How to make a picture of yourself on the wall?

Beautiful, exquisite interior of the apartment is not only beautiful fashionable furniture, lamps and expensive finishing materials. Since ancient times, paintings are one way of decorating your own home. Paintings painted by professional artists are modern, stylish, but the pictures made for the interior with their own hands - this is the highlight that will give the design your soul, and make it more alive and interesting. How to make a picture with your own hands on the wall with the least expenditure of time, effort, money and without the artist's special talent, we will tell in this article.

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Where to start?

If you decide to decorate the interior of the house with your own picture, then start by looking for a source of inspiration. Any ideas, even the most artsy, abstract or completely banal will be useful to you in the process of creativity. Prepare a separate box or container, in which you will fold things to create a picture.

Rummage in your hidden creative reserves and try yourself in different genres. For example, if sewing was always your favorite occupation, then try to make a picture of the fabric. Such products have always been at the height of fashion. If you like to embroider, then make a picture for the interior with embroidery. This will be the easiest way to make a picture on the wall. Start with something simpler, and then you can create a small work of art.

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A simple idea to create a wall decor

Make a picture of yourself wallpaper - the simplest and most affordable solution, after all, after gluing the walls in your apartment with wallpaper, there are still unrealized surpluses of finishing material. Using fantasy and wallpaper trim, you can paste an image of a fairytale castle, a hut on chicken legs, a sailboat on the wall of the children's room. The more types of wallpaper you use, the more interesting and colorful the picture will be.

You can make an abstract picture of the wallpaper. To do this, you will need a sheet of hard cardboard, a suitable format and cropping the wallpaper with the most effective patterns and textures. Get the resulting masterpiece into the frame and hang it on the wall.

Important! The color scale of the picture should be in harmony not only with the color of the wall, but also with other elements of the interior. Usually an abstract picture of the wallpaper is hung on the center of a monotonous wall, because on a motley background it can get lost.

Alternatively, you can insert pieces of wallpaper in frames or use small boxes of candy with borders for frames. The original decoration is suitable for the kitchen.

MASTER'S RECOMMENDATIONS:

• To fix the cut-out elements on the wall, use PVA glue or the like.
• If you plan to use several paintings from the wallpaper in one room, then make them on the basis of one kind of material so that similar elements are present in the decor.
• Place the manufactured product in a conspicuous place - opposite the entrance to the room. Then it will immediately catch your eye and become the main element of the interior.

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How to create your own wallpaper?

Bright and attractive look wallpapers are still at the peak of popularity. If you do not like any of the images offered in the sale, you can order the printing of the selected photos, drawings, and paste the material with one wall or decorate the interior of the room around the perimeter.

To make a picture on the wall with your own hands using photo wallpapers, follow the following steps.

Preparatory stage

Decide on the image that you want to see on the wall and prepare the materials necessary for the creative process.

To make a masterpiece you will need:

• Printer.
• Color ink for printing drawings.
• Paper for photowall( dense).
• High-quality glue, with which you firmly glue the drawings to the wall.

Important! If you decide to make photo wallpapers from photos, then they should have a high resolution. To correct the resolution, use the programs BlowUP, Genuine fractals, Magnifier, etc. The low quality pictures will be blurred and they will look unaesthetic, which means that the idea to make a picture on the wall with your own hands will not be appreciated.

Print wall-paper on an ordinary color printer using A4 paper. If you want to print large drawings, please contact the specialized companies that provide printing services on large-format sheets.

Creating a painting

You can use the standard method of printing drawings and decorate them with a wall in the room, and you can use the following options:

1. Create wallpapers from improvised tools. Perhaps you have original pictures, as well as a large number of photos that you want to place on the wall. Using pictures and photos, create a non-standard composition by gluing them on a wall or a separate part of it.
2. If the image for wallpapers is high resolution and the basic shades of wallpaper are combined with the style of the color scheme of the room, then print large format wallpapers and paste them on the whole wall. Such a composition can be decorated with additional elements: lamps, neon lights of the corresponding shade or framed with decorative laths, moldings.
3. Above the bed or sofa you can paste an image from the wallpaper and choose a suitable frame. It will be a real picture.
4. For making a three-dimensional picture, wallpapers can be glued on a wooden or other base.
5. To create a modular picture from the wallpaper, divide the overall pattern into several parts. This picture will look great in a modern style or high-tech room.

