Light paintings with their own hands. Do-it-yourself volumetric picture

The original painting, made by hand, in the interior in rustic style

Handmade paintings 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 the template design of an apartment individual, refresh a boring living room or kitchen, fill the house with comfort and positive emotions.

• stencils
• Modular paintings in the interior
• Photo printing
• Pictures for the kitchen from buttons
• DIY wallpapers and panels
• Embroidery and crystals



A spectacular element of home decor you can create with your own hands



Light modern interior with large abstract painting



Golden arrows in a frame - simple and original



A bright picture 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 invaluable 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 is better not to copy someone else's work, but to try to feel the mood of your own home, to imagine what is missing in the interior, which could emphasize its merits. It is better to put any thoughts and sketches in a separate notebook - they can come in handy when creating a picture. Think about where the future work will hang - in the living room, kitchen, bedroom.



An interesting poster will decorate the bedroom in a Scandinavian style



A simple “lip print” is a creative interior decoration



A bright picture of a child, framed, will decorate his room



Art Nouveau interior with a bright large abstract painting that you can paint yourself



Such a masterpiece, created by hand, will be a worthy decoration of your home.

Having decided on the style, you can begin to select materials for the future work:

• Paint and canvas.
• Cardboard, designer paper, magazine clippings, old photos.
• Textile, leather, ribbons, braid.
• Glass or crystals.
• Buttons.
• Dried flowers, shells.

Advice! Do not throw away old children's drawings, scraps of fabric, magazines, jewelry - all this can become part of the picture. Keep them in a separate box, periodically reviewing and arranging among themselves.



A spectacular picture of shells will be a chic home decoration



Color modular picture can successfully hide the TV



The picture can be made from a printed macro photo



Any item can become the basis for a handmade masterpiece

DIY paintings: draw with paints

The easiest way to create for the interior original painting with your own hands - write it. The theme is limited only by the imagination of the creator. Even in the absence of artistic skills, a masterpiece can turn out: use abstract techniques, study master classes and photos of finished works.



Minimal painting skills are required to create an original painting.



Abstraction is always in trend



A spectacular combination of colors in the picture will attract the eyes of households and guests



Unpretentious, but very attractive picture



A simple abstraction is suitable for a fusion-style interior.

Oil, watercolor, acrylic paints will become faithful assistants in creating a picture for the interior. As a basis, you can use both a professional canvas and plain thick paper or a primed board. Inspiration can be drawn from nature if there are picturesque places near the house. If you are not lucky with the place or the weather, feel free to draw your household, pets, fruit compositions - whatever. The accuracy of reproducing reality does not play any role, the main thing is to approach the process with a soul.

You can order a frame for your work in a framing workshop, where it is easy to find a suitable edging option.

Technique for creating an abstract painting using paints



Stylish interior in turquoise tones with a rectangular diptych painting in the primary colors of the bedroom



stencils

With the help of paint in a can, it is easy to apply an image through a stencil. As a basis for the picture, it is better to take plywood or very thick cardboard. The background paint should be different in color and effect from the color of the picture. 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 work like modular paintings that will decorate the wall in the living room.

Advice! Instead of paper stencils, use dried leaves and interestingly shaped herbs.



A painting created with a stencil. Fun and cheerful!



Using a simple flower or tree leaves, you can create a unique canvas



New Year's picture 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 picture 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 picture



Modern living room with large modular painting



Original Modular Bicycle Picture

It remains only to cut it into segments and fix them on a suitable basis. The paper can simply be carefully glued onto a plywood or fiberboard base, and the canvas can be stretched onto a wooden frame and fixed on the back with a stapler.

Advice! When writing a picture for the interior on your own, the image is applied on top of the already prepared modular segments. Canvas can be replaced with any suitable fabric by painting it with batik paints. On paper blanks, painting is best done with acrylic or waterproof markers.



Modular picture with photo printing of flowers in the bedroom



Modular picture with a world map in the nursery



A modular bright picture depicting beautiful flowers will decorate the living room

Modular paintings are suitable for almost any space, from the kitchen to the living room, but it is important to select the appropriate images. If you don’t have time at all to create a masterpiece with your own hands, then we have good news for you - today you can buy modular paintings in any specialized store or on the Web.

Photo printing

The technical side of the issue is taken over 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! The poster is not just a picture, it must carry a certain idea, match the interior, the theme of the room and the character of the owners of the house.



Pictures using photo printing are popular for the loft style.



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 picture in a black frame.

If the poster is large, you can divide the image into several segments and, when combined into a single canvas, beat the joints, making a similarity modular picture.

If there is a child in the house, then you can scan his drawings and, having chosen the ones that are suitable in color, shape, make a collage out of them. A photo of the artist himself can complement such a poster. It remains only to print the poster and place it in a frame that matches the color and style of the nursery interior.

Collage of old and new family photos can be hung as a picture in the bedroom or living room, and posters with the image of the relevant paraphernalia, 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.



For a cozy bright bedroom, small ones are also suitable. black and white photos paintings



Atmospheric modular painting from photography

Paintings for the interior of textiles

From all kinds of shreds, fabric with a beautiful ornament, 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. Dense textiles with a discreet and inconspicuous ornament (stripes, polka dots, etc.) are taken as the basis, and the main elements are cut out of bright shreds.



