How to make a composition of multi-colored sand in a bottle. How to make pictures from colored sand in a bottle. Unfortunately, purchased sand has disadvantages.
Camel in the desert
Walks slowly.
He's important beyond measure
Big and funny.
And hairy legs
And the neck is bent.
He would, humpbacked,
Be more modest.
It's time for him
stop wondering
And quit the habit
Spit in passers-by.
Egypt. Master Class.
The most common (and second most popular after papyrus) souvenir that is usually brought from Egypt is a bottle of colored sand, inside of which a whole picture was hidden, mainly with Arab-marine motifs. Here, there is a desert with camels and palm trees, and the depths of the sea with dolphins, sharks, corals, fish - there are many ideas for creativity, plus a successful and pleasant combination of colors - and here you have a masterpiece. Moreover, at a reasonable price.
Creating such a picture is an art that Arab boys learn from childhood.
We have been to Egypt many times. And almost every time we bring a new bottle with us. And not just one - several as a gift to friends and relatives.
And each time, with bated breath, we look at the hands of the master, who literally in a few (5-10 minutes) creates an unusual picture from colored sand.
Now for some theory.
The most important thing is, of course, the showcase. There are bottles of various sizes and shapes and with different sand patterns on the steps.
By the way, there are not only bottles, but also vases-glasses of bizarre shapes. The glass of the vases is thinner, and curly fragile legs require a very careful attitude!
On top of the master there is a wooden box, divided into several compartments, in which colored sand is poured.
The sand itself is very easy to get, in Egypt it is, as you understand, a desert :). Water plus dye is added to the sand, everything is dried (calcined in the sun).
Further, with the help of a thin metal funnel, colored sand is poured in small layers (sometimes even different in level) with spoons. A picture is formed with metal wires of different thicknesses and configurations. In the course of work, layers of sand are periodically "rammed" for density. It is important to follow the correct imposition of sand layers, its quantity, not to confuse colors and sequence :). By the way, the colors of the sand are used not only in their pure form, but also separately mixed on a saucer and additional necessary shades are obtained.
At the end of the work, a little glue is poured on top (although several Egyptians stubbornly used the word "lacquer", but it seems to me that this is glue.) The glue dries for almost a day and then, after drying, it cannot be "picked" from above with a fingernail. If you still succeed, then dry the craft vertically without turning it over for another day.
It depends on how correctly the picture is made, how tightly the layers are packed, how tightly the “crown” is sealed, whether this bottle will reach (“fly”) to Moscow. Most importantly - do not take these bottles in your luggage, only in your "hand luggage". Several times we received our souvenirs with broken legs and even split into pieces. Although packed very carefully according to all the rules. One of the fantastic moments - once 2 out of 8 bottles arrived whole, but the picture on them disappeared! Slipped, mixed up. Imagine that you painted a watercolor drawing and immediately filled it with water. Why this happened - I do not understand. Maybe not heavily tamped, but the adhesive "seal" was intact.
Now about the most interesting.
This time we also walked around the city and wanted to buy bottles for souvenirs. And then a child of 12 years old asks the master - "can I do it myself?" Translated from English, it means, can I make such a bottle myself and give it to my grandmother? My? It turns out you can. True, we paid a little more for such a bottle than for the "purchased", but here I was not against it. As a result, we received a personal master class, and even took away from Egypt the work made by the hands of a child. This is great. At the same time, both the child and the master almost did not speak English :) Everything was at the level of gestures and hints ... Moreover, we gathered a crowd of tourists who also later wanted to "themselves" :)
1. Pour sand in layers.
2. We form a picture with a stick.
3. Ramming with a special piece of iron.
4. Drop glue into the bottle from above.
So here's the story. Maybe next time you go to Egypt - it will be possible to make such a bottle? For very young children, you can not "display" the picture, but simply cover layers of multi-colored sand? Like sea waves...
For those who are not going to this wonderful country, you can try to do everything at home. A sort of "hand-made". In the internet, there is a lot of information and master classes about sand pictures. There are videos on YouTube. Sand in Russia, as I understand it, they take white river sand. The paint is used dry, printer. Jars are taken from under baby food. Or bottles. A thin funnel is made from a cocktail straw plus a medical glass thin funnel. Knitting needles. And instead of desert dunes and camels, you can make geese - a "house in the village" and a sunset near Moscow ...
You will succeed!
I have never been to Egypt, but I accidentally saw such interesting bottles on the Internet, inside which the sand folded into interesting pictures:
They say that this is a running souvenir for tourists (the second most common after papyri). And that every boy in Egypt learns from childhood to make similar paintings from sand in bottles.
