How to make a textured roller to imitate bamboo using putty

To create a relief decor textured rollers are used on the walls, which roll over fresh putty. They imitate snake skin, tree bark, stone and even bamboo. The relief obtained with their help is painted with paints of different shades, which makes it possible to increase the realism of the imitation. You can make such rollers with your own hands. The simplest and cheapest tool to make is a tool for simulating bamboo, the production of which will take no more than 20 minutes.

Materials:

paint roller (can be old);
hot glue;
hose d10 mm.

Making a decorative roller

To imitate bamboo sticks, you need to make a concave parallel cliche on a roller. To do this, take any hose with a diameter of 10 mm and cut it lengthwise.

Next, it is cut into segments with a length equal to the circumference of the roller. You can use several tubes of different diameters 8-12 mm to obtain bamboo canes of different thicknesses.

Next, the segments are unrolled, wound onto a roller and nailed at the edges with staples.It is important that the beginning of winding each new ring is indented from the previous one by an arbitrary step. The rings are placed close to each other.

To further diversify the texture of the bamboo, you can apply a little hot glue to the seams between the edges of the hose rings. Since hot melt adhesive is a difficult material to work with, the relief obtained with its help will most likely need to be modified with a knife, cutting off the excess.

How to make bamboo texture using a roller

A thick layer of finishing putty is applied to the wall.

On top it is covered with a stretch film or a very thin polyethylene film intended for covering furniture when performing painting work.

A roller is rolled over the putty through the film from top to bottom in one pass. You should try to keep the roller vertical. You can rest its end against the rule so as not to be beveled to the side. The next line is drawn overlapping the outermost strip of the previous pass.

After the putty has dried, the relief is tinted with mustard or straw-colored paint.

It is applied with a brush to paint over all the indentations. The second layer needs to be applied with pearl paint, but with a regular roller to paint only the relief. Then, until it dries, rub the paint with a brush.

To create an overflow, you need to tint the bamboo in places with a semi-dry brush slightly moistened with the background paint of the first layer. Then the strokes are rubbed with a wrung out pearlescent roller. If you need to work out the relief even more carefully, then the nodes can be slightly shaded with brown paint using a thin artistic brush.

With this roller you can make a bamboo-like relief not only using finishing acrylic putty, but also cheaper gypsum putty. This provides significant savings. The texture of bamboo is not so demanding on the material it compacts.