From fabrics of different colors you can create real masterpieces



Bright modular picture of textiles under glass



Original wall decoration with fabric paintings

Most often, kitchens and nurseries are decorated with textile works, since these rooms are characterized by a certain simplicity that is present in the application. From felt, flannel and other fabrics that hold their shape well, you can cut fruits, animals, cars, houses. You can safely combine various textures and patterns on fabrics, use braid, decorative cord, buttons for decoration. For the living room, you can make a textile picture of wrinkled silk with abstract patterns.



Unusual textile paintings from bright fabrics in the nursery



Interesting textile modular picture at the head of the bed

Pictures for the kitchen from buttons

With the help of buttons with your own hands, you can create original paintings by sewing or appliqué. Often this type of fittings is used to depict leaves on trees. Buttons can be glued in an original way inside any contour, for example, the silhouette of a butterfly or a cat. In sewing stores, you can pick up details of various shapes, colors and materials and lay them out like a mosaic, according to a pre-prepared scheme. Such works of buttons will fit perfectly into the kitchen, however, they can be used for the living room and bedroom.

Advice! Buttons can be glued around the perimeter of the picture frame, giving it a personality.



An unusual picture created using a variety of buttons



original painting with bright button heart

DIY wallpapers and panels

Often, after repairs, large pieces of beautiful wallpaper remain, which will be useful for making unusual interior paintings.

• Framed wallpaper is the easiest option for creating such a do-it-yourself panel. A piece is cut from the roll desired shape and placed in a frame. Moreover, the ornament may coincide with the pattern on the walls or differ from it. Such elements can go in a row of 2-3 pieces.
• Golden paint and a stencil or small black-and-white photos stylized antique will help to revive a boring canvas in a frame. Such pictures from the wallpaper will ideally fit into the interior of the living room.
• For a nursery, kitchen or hallway, decorating wallpaper in a frame with applications or funny themed stickers is suitable.
• Wallpaper can become the basis of a modular picture; products with drawings look especially good against the background of plain walls. The ornament and color of the wallpaper in each segment may differ from the neighboring ones, as well as the size of the modules.
  

  Delicate, exquisite paintings from beautiful wallpapers will decorate the wall of a house or public space

  

  Dark blue dining room decorated with wallpaper

  

  A small picture of patterned wallpaper in a light frame

  

  Stylish bright interior of the living room is decorated with a picture of patterned wallpaper

  

  Unusual bathroom decorations

Paintings for the interior with your own hands: embroidery and crystals

Many people are fond of embroidering pictures, and in needlework stores you can find a variety of schemes and kits for creating masterpieces. With your own hands, you can embroider a canvas with beads or try your hand at laying out mosaic paintings. The latter are made in diamond technique, that is, laid out with rhinestones. This process is quite laborious and requires perseverance and accuracy, but the result exceeds all expectations. You can use both the full lay-out technique and the partial lay-out technique, where crystals cover individual sections of the canvas.



Very stylish picture from fabric accessories



Original wall decoration for Halloween

Leather paintings, quilling paintings and collages

From photographs, clippings, book and music pages, you can create amazing collages. Depending on the theme of the images, the paintings can decorate the living room, bedroom or any other room.



Bright unusual picture, created by yourself

You can also make three-dimensional paintings from leather or cardboard, use decoupage and quilling techniques, paintings from coffee and even pasta crafts.



Painting in quilling technique will decorate the children's room



It will take a lot of patience and time to create such a picture.



Unusual paintings from wooden bars



Fusion style interior with a variety of handmade small paintings

From thick colored paper, textiles and foam rubber, you can create creative layered images with curved space. Finally, it is worth noting that when choosing a frame for a masterpiece created by yourself, you can stop at the simplest frames. They can also be decorated at your discretion using various decorative materials.

A beautiful, refined interior of an apartment is not only beautiful fashionable furniture, lamps and expensive finishing materials. Since ancient times, paintings have been one of the ways to decorate your own home. Pictures painted professional artists- it is modern, stylish, but do-it-yourself paintings made for the interior are exactly the highlight that will give the design your soul and make it more lively and interesting. How to make a picture with your own hands on the wall with the least amount of time, effort, money and without the artist's special talent, we will tell in this article.

Where to begin?

If you decide to decorate the interior of your house with your own painting, then start by looking for a source of inspiration. Any ideas, even the most artsy, abstract or completely banal, will be useful to you in the creative process. Prepare a separate box or container in which you will put things to create a picture.

Dig into your hidden creative reserves and try your hand at different genres. For example, if sewing has always been your favorite pastime, then try making a picture out of fabric. Such products have always been at the height of fashion. If you like to embroider, then make a picture for the interior using embroidery. This will be the most in a simple way to make a picture on the wall. Start with something simpler, and later on you can create small work art.

Easy wall decor idea

Making a picture of the wallpaper with your own hands is the simplest and most affordable solution for everyone, without exception, because after pasting the walls in your apartment with wallpaper, there are still unrealized surpluses of finishing material. Using fantasy and cutting wallpaper, you can glue the image of a fairy-tale castle, a hut on chicken legs, a sailboat on the wall of a children's room. The more types of wallpaper you use, the more interesting and colorful the picture will be.

