Modular paintings first appeared in ancient Greece and are widely used in interior design today. With their help, you can emphasize the original and stylish look of any room, as well as reveal the depth of the selected image. Only at first glance it may seem that the production do-it-yourself modular paintings from wallpaper- a difficult task. A simple master class will help you master this type of art and feel like a real designer.
How to make a modular painting yourself
Before you begin creative interior decoration, decide on the image itself. You can choose landscapes, still lifes, complex and simple thematic compositions, it all depends on your preferences. It is not recommended to use portraits, as the face will be separated and will not look very beautiful.
Now you need to determine what size your paintings will be and on which wall they will be located in the interior. The easiest way to do modular paintings on your own - take the drawing to a studio that does professional printing. If you can draw or have the right equipment at home, you can do all the work at home.
Master class: preparing the basis
It is important not only to choose the right image, but also to design it in an original way. You can use foam, bamboo or wooden sticks. Frames for modular paintings in many master classes are made from cardboard, paper, plastic, thread and other materials.
When the image is ready, it is cut into pieces and stretched onto the prepared frame. It is better to make modular paintings from fabric or photo wallpaper, it all depends on your patience and creative ideas.
Master class: frame upholstery
The advantage of modular paintings with your own hands, in contrast to photo wallpapers, is that you can remove them at any time, and you won’t have to do the repairs again.
It is best to choose paintings that match the style of the interior, because there are a lot of illustrations, which means you will be able to realize any creative ideas, especially if you know how to draw.
Photo of the finished modular wallpaper painting
Interesting video: How to make a modular picture from wallpaper
Lots of useful information on how to do it DIY modular paintings from wallpaper master class, you will find in step by step videos, where experienced needlewomen turned ordinary illustrations into real masterpieces of art. Show your imagination and decorate the interior of your apartment or country house at minimal cost.
Choosing modular paintings will allow you to create a special interior style. A series of several elements merges into one composition - it looks alive and dynamic. By choosing to make modular paintings with your own hands, you can express your individuality. The master class will help you quickly master the basics, and you will become the owner original item decor.
What are modular paintings
A modular painting is several canvases that are combined into one composition.
There are many options for the arrangement of elements:
- symmetrical arrangement in the horizontal plane;
- displacement and asymmetry horizontally and vertically;
- mixed vertical-horizontal;
The most popular are variations with symmetrical and asymmetrical offsets - they literally change the space of the room. It’s amazing how using this design technique you can achieve a visual increase in space. This is very important for arranging the interior of a small room.
Depending on how many parts it consists of big picture, are distinguished by:
- diptych – 2 canvases;
- triptych – 3 canvases;
- polyptych - more than three canvases.
There are no strict rules for interior design using modular paintings. In addition, with the current capabilities of printing, you do not need to be an artist to make such a composition with your own hands. Isn't this a challenge for a truly creative person?
How to do it yourself
The material that can be taken as an image can be selected depending on the availability of finances and wishes.
Options for canvas with images:
- fabric with a bright, clear print, such as flowers;
- photo or picture printed on a printer;
- favorite version of wallpaper with photo.
The choice of frame depends on the chosen base. A master class on making such paintings will help you create an interior masterpiece.
Master class made of fabric
Materials:
- fabric with a plot or ornament, a printed image or wallpaper with a photo design;
- base: wooden slats 50x20 and plywood, fiberboard or polystyrene foam;
- PVA glue;
- scissors;
- pencil, chalk or soap;
- centimeter;
- stapler for furniture.
Step 1. Preparing the base
Depending on your budget, you can buy a ready-made canvas base or make one yourself. The first option is suitable for those who are inspired to paint a picture. For the first experiment, it is better to make a triptych - three elements, for which we prepare three bases. From slats and pieces of plywood you can quickly build a base for a modular picture. To do this, we connect wooden slats into a frame, cutting off the ends at an angle of 45 degrees. They can be stapled or glued.
For strength, we attach plywood triangles (with 10 cm legs) to the corners of the frame from the wrong side. As a lining, you can stretch a neutral-colored fabric over the frame, securing it with a stapler.
It is much easier to use pieces of fiberboard as a base; you just need to process the base along the edges. If you choose the option of wallpaper or a printed image, then you can choose a very simple and light base - polystyrene foam.
Step 2. Attach the canvas to the base
Before cutting out segments, plan well and mark the cut locations using the “measure twice and cut once” principle. The size of the fabric should take into account the folds on the reverse side. We fix the fabric on the stretcher with a furniture stapler, attaching the staples from the wrong side of the work. It is important to stretch the fabric evenly without forming folds. We fasten the long side first, and then the short one.
Printed versions can even be glued to thin foam ceiling tiles using PVA glue.
Many people, instead of wallpaper with a photo, order a print of the picture they like from numerous printing services. You don't need to be a master to do this, however, when printing you need to think about making several separate elements with overlapping designs. This way you maintain the integrity of the overall picture.
