How to paint a frame for a painting?

The process of painting the frame for a painting is quite a creative and unusual activity. Refresh the baguette will help the use of some tricks and secrets. You can draw as an independently manufactured frame, and give a second life to the old product. In this article, we will consider options for painting the picture frame with your own hands.

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How to paint a frame for a pattern?

If you have purchased a new baguette for a painting that is not painted, then you can transform it yourself. For painting the products use a paint of a suitable shade, as well as bronze or silver.

Bronze powder

If bronze powder is used, then it is necessary to perform the following actions:

1. The baguette is covered with alkyd varnish or the paint of the desired tone.
2. After that, apply a bronze powder to the sticky varnish.

Important! This procedure creates a spectacular appearance with a golden or bronze tint. But this frame for paintings is short-lived. Even the touch of your fingers causes a tarnish of "golden".Therefore, it is necessary to apply an additional procedure, in which the powder is covered with a layer of varnish. Re-coating with varnish reduces the "golden effect".

Bronze paint

To paint a baguette for paintings, use bronze paint, which can be purchased in ready form in building stores. In addition, you can prepare yourself such a paint from bronze powder. For this, the bronze powder is mixed in the alkyd varnish, drying oil. Even ordinary sunflower oil is suitable for such a procedure.

Important! If varnish is used, it must be diluted with a solvent. The more diluted the varnish, the greater the "golden" color of the paint. The covered surface of the frame in this case is not strong enough.

Aged bronze

Very stylish and beautiful looking frame for paintings, reminiscent of aged bronze. This effect can be achieved if several successive actions are taken.

How to paint a picture frame in the style of an aged bronze with your own hands:

• First, the frame is given a dark shade, applying a black-brown hue, a brown-green tone and other color solutions.

Important! The paint used must have a matte base.

• The field of this bronze paint from the spray can is sprayed over the frame surface with sliding movements.

Important! As a result of this procedure, all the projecting parts on the surface of the frame will be golden, and the cavities remain a dark shade. In this way, the effect of the old product is created, from which the gilding is brought down.

Wood simulation

Modern technological processes allow creating imitation of a valuable wood texture on the surface of the frame. In this case it is necessary to perform the following actions:

1. The baguette is covered with a primer or treated with a matte paint of white color.
2. Then in the varnish the pigment is pigmented to the desired color range. Basically, apply a dark brown color with some shade. The composition of the prepared paint should be a translucent consistency.
3. This paint is applied to the surface of the frame with a brush with a stiff bristle. This brush scratches the layer of the applied paint and underneath it the white base is unevenly visible.

Important! To paint with this method, certain skills are required. From how the brush is located in the hand and what movements are used when applying, the imitation of the texture of the tree will depend. A high level of skill allows you to independently invent patterns of all kinds of wood textures.

Foiling with foil

There is one more original method of painting. To do this, the frame for the painting is covered with foil. How to decorate a frame for painting a foil with your own hands:

1. Before this, the baguette is treated with glue or varnish.
2. While the coating dries, foil or potassium is applied to it and pressed down with a sponge. The pasted foil repeats the relief of the frame and fits snugly against the baguette.
3. The resulting metal surface must be sunk with a translucent paint.

Important! When using a non-golden, and white aluminum foil, a warm shade of bronze is created by applying a grated lead from colored pencils. Grifel needs to be ground to a powdery state. This composition is rubbed into the metal surface of the frame with a brush with a rigid base or rags.

For self-decoration of the baguette, you need a wide imagination, creative thinking and versatile creativity. Experimenting and improvising can invent new techniques, methods, and achieve interesting compositions in such a creative process.

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How to age the frame for a picture?

The style of the interior depends on the appearance of objects in the living room. So, the interior in the style of Provence, Vintage and Shebbi-chic means decorating the furniture items "antique".An antique image creates a furniture set, complemented by aged chairs, tables and chests of drawers.