You can also make an abstract picture of the wallpaper. To do this, you will need a sheet of hard cardboard of a suitable format and trimming wallpaper with the most spectacular patterns and textures. Insert the resulting masterpiece into a frame and hang it on the wall.

Important! The color scheme of the picture should be in harmony not only with the color of the wall, but also with other elements of the interior. Usually, an abstract wallpaper picture is hung in the center of a plain wall, as it can get lost against a colorful background.

Alternatively, you can insert wallpaper pieces into frames or use small candy boxes with borders for frames. The original decoration is suitable for the kitchen.

• To fix the cut out elements on the wall, use PVA glue or the like.
• If you plan to use several paintings from wallpaper in one room, then make them based on the same type of material so that similar elements are present in the decor.
• Place the manufactured product in a conspicuous place - opposite the entrance to the room. Then it will immediately catch the eye and become the main element of the interior.

How to create your own wallpaper?

Bright and eye-catching photo wallpapers are still at the peak of popularity. If you do not like any of the images offered for sale, then you can order the printing of the selected photo, drawings, and paste over one wall with the material made or decorate the interior of the room around the entire perimeter.

To make a picture on the wall with your own hands using photo wallpaper, follow these steps.

Preparatory stage

Decide on the image that you want to see on the wall and prepare the materials necessary for the creative process.

To make a masterpiece you will need:

• A printer.
• Colored ink for printing drawings.
• Paper for photo wallpapers (thick).
• High-quality glue with which you firmly stick the drawings to the wall.

Important! If you decide to make photo wallpapers from photographs, then they must have a high resolution. To adjust the resolution, use the programs BlowUP, Genuine fractals, Magnifier, etc. Poor quality paintings will be blurry and look unaesthetic, which means that the idea of ​​making a picture on the wall with your own hands will not be appreciated.

Print the wallpaper on a regular color printer using A4 paper. If you want to print large-sized drawings, then contact specialized companies that provide printing services on large-format sheets.

Painting creation

You can use the standard way to print pictures and decorate the wall in the room with them, or you can use the following options:

1. Create photo wallpaper from improvised means. Perhaps you have original pictures, as well as a large number of photos that you want to put on the wall. Using pictures and photographs, create a non-standard composition by sticking them on a wall or a separate part of it.
2. If the image for the photo wallpaper has a high resolution and the main shades of the wallpaper are combined with the style of colors rooms, then print a large format photo wallpaper and stick it on the entire wall. Such a composition can be decorated additional elements: lamps, neon lighting of the appropriate shade or frame with decorative strips, moldings.
3. Above the bed or sofa, you can stick an image from the photo wallpaper and choose a suitable frame. Get the real picture.
4. To make a three-dimensional picture, photo wallpaper can be glued to a wooden or other base.
5. To create a modular picture from photo wallpaper, visually divide the overall picture into several parts. Such a picture will look great in a modern or high-tech room.

Important! For modular paintings, use landscapes or still lifes as images. Do not use portraits, as dividing a character into several parts is unacceptable.

1. With the help of photo wallpaper, you can make a poster on the wall. The brighter and richer the image, the more interesting the picture will look.

• Before you start printing images, decide what sizes of canvases are suitable for the interior of the wall. This is especially important if you plan to hang a picture on a limited surface.
• If you have a free wall in the room, then a huge modular picture, consisting of a huge number of constituent parts. To make the composition look original, use canvases different sizes, as well as the principle of asymmetry.
• To make a picture on the wall with your own hands, take wood, thick cardboard, polystyrene, plastic and other sheet panels of various materials as the basis for modular images. Apply images to the base itself with glue. After complete drying, hang the composition on the wall.
• To make the original photo wallpaper serve you as long as possible, use a special protective film or transparent varnish. This will protect the surface of the drawing from dust and damage.

We decorate the wall with finishing materials

A wall lined with wild stone, mosaic or decorative brick looks very impressive. You can complement the interior of the room with a false fireplace made of gypsum.

An interesting way to decorate a wall is to use decorative plaster. This design has many advantages:

• Helps to hide small wall defects.
• Lasts a long time.
• Simply applied.
• As a result, you can get a variety of relief.

With the help of decorative plaster on the wall, you can create geometric shapes, various patterns. An interesting effect is obtained as a result of the use of plaster with a pearly sheen, as well as when using multi-colored plaster. Here, full scope for creativity opens up, thanks to which you can show your talent as an artist and make a very unusual picture on the wall with your own hands.

Using interior paint

One of the most beautiful ways to decorate a wall is painting. Even in ancient times, such decor was practiced in palaces and temples, and real masters decorated the walls with beautiful frescoes. The wall must be prepared for painting: puttied, primed. To create a contrasting wall, use water-based paints, and for artistic painting, use acrylics.

We offer you some ideas:

1. If a plain surface does not inspire you, then use masking tape to make it striped or checked.
2. By painting part of the wall with special multi-colored slate paints, you will turn it into a large notepad for writing.
3. With the help of artistic painting, you can decorate the interior of a nursery, living room, bedroom. If artistic skills are completely absent, then in order to make a picture on the wall with your own hands, use stencils or vinyl stickers. Stickers, if necessary, are easily peeled off the wall, and their range is diverse.
4. With the help of paints, you can make a panel. You will only need: a basis for drawing, paint and adhesive tape to distinguish between sectors on the basis. Using the tools, divide the picture into sectors and paint them with different colors.