Step 3. Place the paintings
At this stage, you need to figure out a place where you will hang your composition, as well as a way to position the canvases relative to each other. For mounting, you can choose ordinary small-format furniture hangers. If the paintings are mounted on stretchers, then they can be fixed with screws that are screwed into dowels and protrude slightly from the wall.
Extremely interesting are the arrangement options where one of the panels are offset in an interesting way. An element that is deliberately shifted in “flight” as if by a blow of wind looks unique.
The master class will give you an understanding of the main points of creating a modular painting. You can safely experiment with the materials of the canvas itself and the base, choosing what you have available. For the first tests, even pieces of drywall or foam plastic, on which pictures from a printer or rectangles from wallpaper are pasted, will do. When you practice simple materials, you can make more complex compositions for interior decoration.
DIY modular paintings for the interiorIt’s not difficult to make paintings for the interior with your own hands if you creative person. You can draw or embroider pictures.
Since ancient times, paintings have been decorating the interior. Use portraits, landscapes, still lifes. Paintings play an aesthetic role in the interior and give it a finished look.
Back in Ancient Greece paintings consisting of several parts, united by a common style of execution, unity of color and compositional structure - the so-called modular paintings - were valued.
In modern interiors, modular paintings are becoming increasingly popular and fashionable. Such pictures speak of delicate taste!
Modular paintings like work of art write on natural canvas with acrylic or oil paints, and also use direct printing on natural material. Then the finished picture is cut into parts (modules) of the same or different sizes.
Each module is stretched onto a wooden subframe.
Parts of modular paintings are placed on the wall next to each other so that the original image is obtained.
Division into modules will give the picture special expressiveness.
I really like such modern modular paintings in the interior.
More recently, on social media. I saw an album of panels on foam plastic on networks. This technique is very popular now in Europe.
I had the idea to create modular paintings on foam plastic with my own hands. I chose a picture on the Internet, copied it, divided it into parts into graphic editor, each part was enlarged to the size of a standard printed sheet and printed on a color printer.
Now you need to take pieces of foam plastic, you can even use ceiling tiles, and cut out rectangles of the desired size with a sharp knife.
Glue the parts of the painting onto the surface of the foam plastic with PVA glue. Side surfaces Decorate the foam with strips of paper of a matching color. Glue a loop on the back side of the foam.
That's all - the modular painting with your own hands is ready! All that remains is to find a suitable place for it in the room, hang it on the wall and admire it!
If you don’t have a color printer, you can buy a beautiful poster and make these blocks out of it. And let the husband find the foam))
Such panels can be made on foam plastic different forms and sizes, use pictures, wallpapers, photographs, pieces of fabric, knitted compositions.
For those who take a lot of photographs, you can order large photos, and create a wonderful module.
DIY paintings and panels will be a wonderful interior decoration!
In general, this image was downloaded to my phone as a technical task:
I was not limited in any way in the materials, strictly setting only one condition - “that it be beautiful.” Therefore, in fits of creative pangs, I chose acrylic paints. I once painted with oil (I don’t like to use the word “paint”), but I’ve never done any serious work with acrylic. Why acrylic, you ask? Yes, I simply didn’t want to sniff solvent in the room, and also wait for layers of paint to dry. And acrylic should have saved me from some of these nuances, and it turned out to be a little cheaper than oil.
In order not to waste a lot of time and not to order separate modular canvases at exorbitant prices of the required size, we purchased at the nearest Auchan a ready-made modular painting 110 cm long with a rather mediocre photograph on it (I don’t know, but probably someone even hangs these at home). We primed each section of the painting with acrylic primer. And I started creating the background:
And then I learned Zen acrylic paints. Its plus turned out to be a minus at the same time. It dried so quickly that I did not have time to make uniform gradient transitions on the canvas. I tried to use a drying retardant, but immediately realized that this option was definitely not for me - I needed paint in every small lump different colors rub an even smaller lump of retarder on the palette. In the end, I decided to remove the retarder altogether, turned on energetic music and, in a fit of passion (in order to have time to smear the paint that had not yet dried), I began to desperately wave my brush left and right until I got something like this:
Here I have already added light outlines of the contours of the trees' faces. I marked with thinned black paint, so that in case of incorrect lines, it would be easier to correct later. At this point, my palette was overgrown with a decent layer of paint (the reason for this, of course, was the fruits and juices on the table, which periodically distracted me, allowing the paint to completely dry on the palette):
At first I tried to copy the roots and branches of the trees as in the original painting. But when I started working on small branches, I got pretty tired of constantly checking the tablet and switched to free drawing, arranging the branches as I want and as my hand takes. We create after all!
And finally it was the turn to add volume to the trees-faces. Olive, green, and ocher shades were used here. All this was periodically diluted with white and black paints to give the desired shades.
I put white highlights on top of the already dried layers. In some places, white highlights were applied to dark blue-violet spots for a more interesting effect.
Well, in conclusion, with the help of a brush, I sprayed white paint in the center of the picture in order to give the effect of the universe glowing when two loving trees kissed, and therefore not only the picture was covered with white spots, but also myself, the table, the tablet, and even the one standing next to the sofa. And finally, the picture is ready!
