There is no such unusual material from which it would be impossible to make a picture. Perhaps some consider it a crazy idea to create paintings from coffee, tea, scales, toothpicks, fluff, feathers, nails, grains of any grain, and this list is far from complete. It can be continued indefinitely, since the human imagination is inexhaustible. "Artists themselves" create unusual paintings from improvised materials with their own hands. Interesting ideas of such paintings and panels, put into practice, will be discussed in the article.
Impressive rice paintings
You can make a picture with your own hands from any material. Take, for example, the most common rice, which is the staple food of Asian countries. For most of us, it always meant food, and no one thought that rice grains could be part of art or painting. The majority of people came across rice in the kitchen, preparing delicious dishes from it. It turns out that there is another side to the use of rice - we are talking about paintings from unusual material that are made with its use.
Creating rice paintings requires a lot of patience and careful preparation of the material. To complete the landscape, portraits or images of animals, you need different colors of rice. Four primary colors are mainly used - black, white, yellow and brown, which are created by frying rice grains at a certain temperature. The color scheme can vary, giving additional tones to the picture due to a change in the temperature of roasting.
Like any picture, rice begins to be created with a picture, which is then filled with the grains of the right color using tweezers. A glue gun or PVA glue is what is needed so that the grains hold well on the base. Some artists varnish finished paintings.
Man-made miracle of seashells
The best material for creating extraordinary paintings is all that is created by nature itself. From the shells and shells brought from the sea, a wonderful bouquet of sunflowers can be made for the kitchen. Painting on a wall from improvised material is not just a mosaic. Here you need attention to detail, accuracy in the selection of a particular natural material, and you also need to strive not to violate the style of interior design. This picture is a great complement to the Provence style kitchen.
To create the picture in the photo above, shells of molluscs painted with acrylic yellow paint were needed. They perfectly convey the texture of the leaves of the sunflower head. Large leaves made of large mussel leaves also look very lively. All parts are mounted on the canvas with a glue gun and opened with a scuba gear.
Coffee Bean Pictures
Creating the atmosphere of your apartment is not an easy task. I want to do something with my own hands, and there is no better decoration than paintings. However, not all were born by artists, but a large number of people have their creative potential since childhood. Crafts were made in kindergartens and schools. Therefore, upon reflection, you can find such improvised material from which you can make a unique and inimitable picture.
For example, coffee beans are an excellent material for making pictures for the kitchen. Unlike small grains of rice, it is not difficult to make pictures from improvised material, which are coffee beans. To create such a picture from a sketch made previously, for the pleasure of those who love such work as drawing pictures from puzzles. The main thing is inspiration and fantasy. The coffee beans are glued using a glue gun or regular glue. This can be a sketch of a coffee cup, and a frame of coffee beans.
Plastic cover - material for the picture
A variety of colors of caps from plastic bottles allows you to implement original ideas for creating paintings from them. Such paintings are more suitable for summer cottages, especially those located not in the dwelling, but on the walls of utility rooms, toilets, fences.
This pattern is not affected by weather conditions. Based on the pattern for cross-stitch, you can make a picture with your own hands. From improvised materials make the original frame. There are two ways to fix the covers: by nailing to the base or by gluing on liquid construction nails. No less interesting paintings, patterns and ornaments can be made from beer caps and wine corks.
Buttons as handy material
If you want to create, there is no shortage of art materials. They can be found at home. For example, in every house there are buttons of various kinds, hooks, pins, parts from children's toys. To create a picture with your own hands from improvised materials (the photo can be seen below), everything found in the bins will do.
People involved in the creation of such paintings are real remakers (from the English remake - “remaking”), remaking junk into something new. Such paintings need to be viewed from a long distance. Nearby, they seem to be chaos of buttons and various objects.
Pictures of strange material
Surely, if you walk along the bins well, you can find cassette films stored since the 70s. How not to call these films strange material for the picture? For a person without imagination, the plot of the picture is difficult to come up with. But it’s not the artist’s talent, but fantastic thinking that will allow him to create paintings from an unusual material - an old cassette film. A few strokes marked with film, and the portrait is ready. The main thing is to see what you want to receive. If this portrait is placed in the original handmade frame, it will already be a three-dimensional picture.
Volumetric paintings from improvised materials
There are many ways to maintain comfort in the house at present. You can realize interesting ideas without making big expenses, while refreshing the interior of a room. For example, a true volumetric picture made by one's own hands can amaze friends and relatives. You do not need to have artistic skills for this, you need to have time, patience, unlimited imagination and a good mood.
