Compositions from cereals

In order to make a unique composition of cereals with your own hands, you need very few materials that can always be found in the house. For work we need cereals of different colors. If you want to create a story of your own, first decide on the color scheme in which it will be executed. The initial set of cereals that will serve as material for us depends on this.

For our autumn composition we will need yellow cereals to imitate autumn leaves (millet, corn grits, and also peas). If you want your autumn to not be “golden,” use green peas - then the tree will have green foliage with a small splash of yellow. For the tree trunk we will use wheat groats, as well as buckwheat. To give it a deeper color, buckwheat can be fried in a frying pan. Wheat grits, semolina, beans, pistachio shells, poppy seeds, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, these seeds - all this can be useful in working on our autumn composition.

 

We will do the work in a frame, so choose a frame of this size for your composition. Which will fit well into the interior of the kitchen.You can also choose the appropriate color for the frame so that it harmonizes with the main color scheme of the kitchen.

The base for the frame can be plywood covered with burlap, or, if you want to make a background for your work, stick a sheet of Whatman paper (or better yet watercolor paper) onto the cardboard and tint it in accordance with your subject.

Draw with a pencil the approximate location of the elements in your work. This will be a light sketch, a sketch. The lines should be visible after tinting. You can tint the paper using a sponge dipped in a solution of gouache or watercolor of the color you need. In our composition the background will be blue - after all, the tree stands on the bank of the river.

Before choosing a material for the base (paper or burlap), look at how your materials will look on one or another base: if the grains do not “get lost” against the background of fabric or burlap, it is quite possible to do the work this way.

But we will make our composition on watercolor paper, and “draw” the far bank of the river with dried autumn leaves: by gluing them side by side, we will end up with a beautiful autumn forest, and its colors will be natural - we used real dried leaves. The island in the middle of the river is made of semolina and wheat, and the dark shades of the sand are poppy.

Use your imagination, use everything you think is possible in your work. Let it be multi-colored beans, beans, dried citrus slices, unusually shaped seeds of different plants.

It is best to glue natural materials with high-quality PVA glue.

When the work is completed, and under the autumn oak tree standing on the slope of the river you will really see a scattering of golden leaves, wet sand will lie on the shore in a narrow strip, unprecedented river flowers will splash along the shore, a boat made of autumn leaves will sail along the river, consider that the work is yours was a success. You can varnish all the elements of the composition and look for a worthy place for work in your interior.