Important! For modular paintings, as images, use landscapes or still lifes. Do not use portraits, since dividing into several parts the character is unacceptable.

1. With the help of photo wallpapers you can make a poster on the wall. The brighter and more saturated the image, the more interesting the picture will look.

Tips and Tricks:

• Before proceeding with the printout of the images, determine the size of the canvases suitable for the interior of the wall. This is especially important if you plan to hang a picture on a limited surface.
• If you have a free wall in the room, then there will perfectly fit a huge modular picture, consisting of a huge number of components. To make the composition look original, use canvases of different sizes, as well as the principle of asymmetry.
• To make a picture on the wall with your own hands, use wood, cardboard, foam, plastic and other sheet panels of various materials as the basis for modular images. Images are applied to the substrate with glue. After complete drying, hang the composition on the wall.
• To ensure that the original wallpaper has served you as long as possible, use a special protective film or clear lacquer. This will protect the surface of the picture from dust and damage.

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We decorate the wall with finishing materials

Very impressive is a wall lined with wild stone, mosaic or decorative brick. The interior of the room can be supplemented with falshkum from gypsum.

An interesting way to decorate a wall is to use decorative plaster. Such design has a lot of advantages:

• Helps to hide small wall defects.
• Long lasting.
• Just applied.
• As a result, you can get a variety of terrain.

With decorative plaster on the wall, you can create geometric shapes, different patterns. An interesting effect is obtained as a result of the application of plaster with mother-of-pearl reflow, as well as using multi-colored plaster. It opens full scope for creativity, so you can show your talent as an artist and make a very unusual picture on the wall with your own hands.

Using paint for interior decoration

One of the most beautiful ways to decorate a wall is painting. Even in ancient times, such a decor was practiced in palaces and temples, and real masters decorated the walls with beautiful murals. The wall needs to be prepared for painting: plastering, priming. To create a contrast wall, use water-based paints, and for artistic painting - acrylic.

We offer you some ideas:

1. If a solid surface does not inspire you, then with the help of paint tape make it a strip or cage.
2. Painting a part of the wall with special multi-colored slate, you will turn it into a large notebook for recording.
3. With the help of artistic painting, you can decorate the interior of the nursery, living room, bedroom. If the artistic skills are not complete, then in order to make a picture on the wall with your own hands, use stencils or vinyl stickers. Stickers, if necessary, are easily detached from the wall, and their assortment is diverse.
4. With the help of paints you can make a panel. You will only need: the basis for drawing, paint and tape to delimit the sectors based on. Using the tools, divide the picture into sectors and paint them in different colors.

Decorating the wall with photos, paintings and mirrors as part of the

Pictures and photos fit into any style of the interior - you just need to correctly choose the plot and baguette.

Important! Pictures and photos should not be too much, since each of them is a bright accent. Photos can be constantly changed, for example, after a joyful event in the family or after another trip. You can create both black and white compositions, and color. It looks original, painted a large tree on the wall, and on the branches - family photos. Apartment with family photos in the interior has a special charm and it looks very cozy and hospitable.

Use the following tips when designing:

• Do not hang exactly the same size in a row, as it looks ugly and rather boring. Better in the center place a large photo, and along the edges create a composition of small pictures.
• Picking up a photo for the interior, consider the atmosphere of the room in which they will be located, for example, romantic photographs in the bedroom, common family in the living room, and cheerful, cheerful pictures in the nursery.
• If you want to decorate a wall with a mirror, then choose an interesting frame for it, but remember that a large mirror can be placed in the living room, bedroom or hallway, and in the children's desirability a small mirror or even its absence.

Decorating walls with paintings from fabric and embroidery

We offer you some ideas of interior design if you are fond of embroidering and hand-made articles of textiles:

1. It will look good composition of several paintings with different fabrics, but a common shade of color in each of them. Such paintings on the wall can be made with your own hands either from one piece of cloth or from individual pieces.
2. You can make several paintings from a fabric with a large pattern and place them in one composition. In this case, the pictures must be made the same size and hang at a distance from each other. Such remoteness will give the composition a special charm.
3. You can make a picture of yourself on a wall of fabric with your own hands, which repeats an element of your interior with your drawing.
4. Looks interesting pictures of handkerchiefs. Such decor will be appropriate in the children's room or if you decide to give preference to country styles, Provence.
5. The paintings from the fabric look originally stretched to the hard cardboard. In this there is another convenience for you personally - over time the composition will not lose its form and will look as attractive as it was when created.

