Painting in the house allows you to create home comfort, as well as an atmosphere that complements the style and interior. If the drawings on the wall are made with your own hands, then they will be more beautiful and original than purchased options.
You don’t have to be an artist like Albrecht, the main thing is to remove doubts, choose a material and technique for decorating walls, creating paintings and start working. In addition, photos and videos on the Internet with the presented master classes will allow you to create the most unusual drawings for home.
Looking for an idea for a painting
You shouldn’t expect that inspiration or an idea will come on its own, this option is not suitable, you need to look for a way out and a method of decorating the house yourself. It is recommended not to initially look at how paintings are created online, but to try to trust your instincts. Having made several options that will be written down on the sheet, something will appear. To create paintings, a family, a child, the main desire can be brought into the house, and even concrete walls will look beautiful with a painting.
In addition, it is free, especially when using improvised materials. To create paintings, you can use more than just a brush and paint; coffee beans, varnishes, buttons, a combination of products, kanzashi or quilling are suitable. If the style of the apartment is antique, then it is recommended to use black and white photos for paintings or use old letters, glue dried flowers and photographs onto the canvas.
Knowing what you want, you select it required technology design of the painting and the right material. Mothers can use drawings of what their children did when they were in kindergarten and make a panel. Such a pattern is priceless; it can decorate not only children’s rooms, but also the parents’ bedroom. It is recommended to make an art book for the corridor. To simplify it, you can download the Archage program and use it to create the desired image for the walls.
Paintings made of fabric and paper, master class
Making a painting with your own hands from scrap materials is very simple; fabric and paper are often used for this. In addition, you can use not a whole piece of fabric, but only a scrap, different types textiles look good and complement each other in an unusual way. If there is a large pattern on the fabric, then it is recommended to create several paintings at once, but place them as one pattern. In other words, use a modular drawing scheme. You will need to hang them at a distance and make each canvas the same size. This cladding adds charm.
The decoration is made from scarves, satin material is used. This material is best used on children’s walls to create a fabulous decor. Scarves are used for Provence style. For a fabric painting, cardboard or plasterboard is used, on which the material is stretched; you can press the fabric with a nail or staples. Step by step you can make a picture from fabric with tulle or curtains like this:
- Select the size and material. It is better to use blue colors or white.
- Next, the fabric is cut into ribbons of different widths.
- The decorative material is applied to the canvas in a chaotic manner, after which all the scraps can be glued.
- The remaining glue is blotted off.
- The ends of the material are hidden behind the frame and secured using a nail or stapler.
Gold paint and natural materials are used:
- Cover the gypsum sheet, plastic, cardboard or board with fabric.
- Paint the template in the desired color using a roller or brush, acrylic paints.
- While the dye dries, you need to dry the rowan branch or leaves, and then stick the natural material onto the plaster.
- A gold spray paint is used to process the canvas, creating a pattern.
- After drying, the branch is removed and the drawing is ready.
Using this method you can make different compositions; you can use a butterfly, shells, roses, glass, fruit, coin and other materials. A good and creative option is fabric butterflies, which can be draped or other soft material used. This application is suitable for walls on which liquid wallpaper is applied.
To make a butterfly, you need plain and variegated fabric. It is better to use PVA for fastening; it is inexpensive but reliable. It is recommended to create butterflies of different sizes, designs and appearances so that the effect is better and the house becomes a living room. If you add another frame, the imitation will become like a full-fledged painting.
The hallway, hall or bedroom is decorated with paper paintings. The design will immediately transform, in addition, you can use newspaper, make a 3D drawing or use the technique of volumetric decoupage. Below are several options for decorating walls with drawings using different papers:
Windows and slopes can be decorated with paintings made of beads or beads, making abstractions, or with certain skills, show creativity and depict characters. For the kitchen, you can use paintings in the form of panels that resemble scales.
To create you need:
- Cut paper circles of the same size and thickness.
- Cover the OSB board or other wooden material with cut out pieces and fix it to the panel with glue or staples.
- Paint the material gold.
- This decoration is cheap and beautiful. Any fastener for a painting can be made from OBS.
Using thread you can make different drawings from paper for garlands, then secure it to the wall with nails. The wall covering looks modern, and if there is lighting, the painting in the room will shimmer effectively. If wood is used, you can cut out a geometric pattern, make a dotted pattern, or use the wood burning technique. Placed on the wall as a wooden painting family tree, the method of decoration is interesting and unusual, where the entire family will be represented, how many people there were and are in the family.
