Ganesha And Quilling Decoration - Year 2013

     In my previous post I had shown my quilling project made for Ganesha Festival. Finally I decided to make a frame of my quilling decoration instead of applying sealent on it, because I wanted my work to remain unharmed for many years without any colour change in it.

     After pasting up all quillwork it became quite heavy and it was framed. It was a memorable experience doing all that.

     For the decoration saries are draped behind quilled frame and the Kundan Rangoli pieces are kept in front of Ganesha idol. While taking photographs I was unable to avoid reflection of camera flash in the glass of frame. I am not expert in photoshop, so I don't know how to remove that reflection. So I am just putting my photos here from different angles. Hope you like it!

  

     Wish you all who celebrates Ganesha Festival!

Finally completed the Project!

     Last year one of my neighbour introduced me with the art of quilling just one and half month before Ganesha Festival. I was eager to learn quilling. I searched on the internet and got information. Then I decided to do the quilling patterned decoration behind Ganesha idol for Ganesha Festival.

     But in the nearby store only multicoloured quilling strips were available in a pack and those different colours were not sufficient for my decoration. So I decided to buy paper and cut the strips. But the papers in specific colour shades were not available in any store that time to whom I visited. So me and my family members searched in lot of stores and every time returned with some other colour's paper. In this way I got Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet papers, so I decided to do the decoration in 7 colours of VIBGYOR. (Later on I got the shades which I wanted and I also used them in my decoration.)

     Cutting paper strips was tiresome work and my father helped me for that. While cutting papers I put those papers on newspaper and kept it on pad, so my pad got scratches of blade. Later on I found out about paper cutting mat and purchased it. My work was about to complete but due to some unfortunate events I had to stop my work suddenly.

     So after the last Ganesha festival I again started my work. This time I got some new shades, so I added them in my decoration and made some new flowers. But again due to the dust problem I stopped my work. Now in Rainy season  I started it again and finally completed the quilling part of it.

     Now I have two options, first is apply some waterproof coating on quill work and then paste it on thick cardboard with white background, and the second option is paste the quill work on some white backgronud paper and make a box frame of that design and use it as background.

     Now I have arranged these quilled flowers roughly on a blue cloth just to give an idea about the entire decoration. All this work is done by using 5 mm strips. Have a look on it.

  

     Thanks for viewing!

  

Quilled Miniature - The Girl with flower bucket at Valentine Day!

     This is my first experiment of Quilled miniature making. As I had no idea about number of strips required for it, I guessed and took the strips and completed this miniature.

     I started quilling with 5 mm strips, so in this miniature doll I also used 5 mm strips. The total number of strips are as follows -

1) For the face and hairs - 8 + 8 = 16 strips

2) For the front hairs and bun and eyes = 1 strip 

3) For the upper part of the dress - 5 + 5 + 1 = 11 strips

4) For the lower part of the dress = 10 strips

5) For the hands of the dress - 4 + 4 = 8 strips

6) For the wrist and palms of doll - 3 + 3 = 6 strips

7) For the hat = 3 + 5 = 8 strips

8) For the heart = 1 strip

9) For the flower bucket - 2 + 1 = 3 strips

10) For the flowers = 3 strips

11) For the decoration in bucket, brooch on hat, Kumkum and lips etc. - leftover pieces of used strips

Total 67 strips + some leftover pieces are used and this girl in pink and pinkish purple outfit is made. Have a look on it in different angles!

   

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