Wall decoration with photographs, paintings and framed mirrors

Paintings and photographs fit into any style of interior - you just need to choose the right plot and baguette.

Important! There should not be too many pictures and photos, since each of them is a bright accent. Photos can be constantly changed, for example, after a joyful event in the family or after another trip. You can create both black and white compositions and color. Looks original, painted on the wall a big tree, and on the branches - family photos. The apartment with family photos in the interior has a special charm and looks very cozy and hospitable.

Use the following tips when designing:

• Do not hang pictures of the same size exactly in a row, as this looks ugly and rather boring. It is better to place a large photo in the center, and create a composition of small shots at the edges.
• When choosing photos for the interior, consider the atmosphere of the room in which they will be located, for example, romantic photos are suitable for the bedroom, shared family photos for the living room, and cheerful, cheerful pictures for the nursery.
• If you want to decorate the wall with a mirror, then choose an interesting frame for it, but remember that a large mirror can be placed in the living room, bedroom or hallway, and in the nursery, a small mirror or none at all is desirable.

Wall decoration with fabric and embroidery paintings

We will offer you some interior design ideas if you are fond of embroidery and textile crafts:

1. A composition of several paintings with different fabrics, but with a common shade of color in each of them, will look good. You can make such paintings on the wall with your own hands both from one piece of fabric, and from separate shreds.
2. From fabric with large pattern you can make several pictures and place them in one composition. In this case, the paintings must be made the same size and hung at a distance from each other. Such remoteness will give the composition a special charm.
3. You can make a do-it-yourself picture on the wall of fabric, which repeats the element of the interior with its pattern.
4. Pictures from scarves look interesting. Such decor would be appropriate in a children's room or if you decide to give preference to country styles, Provence.
5. Fabric paintings look originally stretched on hard cardboard. There is another convenience for you personally in this - over time, the composition will not lose its shape and will look as attractive as when it was created.

Master class on creating paintings on the walls

If you can’t exactly determine for yourself what exactly you would like to do or it’s hard to combine materials, we offer a few ideas with step by step instructions. Surely this will help you make an original painting on the wall with your own hands.

Idea 1 - Abstract painting from blue turquoise tulle

To make a picture, you will need: canvas, scissors, glue and trimmings of colored tulle (chiffon or nylon ribbon).

Manufacturing scheme:

1. Choose a fabric for a painting in related hues, such as turquoise or blue.
2. Cut the tulle into strips of different widths.
3. Apply the prepared strips to the canvas in random order, and then glue.
4. Blot the remaining glue with a piece of cloth.
5. Hide the ends of the strips on the back of the canvas.
6. Fasten them.

Idea 2 - Painting from natural material and gold paint

This do-it-yourself wall art is unique in that it does not require complex materials to create.

For creativity you will need:

• thick cardboard or a piece of plywood;
• cut of any plain fabric;
• a tin of paint;
• brush;
• glue stick;
• a branch of rowan or other tree;
• gold paint in an aerosol.

Registration instructions:

1. Cover thick cardboard with fabric.
2. Paint it, for example, blue with a brush or sponge.
3. While the paint dries, put the twig under a press for a couple of days so that it dries.
4. Glue the prepared branch to the fabric (there should be little glue).
5. Spray gold paint on the entire surface of the canvas.
6. Once the paint is dry, remove the twig.

Important! By using this method you can make far more than one picture on the wall with your own hands. Use paint different colors and branches of various trees to make a whole plot composition from several elements.

Idea 3 - Fabric butterflies

Fabric butterflies will be a wonderful decoration for walls with drapery, other soft finishes, as well as walls with monotonous liquid wallpaper. For the manufacture of butterflies, both plain and colorful fabric are suitable. It is better to fix soft butterflies with PVA glue.

Important! It is better to make butterflies of different sizes, colors and configurations. Then the interior will definitely not look boring. And if you frame them in one or more places in a frame, the composition will look like a full-fledged painting on the wall, made by yourself.

Paintings for the interior from crafts

On the wall you can attach various crafts from buttons, coffee beans, old newspapers. Let's take a look at some easy-to-follow ideas:

• Old newspapers look original in frames. They can decorate one wall completely or, cutting it into small strips, sticking it on a sheet of paper, cut out any figure you like and decorate the wall with it. This solution would be especially appropriate if you are decorating a living room in a retro style.
• You can use buttons to decorate the walls in your home. Take a fabric or a piece of wallpaper as a basis. Glue buttons of various colors and sizes. For the base, pick up a frame, and hang the made picture from buttons on the wall. From such small details, you can make a certain pattern or even lay out a whole thematic picture with several characters.
• The kitchen can be decorated with a mosaic or a picture made from coffee beans. For the base, you can take a fabric or a piece of wallpaper, or you can immediately glue the grains on the wall, in a previously prepared glued frame.
• You can decorate the wall with a panel in the form of scales. For manufacturing, you will need paper circles of the same size, spray paint, glue or a stapler, and for the base - chipboard or any other base. Cover the chipboard with circles and secure them with glue or a stapler. Then - using spray paint, paint all the circles in a golden color.