DIY interior painting ideas (video)
Coffee and seasonings for paintings for the kitchen
The kitchen is where most of the time is spent, so there must be pictures on the walls. You can decorate kitchen walls with your own hands very simply and for this you can use different materials what nature gave:
- Corn.
- Cereals.
- Coffee.
In addition you will need:
- Cardboard.
- Glue.
- Textile.
Inside such paintings you can hang trinkets or add a mirror. Pictures made from coffee beans are ideal for the kitchen. Step by step creative process manufacturing is as follows:
- Cardboard is prepared, from which you need to cut out the shape of a square or rectangle. It all depends on the shape of the future painting.
- Next, the fabric is marked and cut out, leaving allowances of 5 cm.
- The fabric material is applied to the cardboard, the corners are cut off and the material is glued. The fabric can stretch, so it is better to stretch it and paste it carefully so that the picture does not deteriorate through short time. Burlap is ideal for this task.
- To give the finishing of the painting more impact, some grains or grains can be painted before application.
- When the canvas is ready, you need to apply the drawing. To do this, coffee beans and cereals are laid out on the canvas. The final picture depends only on the artist’s imagination. You can arrange the material in any way you like.
- Having made the pattern, the materials need to be fixed in the picture. For this, glue is used, it is better to use a silicone-based one and use a construction gun, it will be faster and easier.
When the glue has dried, the picture can be hung on the wall. Even brick walls will be adequately decorated with such a picture, especially since this is a homemade copy.
Drawing for a painting
Painting is varied; when decorating the walls of a house, the easiest way would be to paint a picture. The theme can be used differently, depending on preferences and skills. Although even if you don’t have the skills, you can use a stencil and use abstractionism. Different paints are used for work:
- Oily.
- Acrylic.
- Gouache.
Canvas for paintings is used as a basis; if there is no canvas, then the walls are replaced with thick paper or wood, onto which a primer is applied. You can get inspiration in nature, looking at the autumn, forest landscape. If there is no such place for inspiration, then the picture depicts animals, fruits or vegetables, as well as any drawings. A baguette or any other convenient material is used for the frame. Without skills, it is better to find an image that you want to draw, print it and create a picture using a template.
The easiest way to apply a design to a painting is to use paint from a spray can. In this case, the base of the picture should be made of plywood or cardboard. The background is made of a different color so that the drawing in the picture does not merge with it. For example, flowers go well with gold and silver, and the sea breeze can also be depicted on a gold background. A good design move is to create three-layer paintings or modular drawings. If you have no drawing experience at all, then stickers will come to the rescue.
We create paintings from scrap materials
You can make drawings on the walls from various available materials, the main thing is the desire to create beautiful drawing Even a novice artist can do it. As available materials, you can use clay, letters, various types of covering, for example, embroidery, leather. If there is a niche in the house, you can decorate it with tiles, mosaics, or use photo wallpaper, artificial or natural materials for painting on the walls.
Advice! Also volumetric drawing on the wall it is done using plaster or putty, but in this case it is necessary to level the wall. The combination of wool, wood and leather looks good. Do-it-yourself photos of paintings made from scrap materials will help you make a choice to decorate your living room, bedroom, and even balcony.
On the wall with the fireplace, you can use brick or tiles. Here are two options for picture frames that go well without canvas, made from unedged board, just drill into the wall and hang the frames. A plasticine pattern for walls is perfect for different rooms; if desired, you can make any design using colored plasticine.
If you use polymer material, namely clay, then even a small children's room will look beautiful before and after renovation. Wood carving looks gorgeous, but it is very difficult to create drawings from a carved board without skills, so the price for such a drawing for walls is high. In addition, laser devices are used to create high-quality images. If you have money, then it’s worth decorating your living room or hall.
A fashionable look for a room with partitions, if you apply a drawing directly to the partition, it can even be by printing the picture and using a stencil, and if you have drawing skills, then use a simple pencil to create a picture on the wall. The option, as in the photo above, is complemented by a sofa and the room as a whole. Using your imagination, you can make a drawing in the form of a money tree on the wall using improvised material or a family tree.
05/19/2017 2,251 ViewsAn original handmade painting in a rustic interior
Paintings made by yourself are ideal for interior decoration, because no one can feel the spirit of the house better than the owners, perfectly emphasizing its mood with the help of appropriate details. Paintings made in various techniques, will make even a template apartment design individual, refresh a boring living room or kitchen, and fill the house with comfort and positive emotions.
