Making paintings from sand in a bottle. Painting of colored sand in a bottle

The art of creating paintings from colored sand in bottles came to us from 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 subjects of these unusual paintings - Bactrian camels, sand dunes, graceful houses, pyramids, palm trees, sea creatures and birds - are born before your eyes, when grain after grain of sand merges into bizarre patterns, and the picture comes to life.

Preparation of material

Before you start 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 be. Colored sand can be obtained in the following way: Sprinkle sand into jars, filling them about ¾ full. Then dilute gouache paints in jars of water, that is, make “colored water”, and fill the jars with sand with it. Just don't overdo it with water. Before starting to create 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. Lay the sand on a newspaper and spray it with art spray from a distance; after drying the sand, stir it so that the grains of sand do not stick together. You can also use color printer ink to color 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 grind it together with semolina.

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 transparent glass bottle using a special funnel. The sequence, thickness and shape of these sand slides depends on your artistic intent. Sand mounds inside glass vessel are carefully compacted with a thick metal wire, with the help of which a picture is formed. To begin with, you can try to create a simple picture using a few primary colors, for example, simply pouring multi-colored layers of sand into smooth waves. After training, you can begin to create more complex plots.

Sleight of hand, imagination and colored sand - that's all you need to create such a picture. When the bottle is filled, it should be sealed with a cloth tied in a knot, previously soaked in glue. And further: paintings made of colored sand in bottles require very careful handling: shaking the bottle may damage the design.

If you want to learn this original art, try, create, without fear that something will not work out 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 certainly take its rightful place both in the home and in the heart of the person to whom you give it.

Alekseeva Galina Ivanovna, social and everyday orientation teacher at the 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 and class teachers.
Appointment of the master class- production of decorative bottles using colored salt for interior decoration and use as gifts.
Target: give an idea of ​​the technique of pouring colored salt.
Tasks:
Introduce tools, methods of coloring salt, pouring techniques;
Develop bottle decorating skills using colored salt;
Develop the creative abilities of master class participants.

(pictured are options for possible work)
Relevance of the master class
In a boarding school, educators and teachers often have to participate in various kinds of competitions, teach children new ways of doing things with the help of cheap, available materials, to develop the creative abilities of students, and here new techniques for decorating products come to our aid, for example, such as creating paintings and crafts using the “sprinkling” technique.
In addition, this work helps calm the nerves, which is especially important for teachers, and provides aesthetic pleasure.
History of pouring technology. The art of creating paintings using the pouring technique arose in Buddhist monasteries, where from time immemorial they have been painting pictures of extraordinary beauty from crushed marble of different colors, the so-called Tibetan mandalas. The process of creating paintings on a plane is completely simple. First, the canvas is smeared with glue and then sprinkled with sand. The art of creating paintings from colored sand in bottles came to us from 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.
Mounds is a term that has appeared on websites about crafts relatively recently. This is the name given to transparent vessels (beautiful jars and bottles) filled with bulk materials. Most often they are 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). This decoration is created in the color scheme that suits your interior. At the same time, you can think about a gift for your loved ones.

Materials and tools:
For painting - fine salt, gouache paints, plastic bags.
For work: Material: clean dry bottle, containers with colored salt.
Tools: funnel, wooden skewers, stacks, knitting needles, scissors, glue.

Demonstration of how to color salt(you need to dilute the colored gouache with water and pour it into a plastic bag with salt, shake, knead with your hands to stain and dry (you can use a radiator or in the oven)). You need to prepare the salt in advance, each color in a separate bag.
Techniques for pouring salt into a bottle:

The simplest mound is created from successively poured layers of salt different color. If the funnel is located in the center of the bottle, the layer thickness will be the same throughout the entire circumference (a). To change the thickness of the layer, you can tilt the funnel while pouring (b) or use a funnel with a curved “spout” (c):
Picking up color scheme, as well as options for pouring layers, you can get various unique designs. To practice your skills, it is better to use a small glass with straight and smooth walls.
Features of creating embankments:
filling the middle of the dish;
salt compaction;
sealing the drawing after finishing work.
In the finished work, only the layer of salt adjacent to the glass is visible, so the “middle” can be filled with another salt, white or leftover after unsuccessful attempts. If the middle is filled, the drawing will not crumble.

Technology for making crafts.

Step 1. Using a funnel, pour 2-3 layers of colored salt into the bottle.

Step 2. We form a “peak” pattern with a wooden skewer. Place the knitting needle over top layer salt at an angle of 20-30 degrees to the glass. We lower the knitting needle along the glass with the tip down. The side surface of the knitting needle will push some of the salt inward, and salt will pour in its place from above upper layers. Upon reaching required depth the knitting needle needs to be pulled inward to the center and lifted up through the middle.

Step 3. Continue adding colored salt. Turning the bottle under different angles, we form a “mountain” pattern.

Step 4. Add the remaining layers. We compact the salt using a skewer, filling the middle with salt. It is important that the knitting needle moves along the axis of the bottle and in no case touches the walls!

Step 5. Add salt to the top of the bottle and tamp it down. Now you can proceed to sealing the bulk. This will prevent salt from spilling out if you accidentally open the bottle. You can use PVA glue. After drying, it forms an elastic plug, 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 disguised with a piece of fabric and tied with a rope with beads.

The photo shows the work completed during the master class.

The business idea of ​​creating paintings from sand in a bottle came to us from a country where mountains of sand and bottles are left behind by tourists, this country is Egypt. It's unique and at the same time pretty simple technique for creativity.

