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 drywall, wallpaper, tiles, stone, lining and many other materials. And you can apply drawings to walls and ceilings in different techniques. How do you do it yourself? This job requires some skill and skill. But as a result, the drawings will give the room a special comfort. 
To decorate the wall through the stencil, no special skills are required - enough paint and several printed drawings.
Required equipment for work
To make a painting on the 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 selecting the wall on which the drawing will be placed. It should attract the eye, be the central element of the decor of the room. The drawing can sometimes be used to mask any defects on the wall. Stage 2. At this stage, you need to find the right drawing. It is better to use the services of a professional artist, but this will result in a certain amount of money. You can search images in books, albums, show your own imagination. Stage 3. The wall needs to be properly prepared. To do this, from its surface completely removed old wallpaper, tiles, lagging plaster. If necessary, apply a fresh layer of plaster, which should be well dried and primed. Step 4. Acquire the necessary materials for drawing the picture. You will need brushes of several sizes and colors. It is recommended to use water-dispersive acrylic paints of the necessary colors. They are easily applied, if necessary they can be washed off. 
Scheme of artistic painting of the wall. Step 5. The wall is painted in a background color, which can coincide with the color of the other walls. After the paint has dried, draw a contour of the selected pattern on the wall. This is done slowly. After applying a few strokes, you need to step aside and evaluate the work done. If necessary, separate lines to erase and apply new ones. Step 6. Coloring the picture. It is recommended to apply the paint with a brush of medium width. Thin brushes are adjusted with individual strokes, contours and other details. After the drawing has dried, the work can be considered completed. Back to contents</a>
Methods of drawing a picture on the wall
Drawings can be done by stencil, ready ormade independently. Practically in any interior some stencilled images are entered. In the corridor, the dandelion looks elegant. In the bright living room is appropriate image of a branch of cherry blossom, ashberry, apple. In the bedroom, birds sitting on the wires, flowering apples and cherries, other trees will look good. Pleasure to the child will deliver images in his room of trees and ladybirds. Professional designers often apply wall painting with images of all kinds of trees. Drawings of flowers create a festive mood. The children's rooms always look good stories from their favorite cartoons and fairy tales. We need only take into account some of the psychological characteristics of children. Contrast painting on the wall can become a constant source of fear for the child, as well as 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. To put an image on the wall you can use printed photo wallpapers, posters. They are relatively inexpensive, but they look a little worse than a painted image. More interesting are stencilled images. Stencil painting of walls can be applied repeatedly on plaster, wallpaper, paint. A special talent of the artist does not have to possess. The stencil is superimposed on the wall section, temporarily fixed on it with the help of paint tape. The paint is applied by means of an ordinary sponge or a brush with fine bristles. Better yet, faster and cleaner to apply it in the form of a spray. The simplest pattern, applied with a stencil, is one-color. More complex stencils are multicolored. The number of stencils depends on the number of colors. You can use the projector to draw a picture on the wall. This method allows you to quickly and accurately draw a fairly complex image. After this, it will be necessary to circle the contours with a thin brush and paint the space inside the contours with the colors of the necessary colors. A sprayer is often used to apply a colorful pattern. It allows you to perform smooth transitions from color to color. When using it, it is recommended to protect furniture and all the premises with newspapers, oilcloth, polyethylene film. When working, you need to keep the windows open. The respiratory organs of the operator must be protected with a mask and glasses. 
Stencilled images of dandelions are veryelegantly look in the bedroom above the head of the bed. Practically every house today has a computer with which you can convert any photo and put it on the wall. To do this, go to the help of Photoshop. On the image you need to strengthen all lines of the outline, 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, the following items are selected in sequence: Image, then Mode and Grayscale. After that, the contrast increases, the bit mode is set. The resultant image is transferred to the wall through the projector, it is surrounded by an ordinary pencil and covered with the paint of the desired color. If you can not use the projector, you can transfer the image of the paint tape. With its help, outline outlines of the drawing are outlined. The space inside this circuit is completely sealed with adhesive tape. An image is drawn on it with a pencil. Internal circuits are outlined with a dark marker and cut out with a stationery knife. The loosened contours are treated with a primer to better adhere the paint to the wall. Then paint is applied with a brush. After it dries, which takes about 10 hours, all the paint tape is removed and only the image of the pattern contours remains on the wall. A kind of painting on the wall can be done with liquid wallpaper. They are durable and very elastic. They contain only natural ingredients that do not cause allergic reactions. The colors of the liquid wallpaper do not burn out, they do not accumulate dust. Such wallpaper can be completely or partially removed from the surface of the wall and replaced with new ones, painted in any color. The volumetric drawings are applied with a putty compound. It is applied through a stencil. Such a protruding picture, if desired, can be painted with paint of any color. In the bathroom are appropriate images of fish, dolphins, swans, sailboats. Back to contents</a>
Advice of specialists
Drawing on the wall, made by own hands,will give a whole new look to the room. Beautifully look on the walls of the image of trees, made in a different manner, birds, butterflies, flowers, fairy-tale characters. You can create such a miracle with the help of ordinary acrylic paints, a few brushes and your own desire. To begin with, you can try to apply a one-color stencil drawing. With the advent of skills, more complex images will appear on the walls.
