Production steps:
- Find reference materials and design drawings✨
- Build the basic framework of the house.
🏠The materials used are discarded red wine bottles from the studio (use glass bottles as the base, which can play a stable and strong role), paper (sturdier ones are recommended); hot melt glue guns, utility knives, and pencils.
- After the basic frame is out, you can enrich the details and add tiles to the roof. At this time, you need to be patient and cut the paper skin piece by piece.
You can use a utility knife to open windows in the wall first.
- Paste the stone modeling clay on the walls and trees. After the clay is half dry, you can use a toothpick to draw the texture. Since it is a tree house, you can draw the texture of the tree~
- Use acrylic paint to color, pay attention to the changes in the depth of the color. After applying the color, you can use toner to make the old traces, so that the overall look is rich, durable and detailed.
- Install mushroom lights on the roof.
How to make a glowing mushroom lamp?
Step 1: First use LED copper wire small lights to make shapes, and then fix them with a hot melt gun, paying attention to the density relationship.
Step 2: The small stem of the mushroom – wrap the copper wire with resin clay, and the mushroom cap – pinch a small piece and place it on the mushroom stem.
It’s very simple, you can try it~
You can choose to color the mushrooms
- Use ice cream sticks to make doors, mailboxes, and flower railings; use picked twigs to make balcony railings; use stained glass mosaics to make glass windows; use the large windows on both sides to make floor-to-ceiling windows, and then sew curtains.
- Make vegetation
Grassland – first apply a dark green color as a base, then apply white latex after the paint dries, and sprinkle with grass powder
Climbing vines – use green wire to wrap into the shape of a vine. Use green cloth or leaves from artificial flowers to cut the small leaves into small pieces with scissors. Then use tweezers to dip the leaves into white latex and stick them to the vine. That’s it 🍃
Tips:
*How is the paper made?
Use the express box as a paper cover. Feel free to use it according to the structure of your house.
*How do you do the white part near the tree?
The walls are covered with stone plastic clay. The tree is first cut into small pieces using blue foam board (the blue board at the base of the house) and piled into the shape of a tree (fixed with a hot melt glue gun). After fixing, use glue (white latex diluted with water) and napkin to cover it. Because the shape created by the foam board is uneven, this method must be used to smooth it out. After it dries (it dries slowly, you can use a hot air gun to blow it), then use stone plastic clay to paste the surface and scratch the pattern.
*Approximately how much stone modeling clay should be used? Is 500g+500g enough?
3 packs 2kg, 2 packs 500g
*Can I color with watercolor? And how did you get the bottom trunk?
It is recommended to use acrylic or gouache paint for coloring. Use blue foam scraps to form the shape of a tree trunk, then apply clay and finally color.
*What is the actual size of this house?
100cm*60cm
*How are pebbles made? Did you buy it?
The pebbles are kneaded from clay and then painted with colors
*Has the roof been varnished?
No, use acrylic paint.
*What color did you use for the acrylic paint?
Adjust according to your favorite color
*Can I use super lightweight clay?
There is no ultra-light clay used here, the stone modeling clay is thicker.
*If I use stone plastic clay directly, can I omit the white latex paper towel step?
Use white latex paper towels to make the unevenness on the surface smoother. You can also use clay directly, but it will be a bit wasteful. However, if your tree roots are made of tin foil and the gaps are relatively small, you can apply clay directly.
*Is the white part in picture 2 clay?
Well, it’s paper towels and white latex water covering it.
*Approximately how high should the glass bottle be?
It can be the size of a wine bottle, there is no fixed size.
*Is the resin clay blue or red?
Blue
*How did you make the grass?
Paint white latex and sprinkle with grass powder
*Do I need to apply a layer of green paint underneath the white latex?
Yes, I applied it because I was worried that the grass powder would be thin and the color underneath would be exposed, but if the grass powder was spread thickly, there would be no need to apply green paint.
*Is it waterproof?
Because the material is paper, it is not waterproof. You can make it out of waterproof material.
*How to paint the roof?
First paint the whole thing red, then paint a darker red (shadow) on the overlap of the tiles, and finally paint a lighter red (highlight) on the outermost part of the tiles. In this way, a tile will have brightness changes from bright to gray.
*What base plate should I choose? What are you using? A wooden board? How big is it?
The bottom board is made of blue foam board. The material is relatively light and dense and not easy to break. It is sold on Amazon. The size is 100cm×60cm×4cm