Decor completes the design of the home, but it also begins, perhaps, the most exciting and creative stage. In modern interior solutions, it has become fashionable to replace purchased elements with ones created by oneself. The handmade technique is becoming overwhelmingly popular. Gizmos are not only made for themselves, but also given to loved ones, and especially talented craftsmen even sell their works. If open shelves can be made with souvenirs brought from travels and cute little things (vases, figurines), then decorating the walls is sometimes confusing. Usually a layer of putty is applied to their surface, and then plaster or wallpaper. However, "solid" walls, albeit with a beautiful coating, still seem "bare" and create a feeling of incompleteness.

Unusual decoration will be paintings for the interior, made by hand. They will transform the home environment and add creative touches to the decoration of the room. The most famous and complex technique for creating paintings, which first comes to mind, is painting. The art of drawing images with paints is not for everyone, but there are a number of other options, one of which talent can wake up completely unexpectedly. Original pictures can be obtained from improvised materials: fabric, cereals, flowers, twigs, leather, beads, paper, accessories, threads. There are a lot of techniques for creating genuine masterpieces, and creative process so captivating that it will drag you into a whirlpool.

Where to start and where to look for inspiration

You are on fire with the idea of ​​creating a picture with your own hands, but you are completely lost and do not know which end to untie this knot from. Try to go into the room where the canvas is supposed to be placed. The very atmosphere of the room, its decoration should inspire the right thoughts, or at least set the vector. Choose a wall to hang the picture on. Evaluate the color scheme, textures of materials, the play of light. Close your eyes and try to draw a sketch in your mind. If you stood like a pillar in the middle of the room, but could not come up with anything, then it's time to turn to the works of other authors for help. Other people's art objects sometimes become a storehouse of interesting ideas.

Learn the technique, determine the level of complexity of the work you like, select the necessary materials. But, perhaps, the most important thing is to correctly assess your capabilities and talents as a decorator. If your level is below average, close to the initial, then it is better to test the pen on simple options. One desire is not enough, the full set also includes talent and skill. If the latter comes with time after persistent practical training, then the absence of a gift cannot be fully compensated by diligence. The muse, as you know, is a lady with character and does not come at the first call. The sacrament of her call does not involve special rites. Each person has their own sources of inspiration, but most of us draw it from nature: its smells, sounds and sights. Be it a tree, a flower bouquet, bird trills, the aroma of freshly cut grass, the play of sunlight on the windows or tentacles of mist on a morning field. This source of inspiration is inexhaustible. You can always fall for it.

Ways to create a picture

There are a lot of methods for creating paintings. Every year there are new original techniques. Popular methods include:

• Silhouette paintings;
• Glass or eggshell mosaic technique;
• Volumetric compositions;
• Pictures from beads, cabochons, shibori ribbons, crystals, sequins;
• Styrofoam images;
• Illuminated decor;
• Images from shreds of fabric, ribbons and accessories;
• Threads and cloves as a base;
• Compositions from grains, cereals and legumes;
• Eco-friendly products made from natural materials;
• Herbariums on paper;
• Embroidery.

This is a list of only popular methods, and the entire list of their names will not fit on several pages. Any material can be used different ways, and each result will be completely different from the finished composition created in another technique. Most of the work will require only scissors, a stationery knife, needles and glue. A basic set of tools can be found in every home.

Light paintings look spectacular at night, they also serve as decorative lamps. Prepare a template with a picture. Each element is cut out separately and its contours are transferred to a sheet of plastic. It is not recommended to use a completely transparent material, but a dense MDF sheet will not work either. Find an average option that will let light through. The picture should have several levels for a three-dimensional effect, so the composition of plastic parts is divided into layers. Styrofoam ribbons are laid between them. All layers are glued to each other and to the base. After drying, it is inserted into the frame. On the reverse side, a special groove for the wire is cut out in it. Then, an RGB tape is stretched around the perimeter. The groove is necessary for the output of the controller. The picture is ready to appreciate its beauty, just turn off the light and press a couple of buttons on the remote control.

Twenty years ago, these works became a new word in art. You will need a wooden base, small cloves, a hammer and thread. First, of course, you need to put a sketch on the canvas. Then carnations are hammered along its contour. The distance between them usually does not exceed 0.5 cm. The closer the carnations are to each other, the less "voids" are formed in the picture. It is advised to start with simple forms to fill your hand. Then they take the first thread, carefully fasten it and begin to wrap each carnation. Individual modules are made in different colors. In another technique, thick woolen threads are used. They begin to be glued to the base with the printed pattern. The end of the thread is attached to the center of the element and begin to wrap it around it, forming concentric circles. Finished canvases are soft, voluminous and pleasant to the touch.

Stylish silhouette paintings

Perhaps this the best option for those who can only draw flowers on the back pages of notebooks. Paintings-silhouettes are universal and look like classic styles, as well as modern ones. They are made of paper, use paints or a marker. To make such an element, it is enough to prepare the source. The sample is transferred to the canvas on its own or duplicated from the template, and then painted over. In order to get a silhouette portrait for the source from an ordinary portrait, you need to adjust the contrast settings in any simple Photoshop program.

