The world is full of interesting ideas and creative ideas. It’s worth deciding what you like, what the soul is for. From any material that is in nature, you can make masterpieces. Stone is no exception. From it you can create stunning paintings. Looking at them, it’s perhaps difficult to say right away that they are made of ordinary sea pebbles. If you want to create a panel of stones, you need to choose stones, learn the technique of execution. The information in the article will help to take the first steps in this direction, perhaps it will present some ideas.
Panel Material
The best material for the manufacture of paintings and compositions of stone, experts consider pebbles. These pebbles, processed by a natural grinder - the sea - are suitable not only for creating a picture, but also serve as a material on which the decor painted with paints and felt-tip pens looks great. A panel of sea stones decorated with decorative patterns will be an original addition to the interior of the room, corridor, and kitchen.
You can create a panel of natural stones and minerals, which include marble, granite, onyx, amber, malachite, onyx. The options for creating paintings from this material are not limited. These can be pictures of nature, the coast of the sea, panels on domestic and tourist themes. Any stones can be purchased in departments of stores of decorative materials intended for crafts. The most budget option is to bring pebbles from places of rest and make original paintings from it.
Where to begin?
DIY hand-made stone panel is one of the most popular areas in creativity, developing imagination, individual abilities of children and adults. Using pebbles, you can create various attractive compositions that can be used for decorative purposes. In order to make a panel on the wall, you need to draw it and prepare materials for its creation. It should be:
- a suitable frame in which the wall panel will be created;
- flat pebbles or any stone materials of various sizes;
- acrylic paints, acrylic varnish and brushes;
- glue gun;
- substrate on which a panel of stones will be formed.
The next step will be the selection of elements of the picture from the selected stone. If it is necessary to introduce additional material into the picture and it will only benefit from this, it can be done. Related material may be twigs, tree bark, splint. In principle, any material that will make a panel of stones more beautiful.
Work stages
The existing frame needs to be painted or varnished, depending on the version of the panel. You can use a photo as a background, which will serve as the background. It can be any landscape on which a pebble picture will look great.
If this wall-to-wall stone panel is intended for a children's room, the next step will be the selection of pebbles on which it will be necessary to paint houses, cars and other components for the panel with paints. With this task, the child will cope with pleasure.
Painted pebbles are ready to take their places in the picture. Using a glue gun, fine sand, miniature curb stones and tree branches are glued onto the substrate. Then houses and cars are placed and glued. The panel can be coated with hairspray. It will give shine to the sand and will not let it crumble.
Amber Crumb Pictures
On a picturesque cut of a tree, edged with bark, the panel made of natural stone - amber chips looks great. Working with amber is not as complicated as it might seem. The main thing is to decide on the pattern by which the work will be carried out. Original paintings of nature, seascapes and mountain ranges - a theme that looks very nice on the created panel made of stone. As always, you need to start with a drawing. The cut of the tree should be 1.5-2 cm thick. It must be carefully sanded with fine sandpaper and applied.
The next step is sizing. It is a solution of PVA glue with water. It is applied to a wooden slice and allowed to dry. Drawing on a tree is applied with tempera glue or oil paints.
Why can’t you use watercolor and gouache? Amber on a wooden base will be glued to PVA. Water-based paints may leak. Drawing by paints is applied twice. The first undermining is done liquid, after drying an adhesive film is formed. A second coloring is made on it for juiciness.
Inlaid background is drawn on the traced background. You can not sprinkle small amber on the picture. It should be laid out in places where the composition requires it. Larger pieces are laid out in places of large areas of deciduous mass. Smaller ones stick together between the larger ones. No need to glue stones one on one. This makes the composition heavier. The panel with a birch will look great in any room.
Interesting ideas
To create a panel of stones, it is enough to have several pebbles of different color pebbles, a canvas and a glue gun. The idea of such a composition is to select the shapes and sizes of pebbles and place it on canvas. It turns out quite concise plots.
For pebbles, you can add additional material in the form of a dry branch to express the picture. In one case, the branch plays the role of a log on which the family is located. In two other cases (photo above) - contrasting pebbles and a branch, on which on the one hand there are two birds, and on the other hand - a bird and a nest. The composition feels incredibly light, although the pebbles are heavy material.
Perfect gift
Having learned the skill of creating stone panels, you can make a wonderful gift for your loved ones with your own hands. Firstly, it will be original, and secondly, making it, you will invest a piece of your heat. And you will undoubtedly surprise your loved ones or extraordinary work.
For example, when preparing such a gift, as in the photo above, you need to use multi-colored pebbles, a shell (for a skirt) and a tree bark. Looking at such a panel, involuntarily you begin to smile. It is thought that everyone will like it, without exception, because it bears positive, causes positive emotions. Themes for stone panels can be different. It all depends on who the gift is given to and where it will be placed.