Each Egyptian master can make a similar picture before your eyes with the help of a special box filled with colored sand (just like a huge box of paints), an empty glass bottle, a funnel and a straw:
And they sell their works of art right here on the street:
(photo from osd.ru/txtinf.asp?tx=3195)
I don’t know at what price they are sold in Egypt, but on one Vietnamese site it is indicated (this needlework is also common in Vietnam) that such bottles with a sand pattern are sold for 5-15 dollars.
I have not seen such souvenirs either in Russian or Ukrainian resorts (apparently, there are no craftsmen).
Of course, to make such voluminous sand drawings, you need some time to learn. So you can learn and then teach others. Organize master classes - and make your own business on it (if you enjoy doing it, of course).
Below are a few businesses that can be done on this needlework alone. These directions will be true for any handicraft business.
Business 1. Educational master class on creating sand drawings
As far as I know, there are no master classes in Moscow (apart from traditional needlework) - creating sand paintings on special tables, drawing on water, etc. For any master class - especially such a spectacular and beautiful one - there will be those who wish.
And unlike many newfangled master classes, the result of this event can be taken home and given to someone.
Business 2. Corporate events and celebrations
This is also a fairly fashionable trend in our time. Corporate events with a learning focus bring the team together and help to get to know each other in an unconventional pastime.
And in the wedding ceremony, this simultaneously turns into a symbol of unity (in the West, this ritual is very popular):
The same goes for holidays. The organizers of home (or corporate) holidays strive to keep and surprise guests as much as possible. The more unusual the invited master class, the more interest it will arouse.
(photo from funtastic-events.com)
This children's party uses, in my opinion, Chinese bottles with colored sand, with tubes already attached (if you want to buy these, go to alibaba.com).
Business 3. Selling finished works as handmade souvenirs
For our lands, this is a rather rare and exotic souvenir, especially since, as I read the blogs of travelers, not everyone manages to bring whole bottles from Egypt. It happens that the bottles are saved, but the drawing deteriorates irrevocably. Moreover, Egyptian (Arabic, Vietnamese) bottles contain their own national motifs (camels, dunes, palaces). Our motives they don't. And we have something to show. Especially for different holidays - New Year, February 23, March 8 and others.
But now we already have needleworkers who are able to come up with their own motifs in bottle sand patterns. The picture below shows the work of a resident of Belarus, an accountant by profession, Lyudmila Myslivets:
(photo from grodnonews.by/ru/0/10279/news)
Business 4. Making souvenir bottles with sand to order
As some craftsmen paint nesting dolls to order (with a portrait of a birthday man), so it will be possible to create sand paintings with a significant plot (well, at least with the number of completed years; or with some characteristic symbol of the congratulatory profession).
Business 5. Creating your own needlework club and supplying them with materials for creativity
I found one Russian online store where you can buy colored sand for creativity at 50 rubles per kilogram - sandmix.ru:
You can buy in bulk (it’s cheaper; I don’t know Russian prices, but I saw such colored sand on alibaba.com at a price of $ 100 per ton, that is, 3.5 rubles per kilogram) and resell it to your club members at retail.
But you can make colored sand yourself. I read recipes for its manufacture on the Internet (ordinary river sand is taken, thoroughly washed, sieved, and then dyed with dry inks for printers).
Not every needleworker will be able to prepare such sand for himself. And you also need special glass bottles and some other tools (which are also not sold in stores).
The same alibaba sells plastic bottles of different shapes and sizes at a very cheap price.
You can sell both colored sand and bottles for creativity not only to members of your club, but also via the Internet to all other needleworkers.
Both the needlework site etsy.com and the Russian similar site livemaster.ru have sellers of both sand and sets for wedding ceremonies (they have thousands of sales, despite the presence of the Chinese with their cheap sand).
Here is one of these sellers, he has more than six thousand sales in 1.5 years:
Business 6. Sale of ready-made kits for creativity
One bottle, several colored sandbags, painting tools in a bottle, instructions and some nice accessory.
An Australian housewife has set up just such a business, selling bottle art kits over the Internet (in addition to hosting the actual fun holidays), her website is funandfunky-sandart.com. And, for children. That is, such sets that any child will master on their own, without the presence of an instructor:
She uses plastic bottles with a screw cap (probably worth a penny).
With such a pattern, any child can handle it himself (from the tools he will need a funnel and a spoon):
Each set also includes accessories that will be made from a bottle of a funny character (and the child, after sticking these accessories himself, will feel like a creator, if not God):
In my opinion, a simple, original and beautiful business. Available to any housewife living near the river (sea, ocean).
Promotion of business on sand bottles
1. At least - Youtube - where you will post your master classes or their excerpts, as well as examples of the performance of certain works. Such videos are very well promoted and will themselves promote you and your business.
2. Create your own group in a social network. You can not only talk about your events, upload photos of your work and your videos, but also ask your clients (students) to send photos of their resulting work. This process of getting involved in filling the group will further promote it.
