FAIRY TREE

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For a tree you will need:
• Beads of blue shades, green, red, yellow (or another of your choice);
• Beads of green shades (for stand);
• Bead wire (thin);
• Thick wire (for trunk and branches);
• Thin, tight wire for vines;
• Taping tape (green);
• Nippers;
• Round-nose pliers;
• Alabaster (gypsum);
• PVA glue;
• Water;
• milk;
• Brushes for applying gypsum (hard);
• Brushes for painting wood;
• Gouache;
• Thread or wire to collect wood.
1) We form the trunk and branches.
We take 2 thick wires. I have the length of the left wire - 32 cm, and the right - 24 cm. We knit them with a thread (the red thread in the photo) and make bends. Add 2 short branches on each side to the right branch of our Fairytale tree.

For convenience, as a stand, I temporarily used plasticine. Next we will make vines. To do this, take the wire of the required length and wrap it with tape tape. We give vines curls and weave them to the branches with a thread (black thread in the photo). I took a thin wire for the left liana 38 cm long, for the lower right 18.5 cm. And I took a wire for the upper two lianas on the right. The wire for lianas should be thin, but at the same time tight, it should keep its shape well.

2) We form our "pendants". I cut the bead wire of the required length (I cut the length of 37-38 cm). And string the beads, alternating colors as desired. Leave 4-5 cm of bare wire at the end. For the left branch I got - 39 pendants, and for the right one - 7. Also for the right branch, I cut a smaller wire.

Another variant:

Weaving beads according to this principle, I alternate it with other colors. After making the necessary number of pendants, we wind them to the left branch.

Less photos were taken on these photos, later I added more pendants.

3) Now is the time to plant our tree. We take 3 short thick wires, make bends and wind them to the trunk.

Now we need a stand. Wrap it with cling film.

First, lay out the first layer of gypsum on it, the tree has not yet been planted. In some places, I put pieces of wire for the strength of the stand. The gypsum solution is done as follows: Pour a little water into the container (it is better to take half of the plastic bottle), add a little gypsum and mix thoroughly. We need the consistency of thick sour cream. You do not need to do a lot of solution at once, since it dries very quickly.

Now you can plant a tree.

We plaster the trunk and twigs. Mortar for trunk and branches. In order for the gypsum solution to dry more slowly, add a little milk to it.

From this side of the trunk, I decided to make a peeling bark.

To do this, make the bark smooth in the center of the trunk, and gently apply the top layer of bark on the sides.

On the other sides of the trunk, also apply a variety of outlines of the bark.

With a sharp object, draw the relief of the bark on the branches.

When you fully form the bark of the tree, leave it for a couple of days, to completely dry the gypsum. In order to make the relief easier on branches, breed gypsum thinner and add more milk. Then drawing lines on the branches will be more convenient.
4) Painting a tree. At first I painted the tree with brown paint, the prominent places of the bark were light brown (I applied paint with a dry brush with dipping movements). At the base of the trunk sometimes added green.

Next, paint our stand.

Using gypsum, glued pebbles (7 pcs.).

Smeared with glue and sprinkled with beads of green shades.

And covered the tree with varnish.

When the varnish dried, she made another vine. She wrapped it in the right branch and trunk. For this creeper I used bead wire. I also wrapped it in tape tape. It took me 11 days to make such a tree, every day I spent a couple of hours. Height from stand to creeper - 28 cm. Width - 34 cm.