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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. Animals and birds made from paper strips occupy a separate category. The diversity of the animal world is very easily reflected in the paper world.
Such crafts are very easy to make and do not require large quantity materials, the availability of special tools and special skills in the quilling technique. Most often they consist of a small number of parts - a few spirals, a couple of droplets, etc.
Animals using quilling technique
Using the skills of this art, you can get very different results. Quilling for beginners allows you to create funny little animals from the most simple elements, which will become children's favorite toys.
Based on special patterns, you can decorate various postcards with quilling animals, or create a panel or picture for the wall in the nursery. The funny faces of these animals will entertain you during the creation process and will delight the eye for a long time afterwards. Children really like this; they are happy to twist the stripes to decorate a postcard for their mother 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 participate in the creative process and make their first crafts. And playing with toys you’ve made yourself will not only be a joy, but will also allow you to be proud of your skills.
Very often, not only standard paper strips are used for children's creativity. 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, tools, Supplies. Those who are just mastering the art of paper rolling can rely on master classes that describe the entire process step by step.
Paintings using the contour quilling technique deserve special attention. From a distance they look like real watercolor paintings.
An animal or 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 knowledge that this masterpiece was made by hand.
Video tutorials on animal curling
Birds using quilling technique
The kingdom of birds is no less diverse. Quilling allows you to very elegantly convey the airiness and lightness of birds. Funny little figures 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 larger plot canvas.
When creating birds, the same techniques and elements are used as when creating animals. These can be two-dimensional images of basic shapes.
There may be contour images emphasizing the lightness, tenderness, and delicacy of the bird
Three-dimensional quilling bird figurines are often rolled up and can be used as interior decorations or toys for children.
Video tutorials on bird curling
Schemes for creating animals and birds using the quilling technique
Sometimes your own ideas flow like a fountain and your hands can hardly keep up with the flight of thoughts. But it happens that you cannot come up with your own sketch of a future job, especially if you still have little experience. In this case, various quilling patterns can come to the rescue. They can serve as specially created sketches by other masters, as well as ordinary black and white pictures for coloring or contour, silhouette paintings.
Below you will find a selection of diagrams, sketches, and contours of varying complexity that will serve as the basis for creating animals and birds from quilling. They can be used as a basis for gluing elements (to create cards or paintings), and as a basis for contour quilling. Not only experienced craftsmen, but also novice needlewomen or even children will be able to work with such schemes.
Despite their apparent simplicity, birds or animals made using the quilling technique rightfully take pride of place on the shelves and walls of their creators, allowing them to be proud of their efforts.
Video: Quilling for beginners
One of the most popular and unusual types of handicraft art at the moment is quilling. Its essence is to create various three-dimensional figures, panels and other crafts from twisted strips of paper. Quilling for beginners has become widespread among both children and experienced craftsmen.
Rolling paper allows you to bring a variety of ideas to life. Since “quilling” comes from the English word “quill”, which means “feather of a bird”, in this master class we will step by step look at the process of creating a feathered creature from Russian fairy tales - the Firebird.
Quilling materials
First you need to decide whether you have everything you need to work in this style.
The firebird quilling will consist entirely of paper, so you will need the following materials:
- Strips for twisting (you can buy a special set in red shades at a craft store, or you can cut them yourself from double-sided colored paper);
- Colored paper of different shades (yellow, red, golden paper will look unusual);
- Cardboard and beautiful paper for the background (instead of using paper, the base can be painted);
- Pencil, eraser, white sheet of paper;
- Scissors;
- Toothpick or special quilling tool.
If you decide to make your own quilling strips, you will need a long ruler and a cutter.
The process of formation of the Firebird
Having prepared all the materials and tools, you can begin making the Firebird using the quilling technique. In fact, making such a voluminous panel with your own hands is not difficult if you follow the instructions. Even a novice master can handle it.
- Preparing the background for the panel. You can paste it over with beautiful paper or draw an abstract image of clouds, fields, etc. In this tutorial, the cardboard base was simply tinted using color.
- In order not to get confused when connecting all the finished parts of the bird, we draw a sketch of the Firebird on a separate sheet. It doesn’t have to be very smooth and beautiful; its task is to resemble the approximate arrangement of the bird’s details on the panel.
- We begin to make the main quilling details. For beginners, it will be convenient to first slightly twist the strips using scissors, and then wind them onto a toothpick (quilling tool). From yellow and orange stripes we make the head, beak of the Firebird and details for its body.
- We try on all the parts on the sketch and glue them together along the edges. If there are empty spaces somewhere, you can make a few more details, or leave them as is and add them at the very end.
- We cut out the bases for the Firebird feathers from yellow and golden sheets of colored paper. To do this, you can prepare templates of different sizes and cut them according to them. Then the feathers are carefully folded in half (lengthwise) and cut into fringes, as in the photo below.
- Using the same pattern, we cut out the feathers for the Firebird’s tail, without folding them in half.
- Then we twist the remaining parts for the bird’s wings from quilling strips, as in the picture. For the top of the wings you need to glue three strips together the right size– they should be quite rigid, but at the same time take the shape of the Firebird’s wing well.
