Garden sculpture made of concrete with their hands

Concrete sculptures have many advantages over products from other materials. Concrete more malleable than natural stone, but because it is easier to work with. These products are resistant to weathering, they can be left on the street, only periodically renewing the coating. Another plus - even a small figurine weighs a lot, but because there is no fear for the safety of the garden decor, over which you have to work hard.

Sculpture made of concrete: a master class

The first step towards the creation of garden sculptures made of concrete - work on a metal frame, on which is then applied to the solution. To get the thick part, you need to wrap the frame of a fine mesh or wire. The second method of manufacturing figurines - forming, when the concrete is poured into the solution of special molds, and after hardening of the two halves are glued and sanded item.

Nutabena advises fill the insides of different cloth cement savings.

If you do not have much experience with cement, hardly the ideal sculpture you get the first time. To the error could be corrected in a concrete solution is added to the adhesive. Impart the desired color using a pigment added to the composition, or a ready-stained figure. With other paints can simulate natural materials: granite, marble, wood, etc. The completion of sculpture cement antigraffitnym covered and corrosion-resistant coating, which retain the product in unaltered form for a few tens of years old.

Member Forum RUS_095 (Moscow) tells the story of a technology of concrete sculptures, through which runs a master Vladimir Ukrainian. The solution for garden sculptures made from a mixture of cement and sand in the ratio 1: 2. The cement is applied to the metal frame, which is then cut off the excess. Products are painted usual facade paint.

From simple - to difficult

Galina Ara offers to try their hand at simple figures, making the fungus. At 1.5-2 liter plastic bottle, cut the neck of "shoulders". Prepare a solution of 1 part cement, 3 - sand, add water to the consistency of "cottage cheese in pack". Fill the bottle to the top, put solidify. Then cut and remove the plastic - Stipe is ready.

Hat do with a metal or plastic bowls required size: inner lubricate surface sunflower oil or grease, the solution was put back to the top and let the little congeal. When the solution can be cut with a knife, make a hole in the middle depth of 6-7 cm. Its diameter should be slightly larger top diameter of the legs. Again, wait until the concrete has hardened even more, then carefully turn and remove from the mold. Grind off the edge of the cap with a knife.

Decorate a hat: make a hole in it, roll out of the solution worm and shove it back in half. After the final coat has dried figure primer and paint.

Products smaller than 150 cm Galina Ara without making the carcass and reinforcement. A piece of soft monolith which is then cut figurine can be done using the metal sheet: turn it into the desired diameter tube and tie string. Then fill in the solution and leave to dry.

The disadvantage - so the figures can not be done with protruding parts, with outstretched arms, etc.

More complex shapes require reinforcing elements. Kota new posts so doing. At first dazzled all except the head. Then, during the laying of cement in the form of two valves stuck desired height and frame made of the head and ears of a thin wire. When the solution (to lower jaw) is well stiffened, again I put the tube, but on a frame made of boards at neck level. Plywood cut bottom with a hole for the neck and filled with a solution. Head cut without removing the wooden support. 2-3 hours removed the frame, and has covered border solution.

Classroom ARINC

Drinking bowl for birds "Autumn Leaf"

Take a large sheet of burdock or rhubarb. Spread the cellophane on the table, make a mound of wet sand, in the middle of a mound shape to set the depth of the sheet. Cover the pile of cellophane. Put a sheet of streaked upwards, flatten it.

Knead non-liquid concrete: 3 parts sand, 1 - cement, water. Cement place on the sheet: thickness of the solution should be in the middle of 2 cm, the edges be reduced to 1 cm. Then insert a plastic tube with a diameter of 10 cm and a height of 10 to 15 cm. Obmazhte its solution at the interface, fill the cavity with concrete pipes. Cover with plastic wrap, leaving a gap for ventilation, and allow the product to dry.

Do not turn the sheet earlier than two days!

After drying, remove the concrete sheet. If it comes off with difficulty, slightly moisten with water. You can double-leaf paint Yachting lacquer with the addition of gold, red, and orange color scheme. Turn garden sculpture vysokgo class!

Trashcan

ARINC cobble together scraps of the old trapeze. Size - the diameter of the container, which is inserted into the middle of the form. Then, the mold walls nailed wooden base. Wall, the bottom of the form and a bucket to lay a polyethylene film, cemented shut. Reinforced fine mesh. The cement slurry has filled in the form, making the bottom boxes (thickness 8-10 cm). Then, put a bucket in the cellophane into a mold, put the leaves of burdock to the walls and gradually poured in the solution, holding the leaves, so as not slipped, and lining the bucket in the middle.

Urn covered in cellophane for 5-6 days. After drying - flipped, turned away screws to the bottom, wall disassembled. The leaves are washed with water. Top boxes and sharp edges honed disk. Urn painted. The product can be decorated seashells.

another idea

Frau made the original decorative stones and figurines made of cement residue remaining on the paving: piled in heaps, and two days later with a knife cut contours. And a metal wire mesh reinforced only thin crafts.

Increase the plasticity of the solution, you can use PVA, to reduce moisture permeability - "liquid" nails.

Olika produced beautiful swans, using an inverted bowl, wire and strip the old wet blanket cover. Molded, then watered with water and wrapped around polyethylene to cement clutched. After one day the film unwinding and smeared another layer without the fabric. Neck made gradually over five days. Figure painted with oil paint in two layers. Pebbles in the "lake" - gravel, sprinkle with spray paint.

Nyura5 proposes to make the frog to dry the swamp of cement and bricks from the rubble. Layout blind by figures from clay, and only with him sculpt sculpture.

Turtles and ladybugs - easy to make: they can be made from an old soccer ball cut in half. At the bottom put polyethylene and fill solution. Figures can be decorated with fragments of colored tiles.

Waldschnepfer dreams about the statues of Easter Island. The heads can be made empty, Put back some plants, forming a kind of hair.

Large statues require significant time costs. You can set a thick log, or a bucket as a basis for them. The basis of wire mesh wrap. Nose, lips, eyebrows and other small parts can be made of polystyrene, attaching them to the construction of wire mesh, and filling the gap with foam. Frame obmazhte cement, dry and color. Keeper of the garden is ready!

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