Miniature painting on Wood Mache "Ivan Kupala" night Painting

Product Characteristics: A base framework of wrapped paper inside the product, aluminum foil- in the middle- are used for modeling the required shape and in particular for detailed work. The main constituent of mushroom is Wood Mache - a mass of wood powder which is imposed layer by layer (3-4 layers as a whole). It takes few days for each one to dry naturally. It is utterly important not to speed up the drying process as this may result cracks. Then the product is primed, sanded and polished. Thin top layer has all the wood properties and can be personalized with different types of paints, varnishes and glazes. The professional artist paints on the end ware taking into account what I propose. Therefore NO napkin technique/decoupage is used. Afterwards finished mushroom is covered with several layers of vitreous lacquer. A traditional Ukrainian miniature painting on Wood Mâché. Ivan Kupala night is depicted on this mushroom. Girls used to float wreaths of flowers on rivers and tried to foresight their relationship fortunes from the flow patterns of these wreaths. During these nights mermaids came out from the rivers and lakes to the shore. They hid in the branches of trees, high grass, trying to entice people with their angelic voices into the water and drown them.