To create eco-pictures, any natural materials are used: pieces of wood, twigs, stones, blades of grass, leaves, moss. The components are glued to a dense base and placed in a frame. Triptychs consisting of several modules look unusual and beautiful. For example, the decor is based on three colors: gray, black and purple. Take dry branches and divide each across into three parts. The lowest "bundle" is tightly fastened with a thread. It is painted purple, glued to a black canvas and surrounded by a gray frame. The next module will be slightly smaller. Inside the purple frame, the second part of the black twigs is placed on a gray canvas, which serves as a continuation of the previous composition. The last module consists of "tops". Twigs are painted grey, placed in a black frame on canvas purple. The triptych is placed vertically with an offset to one side. It is not recommended to close such a composition with glass, since its relief looks natural and organic. You can decorate a bedroom or a hall with peculiar moss paintings. Art object will bring harmony to the room, make it more peaceful.

Paperwork is represented by many techniques. In recent years, quilling has experienced a real "boom": creating images using ribbons twisted in a special way. The finished product turns out to be voluminous, and masters who have filled their hands can recreate huge canvases with precision in small details. You can also make a relief coating from papier-mâché (soaked paper pulp). The canvas is painted on top and placed in a frame. Separate elements are created from the material using the origami technique, which are then glued to the base. Modular paintings look great from small paper pieces folded into three-dimensional triangles or squares using the same technique.

For products of this type, perhaps the shortest master class. All that is required for work is the base, cereals (you can not limit yourself to legumes) and glue. A sketch of the drawing is applied to the canvas. Then its individual parts are smeared with glue, and a loose decor is applied on top of it. You can use not only chickpeas or peas, but also pasta, rice, buckwheat, coffee beans and even salt.

Foam sheets are made in two popular techniques. Both types use foam plastic solely as a base, which requires fabric to decorate. The first method will allow you to create abstractions that emphasize the features of the interior with complex geometry. Solid pieces of fabric with various patterns are applied to the foam plastic of a special shape (usually square). The canvas is cut along the edges, which are wrapped to the back of the base and fixed on it (paper clips or glue). These paintings do not need frames. Compositions from several canvases usually flaunt on the wall. Another technique - kinusaiga - will require more patience. A drawing is applied to the foam base with a pencil. Start with simple geometric patterns. Then the contour is carried out with a clerical knife. Fabric patches slightly larger than the element itself are applied to it. Their edges are pressed into the cuts with a thin, flat tool (metal ruler, nail file) so that there are no wrinkles on the surface. After a simple picture is ready, you can try more complex images with “torn” features.
It is important to know. The kinusaiga technique, as the name suggests, originated in Japan. Usually, fabrics from old kimonos, which are not customary to be thrown away, were reused in this way.

To create three-dimensional canvases, any materials that have a relief are used. However, paintings made of silk ribbons, leather and foamiran look more elegant. The better the element will keep its shape, the easier it is to compose the composition. Leather can make very neat pictures. Separate pieces of fabric are simply glued to the base, while maintaining folds for volume. Luxurious bouquets are created from silk ribbons. The advantage of the material is its pliability: it is enough to fix the fabric in a certain position with threads, and it will keep it. Some achieve volume by duplicating details. Usually paper products are made. Cut out two identical elements. Several "legs" of foam are attached to the front side of one. They are glued to the wrong side of the second similar part. It turns out the effect of volume. A similar technique looks original in flat paintings, where individual sections become accented.

Almost everyone at one time collected maple leaves in autumn parks and dried especially beautiful flowers between the pages of books. Many people forgot about the "secret" and years later, the find, accidentally falling out, reminded of the times of carefree youth. Flowers and leaves for the herbarium must be dried before the harvesting process. They are placed between layers of rice paper or napkins. The material perfectly absorbs excess moisture. Then the components of the future herbarium, surrounded by several layers of cardboard, are placed under a press. About a week will be enough for high-quality drying and leveling.

Flowers and leaves are attached to the base with decoupage glue. The composition depends only on the imagination of the creator. These can be bouquets of wild flowers, decorated with silk ribbons or abstract paintings. To keep the canvas longer, it is coated with a layer of varnish or epoxy. Decorative canvases with sakura flowers on gouache-painted branches look spectacular. A similar picture can be used to decorate interiors decorated in Japanese style or minimalism.

Painting with beads and crystals

You will not surprise anyone with products made of beads and glass beads. Jewelry from them became popular thirty years ago. For work, it is better to purchase high-quality materials, of the same size, which will help to make a neat picture. The best is the Yakut beads and Japanese tono. To create accent elements, it is recommended to use cabochons of the appropriate colors. Semi-precious and gems polished in a special way. As a result, they are convex, but with a flat base. Beaded pictures are embroidered. Instead of threads, it is better to use a thin fishing line: it is stronger and more reliable. Paintings with crystals are sold in sets. The standard set includes crystals in individual numbered bags, two types of tweezers, a tray for small parts, a special sticky bar into which a stick is dipped to press the "diamonds" to the canvas, and a canvas with an image printed on it. Each package contains instructions. The canvas is pre-coated with a special adhesive layer that perfectly holds the crystals. The latter can be round or square. More often, the canvases are solid without voids, but sometimes they create brilliant drawings-outlines of animals, birds, people against a spectacular black background. The finished work is covered with a cloth and fixed by walking with a rolling pin over the surface with effort. The main advantage of crystal paintings is that they do not fade, unlike embroidery, and will retain their original appearance even after years.

