How to do a coconut palm!

[saruxaxa]

Hi guys! I´m very busy with a lot of proyects these days and I can´t update you sorry.

Today I´ll show you how to do a coconut palm (soon you see the final result with the miniature)

The coconut palm its very simple to do.

MATERIALS:

• Paper
• A mix of school glue and water, over both sides of the paper, just for make the paper more resistant and easy to paint
• green putty
• magic sculp (for de coconuts)
• A tree branch that looks like the coconut trunk

Firs of all do the mix of glue and water and put all over the both sides of paper.
Later cut a palm leaf

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As you can see the palm leaf are large and long.​

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On the back side I make a little structure that seems very close to the palm leaf. This is very important, because If you dont do properly, the leave don´t have strength enough to stand up in the tree.

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I start to make the cuts of leaf shreds. Watch closely, If you don´t make this pattern, the leaf will looks unnatural.

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The final result

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I pick this branch from a park. It fells to me a coconut palm, what you think?​

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This is how will look once you finished the process.​

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you have to bend the branches naturally, in other way the will look death and lifeless​

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I sculpt some coconuts, and glue to the palm.

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What you think of my discovering? I was very worried about how to do the palm, because they are for a very important proyect of mine. I´m very glad of the result!! As always, let me your thoughts on the comments!

 

[Milosh]

That looks really good and the branch is perfect. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Yuggoth]

I think it looks good but it could be sturdier if you used gardening wire instead of / or in addition to the greenstuff. Also, you can use masking tape for the leaves to speed up the glueing process.