- Stencils
- Modular paintings in the interior
- Photo printing
- Pictures for the kitchen made of buttons
- DIY wallpaper and panels
- Embroidery and crystals
- Paint and canvas.
- Cardboard, designer paper, magazine clippings, old photos.
- Textiles, leather, ribbons, braid.
- Glass or crystals.
- Buttons.
- Dried flowers, shells.
- Wallpaper in a frame is the easiest option for creating such a panel with your own hands. A piece of the desired shape is cut from the roll and placed in a frame. Moreover, the ornament may coincide with the pattern on the walls or differ from it. Such elements can come in a row of 2-3 pieces.
- Golden paint and a stencil or small black and white photos, stylized in an antique style, will help to revive a boring canvas in a frame. Such wallpaper pictures will fit perfectly into the living room interior.
- For a nursery, kitchen or hallway, decorating framed wallpaper with appliqués or funny themed stickers is suitable.
- Wallpaper can become the basis of a modular picture; products with patterns look especially good against the background of plain walls. The pattern and color of wallpaper in each segment may differ from neighboring ones, as well as the size of the modules.
Delicate, exquisite paintings from beautiful wallpaper will decorate the wall of a home or public space
Dark blue dining room decorated with wallpaper patterns
A small picture of patterned wallpaper in a light frame
The stylish bright interior of the living room is decorated with a picture of patterned wallpaper
Unusual bathroom decorations
You can create an impressive home decor element with your own hands
Bright modern interior with a large abstract painting
Golden arrows in a frame - simple and original
A bright painting with an abstract plot can become an original interior accent
A stylish interior is not necessarily associated with huge financial costs, because you can decorate it with accessories created using available materials and priceless imagination.
Pictures with photo printing will easily and simply decorate a modern interior
A bright picture with photo printing will decorate a modern kitchen
Picture frame: where to start?
The main condition for creating a masterpiece is inspiration. It’s better not to copy someone else’s work, but to try to feel the mood of your own home, imagine what is missing in the interior, what could highlight its advantages. It is better to write down any thoughts and sketches in a separate notebook - they may come in handy when creating a painting. Think about where the future work will hang - in the living room, kitchen, bedroom.
An interesting poster will decorate a Scandinavian-style bedroom
A simple “lip print” is a creative interior decoration
A child’s bright drawing, framed, will decorate his room.
Interior in Art Nouveau style with a bright large abstract painting that you can paint yourself
This handmade masterpiece will be a worthy decoration for your home.
Having decided on the style, you can begin to select materials for the future work:
Advice! Don't throw away old children's drawings, scraps of fabric, magazines, jewelry - all this can become part of the picture. Store them in a separate box, periodically reviewing and arranging them together.
A spectacular picture made of shells will become a chic decoration for your home.
A colored modular painting can successfully hide a TV
A painting can be made from a printed macro photo
Any item can become the basis for a handmade masterpiece
DIY paintings: painting with paints
The easiest way to create an original painting for your interior with your own hands is to paint it. The subject is limited only by the imagination of the creator. Even if you have no artistic skills, you can create a masterpiece: use abstract techniques, study master classes and photos of finished works.
To create an original painting, minimal painting skills are required.
Abstraction is always in trend
The spectacular combination of colors in the painting will attract the attention of household members and guests.
A simple but very attractive picture
A simple abstraction is suitable for a fusion style interior
Oil, watercolor, and acrylic paints will become faithful assistants in creating paintings for the interior. As a base, you can use either professional canvas or regular thick paper or a primed board. You can draw inspiration from nature if there are picturesque places near your home. If you are unlucky with either the location or the weather, feel free to draw your household, pets, fruit compositions - whatever. The accuracy of the reproduction of reality does not play any role, the main thing is to approach the process with soul.
You can order a frame for your work at a framing workshop, where it is easy to find a suitable edging option.
Creation technique abstract painting using paints
Stylish interior in turquoise tones with a rectangular diptych painting in the primary colors of the bedroom
Stencils
Using paint in a spray can, it is easy to apply an image through a stencil. It is better to take plywood or very thick cardboard as the basis for the picture. The background paint should be different in color and effect from the color of the drawing. For example, colored patterns on a gold or silver field look original. You can make several pictures of the same size and arrange them into a single piece, similar to modular paintings, which will decorate the wall in the living room.