- Based on this, we begin to assemble our Firebird step by step. First we glue the body, the base for the wings to it (the stripes need to be immediately given the required form), feathers underneath, and according to the sketch, feathers for the tail. A fringe of golden paper was also glued under the Firebird's neck.
- Quilling parts are glued on top of the feathers. At the same time, you need to try to give the wings a more realistic shape. The remaining voids are quite simply filled with parts prepared according to their shape from small quilling strips. Here you can add more details inside the Firebird’s body.
- How to make tail feathers more voluminous:
To do this, we paste a tightly twisted dark-colored quilling piece in three layers with an orange stripe. Then we glue the resulting part to the center of the long strip and adjust its length according to our sketch. - The same dark rounds can be added to small feathers. We make the rest of the Firebird's tail from quilling strips, twisting them to varying degrees and firmly gluing them to the base. It is not necessary that the entire strip is tightly adjacent to the base - the gaps will give a deeper and more interesting shadow in the end. Between the stripes we add some more golden feathers, giving the tail additional volume.
- We make the crest of the Firebird from a fringed piece of golden paper. At the bottom you need to leave a part equal to the height of the bird’s head and glue the tuft along its edge.
- This is what the finished Firebird should look like using the quilling technique.
As you can see, following the detailed diagrams and descriptions, it is quite easy to perform such a MK yourself. Using the same principle, you can make a picture with a bird of happiness, using different color schemes and combining with other paper craft techniques. The finished panel will look beautiful in a frame; it can be supplemented with dried herbs and artificial paper flowers. You can learn how to make flowers using the quilling technique from various video and photo lessons in the desired category.
Video master class Firebirds in quilling style
Templates for quilling Firebirds
Carrying out such quilling appliqué will not present any difficulties even for novice craftsmen. In this case, the firebird is first cut out of ordinary colored paper, and then the applique is given volume using openwork curls.
To make the picture beautiful and neat, first of all we draw or print a template with the image of a firebird. We transfer it to colored paper and cut it out. Then we glue the colored parts onto the base.
After the main picture is ready, we begin quilling the fire bird, step by step decorating it with quilling elements. For design we use a few simple “building blocks”:
- Regular curls are strips of paper with spirals twisted on only one side. The second end of the paper tape is free.
- "Eyes." To create such an element, we first twist the loose roll, and then, slightly squeezing it from the sides, squeeze the opposite ends.
- "Drops". Forming this part is similar to making an “eye”, only the tip is clamped on one side. In some cases, you will need to additionally bend the “drop” a little so that it follows the bend of the feather.
- "Triangle". We also form it from a free spiral, pressing the workpiece from below and sharpening it from above.
- "Pom-poms." In order to make a fluffy element, the quilling strip must first be cut into fine fringe. Then we twist the fringed ribbon into a tight roll, secure the tip and straighten the fringe.
A plastic eye and eyelashes made from simple thin paper strips will help make the bird more “alive.”
To complete the composition, stars of different sizes can be applied to the background (added or pasted, after cutting it out of silver paper or foil).
Craft from ordinary stripes
Another simple craft in the quilling style is a firebird made from bright multi-colored stripes. Since the fairy-tale-mythical bird is primarily associated with the sun and fire, yellow, red and orange colors should predominate in its design. But in order to make the picture more original, you can add other shades to the main colors.
Experienced craftsmen who are already quite skilled in working with paper strips can lay out the applique right away. For beginners, it will be easier to first draw a firebird based on quilling, and only then gradually stick paper tapes onto the outline.
To make the bird look more elegant, it is best to use not very wide strips of paper (no more than 3 mm) to create a picture.
Illustration for a fairy tale
Firebird is found in many Russian folk and even original fairy tales. Therefore, it can also be used to work with children, creating interesting and colorful illustrations for the works they read. A master class on creating a picture with firebirds and an apple tree using the quilling technique using simple elements and techniques will help with this.
To work you will need to stock up:
- a tool for winding paper rolls;
- paper of green, red, yellow and orange colors;
- a sheet of cardboard and a simple pencil.
You will also need PVA glue and a little patience.
The algorithm for making firebird quilling in this microscope consists of several stages:
- Draw a sketch of the future illustration. You can simplify the task by printing a ready-made picture.
- We make blanks in the form of triangles, squares, curls and rolls of various sizes.
- We lay out the “bricks” according to the drawing/template. For convenience, we first mark all the contours, gluing the parts not only to the base, but also to each other. Then we fill in the silhouettes, changing the shape of the quilling elements if necessary, and laying them out as tightly as possible.
The resulting picture can be framed and placed on a bookshelf next to your favorite fairy tale books.
Painting using contour quilling technique
An original and elegant craft in the form of a proud and bright firebird can be made with your own hands in the style of contour quilling on a light background. All you need for this: yellow and red (various shades) strips of thick paper, a silhouette of a bird drawn on paper, and glue.
First, we repeat all the lines of the pencil outline with dark red paper tapes, repeating all the bends. Then we fill the outline with stripes of various shades of red, orange and yellow so that the wings and tail of the bird resemble tongues of flame. To give the bird additional grace, some of the “feathers” can be slightly curled using a toothpick or a paper rolling tool.
A firebird made in this quilling style can decorate any gift or card. Also, with the help of this master class, you can create three-dimensional decor to decorate a children's room or group in a preschool institution.
Feather decoration