It is possible to create volumetric panels in the old frames from paintings and photographs, placing inside them on a stretched canvas any details that correspond to the design of the room. What can be taken to create a three-dimensional picture from an unusual material?
It can be plastic bottles from which it will be possible to cut out details for a picture. Elements of jewelry are suitable for creating small details. Branches of trees, dried flowers and leaves will look original. Original material - feathers of birds. Small pebbles and shells brought from the sea are also suitable for a voluminous picture that will decorate the kitchen in modern style or combined with Provence style details.
For work, you will need such basic tools as scissors, a glue gun or PVA glue, pencils, needles, threads. For example, such a voluminous picture, which in the photo above, will be a decoration of the living room.
Pasta Masterpieces
Creative paintings can be obtained using all kinds of pasta in them as a working material. And these pictures will organically look on the walls of the kitchen. The process of creating a picture does not take much time, especially since every home has any pasta. The actual technique for creating such paintings is subject application. To make the picture color, pasta is painted with gouache or watercolor.
You can create a picture with children even of preschool age. For them, this is a good experience working with parents and the acquisition of painstaking work skills. If you make one or two sketches with the child, he may well be able to do the work on his own in the future and show the paintings he created from unusual materials in the kindergarten. The subjects of paintings can be different: flowers, sea landscapes, animals, portraits, still lifes.
Workshop on creating a picture
To create a pasta masterpiece, you should prepare tools and materials. For work, you will need:
- The frame and the basis of the picture is whatman or cardboard.
- Watercolor or gouache.
- Any pasta.
- PVA glue or glue gun.
- Pencil, brush.
- Scuba diving.
The first stage of work is the application of a drawing on the basis of which the main pasta material will be laid out. It is necessary to draw in order to clearly see how the finished picture will look. It can be a still life, separate objects or a landscape.
The second stage is laying out and, accordingly, pasting on the basis of pasta of various kinds (spirals, horns, noodles, spaghetti, etc.). The background can be made from fine cereals, such as semolina or finely ground wheat grits.
The third stage of the work is painting the picture and coating it with varnish. As a result, a picture from an unusual material is ready.
Flea markets - a storehouse of materials for paintings
Resourceful artists for their masterpieces are looking for the most unusual materials in flea markets. They have everything that the soul desires. For many contemporary artists, their hobby is thus transformed into a painstaking work, and they themselves become real remakers. Creating their own paintings from improvised materials (photos can be seen below), artists go into the world of illusions, forgetting about all the problems of the real world. For example, the famous Polish artist Anna Dabrovskaya performs her paintings from computer parts, buttons, fabrics. According to the artist, she loves flea markets, and explains her art as a mixture of "industrial and cyberpunk art with a little spiritual feeling."
Pictures of money
Perhaps the most expensive self-made paintings from unusual materials include money. For example, the Minsk artist Igor Arich performed such a picture from old Soviet bills. Such a direction in the creation of paintings is called bill note, and the artist is called bill note. If the picture is made of real notes, then its cost will be significant, and when sold at auction it will be higher than all the costs for it.
But there is another way out to make a similar analogue. Currently, stationery stores sell bills of various countries and various nominations. These are bookmarks for books. They are the same size as the original bill. You can scan original bills with a color printer.
The creative process begins with the idea and visualization of the intended picture. Then a sketch is made, and the necessary details are already selected according to it. Pictures are composed of small components in a mosaic of fragments of notes.
Summarizing
The unusual materials listed in the article are part of what else pictures can be made of. For example, there is packaging material such as bubble wrap. Lovers of working with her create unique masterpieces, filling each vial with acrylic paint. When you look at such pictures from afar, you just can’t determine which material the work is made of.
There are craftsmen who "paint" their paintings, mixing ink and drinks, which include tea, coffee and more strong ones, such as brandy, cognac and whiskey.
Pictures from such strange material as butterfly wings look amazingly beautiful. Their creation takes months of painstaking work. Where does this material come from? This unusual material is sent to the artist Vadim Zaritsky by butterfly collectors from everywhere. Over time, collection butterflies lose their color; they are discarded from the collection.
There is still unusual material that many lovers work with to create something unique. These are feathers and down of birds. Someone connects their creativity to create paintings from unusual materials with the use of curtain tulle. The British artist Benjamin Shine created from this material a lot of works that have been repeatedly exhibited at exhibitions.
How many interesting things in the world! But paintings created with their own hands retain particles of the soul and heat, and many can serve as a talisman of the home.