Bolshakova Natalia - decoupage artist, craftswoman

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

There is no exact date for the foundation of this type of needlework, like decoupage, in history, but there is evidence that it originated in the 12th century in China. There, the peasants cut and pasted pictures on lanterns and decorated their homes with them. In Eastern Europe, it was first mentioned at the end of the 17th century. Then the masters from Venice glued pictures on the furniture and applied a thick layer of varnish on top of them. They did it masterfully, the furniture looked like expensive analogues that we althy people brought from China and Japan.

A little digression into history

Decoupage was once very fashionable in France, especially at the royal court. In England, during the Victorian era, decoupage became available to the entire population. And he came to America from England, as a favorite hobby of many ladies from the middle and upper classes.

At the beginning of the 21st century, decoupage was massively interested in Russia as well. Nowadays, this interest is growing more and more. His fans are people of all ages, mostly women, and mostdifferent ages. Many have seriously succeeded and have grown in their skills.

They do not hide their skills, but generously share them with everyone. So, in many cities of Russia they organize live master classes. A lot of people come to participate in them, their main goal is to learn more about decoupage, as well as learn how to create such beauty themselves. In addition to the living, there is also an online MK, where needlewomen transfer their knowledge and skills to a larger audience through Internet resources.

Wonderful master of decoupage Natalia Bolshakova

Every year, the spread of decoupage in Russia is gaining momentum. More and more talented masters of their craft appear in the vastness of our Motherland. With their creativity, they bring love to the masses to the beautiful, instill a taste for beautiful things, develop imagination, thereby forcing them to be interested in art. It is they who help everyone to master a fairly new type of needlework for our compatriots - decoupage.

Among many craftswomen, one can single out a wonderful needlewoman Bolshakova Natalia. This is an amazing woman with great imagination, she creates unique products with the help of decoupage. In her golden hands, simple things turn into fabulously beautiful. And the old ones get a new life and continue to delight connoisseurs of beauty with their extraordinary appearance.

Decoupage - her work and her love

Her students are surprised where she draws strength and inspiration from, how deftly and gracefully sheperforms all decoupage operations. After all, how much perseverance and patience is needed to transform the thing you like. It can be a wooden product in the form of a tea house, tray, casket or dresser, but this master works no less successfully with glass, transforming various vases, bottles, sugar bowls or plates.

Any product requires painstaking work. First of all, the base must be sanded if it is wood, degreased if it is glass. Then cover the surface with primer, wait until it dries, cut out the desired picture, or lace, find a place for it so that it looks beautiful in the finished product. Glue a napkin, drawing or other element. Lacquer, pick up additional decorative elements. Master Bolshakova Natalya does all this masterfully, with great love.

Learning is light

And although Natalia is an experienced and recognized master, she does not boast of this, but continues to replenish her knowledge base. She tirelessly learns from other masters, discovering new ways and types of decoupage. I recently mastered a new type of decor in decoupage - cast lace. Natalia Bolshakova was one of the first to quickly and thoroughly study lace making, prepared a manual and is already passing her own knowledge on to her students.

Beautiful, delicate lace comes out of her hands. And things decorated with cast lace (these are vases, sugar bowls, candy bowls) are simply beautiful, you can’t take your eyes off them. Having taught herself, she has already managed to make a master class on making cast lace in order to teach this business.others.

Master classes by Natalia Bolshakova

She conducts her lessons with great love and patience. She is sincerely pleased that her work is in demand, that decoupage lovers with great desire and pleasure go to study at her live master classes (and use online master classes). People feel her love and are drawn to her.

It is impossible to tear yourself away from her lessons, because knowledge is transferred kindly, all information is laid out - from A to Z. Actions are clear and precise, besides, all secrets are revealed, and all questions are answered.

Besides the cast lace master class, she has many others. This is an MK with decoupage of a tea house, buffet decor, housekeepers. A webinar on creating artistic decoupage and a smoky background, MK "Christmas balls", "Spice box", "Table lamp", "Fossil mother-of-pearl", "Bread box", "Tray", "Sugar bowl" has also been published, the stages of work on creating hours "Grange", magazines. Natalia's MK is on YouTube, you can watch them at any time and learn decoupage from your favorite master.

One of her latest works is an online master class that tells how the Silver candy box was created, and about the methods of applying silver to glass. This is a very luxurious, elegant work, looking at it, you will never think that it was done within some 4-5 hours. Recently, Natalia has been working on the master class "Eglomise". This is her favorite romanticstyle. Now he is at the peak of popularity.

Eglomise is a geometric pattern or herbal ornament engraved on the back of a glass product, using silver amalgam. After copying, the engraving is gilded or blackened.

And a little in closing

Natalia Bolshakova is an engine, inspirer and inventor. Looking at her work, I want to quickly make the same beauty. Starting small - decoupage of wedding bottles of champagne, this hardworking, beautiful woman, a craftswoman with golden hands, has achieved a very high level of skill in decoupage. Since 2011, she has been actively participating in the Masters Fair, exhibiting and selling her works. People come not only to admire them, but also buy them with pleasure, and make orders for the things they like. More than 600 works have gone to different cities and countries.