Crafts from mounting foam

Sculpture always attracts its volume, three-dimensionality. Around it is pleasant to swirl, when there is at this time, finding an infinite variety of details and details. In comparison with the picture, the sculpture seems less accessible. To produce it, you need some special skills, special materials that are not at hand. Whether it's a piece of paper and a stub of a pencil ... But remember, with what excitement and businesslike concentration molds from plasticine kids! We all come from childhood, and, at times, we have absolutely no desire to buy someone with tailored, stitched, stitched, invented gizmos. And I want to create something with my own hands ... well, for example ... garden sculpture.

These are not small plasticine dust collectors. This is a monumental art that is open to the gaze of all the invited guests of your family, and some curious neighbors.

From what can you create masterpieces like this, easily, in your garden? The answer is simple, like all ingenious, and do not expect a few. It is possible to make these garden crafts from mounting foam. Ordinary, all familiar, assistant construction workers and domestic craftsmen.

So, the advice, valuable instructions and technical part of the question

First, we must take into account that the mounting foam material is very light, so all products must be on the frame. In addition, additional fastening (for example, using a peg-pin pushed into the ground) or an additional weighting of the frame itself is required.

Secondly, the foam is a very sticky substance, so when working it is better to protect your hands with cotton gloves.

Thirdly, any composition foam contains diphenylmethane diisocyanate, so it is better to work with foam outdoors or in a well-ventilated room. It will not be superfluous to use a respirator. When solidified, the foam loses its toxicity.

Now about tools and materials

You will definitely need a gun for mounting foam. How to work with it is described in detail in the instructions.

And the foam to work with this gun is needed only professional. A balloon with a plastic tube will not work, it gives a too thick "worm", and in the professional diameter of the nozzle is regulated.

Just need a cleaner foam to clean the gun and clean all unplanned surfaces.

Ready to paint with acrylic paint for facade work. It goes in capacities from two to ten liters. It should be diluted with water.

On top of the painted work we cover with varnish. Can be any for facade work. Some varnishes give yellowness, but this is not visible on colored articles.

From the mounting foam you can make not only garden sculptures. With your own hands, you can decorate, for example, a flower pot. Here you do not need a frame, you can start your creative career as a sculpture sculptor with this kind of work.

Garden articles from mounting foam

If you are a brave man and decided to create from a mounting foam just a garden craft, and not a commemorative miniature, be ready for a step-by-step painstaking work.

Let's start with the image. Your muse can serve as an ordinary children's toy. Think about how many times you want to increase your plush (rubber, plastic) friend and do not depart from these proportions in the work.

The frame for your man-made monument can be anything: Tins and plastic jars, buckets, pipes, bottles, connected together by adhesive tape and the same universal mounting foam. For the sake of economy, you can get the right amount of garden figure figures in newspapers, then the layer of foam that covers the surface of the craft will be thinner.

Pen should be poured layer by layer. Each layer of foam should be given to dry for about twenty minutes. Do not worry, if the mounting foam lay not as it was intended, there is always the opportunity to cut off an extra with a sharp knife and cover the work again. Moreover, what you want to sculpt with your own hands is known only to your head. You are a sculptor, you know better.