Tuesday, March 4, 2014

DECOUPAGE MAKEOVER


The most unprepossessing thing can get a completely new lease of life with a decoupage makeover.  It just takes time, patience and some interesting papers to make a scruffy old object into a sculptural piece - as this toy horse shows.  It was done by 12 year old Lilly Lang who did the fabulous decoupaged stool - see Sunday, October 23rd post on Funky Decoupage.

Lilly had seen a beautiful patterned horse in a gallery, which was way over her budget, so her father bought her a plastic toy horse in a car boot and she put the time and effort in to create this lovely 'art' object. She found it very fiddly to do, especially as it had moving limbs which had to be put into a set position.  Perhaps wrapping masking tape around the horse first, to immobilise it, might have made the job easier.  It sticks to plastic and creates a good surface to adhere the papers to.  The colourful papers were all carefully cut from glossy magazines.



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