To decorate your interior, you can resort to various types of decorative and applied works, but one of the most common and interesting options is the manufacture of paintings. When creating such products, you can fully realize your creative potential by coming up with and realizing the most interesting ideas. Decorative paintings can be made not only for yourself, but also as pretty presentable gifts.
What are they?
Product variations can be very diverse. It all depends on the required size, choice of materials and budget. The simplest decorative paintings can be painted with paints. But most often they are made using decoupage technique. You can use stencils, various fabrics, buttons. It all depends on the color scheme, idea and purpose for which the picture is created.
What are they used for?
Use cases are very diverse. The most commonplace is the decoration or addition to the interior in a house, apartment or other room. Using a decorative picture, you can not only emphasize the style of the interior, but also fill in 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.
Option selection
Before you begin, you need to decide on the product option. In this matter, you need to build on what will be used to make the picture. With the help of paints, decorative elements or even photographs. But even the smallest quantities of paint may be needed to create the background of a decorative painting. We will consider three options: paints, paper and flowers.
Material selection
For the first option we will use paints. We will need:
- Oil paints. It’s 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 a second option, we will make a decorative picture with our own hands out of paper. We will need:
- White canvas.
- Super glue.
- Colored paper.
- One color oil paint that we will use to create the background.
The third option would be a decorative picture of flowers. For her, the following materials will be needed:
- White canvas.
- Chrysanthemums, a few pieces.
- Oil paints.
- Lacquer.
After all the materials have been prepared, you can begin work on the product.
Step-by-step instruction
We will look at the process of creating three very simple variations of paintings. Any newcomer will be able to cope with their manufacture. They will require you only accuracy and strict adherence to step-by-step instructions. Consider all three options for the production of decorative and applied paintings.
- The first option we will draw 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 so that it stands in front of us vertically. Divide the canvas into three equal parts. We take paints of three colors and paint over them with three stripes demarcated by us. Each strip has its own color. The borders do not stand perfectly, we call one paint to another. This will give the picture an unusual and abstract look.
Next, let the product dry. It takes about a day for oil paints to completely dry. After drying, we take the silver and golden colors and select two borders with it. Let it dry. We varnish. The product is ready!
- The second option will be made faster, since we will mainly use paper in it.
First, take a white canvas, cover it with the paint of the color that you like most. You can choose a tone for the canvas, starting from the color of your interior. Next, we lay in front of ourselves sheets of colored paper. Choose the colors that will stand out from your background. For example, blue or purple if your canvas is beige.
We cut out a lot of small butterflies or flowers from paper. Of your choice. When there are already a lot of butterflies carved, they need to be laid out on a heart-shaped canvas. Then glue with super glue. The product is beautiful, original and very simple.
- For the third decorative painting for the interior, we will need several chrysanthemum flowers.
You need to take a white canvas, 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 considered products are made very simply. The only difficulty is the time it takes for oil paint to dry. For those who do not want to wait and buy quite 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 consider the simplest and most interesting ideas:
For such a picture you will need a white canvas on which you will need to draw letters with a pencil. Any inscription that you like best. This inscription on the contour must be studded with small pins or carnations. Next, take the threads that will stand out against a white canvas. The end of the thread must be attached to one clove, the rest of the winding on the other. The same action must be done with all the letters. Easy and beautiful picture is ready!
- Pattern of spoons, forks and knives. Does that sound absurd? But the result is very surprising.
For this product you will need a frame that you can purchase or make yourself. It should have glass or ordinary plastic. To this center in the center you need to stick an item of kitchen utensils. Get the original picture. Decorative art can affect any area 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 using 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 lay out the gradient in the picture.
- As another option, we will consider a very simple picture that can decorate any interior.
To make it, you will also need a white canvas. On it you need to apply oil paint of any one color. Next, you need to take a rag, twist it. With this rag, you need to drive on the painted canvas until the oil paints have dried. Thus, the product will be very simple, but beautiful.
On the printer you need to print those photos from which you want to make a picture. Next is a white canvas or just plywood. On it you can put photos in the form of a heart. This picture can be decorated with strokes of paint, garland or other decorative elements.
You can come up with ideas for paintings on your own, embodying your most original ideas in reality.
Mistakes
Many beginners, even in such a simple job, can make mistakes. Most of them are in the work with paints. Oil paints have the peculiarity of staying 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 enough time to dry. If you do not want to work with this type of paint, then you can replace them with faster drying counterparts.
Advice
Masters often give beginners tips on arts and crafts. Pictures are a complex type of work, because in order for the product to look harmonious, you need to consider all the details. To do this, there are a number of tips that will help in the correct production of work:
- You should not draw complex images if you do not have sufficient experience in working with a certain type of paint.
- All paintings, not counting those in which there are volumetric elements, must be varnished. So they can survive longer.
- You should never varnish a picture that has not yet dried.
- It is best to use large brushes for drawing on canvas, especially this option will be convenient for large strokes.
By carefully listening to the advice and acting carefully, everyone can do a beautiful job and replenish their piggy bank of creative achievements.
Price
The issue of cost worries many who begin work on a similar type of product. Would it be beneficial to do 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 poor-quality options. It is better to use acrylic paints, they are cheaper.
Colored paper will cost 30-50 rubles per package. From this we can conclude that to make such a picture would be quite expensive. But to buy a similar one will be much more expensive.