Every person has a need to make his home beautiful, original and unlike others. Nowadays, you will not surprise anyone with a good repair and high-quality finish. This alone was no longer enough, and people are looking for something unusual and unique. It is to achieve this desire that alfrey painting is best suited. It can be a great finishing touch to work on the interior.
What is this painting
Alfrei painting is the painting of ceilings, walls, volumetric images or stucco elements, which imitates the structure and color of a valuable stone, various materials (silk, stucco, stucco, wood, marble, etc.). Such a painting is done on dry plaster, which differs from the mural, which is applied to a moist base.
To perform the painting, tempera and oil paints, mother of pearl, acrylic, and Venetian plaster are used. Using this technique, you can create a luxurious and sophisticated pattern, as well as a simple and simple surface design.
Alfrei painting of walls and ceiling surfaces allows you to visually increase or expand the volume of the room, make the ceiling visually higher, emphasize the style, and recreate the atmosphere of countries and cultures.
The main techniques of alpha painting are:
- airbrushing;
- stencil drawing;
- spray
- knurling with relief rollers;
- trimming;
- stretching panels.
Types of painting
This type of painting includes two types of work:
- ornamental and decorative painting;
- Alfreino painting.
The first type includes the following types of painting:
- Monochrome - a single-color palette is used for painting this species (one color and many of its shades). In this technique, masters create not only simple ornaments, but also multi-level landscapes and plots.
- Polychrome - a palette of the entire color scheme, even gold, is used for painting. The plots are rich and vibrant, using figures, flowers, various ornaments, and elements of heraldry as patterns.
- Grisaille - Alfrei painting (photo can be seen below), imitating a variety of architectural elements, plaster moldings. Traditionally, paints and shades of gray and umbrellas are used for such work.
Alfrey works: stages
Alfreino painting is the decoration of rooms using decorative coatings or applying textured plaster. It differs from painting in that the work is performed not by the artist, but by the master of decorative coatings.
To decorate various surfaces, painting is often combined with gilding or silvering, using water-glue compositions or a varnish base.
If a person has at least minimal artistic skills, he can perform simple alfrey painting on his own.
Each specialist in Alfrei painting has its own techniques, best practices and secrets.
Basically, these stages of creating a picture are distinguished:
- definition of style and corresponding color palette;
- drawing sketch development;
- cleaning and priming of the decorated surface;
- painting;
- varnishing the image if necessary.
Features and specifics of painting
The technique and technology of alfrae works, which imitate stucco molding, involves a thorough drawing of a picture with the application of nuances of lighting - shadows, midtones, highlights, shines. Accordingly, you need to choose the right color from the palette. If the painting is simple, then use three shades - light, dark and medium color. The last tone is obtained by mixing light and dark.
Painting can be done by hand, or you can use a stencil. High-quality stencils are developed in special graphic editors on a computer, and then cut out on a plotter from a self-adhesive film in full size.
You can use the projector to project a pattern onto a surface, then draw a contour and paint it.
Hand-painted murals look more interesting, but such work requires experience and more time. Also, applying the ornament with your hands is more appropriate to simulate the volume in the drawing.
Execution technique
Alfrei ceiling painting using the grisaille technique is applied with matte paints, soluble in tempera, acrylic, oil.
The main steps are as follows:
- Using a projector, stencil, or manually, a contour of the drawing is applied to the surface.
- When preparing a color scheme, they are first determined with the base color, which should be the most saturated tone. They draw dark areas of ornament and shadow.
- Then part of the base color (about thirty percent) is mixed with whitewash in a one-to-one proportion - this way you get a tone of medium saturation. They are stained with the appropriate places, which are the transition from dark to light.
- After that, the middle tone is again mixed with whitewash in the same proportion to get a light shade. They draw the appropriate sections. You can mix different tones - in this way, specialists get up to nine shades.
- In complex drawings, shadows are applied in three stages - light falling, dark, own (they display the shape of the object).
- Glare and luminous elements are painted over in white. These are places where sunlight falls at a right angle.
- In the last step, the deepest depressions are applied with the darkest color.
The painting technique also provides for drawing convex places in a light tone, and depressions in a dark tone. When applying shadows, the direction of the light rays should be taken into account.
The ornament is performed on a flat surface on which the primer is applied. After alpha-working, the pattern may, if necessary, be coated with wax or matte varnish.
Straight lines and contours of geometric shapes are first drawn with a pencil, then the edges of the outlined lines are glued with masking tape. Then the surface is painted with a roller, and after drying the adhesive tape is removed.
Benefits
Alfrein painting is a great way to turn a normal room into a bright and extraordinary space.
Alfrei painting has the following advantages over other types of finishes:
- you can visually expand the space, make the ceiling higher, emphasize the features of the interior;
- there is a huge variety of patterns, ornaments and drawings that can decorate not only a luxurious, but also a simple room;
- using grisaille you can imitate stucco molding in the corresponding interior, as well as various architectural elements;
- painting is carried out with high-quality paints, characterized by a long service life and strength, ease of maintenance;
- the variety of materials used for painting allows you to realize the most interesting ideas.
Tips for choosing an ornament
In order for the alfrei painting to look elegant and elegant, it is necessary to choose the right pattern and technique in accordance with the room and style.
There are several useful rules:
- Before choosing a picture, you should think about how organically it fits into the interior. This painting is ideal for the classical style, baroque, interior Rococo or the Venetian style. Painting will give the interior sophistication, tenderness, elegance and luxury.
- Choosing the type of drawing, you need to focus on the general design of the room. It is important that the painting resonates with several elements of the interior. This can be a drawing of a carpet, sofa cushions or textiles, ornament of parquet or plaster stucco molding.
- For the right selection of painting techniques it is better to consult with the masters.
Used tools
For alpha work, masters of painting use various technologies. Depending on the type of drawing and type of painting, the master selects the necessary tools and materials.
For this type of painting you will need:
- oil or acrylic paints ;
- sketch or drawing stencil;
- multi-colored textured plaster;
- gilding and pearlescent dye;
- rollers and brushes of different sizes from natural fur;
- primer liquid or in powder;
- spatula, adhesive tape, ruler;
- varnish for the finish coating of the painting.
Depending on the complexity of the painting, the master may need other tools.
Alfreya painting is suitable for all types of rooms, it is undesirable only to use it in wet rooms. In such conditions, the paint will fade over time and the pattern will lose attractiveness.