Three-dimensional paintings, panels, collages made of fabric. Beautiful volumetric panels using the “terra” technique, MK

Galina Karpova

"Winter the Lacemaker", work by Sonya F.

"Trees in the Snow", work by Ira G.

For collages on"winter" I prepared the theme with white lace, shiny fabric, guipure, cords and braid, openwork paper napkins, half beads, feathers. In addition, scissors, figured hole punches, various glues, white pencil, white gouache, brushes. For the background we took gray-blue cardboard approximately A2 in size. Sonya began her work by outlining the composition of her future painting with a white pencil.

On the right in the foreground I decided to stick from "silver" herringbone knitwear. Which is not surprising to us on the eve of the New Year holidays! To do this, I cut arbitrary triangles and glued them onto PVA.

Having become interested in the beautiful fabric, I decided to make a large tree on the right as well.

Nearby, Sonya pasted fragments of lace patterns reminiscent of Christmas trees.

To secure the fragments with PVA glue, they were also coated on top, as in decoupage.

Punched holes in snowflakes. I glued a half bead into each one.

Getting carried away by creativity, I decided to stick them on the Christmas tree.

I painted the trunks of small trees in the distance with white gouache. This is what sonin looks like collage after the glue has dried.

And Ira for his collage I lined the tree trunk with white cord with sparkles, and made the crown from small openwork napkins. The idea for the small tree came to Ira later, so the composition of the picture suffered a little. Small tree - senile wire, feathers and half beads, "snowy" snowdrifts - scraps of various lace fabrics.

Panel prepared for the exhibition, I only have to glue the cards with the inscriptions.

The technique of floral collage, which allows you to combine natural materials and decorative elements, captivates needlewomen. The creation of three-dimensional paintings has great possibilities and combines objects of living and inanimate nature. Such a collage can complement and decorate the interior.

Each work carries amazing energy and reflects the philosophical meaning and emotions of the artist.

Required materials and tools:

The basis for creating a three-dimensional floral collage can be ordinary thick cardboard, chipboard, or hardboard sheets of different sizes. After choosing the size of the panel, style and color scheme, we begin to prepare the necessary tools and materials for creativity.

• dry plaster mixture or putty, which allows you to create a three-dimensional surface texture;
• spatulas and construction brushes of different widths;
• paints: acrylic
• silicone or super glue
• wire, scissors, simple pencil;
• decorative elements.

To decorate the panel, you can use dried flowers, stems and leaves, cones, beads, stones and shells, cereals, pasta and other types of natural or artificial materials.

Stages of floral collage

Creating beautiful works consists of several stages:

1. Applying plaster or putty to the prepared base. When using a dry plaster mixture, it must be diluted with water in a ratio of 1:4 until the consistency of thick sour cream is obtained, and then a color shade must be created that matches the chosen style.

2. Fixing elements of various decorative elements using wire, glue or pressing into an applied layer of medium-thick plaster.

3. Drying the panel.

4. Decorating with additional elements in accordance with the chosen style, applying shadows with gouache or painting with spray and acrylic paints.

Having decided on the style, you can begin to select materials for the future work:

1. Paint and canvas.
2. Cardboard, designer paper, magazine clippings, old photos.
3. Textiles, leather, ribbons, braid.
4. Glass or crystals.
5. Buttons.
6. Dried flowers, shells.

Advice! Don't throw away old children's drawings, scraps of fabric, magazines, decorations– all this can become part of the picture. Store them in a separate box, periodically reviewing and arranging them together.

Painting with paints

The easiest way to create an original painting for your interior with your own hands is to paint it. The subject is limited only by the imagination of the creator. Even if you have no artistic skills, you can create a masterpiece: use abstract techniques, study master classes and photos of finished works.

Oil, watercolor, and acrylic paints will become faithful assistants in creating paintings for the interior. As a base, you can use either professional canvas or regular thick paper or a primed board.

Advice! You can draw inspiration from nature if there are picturesque places near your home. If you are unlucky with either the location or the weather, feel free to draw your household, pets, fruit compositions - whatever. The accuracy of the reproduction of reality does not play any role, the main thing is to approach the process with soul.

