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MAKING A FOREST SCENE – TOUCAN BIRD ON BAMBOO TREE
I am sharing a Paper Art that is related to Forest theme.
At first, I only made a Paper frame and bamboo trees. But still something was missing. It all looked empty. At last, I added some leaves, flowers and a Toucan bird to give a perfect forest look.
I hope, you will like it.

Posted by Gitanjali M. from Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India • Published See Gitanjali M.'s 7 projects »
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You Will Need

Paper frame(length-14.8 cm & breadth-12.8 cm), 3 thin paper (90 GSM), 2 thick paper or Cardstock paper, Acrylic paint, Oil Pastel, Paper Cutter, Waterproof gel pen(black), Tissue paper, Fevicol
  • Step 1

    Take a Paper frame. It's inner part must be of length 13.8 cm & breadth 11.4 cm. If you want to take according to your choice of frame, then the paper bamboos length will vary. According to your frame, you've to take the size of Paper.
    Paste two paper of 90 GSM inside the frame. This is done because when you’ll apply acrylic colour then the paper will not buckle/bulge. If you’ll keep two layers of paper then there is very less chance of Paper buckling.

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    Step 2

    For background, mix blue & green colour and apply it on the paper. Again apply second layer. At last, without mixing both the colours, now apply green colour to some parts & blue colour at the corners and at middle.

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    Step 3

    According to the size of inside frame, take a plain paper and apply green (light,dark) oil pastel and blend it using tissue paper.

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    Step 4

    Cut the paper with 1.5 cm, 2 cm & 2.5 cm width. Different width will give different thickness of bamboo.

    Roll the paper & glue it’s end.

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    Step 5

    Using acrylic paint (without water), colour around the rolled paper.

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    Step 6

    For bamboo leaves:
    Take a thick paper/cardstock and apply light green & yellow oil pastel and blend it using tissue paper.

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    Step 7

    Cut paper in long shape and with that same paper cut for leaves.

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    Step 8

    Glue the leaves with branches.

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    Step 9

    For Toucan bird:
    Draw the body part, wing & feathers of Toucan bird. Cut all of them using paper cutter.

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    Step 10

    Colour the body part & beak.
    If you’ve the knowledge of shading then you can colour it properly.

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    Step 11

    Colour the wing with grey colour and using black gel pen draw it’s wingbars

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    Step 12

    Now colour one side of the feather with grey colour & other side with black. On one feather, mark a white line.

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    Step 13

    Draw claws & cut it out, then colour it.
    Join all the body parts.

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    Step 14

    Take a curve bamboo tree which you’ve made earlier. Stick the bird behind the tree. Also attach the claws on the tree.

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    Step 15

    Now if you will see from side, then just above the claws there will be some space. So using gel pen, cover that area to give a proper illusion of claws.

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    Step 16

    For leaves:
    Draw the shapes of different types of leaves and cut it out. Using acrylic colour, paint all the leaves.

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    Step 17

    For flowers:
    Again draw some flowers, cut it out & colour it.

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    Step 18

    Now, it’s time to fix all the things. First of all, attach bamboo.

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    Step 19

    Next, attach the branches with leaves.

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    Step 20

    At last, fix all other things left.

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