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They are simply simple to make and at the same time they look very original: table lamps, floor lamps and all kinds of candlesticks. A minimum of imagination, a little manual labor and again you get a whole direction in the topic of interior lighting.

Sculptors from the Aton studio (Canada) have come up with an interesting and very simple way to make designer lamps. Haven't you figured out how to make them yourself yet? - I’m telling...

There is now such a material - plastic clay. It comes in different consistencies, including in the form of a paste. You can buy it in art supply stores.

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SO. We take a cardboard juice bag, or any other packaging, box, tube from a roll of paper. And we squeeze this clay out of the bag in a chaotic artistic disorder onto a blank. Let our work dry thoroughly, crumple it or carefully take out the box and place our work on a base with a light bulb. That's it - the lamp is ready.

If you can't find clay, liquid nails or hardening sealants/putties/putties will gladly replace it. The principle of creating a lamp is the same.
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In order to make a delicate openwork lampshade, you need two packages polymer clay, papier-mâché base, knitted napkin, rolling pin, hollow metal tubes, knife.

For the base of the lampshade I used an old one flower pot without a bottom, this is how my flower girl friend brought it to the workshop a long time ago: “Maybe it will come in handy someday...”

I covered it with eight layers of newspaper using PVA glue and dried it well.

Then I made cuts on the base with a stationery knife - we got two halves of the future papier-mâché lampshade.

I glued them together again with PVA glue and tape - now I have a ready-made base for work in my hands.

You need to work quickly, since the clay, being in the open air, begins to harden after 15-20 minutes, and before that you need to have time to give it a shape and make a drawing on it. Place one part of the clay layer on the base.

Then we roll out another pack of clay and wrap it around the second part of the base.

We wet our hands in water and smooth out the joints and irregularities. We cut off the remaining clay along the edges of the base with a knife. The surface was not perfectly smooth, but this will not interfere with further work. At the next stage, we apply a knitted napkin to the base and “sink” it into the clay, carefully making sure that the design is printed.

Using hollow tubes of different diameters, we take out the clay in those places where circles are knitted according to the napkin pattern.

Then, using a sharp knife, we cut out fragments of the design - they should not be very large so that the clay canvas does not tear.

I would like to warn you about one danger that may await you if you decide to do such work: you must ensure that the clay mass does not slide down (while the clay is wet, a “landslide” is possible). In general, you need to try to make the drawing quickly and ensure that the clay does not settle. After I made the impression, I turned on the hairdryer and began to dry the clay - but only from afar, because if the hairdryer is brought close to the product, the clay will begin to crack.

All that remains is to make the mountings for the lampshade. I had a silver-colored chain in my workshop... And it was possible to weave decorative cords or something else out of white ropes, but, as our great poetess said, “... I was too lazy to think further.” Really lazy. The work turned out to be very painstaking, and I wanted to finish it quickly.

A DIY lamp is actually very easy to make. At the same time, they also look very original: floor lamps, table lamps, all kinds of candlesticks. A minimum of imagination, a little manual labor and you get a whole direction in the topic of interior lighting. And most importantly, you don’t have to pay money for it! It is enough to arm yourself with your own imagination and necessary materials. We will make a lamp from plastic, or as it is also called, polymer clay.

There is now such a material - plastic clay. It comes in different consistencies, including in the form of a paste. You can buy it in art supply stores. There are such stores in any more or less large city. As you can see, there will be expenses, of course, but not as significant as if you decided to buy a ready-made lamp in a store.

So, what do we need to make the same lamp with our own hands?

1

We take an ordinary cardboard bag of kefir, or any other packaging, for example, juice. If you want to get a cylindrical shape, you can use a bottle or tube from a paper roll.

2

Then we squeeze polymer clay onto this blank from the bag in any direction.

3

Let our work dry thoroughly, and then carefully remove the base from the inside - a box or bottle.

4

After this, you can already install our resulting lamp on a structure with a light bulb.

That's all the work - the lamp is ready for use.

If it suddenly happens that you do not find clay, then it can be replaced with hardening sealants or liquid nails. Putties and putties will also work. But you need to be more careful with them - they are fragile. In all other respects, the principle of manufacturing the lamp does not change.