Now gaining increasing popularity decoupage art is decorating household items by pasting it in various patterns, ornaments and other materials.
Kitchen jars for cereals, decorated in decoupage technique
This makes it possible to refresh the appearance of the outdated furniture and give it uniqueness. In addition, decoupage does not require significant financial costs, and updated design options are limited only by imagination mistress.
A beautiful chest of drawers, decorated with decoupage technique
Content
- 1 The history of development
- 2 The main types and styles
- 3 Decoupage chair with his hands. The main stages of the work, the necessary tools and materials
- 4 Video: "Handmade". A chair in the art decoupage (09.30.2015)
- 5 Photo gallery of beautiful chairs, decorated in decoupage technique:
The history of development
The history of decoupage or magic with their hands
Many experts believe that the development of decoupage as one of the areas of art, has its origins in Germany at the end of the XV century. However, for the first time we began to use such techniques in China in the XII century.
This technique is called design for the poor, because it is very fashionable things imported from China and Japan have been available to few, and they are simply copied
Because of poverty, farmers can not afford to buy good furniture, so attempt to make his dwelling comfort. For this, they were cut from tissue paper different pictures and pasted them on the interior.
Technique "paper mosaic" - paper was cut a plurality of parts, depicting parts of plants, of paints and pasted to a substrate, preferably black
The highest peak of the popularity of decoupage technique is in the XII century, when Europe was swept the fashion for oriental luxury. However, the furniture in the Japanese or Chinese style was very expensive and not everyone has the means. Therefore, the master cut fragments of oriental patterns, pasting them on the surface of the furniture. To forgery was not noticeable figure covered with several layers of lacquer.
Ancient drawings for registration in decoupage technique
Nowadays, decoupage began to be popular again. The development of industry and the emergence of new materials allows the master to implement the most daring ideas. It should be noted that today the craftsmen were divided into two camps - one when decorating use ready-made images, others prefer to paint their own black and white drawings.
Decoupage - creation of home comfort with their own hands
The main types and styles
The handmade technique are five main types of decoration.
- Classic - the most common technique consists in gluing the picture on the external surface of the object.
Technique classical decoupage with gluing individual fragments
- Reverse - used for decoration of glass objects, where the application is glued on the inside.
Technique "reverse decoupage on glass"
- Volume - execution is carried out by attaching to the surface of a variety of fine materials. These may be small pebbles, beads, Patchwerk fabric draperies, etc. eggshell.
Volumetric decoupage - red flowers
- Dekopatch - this kind incorporates elements patchwork equipment, but instead tissue flaps applied paper fragments. It should be noted that by combining the two types of equipment, furniture becomes a completely unique style.
Mini design dresser decorated paper in the art dekopatch
- Art - is the use of various combinations of effects, allowing you to create a solid image without visible transitions between the background fabric and its motive.
Bag art technique (smoky) decoupage
When decorating a chair, you can give it any desired style - from the Victorian to cutting edge. Today the most popular are the following.
Chairs in vintage style, made in the technique of decoupage
Vienna chair restored delicate flowers of roses made in the art decoupage
| Vintage or "Shabby chic" | The chair, designed in a similar style, very popular. A necessary condition is the creation of the effect of aging. several ways to apply for artificial aging. For example, dark paint spray on the surface it will give the effect of eating stool bugs, and help create a crack special gels. To give effect to wear, for interior paint is applied to dark tones, and then to the ledges and corners to apply the wax, and the furniture is completely painted in the base color. After drying, the wax must be removed with sandpaper. |
| Viennese | A distinctive feature of the style are the soft curves of the wooden parts. To give any frills, decorations chair is best carried out in neutral shades of flower. When applied to images is better to use pastel colors. |
| Provence | Notable for creating visual effects of French elegance. In an embodiment of the ideas you can use all the bright colors, which subsequently will create the impression of faded flowers from the sun. Furniture surfaces characterized by the presence of irregularities, as well as imitation abrasions. |
| Simple City | It does not provide for long-term operation, as characterizes today's modernity, with its immediacy and fragility. For decorative use of conventional magazines and newspapers. Printroom style - as a material used in black-and-white photocopies of drawings of the XIX century. |
Wooden chairs in the style of Provence in decoupage technique
Ordinary chair, decorated in decoupage technique newspaper
Decoupage chair with his hands. The main stages of the work, the necessary tools and materials
Before the beginning of the restoration should be to prepare the necessary tools and materials, such as: decoupage or paper napkin, PVA glue, sandpaper different granularity, acrylic paint, scissors, brushes, putty, paint, primer, additional decorative elements (stickers, beads, rhinestones and etc.). For trimming the image or picture may need pencils or markers.
Tools and materials needed for work
Decoupage an old chair can be divided into three main stages - preparation, painting and decoupage.
- In the first stage must be cleaned chair from dust, dirt and exfoliated varnish. Thereafter, we clean the surface of fine-grained sandpaper gruntuem chair and give good dry. Then apply a base layer of paint, it must be remembered that the basic color should be slightly darker than upper layer.
Thoroughly cleaned and degreased chair
Gruntuem cleaned surface and after drying to sand
The primed surface is applied acrylic paint with a brush, sponge or spray
- The second stage - directly decoupage. Cut fragment pictures, in accordance with the size of the surface area to which it will be glued. When using decoupage paper or cloth, the lower layer should be peeled off. Glue fragment to a selected portion of a chair and give dry applique.
From decoupage napkins cut floral elements cverhu pattern smoothes brush with glue and allowed to dry
After the decoupage glue to dry, the edges of napkins slightly tinted background paint for a smooth transition
Then we put a gold paint method of "dry brush"
- The final step - painting surface. To do this, apply acrylic lacquer, which must be water-based. To conceal and border crossings, lacquer should be applied in several layers, giving the chair to dry after each layer.
When the paint dries, chair cover furniture varnish for durability
Thus, the decoupage technique - a simple process and does not require large expenditures. For the restoration need only a little imagination and desire to create. The result was not long in coming - a unique decoration of furniture will impress guests with its views and home to fully be able to enjoy the cozy atmosphere.
Decoupage and technology "dry brush" transformed a beautiful cottage chair
Video: "Handmade". A chair in the art decoupage (09.30.2015)
Photo gallery of beautiful chairs, decorated in decoupage technique:
