Altered item: Decorative box with a quilled folk art bird

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Quilling decorated box

As I already wrote, I like using folk art motifs in my paper quilling. Here's a new box with traditional Ukrainian patterns.

I made my first box by Opishnyanska painting style, this time I used Petrykivsky painting (Petrykivka), the one I especially like. Main elements are from this album.

Decorated box, sketch

I made a sketch of the design with colored pencils, and then used it to do the quilling.

Quilling decorated box, side view

As before, a cheese container was used for the base, which I covered with colored paper. Diameter 11cm (4 3/8 inches).

Comments

Archana said…
WOW! This is beautiful... I can imagine all the hardwork that went into making this. It turned out great.
May 13, 2009, 7:53:00 AM
Inna D. said…
Archana, thank you very much :) The bird's tail was really difficult to do. The flowers are so small, that each petal is made from a 6cm long only strip.
May 13, 2009, 11:57:00 AM
Martha said…
Wow, this is just great, what a lot of work!!
Beautiful!!!
Martha
May 13, 2009, 3:41:00 PM
PaperDelite said…
I am still wondering how you made the bird's tail. how long was the srtip?
May 13, 2009, 5:23:00 PM
Inna D. said…
Martha, thank you very much!

Archana, for the longest feathers (on the left side) I used 4 strips approx. 30 cm (A4 paper) each, of two different colors.
May 13, 2009, 6:45:00 PM
Sonya said…
Inna another beautiful example of quilling and of folk art!!! Your sketch shows you are a very versatile artist!
May 14, 2009, 6:05:00 AM
Inna D. said…
Sonya, thank you very much for your kind comment.
May 14, 2009, 9:20:00 AM
Neha said…
You are amazing! I think God has gifted you maigical hands!! You should seriously have an art gallery of your quilling work.
Why dont you put some videos where you can teach people how to do quilling? I just bought the tools yesterday but I am not able to do it by reading the techniques. A video would be more helpful
May 15, 2009, 1:08:00 PM
Inna D. said…
I don't have enough time to shoot and post-process video :( I tried (here's an example), but it takes too long.
I wonder if you saw my photo-tutorials here, here and here. If you still can't manage it, you always can find some really good videos on YouTube. I especially like this one on quilling. Good luck!
May 16, 2009, 2:15:00 PM
Molly Smith said…
This is gorgeous, so cheerful! I love, love the combination of colors. And to sketch it out is brilliant. Most of all I like practical quilling where it has a use and when I read it was the top of a box, I thought WOW! Thanks for sharing.
Jan 5, 2011, 7:18:00 PM
Inna D. said…
Thanks so much, Molly! I greatly appreciate your compliments.
Jan 16, 2011, 9:18:00 PM
MONICA said…
wow the quilling work and other crafts are really very good they are fabulous. I learnt alot form these post they are so easy to understand. THANKS ALOT
May 8, 2011, 4:10:00 PM
Inna D. said…
Thank you, Monica!
May 18, 2011, 12:58:00 PM
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