Artistic skills required
Many examples of ancient artistic wall painting have survived to this day, delighting with their uniqueness and beauty.
Unusual paintings can diversify a modern interior and make it unique. For this, professional artists are most often invited, but creative people who love extraordinary solutions are happy to paint walls themselves. You will need inspiration, aesthetic taste, basic artistic skills, time and patience. Otherwise the result will be the opposite. View all works on the walls of this artist.
Tools for work
It is convenient to apply the background and various large details of the design with paint in a can or using a spray gun - a device that provides spraying of the smallest particles of paint for wall painting and allows you to obtain uniform painting with a minimum of effort. Slightly smaller areas are painted with a roller or wide brushes; details are painted in with thin brushes made of natural or synthetic materials. Interesting textures and color transitions can be achieved using such non-standard objects as soft foam sponges or palette knives (art spatulas).
Paints and brushes for painting
Only desire and skills will not be enough; some financial costs will also be required for the purchase of materials and tools. For painting walls in apartments, it is recommended to use acrylic paints , which is understandable if you know their advantages. Acrylic paints dry quickly, are not exposed to ultraviolet rays, chemicals, are odorless, environmentally friendly, and waterproof.
The images obtained by applying these paints have extraordinary brightness and saturation; they are easy to correct if necessary. If for some reason not the entire color palette is found in the store, then do not be upset; the necessary colors are obtained by mixing paints. All artists do this. Painting is done using brushes with natural bristles.
Interior for a children's room
In the nursery, thanks to wall paintings, you can create a real fairy-tale kingdom.
On the walls in the room there are depictions of a mysterious forest, characters from cartoons and fairy tales. That is why you need to choose light blue, pink, light green or peach tones for decoration.
It is better not to choose gray and gloomy shades, as this frightens the baby and does not contribute to his creative development.
For harmonious development, the baby needs many small details that will attract attention. Alphanumeric combinations on surfaces are relevant for preschoolers
For little girls, it is better to choose fairy-tale characters and princesses, while boys will like technology and pirates. During adolescence, there comes a time when a child becomes interested in comics and anime characters. Take these motives into account when making repairs.
Get ready for the fact that children's interests change very quickly, so it is quite possible that in a year or two you will have to change the decor.
A sketch will be required
sketches for painting For any painting, even the simplest one, you will need a sketch, so it’s worth searching for its idea and motive. They will depend not only on personal preferences, but also on the functional purpose of the room. It is unlikely that anyone will paint the living room based on children's fairy tales, or the children's room in Japanese or classical styles.
Having decided on an idea, you can develop several sketches or select them on the Internet, or purchase suitable stencils in stores. The selected drawing should not be discordant with the surrounding environment. When the choice of sketch has been made, it’s time to proceed to a more prosaic and boring task - preparing the surface of the wall.
Selection of drawing
The choice of subject, colorful materials and image size depend on the room in which the painting will be carried out. It is necessary to take into account the interior, the style of the room, lighting and the tasks assigned to the artist.
Bedroom
This is a place of rest and sleep. When choosing a subject, avoid images with raging elements: waterfalls, stormy rivers, tongues of fire. Wild animals and scenes of fading nature will also be inappropriate.
Calm landscapes and flowering plants, flowers and trees, birds and butterflies, a beautiful sky, a smooth lake surface with water lilies will look great.
Bathroom
If you want to decorate your bathroom with painting, then you need to follow a few rules:
- For work you should use moisture-resistant plaster.
- Give preference to moisture-resistant paints, such as acrylic. When the paint layer dries, a film forms and will prevent contact with water.
- After finishing painting, cover the image with protective varnish, maybe 2-3 layers.
By following these simple tips, the wall painting will be well protected from high humidity in the room.
For the bathroom, you can choose sea scenes with fancy shells, algae and colorful fish.
Kitchen and dining room
In the kitchen, it is important to decide on a place for wall painting. Do not paint near the stove or sink
This is an unfavorable environment for images; water can ruin a beautiful work.
In any case, if according to the laws of the genre the painting should be in just such a place, then take care of moisture-resistant paints. And at the end of the work, be sure to cover the work with 2-3 layers of varnish.
A very interesting design technique for expanding space is the image of a window overlooking the garden. Another option is a still life with fruit and beautiful vases. Everything that evokes appetite and aesthetic pleasure will fit perfectly into the style of the dining room. Calm landscapes, scenes with a tropical garden or a beautiful summer veranda will also decorate the dining area.
Children's
In this room you can give space to your imagination. Let the little owner take part in the discussion of the creative project. Painting a children's room can be associated with a child's dream. Fairy-tale characters, a magical forest, a quaint castle, cartoon characters, outer space - all this can enliven and decorate a child’s room.
You should not choose aggressive subjects. A calm, neutral background and expressively written characters will create a good mood for your child.