3. Cooperation with organizers of holidays, wedding designers - with all organizations that are engaged in entertaining people.
4. Your own shelf in the gift shop. With the sale of their works as souvenirs, everything is also simple. Make arrangements with local gift shops to put your bottles up for sale. Sell - good, do not sell - you will not lose anything. I know from my own experience that there is practically nothing original in our souvenir shops. And you can make each of your bottles original, unique, decorated for the nearest holiday.
Such a bottle, despite its apparent fragility, can stand for several years or even centuries (the sand in it is compacted and either filled with special glue or sealed very tightly so that the sand does not shake). How more than 100 years of the work of the American artist Andrei Clemens stood:
5. Participate in city events (those where you can sell your needlework) and exhibitions.
This is the canvas for creating and promoting any handicraft business. There is nothing difficult in this if you love to create, teach other people and spread the beautiful around you (and, as they would say in Business Youth, “do the world irreparable good”).
My sister recently returned from Anapa and also brought Russian sand drawings. Made like this unpretentiously in a container in which smoked fish (or nuts) are usually sold:
And they are sold for money. That is, even in such drawings in our resorts, people manage to earn money.
Alekseeva Galina Ivanovna, teacher of social and household orientation of the public educational institution “Poltava adaptive boarding school”.
The master class is designed for middle-aged and older children, including those with intellectual disabilities, as well as for educators, class teachers.
Appointment of the master class- production of decorative bottles using colored salt for interior decoration, use as gifts.
Target: to give an idea of the technique of pouring colored salt.
Tasks:
To acquaint with tools, ways of coloring salt, methods of pouring;
To form the skills of decorating bottles with colored salt;
To develop the creative abilities of the participants of the master class.
(pictured options for possible work)
The relevance of the master class
In the conditions of a boarding school, educators and teachers often have to participate in various kinds of competitions, teach children new ways of activity using cheap, affordable materials, develop the creative abilities of pupils, and here new techniques for decorating products come to the rescue, for example, such as creating paintings, crafts using the method of "pouring".
In addition, this work helps to calm the nerves, which is especially important for teachers, and gives aesthetic pleasure.
History of pouring technology. The art of creating pictures using the pouring technique originated in Buddhist monasteries, in which, from time immemorial, pictures of extraordinary beauty have been painted from crushed marble of different colors, the so-called Tibetan mandalas. The process of creating paintings on the plane is quite simple. First, the canvas is smeared with glue, and then sprinkled with sand. The art of creating pictures from colored sand in bottles came to us from the Arab countries. In Egypt or Jordan, you can meet craftsmen who can create such souvenirs in 5 minutes using ordinary sand and a thin stick.
Puffs is a term that has appeared on craft sites relatively recently. This is the name of transparent vessels (beautiful jars and bottles) filled with bulk materials. Most often filled with tinted dried gouache salt. The use of salt for these purposes may be due to the fact that it has long been used as a talisman. But there are other options (sand, cereals, grains). Such a decoration is created in the color scheme that will suit your interior. At the same time, you can think about a gift for loved ones.
Materials and tools:
For painting - fine salt, gouache paints, plastic bags.
For work: Material: a clean dry bottle, containers with colored salt.
Tools: funnel, wooden skewers, stacks, knitting needles, scissors, glue.
Demonstration of how to stain salt(it is necessary to dilute the colored gouache with water and pour it into a plastic bag with salt, shake it, knead it with your hands for staining and dry it (you can use it on a battery or in the oven)). Salt must be prepared in advance, each color in a separate bag.
Methods for pouring salt into a bottle:
The simplest filling is created from sequentially poured layers of salt of different colors. If the funnel is located in the center of the bottle, the layer thickness will be the same around the entire circumference (a). To change the thickness of the layer, you can tilt the funnel during pouring (b) or use a funnel with a curved "spout" (c):
By choosing a color scheme, as well as options for pouring layers, you can get various unique patterns. To practice skills, it is better to use a small glass with straight and smooth walls.
Features of creating bulks:
filling the middle of the dishes;
salt compaction;
sealing the picture after the end of the work.
In the finished work, only a layer of salt adjacent to the glass is visible, so the "middle" can be covered with another salt, white or left after unsuccessful attempts. If the middle is filled, then the drawing will not crumble.
Craft manufacturing technology.
Step 1. Pour 2-3 layers of colored salt into the bottle through the funnel.
Step 2. We form the pattern of "peaks" with a wooden skewer. We put the needle over the top layer of salt at an angle of 20-30 degrees to the glass. We lower the knitting needle on the glass with the tip down. The side surface of the spoke will push some of the salt inward, and the salt of the upper layers will fall in its place from above. Upon reaching the desired depth, the needle must be taken inward to the center and lifted up through the middle.
