Decorative paintings on the wall

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-15 12:29

To decorate your interior, you can resort to various types of arts and crafts, but one of the most common and interesting options is the production of paintings. When creating such products, you can fully realize your creative potential, inventing and translating into reality the most interesting ideas. Decorative paintings can be made not only for yourself, but also as quite presentable gifts.

What are they?

Variations of products can be very diverse. It all depends on the required size, choice of materials and budget. The simplest decorative pictures can be painted with paints. But most often they are made using the decoupage technique. You can use stencils, various fabrics, buttons. It all depends on the color scheme, the idea and the purpose for which the picture is created.

What are they used for?

Uses are varied. The most banal - decoration or addition to the interior in a house, apartment or other room. With the help of a decorative picture, you can not onlyemphasize the style of the interior, but also fill the empty space on the wall. Such a product can be made as an unusual and worthy gift to any person. Some masters make paintings to order or for sale. For beautiful and neat work, you can get decent money.

Select option

Before starting work, you need to decide on the product option. In this matter, you need to build on what the picture will be made with. With the help of paints, decorative elements or even photographs. But paints, even in the smallest quantities, may be needed to create the background of a decorative picture. We will consider three options: paints, paper and flowers.

Selection of materials

For the first option, we will use paint. We will need:

• Oil paints. It is not necessary to take expensive ones. You will need only four colors that are harmoniously combined with each other and suitable for your interior.
• White canvas.
• Tassels.
• Lacquer.

As the second option, we will make a decorative painting with our own hands from paper. We will need:

• White canvas.
• Super glue.
• Colored paper.
• One color oil paint that we will use for the background.

The third option would be a decorative picture of flowers. She will need the following materials:

• White canvas.
• Chrysanthemums, several pieces.
• Oil paints.
• Lacquer.

After all the materials are prepared, you can start working on the product.

Step by step instructions

We'll walk through the process of creating three very simple variations of paintings. Any beginner can handle their manufacture. They will only require you to be careful and strictly follow the step-by-step instructions. Consider all three options for making arts and crafts paintings.

The first option we will paint with oil paints

You need to take a canvas of the right size for you. It is desirable that it is not square in shape. We turn this canvas over so that it stands vertically in front of us. We divide the canvas into three parts, equal to each other. We take paints of three colors and paint over with them the three stripes we have delimited. Each lane has its own color. We don’t keep the borders perfectly, we stop by one paint on another. This will give the painting an unusual and abstract look.

Next, let the product dry. Oil paints take about a day to dry completely. After drying, we take the paint of silver and golden color and select two borders with it. Let's dry. Cover with varnish. The product is ready!

The second option will be made faster, since we will use mainly paper in it

First, take a white canvas, cover it with the paint of the color that you like the most. You can choose the tone for the canvas, starting from the color of your interior. Next, put sheets of colored paper in front of you. Choose the colors that willstand out from your background. For example, blue or purple if your canvas is beige.

Cut out a lot of small butterflies or flowers from paper. At your choice. When there are already a lot of butterflies cut out, they need to be laid out on the canvas in the shape of a heart. Then stick with superglue. The product is beautiful, original and very simple.

For the third decorative painting for the interior, we need some chrysanthemum flowers

You need to take a white canvas, do not paint it in any way or apply a light tone with oil paints. Next, you need to take a chrysanthemum flower, dip it in a certain color of oil paint and attach the flower to the canvas. Thus, you need to fill the entire canvas. You can use paints of different colors. Depends on the desire, idea and color scheme of the interior.

The products discussed are made very simply. The only difficulty is the time it takes the oil paint to dry. For those who do not want to wait and buy rather expensive oil paints, there is an option to use acrylic paints or gouache.

Interesting ideas

There are many options for how to make a decorative picture on the wall. We will look at the simplest and most interesting ideas:

Product made from threads

For such a picture you will need a white canvas on which you will need to draw letters with a pencil. Any lettering you like. This inscription along the contour must be upholstered with small pins or carnations. Next, take the threads that willstand out against the white background. The end of the thread must be attached to one carnation, while the rest is wound on others. The same action must be done with all letters. Light and beautiful picture is ready!

Painting of spoons, forks and knives. Sounds absurd? But the result is very surprising

This product will require a frame, which you can purchase or make yourself. It should be glass or ordinary plastic. To this frame in the center you need to glue a piece of kitchen utensils. Get the original picture. Decorative art can affect any sphere of human life. Such a product can decorate any kitchen.

The next option will look like a picture with butterflies. Only here you need to cut out hearts from colored paper

On a white canvas, they should be glued with superglue. You can lay out hearts in rows of the same color to make it more interesting. And you can choose colored paper, which will include several shades of the same color. So you can put a gradient on the picture.

As another option, we will consider a very simple painting that can decorate any interior

You will also need a white canvas to make it. You need to apply oil paint of one color on it. Next, you need to take a rag, twist it. This rag should be run over the painted canvas until the oil paints have dried. Thus the productit will turn out very simple, but beautiful.

Next, consider the extreme version of the decorative picture. Photos will serve as its basis.

On the printer you need to print those photos from which you want to make a picture. Next, take a white canvas or just plywood. You can put photos on it in the form of a heart. This picture can be decorated with paint strokes, garlands or other decorative elements.

You can come up with ideas for paintings yourself, turning your most original ideas into reality.

Mistakes

Many beginners, even in such a simple job, can make mistakes. Most of them lie in the work with paints. Oil paints tend to stay wet for a long time. If they are not dry, then they are easy to smudge or just mix the colors together. To prevent this from happening, you need to give the products a sufficient amount of time to dry. If you do not want to work with this type of paint, then you can replace them with faster-drying counterparts.

Tips

Craftsmen often give beginners advice on arts and crafts. Paintings are a complex type of work, because in order for the product to look harmonious, you need to take into account all the details. To do this, there are a number of tips that will help in the proper manufacture of the work:

1. Don't draw complicated images if you don't have enough experience in working with a certain type of paint.
2. All paintings, except for those in which there are three-dimensional elements,needs to be varnished. This way they can last longer.
3. Never varnish a painting that is still wet.
4. It is best to use large brushes for painting on canvas, especially this option will be convenient for large strokes.

By carefully listening to advice and acting carefully, everyone can make beautiful work and replenish their treasury of creative achievements.

Price

The issue of cost worries many who start working on this type of product. Will it be profitable to make such a picture with your own hands? White canvas can be bought for about 300-400 rubles. But instead, you can use a cheap substitute - plywood.

Oil paints are always quite expensive. From 600-700 rubles for rather low-quality options. It is better to use acrylic paints, they are cheaper.

Colored paper will cost 30-50 rubles per pack. From this we can conclude that making such a picture will be quite expensive. But buying one like this will be much more expensive.