Decorating your home, making it cozy and giving it an individual, non-typical look is our natural desire. But what if there is no time for cross-stitching, weaving rugs or decoupage, and complex techniques - such as sawing, embossing or beading - require special knowledge and tools? There is an exit! Anyone can make panels of natural material with their own hands, and the effects can be simply amazing! Suffice it to mention that both venerable artists and designers do not neglect this type of creativity.
Learning by imitating
This is the easiest way. Take a walk through art galleries, clubs, cafes, bars. Pay attention to the trends: panels made of natural material, made with their own hands, increasingly decorate the walls of such establishments, giving them originality. What is the beauty of such scenery? Just that they are unique. It is impossible to find completely identical pebbles, branches, shells. But the idea is always worth spying. By the way, often artists make out various institutions, hanging wall panels from natural material, for a reason. After all, visitors pay attention to the decor, to the decor - and can purchase the thing they like. Such a “functional” gallery is also one of the new trends in exhibition art. Take this note when you want to sell your decorative panel of natural material.
Preparation stages
After looking at the works of others, we go ... to the forest, in the field, to the meadow, to the beach. Whatever you like. Ecostyle in art is good because the "raw materials" for works can be found literally under your feet. A trained eye will immediately pay attention to the original colors of the stones, to the bizarre bending of twigs, to outlandish patterns of tree bark. We stock up on everything that we liked - and go home. How to fasten parts for panels made of natural material? With your own hands collecting the entire composition, you need to make sure that the joints are invisible. Large parts (pieces of bark, branches) usually do not stick, but are mounted on a thin wire. In the substrate - and it can be canvas, wood, plywood, thick cardboard - holes are made. A string or metal wire is inserted into them, a part is tied (which can also be imperceptibly pierced) and tightened from the back. Light elements (leaves, dried flowers) can be sewn or glued with a special thin gun.
Framing
The finished composition - that is, our panel made of natural material with our own hands - will most likely hang on the wall.
If the details are large, without varnishing, grinding, and the base is a board or sawn wood, they can not only be framed, but you should not do this. Otherwise, you can lose the bizarre shape of the background itself and its natural beauty. If the whole composition is created from small, elegant, lace fragments (for example, dried flowers, leaves, small shells, sand), then the frame will give it a finished look. Its color will depend on the shades that dominate the panel. It can be selected by contrast or by the principle of midtones. Most often, a simple wooden frame is chosen, which can also be decorated with applications or painted. Wall panels from natural materials can also be done on felt, on dense fabric, or you can make them openwork - without a background.