Volumetric quilling of a bird. We are engaged in the creation of a fabulous firebird using the quilling technique

We offer detailed master class firebirds in quilling technique for everyone who wants to master the art of creating crafts from twisted paper spirals. Form your own hands fairy tale hero in the quilling technique it will be interesting for adults and children. A painting or panel depicting a firebird will harmoniously fit into the style of any interior.

Tools and materials for quilling Firebird

First, a sketch and color scheme for the future composition is selected. You can draw a diagram yourself or find ready template magic bird on the Internet and print it on a sheet that will serve as the background of the picture.

Paper for the base is taken white and color. Considering that the firebird will be bright and multi-colored, it is better to choose the base in darker and more restrained colors. Well, the firebird will stand out against a black or blue background.

The next step will be the manufacture of the main elements of the composition.

To create a bird, we need the following figures:

• spiral (tight and loose);
• crescent;
• a drop;
• rhombus;
• triangle;
• curl;
• eye.

To perform the above elements, you will need the following tools and materials:

• colored cardboard for the base;
• quilling paper (red, pink, orange, yellow, blue, light blue, green);
• a tool for twisting rolls;
• sample;
• glue.

Having made the required number of blanks, we proceed to design the composition by gluing the details along the outline of the sketch. You can stack the elements in tiers, so the picture will acquire additional volume. Give the craft uniqueness such natural materials like feathers, leaves and shells. By adding them, you will make the composition alive.

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Step by step photo description of the process:

Video: Firebird quilling master class

Happy Bird Patterns

The art of quilling allows you to embody the most incredible ideas and ideas in inconspicuous paper strips, creating real masterpieces that you want to cover with glass and admire, like in a museum. A separate category is occupied by animals and birds made of paper strips. The diversity of the animal world is very easily reflected in the paper world.

Such crafts are very easy to perform, do not require a large amount of materials, special tools and special skills in the quilling technique. Most often they consist of a small number of parts - several spirals, a couple of droplets, etc.

Quilling Animals

Using the skills of this art, you can get very different results. Quilling for beginners allows you to create funny little animals from the simplest elements that will become your favorite children's toys.

Based on special schemes, you can decorate various postcards with quilling animals, create a panel or a picture on the wall in the nursery. Funny faces of these animals will entertain in the process of creation and will please the eye for a long time later. Children really like this, they are happy to twist the stripes to decorate a card for mom or teacher with a cute animal

Using cut paper, you can create a real home puppet theater or a small zoo. Children will be happy to take part in the creative process, twist their first crafts. And games with hand-made toys will not only be a joy, but will also allow you to be proud of your skills.

Very often for children's creativity use not only standard paper strips. Animals twisted from corrugated cardboard of different colors turn out to be interesting.

Volumetric animals will become a magnificent interior decoration that will attract attention and delight guests. Such crafts will require a certain level of skill, the availability of tools, Supplies. Those who are just learning the art of paper rolling can rely on master classes that describe the whole process step by step.

Paintings in the technique of contour quilling deserve special attention. From a distance, they look like real watercolor paintings.

An animal or a bird, “drawn” with paper strips, will organically complement the design, become the highlight of the interior, and most importantly, will warm the soul with the pleasant realization that this masterpiece was made by oneself.

Video tutorials on twisting animals

Quilling birds

The kingdom of birds is no less diverse. Quilling allows you to very gracefully convey the airiness, lightness of birds. Funny little figurines will be a great decoration for a postcard or Christmas tree.

Quilling birds can serve as an independent, central element of a full-fledged picture or become part of a large plot canvas.

When creating birds, the same techniques and elements are used as when creating animals. These can be two-dimensional images from basic shapes.

There may be contour images that emphasize the lightness, tenderness, delicacy of the bird

Quilling bird figurines are often twisted, which can be used as interior decorations or toys for children.

Video tutorials on twisting birds

Schemes for creating animals and birds using quilling technique

Sometimes own ideas they beat like a fountain and the hands hardly keep up with the flight of thought. But it happens that it’s impossible to come up with your own sketch of a future work, especially if there is still little experience. In this case, various schemes for quilling can come to the rescue. They can serve as specially created sketches of other masters, as well as ordinary black and white pictures for coloring or contour, silhouette paintings.

Below you will find a selection of schemes, sketches, contours of different complexity, which will serve as the basis for creating animals and birds from quilling. They can be used as a basis for gluing elements (to create postcards or paintings), and as a basis for contour quilling. Not only experienced craftsmen, but also beginner needlewomen or even children will be able to work with such schemes.

Despite the apparent simplicity, birds or animals made using the quilling technique rightfully take pride of place on the shelves and walls of their creators, allowing you to be proud of your efforts.

Video: Quilling for beginners

Master class with step by step photo. Paper work.

Craft using quilling technique. Master class "Little Birds"

Orekhova Vera Alexandrovna, educator MBDOU " Kindergarten general developmental species No. 125, Voronezh
Description: This workshop is for middle and high school students.
school age, teachers additional education, educators and just creative people.
Purpose: gift, interior decoration.
Target:
Making crafts using quilling technique.
Tasks:
Introduce the basic elements and techniques for performing quilling;
Develop an eye fine motor skills hands;
Develop creative imagination and thinking;
Develop compositional and aesthetic feelings, a sense of beauty;
Cultivate accuracy, patience, perseverance in work;
Cultivate the habit of bringing the started business to its logical conclusion;
Raise interest in arts and crafts.

A little about quilling.
quilling enough ancient art. Today it is experiencing its next revival. Referred to by various names: paper rolling, paper mosaic, paper filigree. It is called quilling because initially the paper was twisted, wrapping it around a large bird feather, translated into English as Quill.
Currently quilling widely distributed both in the West and in the East, and is also being actively introduced in various regions of our country as a kind of applied art for children and adults.
What attracts us so much to this activity?
Handmade is becoming more and more fashionable. Any thing, a postcard or a toy made by oneself, is much more valuable than bought in a store: not only diligence and skill, but also a part of the soul is invested in making such gifts.
quilling is gaining more and more popularity. It is no coincidence that many people are fond of this art. different ages and professions. In Korea, for example, quilling is even included in the school curriculum. This technique develops fine motor skills, calms, relieves stress. In addition, it is useful for developing spatial imagination and, finally, just for self-expression.

small bird
The grains are pecking,
And to your kids
It carries into the nest.
small bird
Sits high.
small bird
It flies far.
little bird
We can't catch.
This bird is better
Invite us to visit.

Step by step workflow:

Prepare the cardboard base.