel like a magician and a wizard, capable of creating a miracle from ordinary things.
Portrait of an African woman made of paper
Quilling is the modern art of making appliqués from thin, long strips of paper twisted into a spiral. We offer to create your own contemporary masterpiece with an ethnic touch. It will be a silhouette of an African woman with colorful flowers in a luxurious head of hair. An exclusive piece of art can be used as an original wall decoration, as an element of decoration of a gift box, as a lampshade for a lamp or candle. It all depends on limitless fantasy.
We need:
• 3 and 6 mm (or 5 mm) multi-colored quilling paper,
• 1 A4 sheet of black color,
• quilling pen or needle,
• liquid paper glue,
• scissors,
• quilling board,
• fantasy and ingenuity
Step 1: drawing and cutting the silhouette
Cut out the silhouette
Draw the silhouette yourself or download its stencil from the Internet (in this case, we are dealing with A4 format, but it can be adjusted at will). Draw a sketch on black paper (it is more convenient to do this from the back) and cut out.
Step 2: Create Spiral Blanks
Create blanks
Make various blanks with a quilling pen or needle. The quilling handle is very easy to use, but it leaves a mark inside the finished element; the quilling needle is more difficult to use, but the blanks created with it will be perfectly twisted.
Create blanks
For this composition, you need to make the following elements:
1. Free roll
2. Dense roll
3. Eccentric ring
4. Eccentric drop
5. Marquis
Finished items
Combine 3mm and 6mm quilling paper to create a subtle relief.
Step 3: gluing quilling elements
Bonding quilling elements
Apply liquid glue to glue the pieces together. It is more convenient to do this with a brush or toothpick..
Gluing curls to a silhouette
Glue all the elements together and only then glue the entire composition to the silhouette to avoid surface contamination.
Bonding quilling elements
Experiment with layering elements on top of each other to achieve a 3d effect.
Step 4: the composition is ready!
Portrait of an African woman made of flowers
The composition is ready as a lamp shade
Stick the entire composition onto a plain sheet of paper (white, yellow, etc.) or use it as a lampshade for a lamp, securing it with double-sided tape at the base of the lamp. Enjoy a masterpiece made with your own hands and amaze your family and friends!
