Before carrying out repair work in the apartment orin a country house, many residents face the problem of choosing finishing materials for walls and ceilings. You can use the very popular plasterboard, wallpaper, tiles, stone, lining and many other materials. Or you can apply drawings to the walls and ceilings using different techniques. How to do it yourself? This work requires some skills and abilities. But as a result, the drawings will give the room a special coziness.
Decorating a wall using a stencil does not require any special skills - just paint and a few printed designs.
Required equipment for work
To make a painting on a wall, you may need:
- pencil;
- level;
- eraser;
- brushes of different sizes;
- acrylic colors of the right colors and shades;
- small containers for paints;
- palette in the form of a piece of cardboard or a plate of white color;
- ready-made stencils or material for their manufacture;
- foam rubber sponge;
- projector;
- stepladder for work at height.
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Stages of drawing
Tools for painting walls. Step 1.Work begins with choosing the wall on which the drawing will be placed. It should attract the eye and be the central element of the room's decor. The drawing can sometimes be used to mask any defects on the wall. Stage 2. At this stage, you need to choose a suitable drawing. It is better to use the services of a professional artist, but this will cost a certain amount of money. You can look for images in books, in albums, or use your own imagination. Stage 3. The wall must be properly prepared. To do this, completely remove old wallpaper, tiles, and peeling plaster from its surface. If necessary, apply a fresh layer of plaster, which must be thoroughly dried and primed. Stage 4. Purchase the materials necessary for applying the drawing. You will need brushes of several sizes and paints. It is recommended to use water-dispersible acrylic paints of the required colors. They are easy to apply and can be washed off if necessary.
Scheme of artistic painting of a wall. Stage 5.The wall is painted in a background color, which can match the color of the other walls. After the paint dries, draw the outline of the selected drawing on the wall. This is done slowly. After applying a few strokes, you need to step aside and evaluate the work done. If necessary, erase individual lines and apply new ones. Step 6. Coloring the drawing. It is recommended to apply the paint with a medium-width brush. Thin brushes are used to correct individual strokes, contours and other details. After the drawing dries, the work can be considered complete. Return to contents</a>
Methods of drawing a picture on the wall
Drawings can be made using a stencil, ready-made ormade by yourself. Some stencil images fit into almost any interior. A dandelion looks elegant in the hallway. In a light living room, an image of a branch of blossoming sakura, rowan, or apple tree is appropriate. Birds sitting on wires, blossoming apple and cherry trees, and other trees will look good in the bedroom. The child will enjoy images of trees and ladybugs in his room. Professional designers often use wall paintings with images of all kinds of trees. Flower drawings create a festive mood. Scenes from favorite cartoons and fairy tales always look good in children's rooms. You just need to take into account some of the psychological characteristics of children. Contrasting painting on the wall can become a constant source of fear for a child, as can monochrome. Pictures should be bright and positive. Dark shades and burgundy colors have a depressing effect on the fragile child's psyche. It is better to choose light pastel colors for children.
Scheme of using stencils.You can apply an image to a wall using printed photo wallpaper and posters. They are relatively inexpensive, but they look somewhat worse than a drawn image. Stencil images look more interesting. Stencil painting of walls can be repeatedly applied to plaster, wallpaper, paint. You don’t have to be a particularly talented artist. The stencil is applied to a section of the wall and temporarily fixed to it with masking tape. The paint is applied with an ordinary sponge or a brush with fine bristles. It is even better, faster and cleaner to apply it as a spray. The simplest drawing applied with a stencil is single-color. More complex stencils are multi-color. The number of stencils depends on the number of colors. You can use a projector to apply a drawing to a wall. This method allows you to quickly and efficiently draw a fairly complex image. After that, it remains to outline the contours with a thin brush and paint the space inside the contours with paints of the desired colors. A sprayer is often used to apply a colorful drawing. It allows for smooth transitions from color to color. When using it, it is recommended to protect furniture and the entire room with newspapers, oilcloth, and polyethylene film. When working, keep the windows open. The operator's respiratory organs must be protected with a mask and glasses.
Dandelion stencil images are verylook elegant in the bedroom above the headboard. Almost every home today has a computer with which you can transform any photo and apply it to the wall. To do this, you need to turn to the Photoshop program. In the image, you need to strengthen all the contour lines, and weaken the background. To do this, you need to change the color of the picture to gray. To do this, in the Photoshop program, sequentially select the Image items, then Mode and Grayscale. After that, the contrast is increased, the bit mode is set. The resulting image is transferred to the wall through a projector, outlined with an ordinary pencil and covered with paint of the desired color. If it is not possible to use a projector, masking tape will help to transfer the image. With its help, the outer contours of the picture are outlined. The space inside this contour is completely sealed with tape. An image is drawn on it with a pencil. The inner contours are outlined with a dark marker and cut out with a stationery knife. The contours freed from tape are treated with a primer for better adhesion of the paint to the wall. Then paint is applied with a brush. After it dries, which takes about 10 hours, all the masking tape is removed and only the outline of the drawing remains on the wall. A unique painting on the wall can be done with liquid wallpaper. They are durable and very elastic. They contain only natural components that do not cause allergic reactions. The colors of liquid wallpaper do not fade, dust does not accumulate on them. Such wallpaper can be completely or partially removed from the wall surface and replaced with new ones, painted in any color. Three-dimensional drawings are applied using a putty composition. It is applied through a stencil. Such a protruding drawing can be painted with paint of any color, if desired. Images of fish, dolphins, swans, sailboats are appropriate in the bathroom. Return to the table of contents</a>
Advice of specialists
A drawing on the wall made by hand,will give a completely new look to the room. Images of trees, made in different styles, birds, butterflies, flowers, fairy-tale characters look beautiful on the walls. You can create such a miracle with the help of ordinary acrylic paints, several brushes and your own desire. To begin with, you can try to apply a single-color stencil drawing. As skills appear, more and more complex images will appear on the walls.