Modular paintings are suitable for almost any room: from kitchens to living room, but it is important to select appropriate images. If you don’t have the time to create a masterpiece with your own hands, then we have good news for you - today you can buy them in any specialized store!

Photo printing

The technical side of the issue is taken care of by a photo workshop, which can print a suitable image on almost any basis: canvas, paper, ceramics, etc. These can be ordinary posters depicting interesting places, people, ornaments.

Advice! A poster is not just a picture, it must convey a certain idea, correspond to the interior, the theme of the room and the character of the owners of the house. Recently, pin-up and retro style posters have gained particular popularity.

If the poster is large-format, you can divide the image into several segments and, when combined into a single canvas, play with the joints, making it look like a modular picture.

If there is a child in the house, then you can scan his drawings and select the ones that match the color, shape, etc. Such a poster can be complemented by a photo of the artist himself. All that remains is to print the poster and place it in a frame that matches the color and style.

Collage of old and new family photos You can hang it as a picture in the bedroom or living room, and posters depicting the corresponding paraphernalia and fruits are suitable for the kitchen. Finally, it is worth noting that it is recommended to choose posters and panels for the kitchen in rich and bright colors, however, no one forbids you to go against the rules and create stylish ones.

Textile

From all kinds of scraps, fabric with beautiful patterns, ribbons, braid or lace, you can create real masterpieces in patchwork style with your own hands. Fabric paintings are most often made using the appliqué technique. The basis is taken of dense textiles with discreet and inconspicuous patterns (stripes, polka dots, etc.), and the main elements are cut out from bright shreds.

Most often, kitchens and children's rooms are decorated with textile works, since these rooms are characterized by a certain simplicity present in the appliqué.

Advice! From felt, flannel and other fabrics that hold their shape well, you can cut out fruits, animals, cars, and houses. You can safely combine different textures and patterns on fabrics, use braid, decorative cord, and buttons for decoration. For the living room, you can make a textile picture from crinkled silk with abstract patterns.

From buttons

With their help, you can create original things by sewing or appliqué. This type of fittings is often used to depict leaves on trees. Buttons can be glued in an original way inside any contour, for example, a silhouette butterflies or cats. In sewing stores you can select parts of various shapes, colors and materials and lay them out, like a mosaic, according to a pre-prepared pattern. Such button creations will fit perfectly into the kitchen, however, they can also be used for the living room and bedroom.

Advice! Buttons can be glued around the perimeter of the picture frame, giving it individuality.

Wallpaper and panels

Often, after renovation, large pieces of beautiful wallpaper remain, which are useful for making unusual interior paintings.

1. Wallpaper in a frame is the easiest option to create something like this panel. A piece of the desired shape is cut from the roll and placed in a frame. Moreover, the ornament may coincide with the pattern on the walls or differ from it. Such elements can come in a row of 2-3 pieces.
2. Golden paint and a stencil or small black and white photos, stylized in an antique style, will help to revive a boring canvas in a frame. Similar wallpaper pictures will fit perfectly into

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These panels are made without the use of textile glue. I used edging fabric, but you can use any coarse fabric. A rough, relief texture will only give a more interesting effect.

1. Decide on the size of the panel. I will cut a piece of fabric 10 cm larger in length and width than the size we need. Iron the fabric well with a hot iron through a wet rag; the fabric should shrink completely.

2. Take fiberboard, plywood or, as a last resort, thick cardboard, just not corrugated. Fiberboard and plywood must be primed, PVA glue or covered with enamel before starting work. Cover the cardboard with a piece of polyethylene film.

3.Next, we begin to make the panels themselves. We lay the fabric on plastic film and paint the rectangle in the center of the piece of fabric with white acrylic paint. If it is planned that there will be no frame of paint around the picture, the size of the rectangle should be a few millimeters smaller than the printout. That is, after the picture is pasted, the paint should not be visible. If you plan to frame it with paint, draw a rectangle larger by the size of the picture with the frame. If you plan to paint over the entire panel, then draw a rectangle a few mm smaller than the size of the panel.

