FISHER WOMAN OF SOUTH INDIA

The effect of my 2-3 visits to South India could be seen on my ceativity.  Creaion of a  fisher woman from south india  is the result.
The fisher woman was made from these waste  items viz.   i. one whole egg shell    ii.  one half egg shell      iii. waste news paper  iv. card sheet  v. glue.
4-5 layers of newspaper were wrapped on  the empty egg shell with the help of glue ,to prepare the body. and it was dried up properly. Half shell was placed  on the body  to make it as basket.
Arms were made from card sheet and fixed properly to on egg to look like right and the left arms. In the same manner, both feet were also made from  card sheet and pasted at the bottom of the egg.  The basket on the head of woman was made from a paper rope, made from the strip of news paper and glue. The strips were twisted with hands and left it to dry for 2-3 hours. After that, it was attached around the half egg sheel with glue .The shape of fishes was drawn on card sheet  and it was cut and pasted inside  the basket over woman's head. The item was painted with attractive colours
The creation  of a FISHER WOMAN CARRYING FISHES IN A BASKET ON HER HEAD FROM SOUTH INDIA  is before you.

As already mentioned in previous item, the egg got hollowed and pasted the two pieces with the help of news paper pieces . After some time(one or 2 hour) the egg shellgot strengthed bu using the news paper pieces in 4 to 5 lairs with glue on it.   half portion of egg, well tightened according to the same procedure,placed on the top of upper sideof egg

DANCING WHITE PEACOCK

जंगल में मोर नाचा किसने देखा........मैंने देखा ।

Some of us have rare occassions to watch the peacock dancing on the roof s  and in the fields of the villages  after harvest season. I thought about a replica of  peacock should  take place in my house.

I started thinking the image of a dancing peacock , which has been made from the following unused waste items:- i. aqua guard candle ii. broom grass stick( Jharoo)  iii. newspapers iv.soft iron wire v. card  sheet vi.glue vii. white and yellow pearl colors black, white , light brown febicryl colors viii cardboard roll.

Waste candle was completely wrapped with newspapers  giving the shape of body by twisting and moulding in such a`way that it looked like lower part the body. A small 6" piece of a cardboard roll l was fixed on the top of candle with the help of adhesive tape. On the upper portion  of the roll , a small ball to form head was fixed . Tree wires(1" size) were fitted on  head . Small feathers were also made from card sheet so as to like Kalangi and fixed with glue. Both legs were made from soft iron wire.
Most important and typical item was to prepare its feathers. Many  oval shaped figures of different sizes  were  made from  the card sheet and cut them cleanly. The brushes of the  broom were spread away and pasted over one side of oval round  and left it to dry. Thereafer, rear part of broom sticks were devided in two parts from upper to bottom side, pasted on the dried oval and another oval shaped card sheet pasted over it. This procedure applied in preparing good numbers of peacock's feathers. .It took about 15 days to make feathers. Subsequently,  with the help of scissors ,the toe of each feather was given a nice shape. The completed feathers were fixed on the back of the peacock in dancing pose. The beak and eyes were also made from card sheet.The whole structure was allowed to dry for 3-4 days. White, yellow pearl colors were used to paint  it. Eyes and beak were painted with matching colors.

BOY

An unserviceable Spray pump was to be thrown out of the house. Its life was increased when an idea to reuse it was  clicked.  It  started  its second journey with other waste items:-

1. container of spray pump  2. plastic lid of mixer grinder and 3. waste newspapers
A ball was made from waste newspapers so as to use it as head  and it was placed on  the container and tightened with soft wire.Thereafter, a plastic lid of a jar was fitted on the ball to make the hat. An oval shaped piece was cut from a card sheet to complete  the hat. Entire figure was wrapped with 4-5 layers of tissue paper with the help of diluted  glue. It was dried properly.Its eyes, nose ,mouth and ears were painted by brush and colours. Lower part was also colored in such a way that it looked like printed shirt.