Advice! Instead of paper stencils, use dried leaves and herbs in interesting shapes.
A painting created using a stencil. Fun and cheerful!
Using a simple flower or tree leaves can create a unique canvas
New Year's painting made using a “deer” stencil
Openwork paper napkins can be an excellent stencil.
Modular paintings in the interior
Modular paintings look very original and give the interior a mysterious depth. They represent an image divided into several canvases, often asymmetrical. You don't have to be an artist to create such a masterpiece.
To make a modular painting with your own hands, you need to find a suitable image - it can be a beautiful old photo, landscape, still life, abstraction, and print it in a photo workshop on paper or fabric.
Bright, creative modular painting
Modern living room with a large modular painting
Original modular painting with a picture of a bicycle
All that remains is to cut it into segments and fix them on a suitable base. The paper can simply be carefully glued onto a base made of plywood or fiberboard, and the canvas can be stretched onto a wooden frame and secured on the reverse side with a stapler.
Advice! When painting an interior painting yourself, the image is applied on top of already prepared modular segments. The canvas can be replaced with any suitable fabric, painted with batik paints. It is better to paint on paper blanks with acrylic or waterproof markers.
Modular painting with photo printing of flowers in the bedroom
Modular picture with a world map in the nursery
A modular bright painting depicting beautiful flowers will decorate the living room
Modular paintings are suitable for almost any room: from the kitchen to the living room, but it is important to select the appropriate images. If you don’t have any time to create a masterpiece with your own hands, then we have good news for you - today you can buy modular paintings in any specialty store or on the web.
Photo printing
The technical side of the issue is taken care of by a photo workshop, which can print a suitable image on almost any basis: canvas, paper, ceramics, etc. These can be ordinary posters with an image interesting places, people, ornaments.
Advice! A poster is not just a picture, it must convey a certain idea, correspond to the interior, the theme of the room and the character of the owners of the house.
For the loft style, paintings using photo printing are popular
Black and white photos in white frames as an alternative to paintings
A small bedroom in gray tones will be decorated with a black and white painting in a black frame
If the poster is large-format, you can divide the image into several segments and, when combined into a single canvas, play with the joints, making something similar modular picture.
If there is a child in the house, then you can scan his drawings and, choosing the ones that match the color and shape, make a collage out of them. Such a poster can be complemented by a photo of the artist himself. All that remains is to print the poster and place it in a frame that matches the color and style of the nursery’s interior.
Collage of old and new family photos You can hang it as a picture in the bedroom or living room, and posters depicting the corresponding paraphernalia and fruits are suitable for the kitchen. Finally, it is worth noting that it is recommended to choose posters and panels for the kitchen in rich and bright colors, however, no one forbids you to go against the rules and create a stylish monochrome kitchen design.
Paintings using photo printing are very popular in Art Nouveau interiors.
Small black and white photographic paintings are also suitable for a cozy, bright bedroom.
Atmospheric modular painting from photography
Textile paintings for interior
From all kinds of scraps, fabric with beautiful patterns, ribbons, braid or lace, you can create real masterpieces in the patchwork style with your own hands. Fabric paintings are most often made using the appliqué technique. The basis is taken of dense textiles with discreet and inconspicuous patterns (stripes, polka dots, etc.), and the main elements are cut out from bright shreds.
You can create real masterpieces from fabrics of different colors
Bright modular textile painting under glass
Original wall decoration with fabric paintings
Most often, kitchens and children's rooms are decorated with textile works, since these rooms are characterized by a certain simplicity present in the appliqué. From felt, flannel and other fabrics that hold their shape well, you can cut out fruits, animals, cars, and houses. You can safely combine different textures and patterns on fabrics, use braid, decorative cord, and buttons for decoration. For the living room, you can make a textile picture from crinkled silk with abstract patterns.
Unusual textile paintings made of bright fabric in the nursery
Interesting textile modular picture at the head of the bed
Pictures for the kitchen made of buttons
Using buttons with your own hands you can create original paintings, by sewing or applique method. This type of fittings is often used to depict leaves on trees. Buttons can be glued in an original way inside any outline, for example, the silhouette of a butterfly or cat. In sewing stores you can pick up details various forms, colors and materials and lay them out like a mosaic according to a pre-prepared pattern. Such button creations will fit perfectly into the kitchen, however, they can also be used for the living room and bedroom.
Advice! Buttons can be glued around the perimeter of the picture frame, giving it individuality.
