How to make a Handmade Paper Bag | Textured Paper Origami

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Plastics are a Boon and a Bane. Usage of plastic bags are on high because of their cheap availability. But they aren't easily discarded. Hence, the usage of paper bags is a good alternative. The best part is, they are super attractive than simple plastic bags and your can customize them to match your taste and personality.

Materials Required - - Textured Chart Sheet (if you don't find one, you can use any thick chart paper) - Jute Thread (1.5 meters long) - Hot Glue Gun (Or any good Glue) - Card board sheet (of thickness 0.5 cm to 1 cm) - Scissors - Ruler/Scale - A sharp object (Compass/Divider/empty pen..etc) - Cello Tape

- Stapler

Procedural Video -

Fashion Illustration | Orange Ball Gown | Watercolor Pencils Art

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Here is another fashion illustration idea.

Materials -

- Watercolour Pencils. (You can buy them here from Amazon - https://amzn.to/2tQy7iQ ) - Flat Brush. - Round Brush. - Black and Silver Sparkler Pens.

Graphite Pencil Sketching | Landscape Level 2 | Lake Scene

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Pencil Shading or Rendering is a very useful art. Sketching is done for designing, engineering, architecture and many more.

 Basic Sketching Materials - 

• Camlin Drawing Pencils HB, 2B, 3B, 4B, 6B and 8B  (You can buy them here from Amazon - https://amzn.to/2Kl7Wfr )
• Scale 
• Eraser
• Sharpener
• Quality Drawing Paper

View the Video for some basic understanding on Drawing a Simple Lake Scene

Fashion Illustration | Black & White Sparkling Dress

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Special welcome to my 100th post! This post has to be special. Hence, this is my first fashion illustration related post. Hope you like the design.

Tried my first fashion attempt. Of course a few improvements needed. But, a good attempt....I feel!

Done using Staedlar's Watercolor Pencils.

Who says Black or Grey are dull colors?

Presenting Glittering Black and White long dress design by DIY Craftopedia.

Materials -

- Watercolour Pencils. (You can buy them here from Amazon - https://amzn.to/2tQy7iQ )

- Flat Brush. - Round Brush. - Black and Silver Sparkler Pens.

Pencil Shading Basics | Landscape Level 1 | Trees

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Pencil Shading or Rendering is a very useful art. Sketching is done for designing, engineering, architecture and many more.

 Basic Sketching Materials - 

• Camlin Drawing Pencils HB, 2B, 3B, 4B, 6B and 8B  (You can buy them here from Amazon - https://amzn.to/2Kl7Wfr )
• Scale 
• Eraser
• Sharpener
• Quality Drawing Paper

View the Video for some basic understanding on Drawing a Simple Tree

Growing Mango Tree from Seed | Update 3 | Week 3

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Back to the 3rd update on my Mango Sapling. The days are becoming really hot. It is slightly sunny and humid. The plant seems to love it! The leaves have turned saturated green. New leaves are coming up. Here are the pics taken on 04-07-18.

You can see the new upcoming leaves here -

Make a Stunning Vase with Plaster of Paris and an Old Piece of Cloth

Truly, Plaster of Paris is a wonder material. Let's see what exactly it is -

Plaster is a building material used for the protective and/or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. In English "plaster" usually means a material used for the interiors of buildings, while "render" commonly refers to external applications. Another imprecise term used for the material is stucco, which is also often used for plaster work that is worked in some way to produce relief decoration, rather than flat surfaces.

The most common types of plaster mainly contain either gypsum, lime, or cement, but all work in a similar way. The plaster is manufactured as a dry powder and is mixed with water to form a stiff but workable paste immediately before it is applied to the surface. The reaction with water liberates heat through crystallization and the hydrated plaster then hardens.

Plaster can be relatively easily worked with metal tools or even sandpaper, and can be moulded, either on site or to make pre-formed sections in advance, which are put in place with adhesive. Plaster is not a strong material; it is suitable for finishing, rather than load-bearing, and when thickly applied for decoration may require a hidden supporting framework, usually in metal.

Gypsum plaster, or plaster of Paris, is produced by heating gypsum to about 300 °F (150 °C).

CaSO₄·2H₂O + heat → CaSO₄·0.5H₂O + 1.5H₂O

Procedure - 

1. Mix Plaster Powder with water until you get a thick liquid consistency.
2. Take a square shaped cloth (Of any material, my favorite choice is jute rag as it gives fantastic texture)
3. Dip the cloth in plaster and completely soak it with the mixture.
4. Take a tumbler/bottle and cover it with a plastic sheet.
5. Invert it and put the cloth on it as shown - 

    

      6. Let it dry for 24 hrs 

      7. Remove the hardened vase and paint it with Acrylic/Enamel paints.