From time immemorial, people tried to decorate their home, painted animals and their life on stone walls, made various crafts. Modern people have not gone far from their ancestors, and now we want to decorate our house, and certainly something special, not like everyone else. Our article will talk about one of the ideas for decorating the interior. It will be about how to create volumetric paintings with your own hands.
Pictures - decoration of any interior
How long have paintings existed? As much as the man himself exists. Only their purpose was not always the same. Previously, many thousands of years ago, paintings were a kind of means of transmitting information to future generations. And only after many centuries, people began to paint them for pleasure and beauty. Painting has turned into art.
It is pointless to argue that the picture is an adornment of any interior. Even the oldest wall will be transformed if you hang a picture on it, and the room will certainly become much more comfortable and nicer. Do you want to learn how to change your home on your own? DIY interior painting - here is the answer! You do not need much time, effort and financial costs. If before the picture was considered a luxury item, now anyone can make it on their own. How? Read on and be sure to find out! You will need only a little zeal and the presence of minimal creative abilities.
DIY painting: master class
There are many ways to make a beautiful picture yourself. Most of them are associated with the creation of three-dimensional colors. They are very simple to create using the embroidery method and several bright satin ribbons. It turns out beautifully, brightly and individually!
Such a picture can then be placed in an ordinary frame or come up with other ideas for using a three-dimensional picture with flowers. You just need to attach a little imagination and creativity. For example, if the image is small, then it can even be placed in a photo frame, and then you will have an exotic desktop decor.
Necessary materials
What needs to be acquired in order to learn how to create such voluminous paintings with their own hands?
- Satin ribbons of different widths and colors. There must be a green color for the stems and leaves, and several other colors of your choice for buds.
- A needle with a very wide, large eye.
- Chalk or pencil for sketch outline.
- Material as a canvas on which you will embroider flowers. It can be anything - thick cardboard, velvet paper glued to the same cardboard. The main thing is that the base of the picture should not be too thick and hard, it should allow a needle with a ribbon to “pass through” itself. You can use the fabric and the hoop, and then glue or pull the fabric onto another suitable base.
- Scissors.
Preparation: sketch
A self-made picture for the interior can become not only an adornment of your own apartment or house, but also a wonderful gift. Where does the creation of a future masterpiece begin? Right, with a sketch! First of all, you need to understand what name bouquet you want to see. In our master class, we will consider the manufacture of tulips. On the prepared canvas, barely noticeably draw in chalk or pencil the outline of your bouquet. The most important point will be the location of the buds.
Embroidery buds
The sketch is ready. Let's start embroidering the buds!
- Take a wide yellow satin ribbon. Make a knot at the end of the tape.
- Start work on the wrong side of the canvas. Pull the ribbon needle near the first bud.
- It is very simple to make the effect of volume: it is enough not to tighten the tape to the end. Leave her free.
- 3 stitches are usually enough to create one bud. If this is not enough, sew 5-6 stitches. In the same way, make three more yellow buds.
- A handmade painting for the interior will become even prettier if the flowers in the composition are of different colors. So grab a bright pink satin ribbon. Embroider 4 more buds with it.
- If you wish, you can make any number of buds of completely different colors. In the picture of our master class there are also tulips of pale pink color. This completes the creation of the buds!
Embroidery of stems and leaves
Agree, a picture for the interior, created with your own hands, would be incomplete without stems and leaves. We will make them now, giving the painting a finished look!
- Take the thinnest green satin ribbon.
- Embroider one stalk from each bud in very small stitches. Make them with bends, so they will look as natural as possible.
- Take a wider ribbon of green color and embroider tulip leaves with it. The picture is ready!
Some more interesting ideas
A little higher was said about how you can create volumetric paintings (flowers) with your own hands, namely a bouquet of tulips from satin ribbons. You have learned all the secrets and made sure that there is absolutely nothing complicated. This example is just one of the few, this is the tip of the iceberg called "creativity"!
We bring to your attention a few more ideas for creating three-dimensional paintings.
- rose flower
The material from which it is made can be any. Take oilcloth, cloth, mesh - but anything! Just laying squares of fabric of different sizes on top of each other can create a beautiful voluminous rose! And if this flower is sewn to the canvas and framed with an appropriate frame, you get a real picture of the material, made with your own hands!
- Dry flowers
With their help, you can make real masterpieces! Little secret: flowers need to be dried, hanging them with buds down. Then they will not lose their form.
- Bottle caps
Why throw them away? After all, you can make a picture that is completely unlike anything! And you will be 100% sure that no one else has it.
- Buttons
They can be used not only for its intended purpose. A little imagination - and your child will be delighted! Buttons can be glued or sewn. You can use a background image, then the free space around the buttons will not be so noticeable.
DIY grain paintings - a new fashion trend
Pictures of grain are becoming increasingly popular. It is environmentally friendly, inexpensive and very interesting! Such a picture will perfectly decorate the interior in a rustic style. You will need only glue, frame and grains of various grades.
A great idea would be to create a picture of coffee beans. It’s very easy to make a composition, even a child can handle it. Grains are attached to the canvas with ordinary glue. An excellent burlap material will be ordinary burlap. In addition, the true connoisseurs of this drink will be delighted with the aroma of the created masterpiece! Art and aromatization of the room in one bottle? Easy!
Create, dear readers! Whether it’s a picture made of material, satin ribbons, dried flowers or grains, the most important thing will always be that you made it yourself! You will always know that this masterpiece is available only in a single copy and your apartment is decorated with an exclusive little thing. Or maybe you will come up with something completely new? Who knows! Surprise yourself and your friends, diversify your child’s leisure. Creating volumetric paintings is a very interesting activity that can captivate the whole family!