Illustrious Art With Tinfoil

Illustrious art are meant to explain a concept or a scene with object based paper formats rather than painting methods.

So lets learn to one of that kind with this tutorial.

Cardboard - A4 size in landscape

Color chart papers

Acrylic colours

Parchment paper or tinfoil

We shall prepare the board painted at the center in a square shape with black acrylic paint.

Please do have a look at the video, for the method i used for painting. Rather than making the paint in a usual way, i used this method to get textured look to the board.

Now, lets add layers to the board with thin cardboard strips so that the chart papers we paste on it will be in a raised position like one on top of the other to get a

For every layer increase, we shall more board strips so that the upper layer is raised more than the lower.

So for the second layer i pasted two board strips; for the third later i pasted three board strips and so on.

For the clouds to be seen as layers, i plan to use chart papers of varied colors(or use acrylic paints over the white chart paper). In order to prepare the stencils for the initial inner layer i draw the lines and slice out the papers with cutter.

And for the next to next layers, i used the smaller layer and draw the curves, little bigger outline to the previous layer. Thats how i stacked the layers of the sky.

I used acrylic color combination - turquoise + black + ultramarine blue + grey(more white + less black) for the second inner layer and for the rest of the layers i used color charts and individual colors.

Below are the layers arranged:

Layer 1 - Black

Layer 2 - Turquoise combination

Layer 3 - Yellow

Layer 4 - Light violet

Layer 5 - Sky blue

Layer 6 - Black

For the astronaut, i draw the outline on to a white chart paper and snip out.

Added white and metallic silver combination to the suit.

Black, Light green and red are other color used to add more details to the astronaut suit.

In order to fix the astronaut to the board, i used cardboard strips so that the astronaut is raised a bit.

For the shooting star i used tin foil as a thin strand and the star as a diamond shaped tin foil piece. And particularly i used less amount of glue with the help of nib of pen.

I used Tweezers to crush at the end of the strand to represent a tail structure.

I took sometime to cut the tin foil to fine small pieces. With the help of pen nib, i applied glue to the board and placed the tinfoil pieces across the outer black coloured layer.

Moon - Yellow chart paper painted with ivory and shaded with grey.

Mars - Red chart paper shaded with orange

Earth - Blue chart paper, shaded with ultramarine blue with paint brush. For the green part, i crushed tinfoil and applied dark green with it.

With white chart paper, i pasted tinfoil strip and added coloured to it.

I used tinfoil strip wrapped to white cardboard pieces.