Beaded decor should also be done according to the finished scheme. It can be found on the Internet or bought in special stores for needlewomen.

Paintings on fabric

Fabric paintings are usually made from scraps. Begin work by stretching the canvas-base on the stretcher. The procedure is performed carefully, avoiding the formation of unnecessary folds. Then a drawing is applied to the canvas with a pencil. If you do not have the talent of an artist, then you can use the template. Even special sets are sold, where the canvas already has a pattern with numbered zones for individual colors. Then for work you will need scissors, threads, a needle and pieces of fabric. The shreds are cut out according to the shape of the element that they will “close” with a small margin and sewn to the base.

Conclusion

Pictures in the interior will become the center, the highlight of the situation. Originally made decor cannot be used as a background, it will attract other people's views. Having tried themselves as a decorator once, many are not limited to this and continue creative experiments. When the scale of works goes beyond satisfying a personal need for decoration, they begin to give them to loved ones, and then even sell them as author's paintings.

It is believed that painting a picture with your own hands means not only getting a stylish addition in the form of an unusual decor element, but also reflecting the individuality of the interior and your own vision of space. If you have always had an excellent score in drawing, or if you have an art school behind you, creating a canvas will not be difficult. Things will get up for small things, you just need to grab inspiration by the tail. But if you are from the category of beginners in fine arts then our advice will come in handy. This publication will discuss how to draw a picture without professional skills.

Landscape creation

The style of painting that we offer at the very beginning is more suitable for expressive natures. Arm yourself with canvas, paints and buckets. You don't need brushes. It is better if you begin to create your masterpiece in an open space so as not to stain the walls and floor with paint.

Throw out your emotions and desires on the canvas, take as many shades as you see fit, and give preference to bright colors. You can even layer applications one on top of the other. As you can see, there are not only paintings drawn in pencil and watercolor. In our case, this is one continuous expressionism, which is able to give the amateur artist both a unique experience and a stunning canvas of its kind.

Abstractionism

Since the 20th century, among the recognized masters of painting, abstractionists have always been in the forefront. Looking at their masterpieces, which are now estimated at fabulous sums, a common person may exclaim: “My little daughter draws just as well!”. And all because there are no principles. Therefore, if you do not know how to draw a picture, apply a genre called abstract art to create a canvas. What should be guided by when creating a masterpiece?

First of all, stock up on acrylics in your favorite color scheme. If there is a color in nature that you can admire endlessly, be sure to take it into service. Then complement the color spectrum with softer and darker shades. Now it remains to stock up on canvas, brushes of different thicknesses, a watercolor palette and water. Let's take into account that water in our process will play by no means the last role.

stroke technique

First, mentally break the canvas into several parts. Start applying strokes from left to right, first using the darkest shade presented in the palette. It turns out amazing in its beauty color stretching. Remember that acrylic paints are the most fertile material for an inexperienced painter.

You always have the opportunity to correct not quite successful pieces of the picture on canvas using a higher paint consistency or dilution with water. Plus, acrylic paint dries easily, so you don't have to rush. On average, it may take no more than an hour to create a masterpiece. Now you know what picture to draw, it remains to complete the design of the canvas with a beautiful frame.

Canvas frames

By the way, if you see that your canvas is self-sufficient, you can place it on place of honor on the wall even without a frame. Now any manifestations of non-standard approaches to design are relevant. Let's give one such example. But what if you put a frame on the wall separately without a picture? It turns out that you decorate the interior with a picture that does not exist!

Decorate the frame with flowers, bows, any materials at hand. What will be the decoration of the frame, the more spectacular it will look on the wall. Don't know how to draw a picture? You won't need it. Using this technique, you can decorate an entire wall, you just have to pick up a dozen frames of different sizes and shapes.

geometric patterns

For this technique, in addition to paints and canvas, you will need a regular masking tape, a pencil and a foam rubber sponge. First, create in your imagination some geometric composition, for example, a herringbone pattern adopted from a parquet board. Now arm yourself with a pencil and sketch out the places on the canvas that should remain white when finished. Cover these areas with masking tape. In this way, you will get perfectly even edges of the patterns, and you will not need to waste time outlining with a ruler. Apply the foundation of the tone to the unglued places with paint.

Now your task is to complement your masterpiece with spectacular stains. Take a sponge and dip it in any paint you want to see on the canvas. Work with a still wet base on canvas to make the streak marks look as natural as possible. Remove after complete drying. masking tape. That's all, now you know what picture to draw, even if you are not good at painting.

Photo printing

If you want laconic, strict and correct silhouettes on own picture You can seek help from professionals. Printing workshops provide their services to the public and depict a high-quality print on any surface. Photo retouching technology will create the illusion of a picture applied with black paint. Choose any image you like and transfer it to your wall in the form of an original painting.

Just do not get carried away with images of strangers staring at you from the canvas, otherwise it will turn out like in known history"Bill painted this picture." According to rumors, the boy depicted in the picture made all the owners of the canvas experience many terrible moments, so much so that they had to get rid of the mysterious canvas. So the picture wandered from owner to owner all the time. Based on this legend, more than one horror film has been created.

Therefore, the best images for a canvas with photo printing can be animals, plants, natural phenomena, as well as the most famous world attractions.