An unusual picture created using a variety of buttons
Original painting with a bright heart made of buttons
DIY wallpaper and panels
Often, after renovation, large pieces of beautiful wallpaper remain, which are useful for making unusual interior paintings.
DIY interior paintings: embroidery and crystals
Many people are fond of embroidering pictures, and in handicraft stores you can find a variety of patterns and kits for creating masterpieces. You can embroider the canvas with beads with your own hands or try your hand at laying out mosaic paintings. The latter are made using diamond technology, that is, by laying out rhinestones. This process is quite labor-intensive and requires perseverance and accuracy, but the result exceeds all expectations. You can use either a full lay-out technique or a partial one, where crystals cover individual areas of the canvas.
Very stylish picture made of fabric accessories
Original wall decoration for Halloween
Leather paintings, quilling paintings and collages
You can create amazing collages from photographs, clippings, book pages and sheet music. Depending on the theme of the images, the paintings can decorate the living room, bedroom or any other room.
Bright unusual picture handmade
You can also do three-dimensional paintings from leather or cardboard, use decoupage and quilling techniques, paintings, paintings from coffee and even crafts from pasta.
A painting using the quilling technique will decorate a child's room
To create such a picture you will need a lot of patience and time.
Unusual paintings made from wooden blocks
Fusion style interior with a variety of small handmade paintings
From thick colored paper, textiles and foam rubber you can create creative multi-layered images with curved space. Finally, it is worth noting that when choosing a frame for a masterpiece created by yourself, you can choose the simplest frames. They can also be decorated at your discretion using various decorative materials.
Handmade paintings will perfectly complement any living space design. Of course, who can feel and emphasize the mood of a house better than its owners? Made using a variety of techniques, such details will make even a standard design special, transform a simple kitchen or living room, inspire rainbow emotions and bring coziness.
Abstraction
Do you have a lone chair in a rich lemon color in your room? Support the accent with a laconic picture painted yourself!
We are witnessing the triumph of abstract art, and in most galleries we encounter canvases that seem to have come from the brush of either a child or a dolphin. So if the difference is not significant, why not try writing your own creation? Drawing classes bring incredible pleasure, and the result simply cannot be bad or wrong!
A simple and elegant option is a gradient image. You don't need instructions to play it. Take a few minutes of your time, stock up on a roller or brush, two paints (main and white) – a few movements, and the bright accessory is ready.
Draw broken horizontal stripes; they will resemble visualized sound waves or complex graphs, and therefore will always be interesting to examine. Golden foil or paint will help to dilute the severity of the lines. You can leave empty spaces, and strokes should be done in one motion. It is best to combine gold with a white background, as well as contrasting rough materials - concrete or brick.
In general, images can be anything. It is not necessary to draw something intricate - even children's blots, circles and triangles, diamonds and waves will become real poetry if you select the right colors.
Wood paintings
Natural materials are at the peak of popularity. Small wood pictures or huge panels will complete current modern interiors in loft, modern, eco, country, and rustic styles.
As a base, use thin dried boards made of natural wood or light panels, for example, plywood. Decorate the bars with stencils, garlands, crystals, paint them or give them a fancy configuration.
Panels made from wood cuts will help bring the atmosphere of a fresh forest into your home. Sketch out a sketch and get to work. It is best to select elements of different textures and sizes - this will add naturalness to the composition. Sand the sides that will be adjacent to the base and fix the bars, leaving the front parts in relief. Fix the finished result with glue and varnish for brightness and better preservation.
String art
Carnations and threads are not the most romantic and cute items at first glance, but you can use them to make very cute crafts. A composition from this non-standard tandem will become an original decor for the room. You are unlikely to find such a picture on someone else - after all, you made it yourself.
Consider creating a product that says “OK.” The basic materials for its manufacture you will need: light wooden board or plywood 50x50 cm; white paint; roller or brush; sketch; small carnations; threads for knitting or embroidery of different shades close to each other; sticky tape; pencil.
If the wood background is uneven, sand it with sandpaper. Apply the paint in long strokes twice. You can vary the sketch yourself or find it on the Internet and print it, group the sheets with tape. Cut the edges with scissors. Place the stencil on a dry board and secure with adhesive tape. Drive the nails into the dotted areas, starting from the top edge. Important point– they should be approximately at the same height level and create parallel straight lines. Carefully remove the template and any remaining pieces of paper.
