Crafty Parasols Post
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jedilora got married and asked me to decorate some parasols for her wedding. One specific parasol she wanted was something called a 'Thank You' parasol which I had never heard about before but apparently is made for the bride and groom (or groom and groom and bride and bride) to hold for thank you cards. All righty, a parasol with the words 'Thank You' on it, doesn't sound too hard, but when I looked at them online, I saw that the best ones had the words 'Thank You' right in the middle of the parasol and the worst ones had the words around the edges to avoid the parasol's skeleton ribs.
I thought about it for a bit and then figured out a solution: I have a light box and I know how to use it.
Materials:
1. Parasol
2. Printer that can print large sheets of paper
3. Sharpie
4. Painter's tape or any tape that's not too sticky and won't rip the delicate rice paper of the parasol when it's peeled off
5. Light box
6. Acrylic paint and brushes
First, I went through and chose a font that I liked and thought suited the bride and groom. Since they're both members of the SCA, I chose a font called 'Prince Valiant' that was simple and yet had that awesome Medieval look (plus it's the font used for the title of the Prince Valiant comics, nerd score!). I then made HUGE prints of the words THANK YOU on 11x17 paper, cut it out and taped them carefully onto the parasol.
Once I decided I liked the placement, I got out my light box:
Note: My light box is super cheap, found at Michael's probably for less than $50. I use it for storyboards and for animation.
Then I turned it on and placed the parasol on top of the light box so that the words would be traceable.
With a sharpie, I traced the letters. The sharpie bleeds through the rice paper so it'll show up on both sides, plus I drew over the skeleton rib, not caring since it won't show up on the other side since it's on the bamboo. When it's done the, parasol looked like this after the letters were removed:
Then it's just a matter of filling in the gaps and painting it. The sharpie did leave a black stroke around the words but I liked that. If I didn't want the stroke, then I would've just used a blue marker.
Done!
Also, here are the other parasolstheropicus and I painted for the wedding. A lot of them were hand done but some of them were painted with stamps that I made out of craft foam:
Bride's parasol
Maid of Honor's parasol (bride's sister)
Other Maid of Honor's parasol
Bridesmaid's parasol
My parasol (I was also a bridesmaid)
LOTS of parasols! They weren't hard to paint but at around 2AM, I noticed I was getting a REALLY bad wrist cramp from holding my wrist at an angle. I don't normally get cramps even after drawing/painting for hours but this cramp was REALLY bad so I probably won't be painting parasols regularly XD
jedilora got married and asked me to decorate some parasols for her wedding. One specific parasol she wanted was something called a 'Thank You' parasol which I had never heard about before but apparently is made for the bride and groom (or groom and groom and bride and bride) to hold for thank you cards. All righty, a parasol with the words 'Thank You' on it, doesn't sound too hard, but when I looked at them online, I saw that the best ones had the words 'Thank You' right in the middle of the parasol and the worst ones had the words around the edges to avoid the parasol's skeleton ribs.I thought about it for a bit and then figured out a solution: I have a light box and I know how to use it.
Materials:
1. Parasol
2. Printer that can print large sheets of paper
3. Sharpie
4. Painter's tape or any tape that's not too sticky and won't rip the delicate rice paper of the parasol when it's peeled off
5. Light box
6. Acrylic paint and brushes
First, I went through and chose a font that I liked and thought suited the bride and groom. Since they're both members of the SCA, I chose a font called 'Prince Valiant' that was simple and yet had that awesome Medieval look (plus it's the font used for the title of the Prince Valiant comics, nerd score!). I then made HUGE prints of the words THANK YOU on 11x17 paper, cut it out and taped them carefully onto the parasol.
Once I decided I liked the placement, I got out my light box:
Note: My light box is super cheap, found at Michael's probably for less than $50. I use it for storyboards and for animation.
Then I turned it on and placed the parasol on top of the light box so that the words would be traceable.
With a sharpie, I traced the letters. The sharpie bleeds through the rice paper so it'll show up on both sides, plus I drew over the skeleton rib, not caring since it won't show up on the other side since it's on the bamboo. When it's done the, parasol looked like this after the letters were removed:
Then it's just a matter of filling in the gaps and painting it. The sharpie did leave a black stroke around the words but I liked that. If I didn't want the stroke, then I would've just used a blue marker.
Done!
Also, here are the other parasols
theropicus and I painted for the wedding. A lot of them were hand done but some of them were painted with stamps that I made out of craft foam:Bride's parasol
Maid of Honor's parasol (bride's sister)
Other Maid of Honor's parasol
Bridesmaid's parasol
My parasol (I was also a bridesmaid)
LOTS of parasols! They weren't hard to paint but at around 2AM, I noticed I was getting a REALLY bad wrist cramp from holding my wrist at an angle. I don't normally get cramps even after drawing/painting for hours but this cramp was REALLY bad so I probably won't be painting parasols regularly XD