Step 3 Continue adding colored salt. By turning the bottle at different angles, we form a “mountain” pattern.
Step 4 Add the rest of the layers. We seal the salt with a skewer, filling the middle with salt. It is important that the spoke moves along the axis of the bottle and in no case touches the walls!
Step 5. We add salt to the top of the bottle, ram it. Now you can move on to sealing the bulk. This will prevent the salt from spilling out if the bottle is accidentally opened. You can use PVA glue. After drying, it forms an elastic cork, which can be easily removed in case of emergency. The only caveat: moisture from the glue gets into the salt and erodes the paint to a certain depth (about 1 cm).
Step 6 We close the bottle. The cork can be masked with a piece of fabric, tied with a rope with beads.
The photo shows the work done during the master class.
The art of creating pictures from colored sand in bottles came to us from the Arab countries. In Egypt or Jordan, you can meet craftsmen who can create such souvenirs in 5 minutes using ordinary sand and a thin stick. The traditional plots of these unusual paintings - two-humped camels, sand dunes, graceful houses, pyramids, palm trees, marine life and birds - are born before your eyes, when grain after grain of sand merge into bizarre patterns, and the picture comes to life.
Material preparation
Before starting work, you should take care of the material - sand of various colors and shades. The richer and more varied the palette, the more beautiful the picture will turn out. Colored sand can be obtained as follows: sprinkle sand into jars, filling them about ¾. Then dilute gouache paints in jars of water, that is, make “colored water”, and fill jars of sand with it. Just don't overdo it with water. Before you start creating a picture, the sand should be thoroughly dried.
There is another way to color sand - if you want to get an unusual shade - gold, silver or mother-of-pearl. Spread the sand on a newspaper and spray artspray on it from a distance, mix the sand after drying so that the grains of sand do not stick together. You can also use color printer ink to color the sand. And instead of sand, you can try using semolina, which can also be painted in different colors. To do this, you can crush the lead of a colored pencil or pastel and rub it together with semolina.
The birth of a painting
The technology for making a sand painting is very simple. Sand of different colors is poured layer by layer into a beautifully shaped bottle made of transparent glass, using a special funnel for this. The sequence, thickness and shape of these sand slides depends on your artistic intent. Sand mounds inside a glass vessel are carefully compacted with a thick metal wire, with the help of which a picture is formed. To get started, you can try to create a simple picture using several primary colors, for example, simply falling asleep multi-colored layers of sand in smooth waves. After training, you can start creating more complex plots.
Sleight of hand, imagination and colored sand - that's all it takes to create such a picture. When the bottle is full, it should be corked with a knotted cloth, previously soaked in glue. And further: colored sand paintings in bottles require very careful handling: if you shake the bottle, the pattern may be disturbed.
If you want to learn this original art - try, create, not being afraid that something will not work the first time. Imagine how pleasant and interesting it is to create beauty with your own hands from ordinary sand. Such an unusual souvenir will surely take its rightful place both in the house and in the heart of the one to whom you give it.
Probably, only lazy people do not know about this technique. A very affordable way to decorate the interior with a decorative bottle filled with layers of colored sand or fine salt, pre-painted. You need to pour them not just like that, but in a certain order and observing some points. And how to do it right - in this master class. We will tell you about this using the example of the handmade craft “Sea Bottle with Salt and Shells”. You can, using this technology, make a bottle with a different idea, not at all marine.
For work you will need:
a bottle of light transparent glass of a beautiful shape;
sea or table salt;
blue and green ink (or bluing);
small shells;
some sawdust;
PVA glue;
a piece of gauze;
Working process
A small piece of gauze is placed on a plate, sprinkled with salt and sprinkled with ink or blue. Ink and blue are not diluted, because after drying, the salt turns pale by several tones. Lifting the corners, the gauze is transferred to a double layer of newspaper and left to dry in a warm place (possible on a battery).
The label is removed from the bottle, the vessel itself is washed and dried. A dry bottle through a funnel is filled a quarter with uncolored salt. The container is tilted so that the salt has shifted to one side. Rolled paper is inserted into the bottle, then a funnel and dry blue or green salt is poured in an even layer of 1 cm. Without returning the vessel to a vertical position, ordinary light salt is added, filling the bottle by 2/3 of the volume.
Then, placing the bottle vertically, colored salt is again poured into it. The thickness of the layer is chosen as desired. The remaining volume is filled with light salt.
Sawdust is mixed with PVA glue until a homogeneous mass of the consistency of thick sour cream is obtained. The shells are filled with glue mass so that it reaches the edges, but does not protrude. The bottom of the bottle is decorated by gluing shells with a solution to the glass. The smallest shells glue the lid of the vessel.