Living room
This is the central room in the apartment. Dinner parties, receptions and pleasant family gatherings in the evenings take place here. In such an interior, sea and natural landscapes, city sketches with quaint streets, abstraction, reproductions of great masters and large stylized flowers will look great.
When choosing a plot, focus on the general style of the room:
- For the design of a room in a classic style, images with sea views, ancient estates, cityscapes and black and white graphics are suitable.
- For an ethnic style, select paintings from a particular country with elements of everyday life and folk traditions. These could be Egyptian pyramids, a French cafe, Japanese sakura, American skyscrapers, Italian canals or Indian temples.
- The modern hi-tech style will go perfectly with graphic drawings or images of architectural ensembles of the city. For other styles, images are selected in the same way.
Preparing the surface for painting
The working area must be flat, free from unnecessary paint and cracks; the reliability of the painting will depend on this. Having removed all excess, the surface is degreased with primers and leveled by applying several layers of plaster.
Using putty, the surface is brought to an impeccably smooth state. Once dry, the wall is sanded and the resulting dust is removed. It is recommended to invite a professional builder for this routine work.
The preparatory stage ends by priming the surface with acrylic primer. It is done with a brush or roller. The primer gives strength to the surface, strengthens it and prevents crumbling. It provides a connection between the paint and the wall.
Technological process
Before starting drawing, they choose an image, determine the size, purchase consumables (brushes, rollers, spatulas, napkins, etc.), stencils, if the work will be done according to a ready-made template, select shades.
Preparatory work
To get a neat, beautiful painting, you need to prepare a working surface. If the base is plastered, does not crumble and lies flat, no cleaning is required.
The wall to be painted with acrylic must be leveled and treated with a layer of primer.
Preparing the wall for painting:
- Remove wallpaper, old paint from the surface with a spatula, wash off whitewash and loose plaster. The painted layer is removed using a drill with an attachment in the form of a hard wire brush.
- The coating is washed or vacuumed to remove dust.
- Degrease the working base with white spirit or a special primer.
- Level with plasterboard and putty.
- The surface is rubbed with medium-grain sandpaper, and the dust formed during processing is removed.
- Apply acrylic primer with a roller or paint brush and dry. The soil will ensure reliable adhesion of the paint composition to the working base, penetrating 5-10 cm deep, and protects against mold and mildew.
Transferring the sketch to the wall
transferring the sketch to the wall The preparatory stage is completed, it’s time to transfer the sketch to the wall. When doing this yourself for the first time, it makes sense to listen to the advice of experts who offer several ways to solve this simple task.
- Enlarge the sketch made on paper at a scale of 1:1 using a design program and print it. This can be done in parts on A4 sheets or on a wide format printer . The contours of the resulting template are applied to the wall.
- The drawing you like can be projected onto the wall with a projector and traced with a pencil.
- You can apply a contour along the cells , but this is a more labor-intensive process.
A selection of photos with interesting ideas
For a snack, here is an excellent selection of cool drawings on the walls that will suit any apartment: there are both familiar motifs in unexpected resolutions, and quite bold non-trivial projects that can decorate the most extravagant interior.
The examples given in this article cover only the “tip of the iceberg” when it comes to wall decor. You can independently find even more interesting options for drawings on the wall.
Painting in color
painting a wall with acrylic paints If the sketch transferred to the wall displays everything that is needed to reproduce it with paints, it’s time to start the most exciting part - painting with your own hands. First they make the background, and then draw all the other details.
By applying layer upon layer, drawing small elements, you get a volume effect. This work requires a painstaking and careful approach. Color shades must be observed. If you strictly monitor the color scheme based on a small drawing, then the result of the work of an amateur artist will be impressive.
It is important to remember that one layer of paint is applied to another only after complete drying. With maximum effort and skill, you can get a composition that looks much richer than expensive imported wallpaper. By the way, if someone does not dare to immediately paint a wall in an apartment with their own hands, it makes sense to try their skills on the wall of a garage or cottage.
Original do-it-yourself wall painting
Even with minimal artistic talents, nothing can stop a person from feeling like a creator. Especially in cases where you want to decorate your own home yourself, using your imagination.
The author's technique is very popular. Simple to perform and original in results, the technique is based on the use of water-based paints and a few simple sponges. A sketch is drawn onto a wall covered with white vinyl wallpaper using a simple soft pencil. The edge of a sponge soaked in water is dipped into the desired paint, after which the coloring composition is spread over a specific area with light strokes. Often, several different shades can be used to paint one area.
There are unspoken rules according to which certain topics are considered unacceptable for certain premises. For example, in the kitchen it is undesirable to paint images that could negatively affect the appetite of the household. Drawings of dried leaves and wilted flowers are inappropriate in the bedroom. Also, in a room where a person should relax and be able to sleep peacefully, there should be no images of waterfalls and the depths of the sea.