It's time to start weaving. To understand where to start and where to lead the thread, refer to the sketch. Tie the silhouette of the letters with black thread. Wrap the first carnation twice and make a knot, and cut off its tip. Each thread will be located in the middle of the nails. Stretch the thread and continue to outline the image, making one turn around each nail.
When you have completed the letters, move the thread away from the last nail and wrap it around the other nails. The point is that there is no clear order of nails here, choose the path of the thread randomly. When one color runs out, take another, but similar shade. Finally, fill the void inside the letter “O” and mount the finished composition on the wall.
Pictures from wallpaper
Many beautiful wallpapers with intricate patterns are so expensive that it is easier to glue banknotes instead. We won’t go that far, but using wallpaper as a spot decoration is a completely rational compromise. Moreover, the beautiful patterns in large quantities may ripple, but we will carefully avoid these potential troubles.
So, patterned wallpaper itself is a finished canvas, so it is enough to place it inside spectacular frames. It’s good if the design and individual colors echo other interior details. Look for sales of leftover wallpaper; one roll will still be enough. Moreover, you can purchase several types of this material to create modular compositions.
Button paintings
Ordinary buttons are a very convenient material for creativity. With their help, original crafts are created by sewing or attaching with glue. This technology is universal and suitable for creating unusual paintings.
You can use the fittings to “outline” the silhouette of a letter, tree, butterfly, elephant, owl or any other object you can think of. In a sewing accessories store, select buttons in different configurations and colors, and at home, lay them out on a template and fix them on the prepared base. Cheerful works will be a wonderful and somewhat ironic addition to the design of a kitchen, living room or nursery.
Textile
Another extremely easy idea for a quick painting - take interesting scarf or a piece of fabric with a suitable pattern and cover it with a wooden board. Textiles are fastened with flat buttons or small nails.
You can cut out individual intricate elements from thick fabrics such as flannel or felt. Combine different textures, use thematic details - lace and braid, buttons.
Handicrafts will look best in the kitchen or nursery, as well as country-style rooms, which are characterized by cozy simplicity. Calm motifs are suitable for the bedroom.
Stencils
Using stencils, you can easily apply images to any surface. Thick cardboard or plywood are best suited as a base. To make the background look harmonious, you need to fill it with a shade that is contrastingly different from the color of the picture. Clear gold or silver patterns on a white background look very original.
Compositions applied using paint can be monochromatic or multi-colored. You can use flowers and leaves or a lace napkin as a stencil. Also use stick-on stencils, they will add volume to your painting.
Prepare the base and fill the background with paint if desired. After this, holding the stencil, carefully paint over the empty areas.
When the paint is dry, remove the pattern or move it and apply the next pattern using this or another pattern.
Photo printing, framed quotes
The most realistic picture is, of course, a photograph. To make your photos look intricate, frame them in spacious mats and hang them like an exhibition in a fashion gallery. Such an installation will be great addition to the long hallway.
Another way to hang pictures is to create a structure from fasteners and cords. Use paper clips instead of frames.
You are probably aware that photographs can be enormous in size. Contact the nearest printing house or photo studio and print out photographs of your child, sea coast, rare black and white photographs or a photo of an ordinary light bulb; in shades of gray it will look very stylish.
Ironic and motivational quotes are at the peak of popularity. Print several of your favorite sayings at once in a current elongated font and place them in laconic contrasting frames “for solidity.” Framing will give additional meaning to each word.
Eco paintings
In modern design, eco-style occupies one of the first positions in demand. Naturel is made from both living and dried plants. Vertical gardening systems, panels of succulents and stabilized moss will help revitalize the interior.
To dry leaves and flowers, use an iron, press or oven. In summer, you can even dry the parts in the open air. If you want to get a voluminous herbarium, use express drying, so the vegetation will retain its natural shape. Place the most impressive exhibits one at a time. Iron the sheets between the layers of non-woven fabric and sandwich them between two panes of glass. The decor will look as if it was suspended in the air. The beauty of a herbarium is that it is easy to make yourself and update over time.
By the way, real masterpieces can be created from dry and fresh objects of botany research. It will not always be possible to attach them so that they look as grandiose as you intended, and therefore it is best to try to make something simpler or take a photo of the applique and print it. For inspiration, we selected several photographs of the work of the creative family tandem of Vicky and Brooke, who lay out unusually beautiful floral portraits from flowers and stems - by the way, without a drop of glue, and therefore they only record their work on cameras for calendars and other souvenirs.