In this style, flower pots for flowers, photo frames, various vases, wall clocks, frame frames for mirrors are decorated. It is not necessary to buy such things in the markets, because the objects in the apartment can be transformed beyond recognition on their own.

Let's consider how to paint a wooden frame for a picture in an old style with acrylic paint with your own hands.

For this we need:

• ordinary wooden frame;
• paint based on acrylic brown tone, which is used as a basis;
• white acrylic paint;
• Acrylic Crackle Lacquer;
• brush.

The first stage - painting the paint frame, which serves as the basis for

The main paint is used for pronounced cracks. Therefore, the paint base and paint, which simulates a cracked surface, are selected on contrasting colors. If we use a brown tone for the primary color, it means that it will appear in place of the cracks.

Important! We stock up on old newspapers, so as not to contaminate the surface on which we will work. We put the picture frame on the newspapers.

We begin painting the frame with acrylic paint. In brown color we cover in one layer. A single-layer coating is sufficient, since the paint has a dense composition. If somewhere the layer is not quite thick, then the second coating will be a crater varnish and a white paint color, which safely cover any defects of the underlying brown background. About two hours our frame should dry up. Products treated with acrylic paint, dries very quickly.

The second stage - the processing of the frame for the painting with crater lacquer

We process the picture frame with varnish. The thickness of the layer depends on what cracks will be:

• If the applied layer is thin, the cracks will look shallow.
• With a thick coat of varnish, the cracks will have pronounced outlines.

After painting leave the frame to dry for at least 2 hours.

Important! Crater varnish is a coating that creates cracks. Cracking is not varnish, but applied over it paint. The crater component resembles an ordinary varnish.

The third stage - dyeing the baguette with white acrylic paint

With rapid movements paint the frame with white acrylic paint. As a result, cracks appear literally in front of our eyes. The paint should dry for about 2 hours. When the product dries, the cracks become clearly pronounced and the desired texture of the product is viewed.

Important! It is very important to paint the frame on the entire surface, without lifting your hands, in one stroke. You can pre-work with any other material. If you brush twice in one place, the crack pattern is broken.

With the first layer, it has already manifested itself, and if you pass a second time, the next layer of paint does not crack. In addition, secondary passage literally lubricates the pattern.

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How to paint a frame for a particular style of interior?

Stylishly designed frames can emphasize the interior design, so you need to choose a baguette color solution, depending on the style of the room. How to paint the frame for a painting with your own hands, depending on the style of the interior:

• Wall decorations from carved frames in dark golden or dark bronze colors complement the fashionable glamorous interiors and are suitable for the classic version.
• For vintage style, the composition is typical, where aged frames, a candlestick and various accessories such as a mirror on a stand, statuettes, caskets, antique vials from spirits can be present.
• Fancy frames, painted in white, black and silver, emphasize the modern interior in the style of Fusion.
• With a minimalistic interior, the standard square frames in white tones or any color that contrasts with the walls look great.

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Frame style depending on the genre of the painting

The frame is the "clothing" for the picture. The design of the baguette should not cover the composition of the canvas. But there are exceptions, mainly this applies to small-sized paintings. The ideal option is to match the texture of the baguette and the style of the painting:

• The texture of the frame can even repeat the characteristic strokes of paint or ornament that are used in the picture.
• With a simple plot of the picture, the frame should be in a simple style. And on the contrary - a deep plot line of the picture should be designed with an interesting baguette design solution.
• Modern abstraction will not look good in the lush gilded design of the frame. Therefore, simple is simple, and complex corresponds to a complex one.

Important! A strict aluminum frame for painting can not open the airiness of the picture watercolor. But it will perfectly emphasize the contrast black-and-white photo. And elegant frameworks for pictures from a carved wood of light tone are ideally combined with a gentle watercolor drawing.

• Very beautiful and modern technique of painting the baguette. In this case, the image of the picture gets a continuation in the frame, into which it gradually "flows".
• Also very effective looks the way of painting with two or several composite profiles, different in thickness. In this case, it is important that the composite profile consist of frames of different widths. The inner baguette, located near the picture, plays the role of a passepartout, while emphasizing the picture itself, but at the same time emphasizes the beautiful design of the "outer" frame.

