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Original figures from cement: 4 master-classes for...

Original figures from cement: 4 master-classes for the manufacture of garden sculpturesFrom year to year, the desire to paint country gardens with unusual flower beds, waterfalls with cascades, winding paths and rock gardens is gaining momentum. Making out its own part, at least to any owner who is willing not only to transform the terrain, but to receive an unreasonably named action"so that it would not be like everyone else". For the sake of that in order to perform beautiful and unique elements of the decor, it's not at all necessary to spend fabulous sums. Then repair or construction always has a small share of cement and putty. Why the desire not to extract them into the occupation? Unique figures made of cement, made by themselves, will act as a"highlight"of landscape design, making the part more attractive and exciting.
Exhibit #1 - luxurious sculptural power
You just look for this beautiful garden decoration. An unrepeatable garden figure is simple to confuse with the work of a professional master. In many, the species evokes worthy feelings, which are difficult to express in words. She quickly has a philosophical inner filling, like figures for the sake of a garden in the style of Feng Shui
Sculptural power apart from decorative significance also makes a practical function. It acts as a unique stand for flowerbeds with ground cover and low plants.
For the production of the figure, we will need:
Cement solution
Putty in accordance with concrete for the sake of external work
Strengthening impregnation for concrete;
Fine nasdachka;
Two latex or rubber gloves
A container with high sides. In order to execute the statue in the form of hands, take the gloves and evenly fill them with the substance, trying to run the formation of voids with air. Then we put the filled gloves in the container, giving them a desirable location. While the solution is not frozen, you can freely experiment with the form, choosing a more balanced option: simple clamping your hands together, folding their fist or interlacing your fingers with each other
Increase the strength of the figure is allowed through the frame installation: in the substance-filled compartment for the fingers to intervene pieces of wire, trying to sharpened edges do not spoil the rubber.
After determining the shape of the statue, leave the gloves filled with the substance in the container for 2-3 days. During this period of time, the solution will solidify and become sufficiently strong.
If the cement is completely dry, cut the gloves and remove them from the surface of the figure. Part of the rubber is removed using scissors and tweezers. For this step, you will need a lot of patience, since the rubber is quite removed in parts. The unique view is ready. It remains only to elect for her a decent place in the garden and fill it with a consistence about planting soil cover and succulents.
The concrete figure is covered with a layer of putty, accurately leveling the appearance, and again left before drying for pretty hours. For the final step, just grind the surface of the palms and cover them with firming impregnation.
Exhibit #2 - dressed flowers from concrete
A bright decoration of the front part of the house or a recreation area can be made out of concrete cast flowers. Harmonically combined with greenery plantations, they look amazing like the curb of the looping garden paths, for no reason and against the background of the emerald lawn. The main advantage of such garden figures is their resistance to temperature changes, so they are able to walk the decoration of the site is not the only season
Performing dressed flowers from concrete is very easy. For this, we must prepare a form, which we will fill with substance and, in fact, personally filler cement. It is easier to extract ready-made silicone molds for baking. The abundance of the range of silicone molds is quite wide. From silicone blanks it is allowed to perform flowers of various shapes and sizes: starting with ordinary field chamomiles and finishing with multi-petalled chrysanthemums and dahlias
For the production of concrete colors, we will need:
Cement solution of the same proportion as in the previous example;
Acrylic or alkyd paint for external work
Machine oil or linseed oil
Polyethylene skin.
As a form, some craftsmen use also plastic bottles cut apart, cut up half of rubber balls and other containers of suitable size.
Since the main detail in the development of colors from concrete is the kind that, in order to be able to extract it, the internal walls must be smeared with engine oil or linseed oil. For the sake of increasing the coupling of the finished consistency and facilitating the weight of the figure itself in the solution, the desire to add pieces of expanded clay. Fill the form with substance, compacting the content according to the degree of filling. Taken from the edge of the mold, it should shake it a little so that bubbles with excess air from the solution show up for the surface.
Covered in front of the edges of the form covered with a plastic film and leave for a couple of days before hardening in a dry and hidden through direct sunlight. Then, like concrete has acquired enough strength, we take the flower from the workpiece and spread it out for a flat look. For complete drying of the figure in a shaded place leaves 4 before 6 days. The liberated form can still be filled repeatedly, forming a subsequent flower.
Warn the education of cracks for the surface of the flower, a solidified figure is recommended to moisten with water once a day. In the event that the crack all the same appeared, it is easy to fix the situation, covering up the lack of a watery cement substance. Wishing to increase the strength of the ready-made concrete flower, its appearance should be treated with strengthening impregnation, which is allowed in the building center. For the sake of the design of a flower made of concrete, it is better to extract acrylic paints that are able to save the brightness of a flower for a season only
The choice of colors to be a flower design depends on the palette of flower beds and taste preferences of the master himself.
Exhibit #3 - turtle from sea pebbles
The motley tortoise, settling down for a suburban site, will help to make that extraordinary atmosphere of comfort and comfort. Its presence tortoise Tortilla is quite necessary to raise the spirit and excite admiration of the kids and visitors of the site
For the sake of the embodiment of the idea must prepare:
Medium-sized pebbles of all shapes
Iron rod pieces
Cement solution
Impregnation for concrete;
Acrylic or alkyd paints.
The dimensions of the figure depend solely on the ideas of the master and the amount of materials needed. Selecting the room for the sake of setting the figure, we level the area around its division.
From the pebbles form a small hill, which outside recalls the turtle's body. For the arrangement of the paws of the figure for the level of the lower row of pebbles we lay iron bars, which in the next will perform the occupation of the frame of the structure. For the same frame is allowed to"plant"and the head of a turtle, or to kill it for the ground. Then the lower system is laid down and iron bars are inserted, we cover it with cementitious substance. It is necessary to pour stones between stones without stones and cement them with cement. In accordance with the same principle, we lay out the next circle, carefully fixing the pebbles.
After laying out the trunk, we begin to make the paws and the head of the animal. We select pebbles of small sizes and spread them with a hill near the rods. For the sake of fixing the pebbles and giving the desired half-round shape to the paws and head of our character, it is better to extract the solution of the more curdled mixture. Then they shaped and consolidated the paws of the figure, we proceed to finishing works. For the sake of this we level the view and plaster it with a more watery cement substance. For again not frozen cement discharge lay out the sea pebbles. Flat smooth stones will stunningly imitate the plates of the shell. For the sake of securing the pebbles in the shell, they are rather dented into the"plaster layer"
The finished figure is left for 2-3 days for the sake of complete drying. Then the hardening of the concrete trunk and shell is allowed to paint with special pigments, and flat sea pebbles with acrylic paints.
It's not that hard. Little imagination and patience - and for your site there will be an unprecedented memorable person who is a pretty successful addition to landscape design.
Exhibit #4 - imaginary concrete leaf

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