Garden figures decorate and improve the seasonal dacha. They serve as important elements of landscaping, are capable to give the finished look to the image of garden created by you. Being guided by the material and creative abilities, make the gnome for garden with own hands.
Preparation of materials for the garden gnome
For creation of the gnome from papier-mache stock up with paper egg trays. Them large number will be required. Break off trays into small pieces, having adapted for this purpose plastic bucket. Fill in the turned-out scraps with boiled water so that all paper was submerged in water, and leave for day to bulk up.
Drain excess water and crush the turned-out weight hands. It is possible to use fork or the mixer. Knead uniform dough. Add a little PVA glue that at you plastic weight has turned out.
If the papier-mache turns out too liquid, shift it in gauze and suspend over bowl that excess water has flown down.
Lay table polyethylene film or newspapers. Make design of 5 liter plastic bottle and plastic or rubber ball. The bottle is body of the gnome, and the ball is the head. It is possible to fasten with wire or to put on glue. That your garden beauty it has turned out steady, fill sand or gravel in bottle. Fill with polyurethane foam old garden gloves of the small size. Leave foam to be inflated and dry. Make soles of boots of polyfoam. Mold footwear by means of papier-mache.
For basis of boots it is possible to use small plastic bottles. Make an incision them about neck, unbend it and fix by adhesive tape. Fill bottle with foam, and from above stick around papier-mache.
Production of the gnome for garden
Stick around design paper stock. You put it with thin layers with intermediate drying. Create the face of the gnome with beard. For eyes it is possible to use the tennis ball cut in half or beads. Mold to garden figure hat. Recede from below on 1/3 and you stick together wavy bottom of shirt. On the rest make vertical furrow, having received panties at garden figure. Hands in shirt can be molded separately, then to attach to body, and it is possible to make them on the gnome at once. For brushes take the preparations from polyurethane foam taken from gloves. Stick the prepared boots. Dry up your gnome. If necessary grind abrasive paper. Impregnate your hand-made article with moisture resistant primer. Then cover work as acrylic putty and again ground. Ornament acrylic paints. Apply with the finishing layer yacht varnish. Your gnome is ready to exposure in garden. At production of the gnome provide possibility of insert to it in small lamp hand with the solar battery. Then in your evening garden there will be small lighting.