TITANIC

Have you heard  कहीं की ईंट कहीं का रोड़ा भानमती ने कुनवा जोड़ा।
It was not an easy task for me to throw few broken items/ toys of the children. So I decided to  assemble  those  broken items and to create  a decorative piece.
Waste/ broken items were:-
i. Key ring  ii. Small plastic ball iii. Steel sticker of a  ladies purse  iv. Wooden piece v. Brass pin from a electric holder.

The plastic doll ( boy) taken from broken key ring was fixed at the extreme back with the help of match sticks and adhesive on a piece of the wood in square shape.  A small plastic ball was also placed at the left side. The brass pin was placed at rightside by using the adhesive. A toothpick was inserted  in the hole of brass pin socket and tightened with its screw. The flag made from the paper was pasted on the top of toothpick   and it was properly coloured . The steel sticker was fitted in front of the flag. A butterfly,  which was made from newspaper and  coloured ,was placed on the ball. A beautiful piece of completely waste items was  ready. I named this  item as TITANIC.         

SHANKH - SHELL

Shankh is a conch shell and it has a strong association with Hindu religion. It emits divine energy when it is blown. An  idea came to mind to make a sankh which can be blown .



 


















Material used:- waste newspaper, 
tissue paper, glue and white pearl acrylic color.


It was made in two parts and the idea was taken of a real shankh. The thin polythene sheet was wrapped on the upper side  of the shankh and fixed  with adhesive tape.Thereafter, it was covered with the waste news paper pieces completely.  Good number of layers were wrapped to raise its thickness and  left to dry in sunlight for 2-3 days. The same procedure was followed to make the lower  side.


Both dried parts were put together in such a way that the   object looked  like natural shape of shell. Both pieces were attached with the help of newspaper and glue and  kept in sunlight to become dry. The shape of  uneven  thorny edge of shankh was given by placing heaps of  lugdi of tissue paper and diluted glue.  Raw sankh was ready . 4-5 layers of tissue paper were wrapped with the diluted glue. and  it was again dried . A ball made from tissue paper and glue was fixed on the top rounded shape. White pearl color was painted on dried sankh.

SNAKE CHARMER [SAPERA]

My interest in music did not permit me to throw a wooden  tabla (musical instrument). It was kept in store for a long time. All of a sudden ,an idea came to my  mind to use it as a memorable decorative piece. So I started thinking about its use and ultimately a figure of a snake charmer was clicked.

Undernoted items were used to make it:-
wooden Tabla, old news papers, wire, card sheet, cistern ball,  fevicol, febicryl colours.

A long card sheet has been rolled several times and it was fixed in hollow place of tabla to use it as neck. Remaining space of tabla  was  filled with waste items viz waste foam pieces, news paper etc. The charmer's arms, hands and shoulders were made from newspaper and wire and these were attached with the neck with  use of  glue. The same procedure was adopted to make the legs. Legs were also attached to lower part of the tabla. Ears, nose , eyes and mouth were made from tissue paper and card sheet.The charmer's slippers were made from card sheet. to tie newspapers and tissue paper.
The charmer's flute (bean) was made from a cistern's  plastic ball. A hole was made in the ball  by piercing a hot rod across the centre. A pipe made from the news papers was passed through the hole  to give the shape.

With the support  of flexible wire,,the body of the  snake was made from  the newspaper and tissue papers. It was dried properly and was coloured with fabicryl colors. To give complete shape, clothes were fixed on the body.

ALIEN

A doll looking as an  ALIEN has been made from  an egg shell and tissue paper. It  has been placed on a broken plastic case.

An empty egg shell was wrapped  with  4-5 layers of  news paper 

using  diluted glue. It was properly dried. Tissue paper roll was taken and shaped to form lower part of the body. Alien's hands  were made by using wire. The clothes were also made from  tissue paper layers. Finally, it was painted with colours and  was  made 

to stand  on a base of wrapped plastic case.