Home Do-It-Yourself Mixed Media Night Scene With A Lampshade

Night Scene With A Lampshade

Jan. 16, 2018
You Will Need:

Fevicryl 3D Outliner Glitter - Silver 351, Fevicryl Fabric Glue, Fevicryl Acrylic Colours - Black 02, Prussian Blue 19, White 27, Sky Blue 63, Fevicryl 3D Cone Outliner - Black 708, Fevicryl Fabric Glue, Fine Art Brushes, Half a meter Dark Blue Fabric, Half a meter Net Fabric, Sequins (Dark and Light Pink), Insence Stick, Cylinderical Shaped Metal Body of a Lampshade, A3 Sized White Paper, A4 Sized Yellow Carbon Paper, Wooden Plank - 18” x 36”, Colourful Small Sized Stones, Sequins (Blue, Violet, Light Pink and Silver in colour), A4 Sized Card Papers (Yellow, Leaf Green And Dark Green Colours), Half a meter of Yellow, Green, Red, Brown, Beige and Orange Fabric, Corrugated Box Flap, Toothpicks, Jute Yarn, Mount Board, Tissue Paper, Scissors, Water Container, Colour Palette.

Description :
A lamp shade with a bling that is perfect to be kept near your bedside table. The theme chosen of nightfall with stars and sequins to create that kind of an atomosphere in the room. A night scene of an abstract kind depicted on a wooden plank using mixed materials. It is piece of art that can be put up on a corner wall and highlighted with subtle lights to accentuate it.
STEP 1
Take the metal body of a lampshade to make beautiful lamp.
STEP 2
Take half a meter dark blue coloured polycot and white net fabric for the lampshade.
STEP 3
Take an A3 sized white paper and draw few big and small sized stars on it. Trace the same on the blue fabric using yellow carbon paper.
STEP 4
Paint the outline of the stars with 3D Outliner Glitter - Silver 351. Leave it to dry. Stick the dark and light coloured sequins around the stars to depict the effect of a galaxy using Fabric Glue. Let it dry.
STEP 5
Burn out the inner side of the stars to give a cutwork effect using an insence stick. Take the white net fabric and stick it from the rear side of the blue fabric using Fabric Glue. Leave it to dry. Wrap the fabric around the metal body of the lampshade neatly and secure the ends with Fabric Glue. Let it dry completely. Your lampshade with the galaxy of stars is ready. Night Scene:
STEP 6
Take wooden plank measuring 18” x 36” in size.
STEP 7
Paint the plank using Acrylic Colours - Black 02 and Prussian Blue 19. Paint the horizon and the sky in a light shade of blue made by mixing Prussian Blue 19, Sky Blue 63 and a little of White 27. Leave it to dry.
STEP 8
Enhance the ground line by sticking colourful small sized stones, blue, violet, light pink and silver sequins and fine cut pieces of yellow, leaf green and dark green card papers using Fabric Glue. Leave it to dry.
STEP 9
Take a piece of mount board. From the mount board, draw and cut crescent moon. Stick the tissue paper on the moon using Fabric Glue to create texture on it's surface. Leave it to dry.
STEP 10
Paint the moon with Acrylic Colour - White 27. Leave it to dry. Stick the moon in the sky using Fabric Glue.
STEP 11
Take the corrugated box flap. Draw few houses on it. Cut along the outlines of the houses. Enhances the houses by sticking yellow, green, red, brown, beige and orange fabric pieces on the corrugated houses using Fabric Glue. Outline each house, doors and windows using 3D Cone Outliner - Black 708. Stick the houses on the moon using Fabric Glue. Leave it to dry.
STEP 12
Take the jute yarn and the toothpicks. Stick the toothpicks on the yarn using Fabric Glue to create a ladder. Stick the ladder which is leading towards on the moon from the earth using Fabric Glue. Stick few silver sequins to depict the stars using Fabric Glue.