Good day everyone. Recently I went to visit a friend and saw on her wall beautiful picture made from sequins. I really liked it and I wanted one too. I went to the store, looked at the pictures, at the prices. It turned out to be a little expensive. Then I decided to make a painting with my own hands, the kind that I need and without spending a lot of money. I want to show you what I did.
To make it I needed:
- Styrofoam of the required size or cardboard covers.
- Ruler.
- Wallpaper.
- Knife.
- Scissors.
- Glue (VPA, moment).
- Sequins.
- Beads.
- Pencil, felt-tip pen.
- Free time, patience and imagination.
I saw the pictures difficult work, but since I have no experience, I decided to do something simpler first. And so, I took polystyrene foam (refrigerator packaging, although a cardboard box will do). Using a ruler and pencil, I drew a square of the required size and, armed with a knife, cut it out.
Then I covered it with wallpaper. You can take plain wallpaper (or fabric of any texture). I chose one with a not bright pattern.
The next step was to apply the selected pattern. I wanted to draw a couple in love, since the day before was Valentine's Day. First, I penciled the sketch onto the canvas, and then outlined it with a black felt-tip pen for better visibility.
If you have problems with drawing, you can transfer the drawing you like using carbon paper. I took the subjects of the paintings from the Internet.
Taking glue and sequins, I began to glue them one after another end-to-end on all the competition lines, except for the thin lines on the face (lips, eyes, eyebrows, ears).
I glued beads to the thin lines in the same way.
This is how the picture turned out. I really liked it, so I decided to make two more paintings with different drawings.
Here is another small painting made from cardboard using sequins.
Despite the fact that the sequins are black, they shimmer beautifully when the sun hits them. With such paintings you can decorate not only the living room of your home, but also the bedroom or kitchen. They will a good gift to relatives and friends for any occasion. You just need to choose the desired subject for the picture.
Goodbye, see you again.
Paintings were once a luxury available only to the wealthy. Today everyone can decorate their interior with paintings. There is no need to buy them at all. Using available materials and rich imagination, you can make a dozen paintings, even if you are not Modigliani.
1. Geometry
- Geometry is an extremely popular pattern in interior decor today. And it's not difficult to draw. Having drawn the canvas into squares, and the squares into triangles (we color the latter as the heart desires), we get a fashionable, stylish and bright picture.
2. Prints
- By playing with color contrasts and using natural “stamps” or stencils (for example, fresh flowers), you can “paint” unique canvases that will definitely be in a single copy. Try to print asters on a white canvas with rich colors - the result will pleasantly surprise even connoisseurs of high art.
3. Stencils
- Any branch can become a stencil for your future painting. Place it beautifully on the canvas, fill the canvas with spray paint, and remove the stencil. And don’t tell anyone where such luxury is sold.
4. Fabrics
- However, who said that a picture needs to be painted? A piece of beautiful fabric will not hurt your wallet and will become a cozy addition to the interior of a nursery or kitchen, where simplicity is always valued. To decorate the living room, choose more expensive fabrics - for example, silk or velvet.
5. Buttons
- Where there are fabrics, there are buttons. In general, buttons are a grateful material. And they are inexpensive, and the decorative possibilities are wide - they can decorate both a dull rag bag and a boring interior. And a picture with a button heart will melt the very heart of absolutely everyone.
6. Wallpaper
- Similar to fabrics, wallpaper can act as paintings. It would be good if there were several such paintings in a row. A lone piece of wallpaper in a frame looks strange, to say the least. Ornaments and floral prints look great against plain walls.
7. Threads and nails
- Threads stretched over nails look extremely impressive, although it is difficult to imagine more incompatible things. Nevertheless, the paintings from them turn out to be masterpieces. The trend even has a name - string art.
8. Modules
- Any “doodles” and abstractions, divided into modules, will look fashionable. Cover several picture frames with fabric, place them next to each other to form a single canvas, give them a few careless strokes of the brush, separate them and hang them on the wall.
9. Beans
- You can use natural materials in your creativity, including food, such as beans. Before gluing the beans, color the sketch of the future picture with paints. Choose a simple plot, use beans in contrasting colors.
10. Branches
- Nature is rich in materials that are widely used in creativity. Dry branches have more than once become the heroes of crafts. We suggest attaching pre-painted dry branches to the back of the frame. What then? All! The picture is ready. Looks no weirder than most paintings world size.