To create paintings in a bottle, you don’t need any special tools or materials. All you need are clear bottles, colorful sand and sticks.

You will need to take a few days to study the Sand technique - creating paintings in a bottle. For this, there are many videos and photographs on the Internet. And with a little practice, you can independently repeat any masterpiece, and over time create independent paintings.

Bottles for paintings.
Bottles must be transparent, this is understandable. The most difficult thing is to find suitable bottles, because they must be of unusual shapes, usually flat, like a flask. In flat bottles initial stage paintings will be much easier to create. It’s not difficult to get flask-type bottles, because cognac is sold in such bottles, there shouldn’t be any problems. It is much more difficult to get bottles of other unique shapes; you will need to search for them yourself in your region. Or order in online stores.

Sand for paintings.
Multi-colored sand is used for paintings. You can make this sand yourself by adding dyes. Initially, light clean sand is used. For this river sand washed in water until completely clean. Next, the sand is sifted through a fine sieve.

Coloring river sand.
The technology for coloring river sand is very simple. To do this, add a spoon to boiled water table vinegar and add dye of the desired color. The color saturation of the sand will depend on the concentration of the dye. To continue, add clean sand and cook for a while. That's all the technology is. The colored sand is then sifted and dried.

Creation of the paintings themselves.
Paintings in a bottle are created by pouring layers of colorful sand on top of each other. Your first painting can be the Russian flag; it is very easy to make. Sticks are used to edit, level and draw elements of a painting through layers of sand. To create an average painting you will need sand from about eight to ten colors and shades.

The technique of creating paintings from sand in a bottle is quite simple and straightforward, from preparation to the creation of masterpieces. As always, everything completely depends on you and your desire.

Selling such products is not difficult at all. Due to the fact that at the moment the sale of sand paintings is not so widespread, you can create your own paintings that are different from your competitors and can easily offer them for sale in retail stores in your city. The price of sand paintings in a bottle starts from 500 rubles. The costs are minimal. And, even if you have minimal skill, it takes time to make one painting, not more than an hour. Good luck!

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Probably only the lazy don’t know about this technique. Very affordable way decorate the interior with decorative bottle with layers of colored sand or fine salt poured into it, pre-painted. They need to be poured not just like that, but in a certain order and observing certain points. And how to do it correctly - in this master class. We will tell you about this using the example of a handmade craft “Sea bottle with salt and shells”. You can, using this technology, make a bottle with a different idea, not a marine one at all.

To work you will need:

a bottle made 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;

Progress

A small piece of gauze is placed on a plate, salt is poured on it and ink or blue is poured over it. Ink and bluing are not diluted, because after drying the salt turns several shades pale. Lifting the corners, the gauze is transferred to double layer newspapers and leave to dry in a warm place (possibly on a radiator).

The label is removed from the bottle, the vessel itself is washed and dried. A dry bottle is filled a quarter of the way through a funnel with uncolored salt. The container is tilted so that the salt moves to one side. Insert rolled paper into a tube, then a funnel, and pour dry blue or green salt in an even layer of 1 cm. Without returning the vessel to a vertical position, add ordinary light salt, filling the bottle 2/3 of the volume.

Then, placing the bottle vertically, colored salt is poured into it again. 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 with the consistency of thick sour cream is obtained. The shells are filled with adhesive mass so that it reaches the edges, but does not protrude out. The bottom of the bottle is decorated by gluing shells to the glass with a solution. The smallest shells are used to cover the lid of the vessel.

You should take care of the material for creating a souvenir in advance. If you have the opportunity to purchase colored sand, it is better to take as many different colors and shades as possible; they will be needed to create a colorful picture. If you have nowhere to buy ready-made sand, you can make it yourself. The most ordinary river sand is also suitable for these purposes, but it must be thoroughly washed and filtered so that there is no dirt or foreign matter.

Sand should be scattered into empty jars, filling them one third full. In a separate glass, thickly dilute the gouache paint of the desired shade and pour it into the jar. The same is done with the rest of the sand; “ colored water"of a different shade. The material must be allowed to soak in the paint for some time, after which the sand must be thoroughly dried.

To create more original shades, such as pearlescent, gold and silver, you need a different painting method. Each portion of sand is laid out on newspaper or other unnecessary paper, sprayed with art spray of the desired shade and allowed to dry. Until the sand is completely dry, it is advisable to stir it so that the grains of sand do not stick together. To obtain more vibrant colors and shades, you can also use color printer ink.

If it is difficult to get clean river sand in winter, you can use ordinary semolina instead. To add color to this material, you need to crush pastel sticks or colored pencil lead together with semolina and mix thoroughly so that the cereal is better colored. This is done with all portions of semolina; you just need to change the color of the pastel or pencil.

How to create paintings from colored sand

When the material is ready, you need to find a transparent glass bottle of an interesting shape. To create a beautiful picture, it is advisable to first practice laying out sand in colored waves; this will help develop the necessary dexterity and dexterity.

The material is poured into the bottle through a special funnel with a long neck; the shape and thickness of each colored strip can be adjusted using a thin long stick, for example, a stiff wire. It also compacts the sand. You can use drinking straws to add the desired color of sand inside the existing layer.

When the painting is ready, handle the bottle carefully; shaking may cause the painting to fall apart. The jar is sealed with a piece of fabric of the desired color tied in a knot; the material must first be moistened in glue. Instead of fabric, you can use regular cork the right size, the neck is tied with a ribbon for beauty.