Having received some satisfaction from the completed work, I once again reminded myself why of all art materials I gave up paints and instead chose pencils and pastels. With these thoughts in mind, I went to wash (or rather, peel off) the acrylic from the plastic palette, and also to put myself in order.
What would you like to say about acrylic? It is good as a material for decorative work. For example, I painted picture frames with it and it dried instantly. But for creative works in my opinion, it is still inferior to oil, because... The oil can be dragged over the canvas for a long time in order to obtain the desired shade/gradient. Although you can add a retarder to acrylic, it was very inconvenient for me to use it, mixing for each shade (and somehow I didn’t want to mix the whole jar with the retarder at once). In general, it’s not an acquired taste, perhaps you just need to get used to it (acrylic).
As a result, the modular painting was solemnly hung on the wall and now pleases (I hope) the eye of everyone entering the living room:
That's all I have for now. Write about your experience working with acrylic in the comments. See you in new articles and videos.
With the development of means used by humans to exchange information, perhaps the main contemporary value, the speed of its spread has increased thousands of times. Many design ideas, before they appear in the West or in Asia, almost instantly become the property of everyone. One of the latest generally recognized trends in the design of both public and residential premises has become modular paintings, which are several separate canvases combined general meaning or a general image.
This original wall design gives the room uniqueness and successfully emphasizes artistic taste owners and becomes the object of attention of all visitors. How to make your own modular paintings will be discussed later.
Just before describing the technology for obtaining such an original interior decoration, let us dwell in more detail on their types. Currently, it is not at all necessary to master the skill of an artist in order to obtain an artistic canvas. It is enough to select a picture you like online and print it using specialized equipment on paper, fabric or other sheet materials. After this, all that remains is to cut the resulting image into the appropriate parts and secure them.
Of course, if you yourself have artistic abilities, obtaining ready-made modular paintings that have a common semantic content will not be difficult. Perhaps this could even become quite a profitable activity.
It should be noted that both modules made from parts of the same size and paintings with canvases look original in the interior various shapes and size.
The combination of vertical and horizontal modular paintings combined in one module is also advantageous.
Self-production of modular paintings
If you have no idea about the basics of making paintings, let’s look in more detail at the process of preparing the base. In order to stretch a handwritten or printed canvas, you will need several frame structures made from wooden blocks. Artists call them stretchers. Their size determines the size of the elements you use. It is worth noting that modular paintings, both self-made and industrial ones, do not have frames.
On sale in specialized stores you can meet a lot different types subframes As a rule, they are implemented with canvases already attached to them.
If you write a three- or polyptych yourself, you can use the proposed basis for your future paintings. When using printed images, the fabric must be carefully removed from the stretcher.
As a rule, fastening the canvas is done using staples from a furniture stapler.
To remove the fabric, just pull it forcefully with your hands.
If it is not possible to purchase subframes or you do not want to spend time and money on this, cash, you can make picture frames yourself. To do this, you will need slats with a cross section of 50×20, 40×20.50×25 millimeters. After planing the sides of the workpieces until smooth, saw off the parts equal length in pairs, saw the ends at an angle of 45 degrees, and connect with glue or staples 14 millimeters long. To strengthen the corner joints from the inside, secure plywood gussets in each corner - right triangles with sides 10 centimeters.
The next stage of DIY production is cutting out and fixing the paintings on stretchers. In the case of printing a picture, it is advisable to produce not one common canvas, but several separate ones with overlapping patterns. Then, when the paintings are secured and mutually positioned, the integrity of the image will be preserved.
If it is not possible to print any image or paint a picture, there is another simple, but no less expressive way - using pieces of bright patterned fabric instead of canvas. To cut, you need to place a stretcher on the fabric and cut the piece so that its edges extend onto the frame base with a margin.
After the fabric is cut, it must be secured. For this, it is best to use a furniture or construction stapler. Lay one edge of the canvas along the long side of the stretcher and secure it with staples. Then, keeping the fabric slightly taut to prevent folds and wrinkles, attach it to the opposite side of the base. The next stage is fastening to the short sides using the previously described technology.
Pay special attention to the placement of the fabric in the corners of the paintings being made. Try to avoid excessive clumping, distribute the fabric evenly, partially tucking it towards the long and short sides of the stretcher.
If there are no stretchers for modular paintings, their role can be played by a rectangular piece of plywood or chipboard. After sawing and finishing the edges, lay the piece on the fabric and cut it out.
After this, all that remains is to secure the edges of the canvas to a flat base using a stapler. As a result of all the work, you will receive an original triptych made by yourself, which will decorate the interior of your room.
The final touch will be mounting the paintings on the wall in the chosen location. And here use your imagination, because relative position The pictures in the module may be different. For fastening, ordinary small furniture hangers are quite suitable. You can hang stretchers with attached canvases directly onto screw heads protruding from the wall, screwed into plastic dowels, which are installed in holes of suitable diameter.
An example of creating modular paintings on a printed graphic base:
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