Recipe 05 Vanakum Henna

Since is Deepavali, we decided to have Henna drawing instead of curry cooking, which I think we can do better :)

What do you need? A tube of Henna which you can get from Indian shop. The one we have is about RM1.90/tube. It could last you quite a bit depending on your design and volume.

Sim is concentrating to draw a basketball for Ang although he wants a trophy.

We didnt quite do those typical henna design coz we dont have that blood flow into our body, so we main hentam saja.

Henna drawing is really easy... it just like squeezing icing on the cake. Check out what we've done :)

Recipe 04 Mini Canvas

Canvas, sounds big to you? Starring blank and find it hard to start? How about a mini one to get you started.

Besides painting, you can do alot of stuff with it like collage, print transfer like lino, or simply stick a photo of your love ones and for you to stare at hours :P

What you need:

• Mini Canvas, how big? Wow, is just about 7.5cm x 9cm
• Colors! Anything that leave marks on the canvas like oil, acryllic etc
• Tools like brushes, glue, sculpey, magazine spread, diamonds (if you would like to stick them on :p)
• Lotsa Fun!

Here's how we stew the canvas:

First, start sketching on the canvas, when is ready, is all set to go.

Oooshh, look at that yummy ice cream, not forgetting Sim's dog. All done with acrylic.

Deb's is alwys good in pinching. Remember the butt she pinch last week... nais kan? Today she pinch a bird with Sculpey.


Inniz thinks that she has enuff of rabbit, so she try her hand on paper clay with petals today.

After dry, you may paint the flower with colors. See how gorgeous it is? The center part reminds me of mentos, feel like biting it :p

Check out the final piece fr Deb & Sim. Have fun people!

Recipe 03 - Oversize Origami

What you need:

• Unwanted white paper from dirty and wrinkled studio backdrop which was trimmed off
• Lots of patience for big folds
• Some tape and stapler to hold things together
• A cute model for size comparison
  
  

Recipe 02 - Sculpey-Making

Sculpey (pronounced 'Scul-pee' for the short-tongued) is a plasticin-like material used to mold things. In layman's terms: Before baked: plasticin, after baked: plastic. Ok enough talk, let's get down to business.

What you need:

• Sculpey (Homer: d'oh!)
• Fingers (preferably tiny)
• Toothpicks, woodcarving tools (if you do not have the afore-mentioned tiny fingers)
• Wire (if you intend for your figure to stand)
• A plan of what figure to make

Now on to a session of endless giggling...


Sculpey. Not to be eaten, although it looks and smells kinda yummy.


First we'll start by making a ball. Warming the sculpey will make it more pliable and easier to work with. Note: With your fingers!


Ok, now add on other parts as necessary. As seen in the above, Inniz has used a tweezer to facilitate the adding-on. This is to reduce the fingerprints on your figurine, if you want. What? No, it doesn't remind me of anything. You sure do ask a lot of questions.


Another adding-on picture..man this is like a test for the perverted.


Make it anatomically correct if you wish HAHAHHHAHAHA!


The standing test (Inniz's)


Work in Progress (Joey's)

After you're done with the modelling, you can wrap it with foil and bake it. Usually it's about 30 minutes to an hour at 130 degrees celcius, depending of the thickness of the figurine.

But we've made the baked version beforehand, so here it is freshly baked...

*drumroll*

Ta-DA!!

Recipe 01 - Lino Print

Finished Product: Leaf, Cute Rabbit, Gingerbread Man and Celtic H
Printed on: Brown paper using oil based paint
Duration: 1 1/2 hours

Firstly, you will need to prepare some tools such as:

• Lino sheet
• Tracing Paper
• Pattern of your preference
• Carving Tools/Chisel
• Blade
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Cutting Map

You will need a range of sizes and shape for the carving tools. Please handle with care, they can be pretty sharp!

Trace or draw the pattern of your preference onto the tracing paper and ultimately transfer it onto the Lino Sheet.

After that, determine the positive and negative section of your pattern then start cutting the Lino Sheet carefully and slowly.

You will then find a table of mess with these shreads from the Lino sheet you cut.

After you are done with the Lino Sheet, prepare a piece of glass squeeze the oil based paint onto the surface then using a roller evenly spread out the paint.

Finally, place the brown paper over the completed Lino Sheet; use the roller evenly roll over and make sure that everything is in position... and YOU'RE DONE!

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