There is a new brush on the block. For Dimapur-based wedding planner and events manager Tasang Imchen, art is a fact of artistry that holds more than passion or color or forms–it is an expression of the person she can be.
Imchen has been bringing to life her artistry with the paint and the brush with a technique called ‘Decoupage’. To those new to Decoupage, it is a decorative technique of artistically combining paint, paper napkins or rice papers on nay surfaces like wood, glass, canvas, basketry, fiber, tin, cloth, cement or clay to make it into a decorative piece.
Falling in love with Decoupage, Tasang Imchen, who runs weddingpathways.com, learned the art in Thailand under a professional artist. She holds a certificate in advanced techniques. Besides, she also trained in stroke painting, clay work and jewelry making from the tourist country.
Equipping herself with skills at the unique art, Tasang started her own production under the name “Expressionlife”, a craft house on home décor and accessories. Imchen’s passion and talent was in plain sight as people thronged Ana-Ki building on Saturday, July 2, in Dimapur to witness her art and products that were on display at the official opening of her product exhibition ‘Expressionlife’.
Indeed, the exhibition was a pretty sight for onlookers. Her art does not include only painting forms and craft works, but recycled materials too.
Decoupage or Dècoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and other decorative elements. Commonly an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured papers. Each layer is sealed with varnishes (often multiple coats) until the “stuck on” appearance disappears and the result looks like painting or inlay work. The traditional technique used 30 to 40 layers of varnish which were then sanded to a polished finish.
3D decoupage (sometimes also referred to simply as decoupage) is the art of creating a 3D image by cutting out elements of varying sizes from a series of identical images and layering them on top of each other, usually with adhesive foam spacers between each layer to give the image more depth.
Pyramid decoupage (also called pyramage) is a process similar to 3D decoupage. In pyramid decoupage, a series of identical images are cut into progressively smaller, identical shapes which are layered and fixed with adhesive foam spacers to create a 3D “pyramid” effect.
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