Drawing a fresco with your own hands is enoughAncient art, which has always been remarkable for its beauty and unusualness. Fresco is considered to be the application on a plastered wall of a painting, which nowadays can be both stencil and handwritten. 
Modern frescoes can be as relief, colored,Solid, executed under a stencil and manually. Fresco has many advantages over other types of finishes. Your image will be considered unique even if you apply it through a stencil. Yes, and in this way you can make a separate wall, and part of it, that does not spoil the overall interior and style of the room. To this we can add also the durability of such a coating. Consider how to make a mural yourself.
Tips for working with frescoes
The fresco performed by hand on Byzantinetradition, is considered one of their most expensive. So, when applying a fresco to the surface, you need to take into account the degree of personal artistic inclinations in order to determine exactly how you will apply the image to the wall. If you have the ability to draw, even small ones, you can show your imagination and draw an image by hand. In this case, you choose the level of complexity of the image and its specific details. You can select a story and draw it from a source, then add a few designer details from yourself. Even if the drawing turns out to be imperfect, it will in any case be yours, and this shows its uniqueness. If you do not have sufficient creative abilities in terms of visual arts, you can make a mural yourself in a simpler way. It is that the fresco is applied to the plaster as a stencil digital. The image is simply transferred to the surface from a special paper. Then you yourself can outline the colors and shades on the contours, to pay more or less attention to small accents. But you first need this plan stencil or buy it in a special store, or do it yourself with a computer and large-format printing. Now you can decide how to apply a beautiful painting easier and more convenient. On the plaster you can apply any image, starting with the picture of the usual and ending with a complex photograph of a real person. It will only be in cost and labor. But, as practice shows, any fresco will not be too expensive. Back to contents</a>
Wall surface preparation
Already on the prepared wall surface is appliedmarking under the mural in full size. You can take up work on the fresco. It is carried out in several stages, each of which in its own way is important and necessary. Pay special attention to the preparation of the wall before drawing the picture, so that the fresco is durable. So, first release the surface from the old coating. Do this as necessary as possible, without regretting the old plaster and putty, which is already starting to crumble or even crack a little in some places. All the defects still need to be sealed. When this is done, it is good to sweep the dust off the wall with a dry cloth or brush, and then cover it gently with a primer. This is necessary for better adhesion to the plasters. Wait until the primer is completely absorbed, and then proceed to the next job. The subsequent finishing consists in correction of wall defects. For this purpose, conventional cement plaster and a good putty are used. With the help of these tools, you have to repair all cracks and potholes on the wall surface, then slightly polish these places with a flat board dampened in water. When everything is dry, cover the wall again with a primer, and after soaking, proceed to apply the main layer of plaster. You can use normal quality plaster based on cement with sand. But to improve its properties, it is better to add a bit of an astringent, which can be used as a gypsum or a small amount of plasticizers. The plaster is applied with a trowel or spatula. Try to do everything right at once, so that you do not correct mistakes later. Immediately do an easy grinding with the above method. Next, to achieve ideal smoothness, we cover the wall with putty. After the putty has dried, it is necessary to coat the wall again with a primer. To do this, choose a primer composition of a higher quality so that it can not only help to fix the paint, but also prevent the appearance of dampness or fungus on the wall. Preparatory work can be considered finished. Back to contents</a>
Mural painting by different methods
The relief fresco is applied to the entire wall andis performed in one color scheme. Now you can take up creative work. Regardless of which method you apply the fresco (by stencil or without it), you will definitely need acrylic colors of the right colors, a brush with artificial nap and two brushes with natural. Choose at once more convenient for you thickness of brushes, depending on the chosen pattern. Still need to be stocked with a soft clean rag, transparent high-quality varnish and a brush for its application, a wide lead, a sharp pencil and a washcloth. If you want to see the effect of antiquity, you can buy and paint on the basis of craquelure (gives cracking), golden or silver powder. Back to contents</a> Drawing on the wall with your own hands 
The picture of the fresco can be either traditional,and modern subjects. Begin to apply the pattern from above, gradually turning to the bottom. So it will be much more convenient, you will not smear the paint and do not get dirty yourself. First, larger elements are worked through, and then smaller ones. It is even better to deal with very small details after the drying of the main part of the drawing. If you want to make a cracking, carefully apply the paint on this place. If you want to slightly age the picture or give it more majesty and classics, then use a gilded or silver powder. However, remember: craquelure is applied to the dried paint, and the powder is still slightly fresh. After drying with a washcloth, you can easily remove the surplus. After the final drying of the whole picture, the matter will remain for a small one - cover the surface with a protective clear varnish. To do this, use a wide brush. Lacquer in this case serves both as a protection and as a means of additional decoration. So, if you want a glossy pattern, cover the image with two or even three layers of lacquer. But to achieve matte effect will be enough and one layer. This is also enough for reliable protection of the surface in the future. Back to contents</a> Mural painting on a slateConsider the process of applying the fresco on a stencil. This work differs little, because the basic principles of applying paints and varnish remain exactly the same. But before working with paints, you need to draw a sketch of the drawing. So, turn your sketch reverse side and paint completely with a wide lead. Then the sketch painted side is applied tightly to the wall, and on the front part of it all lines are drawn with a pencil with force. Do not be afraid to scratch the sketch; it's even better in some cases, because the outline will be seen more clearly on the wall surface. It is better to work together, because one person must keep a sketch so that during the translation of the drawing he does not move. When the sketch is translated, proceed to finish it with the method described above, but do not draw the drawing yourself, but work along the contour. You can safely experiment with different shades and the degree of thickness of the lines. Back to contents</a> Other more simple methods of applying a frescoThere are also such stencils, which are made of very thin paper. Such paper is first covered with a special adhesive for stencils on the reverse side, after which this side is applied to the wall and gently pressed in all places. And after a full grasp and dry it directly on it as paint is applied. There is another simpler way of painting frescoes on the wall. Here we mean the gluing of a normal canvas with a pattern that will hold as simply as a wallpaper. To do this, the surface is preliminarily delineated, it is applied glue for non-woven wallpaper, which is immediately glued to the fresco on special paper. After drying, the canvas is leveled, it needs to be varnished. The work on applying the fresco can be considered finished. It's easy, and even interesting and exciting, especially for people who love to do art. So do not be afraid and take to finishing the fresco of individual walls or parts of them in any room.