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The color of the baguette

If you are going to paint the picture frame with your own hands, the color gamut plays a big role. The color of the picture frame should be complementary, respectively - to shade the picture. In addition, the baguette's color solution implies a difference in tone from the main color, either to the dark side or to the light one.

Important! You need to take into account such a nuance that for the paintings in cold colors use a frame of cold color, and vice versa - for a warm image suitable baguette of light tones. However, there is an exception in which a natural tree is combined with any shades.

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Baguette Width:

• The larger the size of the picture, the wider the baguette for the image. This alignment emphasizes the importance of the picture. Such compositions are placed in the central point of the interior and make them accent elements.
• Small pictures are framed in wide frames. At the same time, compliance is maintained when the total area of ​​the baguette is larger than the area of ​​the image. This option looks very impressive. But you need to consider that such design requires a stylistic approach for other images in the room.
• When selecting frames for small images, thin baguettes are often used. This choice looks stylish and modern, especially suitable for a whole group of paintings.

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How to decorate the frame?

When decorating paintings, anything can serve as a material: wine corks, various groats, cloth, old filings of glossy magazines, all kinds of shells. Consider the most interesting options for decorating the frame at home.

Wine Stoppers

This method of decorating the baguette is a modern hand-made art. To make such a frame, you need to take care of the basis for the baguette:

1. Wine cork should be cut into thin slices.
2. Using acrylics, give the appropriate color. It turns out a kind of cork buttons.
3. Now you need to include creative and creative imagination in order to accomplish the decoration. It is necessary to paste cork buttons of various colors on the main part of the picture frame.

Important! The frame can be designed as in a multicolored solution, to make a two-color or in a one-color version. In this case, taste, personal preferences and style of the interior play a role.

Groats

There is a very interesting option for decorating frames for paintings that are designed to be placed in the kitchen. How to decorate a frame for a picture with a groat with your own hands:

1. The basis of the frame is treated with PVA glue.
2. After that, plentifully sprinkle the surface of the baguette with selected cereals. Cereals can be used all manner of. Basically, the decoration uses barley, buckwheat, rice, wheat.

Important! The frame will look much more accurate if the base of the baguette is pre-treated with a paint that matches the color of the selected cereal.

Old magazines

Even from old glossy magazines you can design the frame of paintings that create a surprisingly beautiful interior:

1. Old glossy magazines cut into thin strips of the same size.
2. Of the cut strips, tighten tight tubes and fix them with glue.
3. These pipes need to glue the frame base for the picture, and the unusual design is ready.

Natural materials

For the decoration process you can use natural materials:

• Small twigs of shrubs can be used to decorate an obsolete picture frame.
• Large branches are suitable for unusual and creative design of the baguette.

Technique decoupage

Also the basis of a framework for pictures can be pasted with interesting fragments from old magazines and comics. To decorate the frame with your own hands, you can use special paper, which is characterized by a variety of storylines.

Fabric

For true needlewomen, the design of the frame becomes a real art, so the beautiful fabric is also in use. How to decorate a frame for a painting with your own hands:

1. On a dense sheet of cardboard we make the basis of a baguette.
2. Cut it out on contour lines.
3. Then you need to drape the surface of the frame with a beautiful cloth.

Important! There is an option of making a soft frame. To do this, apply cotton wool or sintepon, which fill the baguette for the picture.

Decorative scotch

Simply and quickly you can decorate a self-made frame by applying decorative tape or self-adhesive decorative paper. Today in stores there is a huge selection of all kinds of drawings on decorative tape. Therefore, everyone will be able to choose an interesting option for creating a frame for the picture.

In this article we have offered you a lot of interesting ideas, how to paint the frame for the picture and then decorate the baguette. Choose those that impress you more, and which you master in your practical decorating skills, then the result will certainly impress you!