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Master class for creating paintings on the wall

If you can not determine for yourself what exactly you would like to do or do not get a good idea of ​​combining materials, we offer several ideas with step-by-step instructions. Surely this will help you to make an original picture on the wall with your own hands.

Idea 1 - Abstract painting of blue turquoise tulle

You will need a canvas, scissors, glue and trimming of colored tulle( chiffon or nylon ribbon) to make a picture.

Production scheme:

1. Choose a fabric for a pattern of related shades, for example, turquoise or blue.
2. Cut the tulle into strips of different widths.
3. Place the prepared strips on the canvas in random order, and then glue.
4. Blot the adhesive residues with a piece of cloth.
5. Hide the ends of the strips on the back of the canvas.
6. Fasten them.

Idea 2 - Painting from natural material and gold paint

This painting on the wall with your own hands is unique in that you do not need complex materials to create.

For creativity you will need:

• thick cardboard or a piece of plywood;
• cut of any one-color fabric;
• paint can;
• brush;
• glue stick;
• branch of mountain ash or other wood;
• gold paint in an aerosol.

Instruction on design:

1. Thick cardboard with a cloth.
2. Paint it, for example, in blue with a brush or a sponge.
3. As long as the paint dries, put a twig for a couple of days under the press to let it dry.
4. Prepare the prepared twig to the fabric( there should be little glue).
5. Spray aerosol gold paint on the entire surface of the fabric.
6. As soon as the paint dries, remove the twig.

Important! With this method, you can make not one picture on the wall with your own hands. Use paint of different colors and branches of different trees to make a whole story composition of several elements.

Idea 3 - Fabric Butterflies

Fabric butterflies will be an excellent decoration for walls with drapery, other soft trim, and walls with monotonous liquid wallpaper. For the manufacture of butterflies is suitable as a monophonic, and colorful fabric. Mount the soft butterfly is better than PVA glue.

Important! It is better to make butterflies of different sizes, colors and configurations. Then the interior definitely will not look boring. And if you frame them in one or several places in the frame, the composition will look like a full-fledged picture on the wall, made by yourself.

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Interior paintings from hand-made articles

Various items from buttons, coffee beans, old newspapers can be attached to the wall. Let's consider some simple ideas:

• Original newspapers look old. They can decorate one wall completely or, cutting into small strips, pasting on a sheet of paper, cut out any desired figure and decorate the wall with it. It will be especially appropriate if you make a retro-style living room.
• You can use buttons to decorate walls in your home. For the basis, take a cloth or a piece of wallpaper. Glue the buttons of different colors and sizes. For the base, select the frame, and hang the picture from the buttons on the wall. From such small details it is possible to make a certain pattern or even to lay out a whole thematic picture with several characters.
• The kitchen can be decorated with a mosaic or a picture made of coffee beans. For a basis it is possible to take a fabric or a piece of wall-paper, and it is possible and at once to glue grains on a wall, in preliminary prepared glued frame.
• You can decorate the wall with panels in the form of scales. For manufacturing, you need paper circles of the same size, spray-paint, glue or stapler, and for the substrate - chipboard or any other base. Cover the EAF with circles and fix them with glue or a stapler. Then - with the help of a spray paint paint all the circles in golden color.
• Simple and tasteful wall with a garland of paper. Cut out and fasten with the help of threads the figures of hearts, airplanes, butterflies, birds, etc. Attach garlands with cloves to the wall. This is a rather interesting youth decor of the interior.
• For decorating walls, use decorative plates, painted ceiling sockets or low wicker baskets. The color and the plot should be in harmony with the interior of the chosen room. Place items as you can in the kitchen, in the living room, or in the bedroom.

We hope that the above ideas and recommendations helped to make a picture with your own hands on the wall and it gives your room an individuality, charm. Creative success and good luck!