Conclusion

If you have a burning desire to create a unique and stylish decor in your interior with the help of exclusive paintings, draw them yourself. So you will more fully reflect own representation about the world, get a new hobby, show your imagination and get invaluable experience. Be sure that in no other house you will find such masterpieces anymore, because you created them with your own hands.

Self-decoration of your home is a matter of honor for masters and craftswomen who prefer an original and unique interior. Modern trends in interior decoration dictate the use of relatively modest and concise items.

Do-it-yourself modular paintings are just such minimalist types of jewelry. Their simple geometric shape, lack of frames, glass and other unnecessary details, allows you to create them yourself.

What are modular paintings

As the name implies, these decorative elements consist of several separate parts (modules), which are united by a common artistic idea and are placed on the wall in a certain order.

As a rule, do-it-yourself modular paintings from photo wallpapers or other materials, like factory products, have a certain thickness. That is, they form a three-dimensional composition. The depth of individual modules can be the same (most often) or different. In the second case, the difference in volume allows you to create the effect of a three-dimensional image.

Do-it-yourself modular paintings: types

As the main material for creating such a decor, you can use:

• wallpaper (regular or photo wallpaper);
• photos;
• colored paper;
• textile;
• canvas.

Really original are products painted by hand on paper or canvas. However, the ease of making modular paintings opens up great opportunities even for those who are far from the world of creativity. When using ready-made painted materials, the main necessary skill can be called the accuracy of a home master.

The arrangement of elements can be linear, diagonal or abstract. The shape of the modules is given completely different: square, round, arbitrary. True, the simplest for making a house still remains rectangular.

How to place finished products

When thinking about how to make a modular picture with your own hands, you should think about its placement in advance. As a rule, empty sections of walls above sofas, along stairs or between doorways need decoration and filling.

The diagram below shows various options arrangement of elements of modular paintings, which will also be useful for those who plan to place a large number of photographs or panels.

Paintings on canvas

Do-it-yourself modular paintings, created as an alternative to original canvases, imply the use of quality materials and specific technology. The canvas serves as the basis for applying the decorative layer.

Artist stores stock a wide range of different blanks, including a sturdy wooden stretcher with a canvas stretched over it. The assortment of such stores often depends on the demand for such products, so finding materials in provincial cities can be problematic. The way out is to search and buy everything you need in online stores.

The selected drawing is applied to the finished base using any available technique (oil, pastel). Such modular paintings, made by hand, are a real work of art.

In the event that the image cannot be drawn, it can be applied to the canvas using a special printer. For this task, a ready-made base with a stretcher will not work. You will need to purchase separately a canvas and a mount for it. Canvas printing is a fairly common service that many printers offer.

An important point: before you make a modular picture with your own hands, you should carefully plan the location and boundaries of each of its elements. The printed canvas must be stretched on a stretcher, which means that each element of the composition must be printed separately with a sufficient margin of clean canvas around the edges.

Use of improvised materials

Unlike the previous method, do-it-yourself modular paintings from wallpaper are much easier to make. As a decorative material, you can use any wallpaper you like, a drawing printed in a printing house, family photos, portraits of your favorite film artists or decoupage cards.

For such paintings, you will also need a stretcher with chipboard or plywood. You can buy it or make it yourself. The color image is drawn, cut out and attached to the flat base of the stretcher. For fixing, use special glue, double-sided tape or a construction stapler. The disadvantage of using liquid glue is the softening and deformation of the paper, so you should experiment in advance on an unnecessary fragment and choose the right material.

Before you make a modular picture with your own hands from photo wallpaper, you need to make sure that the finished elements are correctly matched on the wall and create a single plot. Therefore, cutting wallpaper should be carried out taking into account allowances for hem. An alternative would be to glue the end of the subframe with another material. In this case, the area of ​​the picture is the same as the surface area of ​​the subframe.

Do-it-yourself modular painting: master class

A fairly popular material for the manufacture of modular paintings is fabric. Its color can be any, at the discretion of the owner of the house. To work, you will need the following tools and materials:

• stretcher;
• decorative fabric;
• scissors;
• meter or tape measure;
• glue or construction stapler;
• additional elements (fasteners for hanging, tape for end processing, decor).

For cutting fabric, it is better to make a pattern according to the size of each fragment. Cut parts with hem allowances should be carefully, especially when it comes to material with a geometric pattern. If you allow a bias, it will be very noticeable, you will have to redo it.

The beauty of using fabric is that you do not have to try to match the edges of the future modular picture. This greatly simplifies the work.

The subframe can be wood or foam. When choosing the second option, it is worth abandoning the use of glue, since it will be almost impossible to achieve uniform gluing of the fabric.

Sequence of work

The cut fragments are placed on the surface of the stretcher and fixed with temporary fasteners at several points (pins or thin nails). Then the workpiece should be turned over, allowances should be made on the wrong side and sequentially attached to the stretcher. You should start with the long sides, then move on to the short ones. Lastly, fold and fix the corners.

Excessive stretching of the canvas must be avoided, as this will lead to deformation of the pattern. If desired, the ends can be processed with tape, and decorative elements can be attached to the front surface of the picture.

Last of all, loops are nailed from the inside and then the pictures are hung on the wall.