The paint should be allowed to dry completely, the film under the fabric should be changed periodically, then the paint will dry faster. This procedure must be repeated at least three times. There is no need to try to paint over the fabric the first time; it won’t work, but it will greatly increase the paint consumption and the time it takes to make the panel.

When the last layer of paint has dried completely, apply PVA glue to the area where the print will be pasted. The printout, if it is printed on plain paper, is soaked in water for 15 minutes, blotted, greased with glue and glued as with regular decoupage, carefully smoothing it with a roller and avoiding air bubbles. If the printout is made on rice paper, there is no need to soak it, just apply it to a fabric coated with glue and, wetting it with water on top, level it out. If we use a napkin for a panel, we glue it, as we usually glue napkins on wooden boards, but with great care.

4.When the picture is completely dry, place the fabric on the base and fold the edges of the fabric to the reverse side. We fix them with glue. On the back side of the work we glue two or two pieces of twine crosswise so that they go through the corners of the work.

5. We make a frame from bamboo. We attach the panel to the frame nodes with twine. We cover the reverse side of the work with beautiful thick paper.

6. We cover the entire work with 1-2 layers of acrylic varnish.

Any plant material is good in itself, in its, so to speak, original form. Nature presented in it all possible forms with symmetry and asymmetry, color and texture, and even aromas. Therefore, the desire to bring this perfection into your home and somehow capture it in pictures and collages is understandable. Some people use plants in their unchanged form, some people like individual fragments of a flower, a leaf, or perhaps their multicolor, others are attracted by the graphics of natural lines or the texture of plant tissue, etc. etc.

All these preferences are reflected in the methods and nature of depicting the plot in the collage.

Collage- an object of decorative design for a home, most likely appeared when a person learned to extract an adhesive substance. These first adhesives were of animal or plant origin. Collage was very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, although at that time there were not enough good materials, there were no high-quality adhesives, as in our times.

During the period of great geographical discoveries, the creation of herbariums from unusual overseas plants was very popular. They were dried and then framed with glass. Such herbarium sheets were very popular; they decorated the offices of scientists, geographers, and writers.

Materials and tools

Plant material for collage

The source of a collection of dried plant material, first of all, can be your own garden. Walks in nature and gifts of flowers will help enrich your collection.

To create interesting works, it is absolutely necessary that natural materials be as diverse as possible, differing in texture, shape and color.

Preparation and processing of natural materials

Plant material for floral collages can be collected and processed throughout the growing season. However, you should know that the same parts of plants (leaves, petals), collected at different times, at different stages of development, will differ when dried, for example, in color.

Preservation methods

Plant material is prepared by drying, as well as by treating the leaves with a glycerin solution.

To obtain flat dried parts of plants, drying is used using a press (herbarium method); to preserve volume, they use the drying method using hygroscopic substances that absorb moisture well: burnt alum, borax, perlite, silica gel. They are usually sold in chemical stores and gardening stores.

It is very good to dry plants in a Russian bath.

There is a preservation method in which parts of the plant - leaves, flowers and fruits - do not lose their lifetime flexibility. This is a method of preservation in glycerin.

Modification of plant material

Modification - changing a natural material - is done in order to make it more expressive for collage works.

This can be a change in color, shape, varnishing, skeletonization, and so on.

Storing collage collections

Flat-dried plant material obtained by herbarium drying is best stored grouped by plant species between folded paper towels in oblong boxes, which should be labeled.

Technical means for making collage

The basis, or base, for a collage can be a piece of cardboard, plywood, board, particle board, or thick sheet of paper of any shape. The background is superimposed on it. It can be made of colored paper, fabric, painted with any paints or glued entirely with plant material (leaves, petals, scree), and can also be covered with a layer of putty, gypsum or paper pulp.

Compositional construction of a collage and its design

The composition of a floral collage should be built on the basis of the general principles of creating works of art.

In a collage, just like in painting, there must be all the basic elements of design - color, light, texture, shape, relief, contour, space. And all these elements must be correctly arranged, balanced, contrast, rhythm, and, of course, proportions must be taken into account in order to achieve a harmonious work.

Planar collages

Background making techniques

Leaves, petals, and small seeds are often used as a background for a floral collage. Using this material, you can create a background for all elements of a landscape composition. Thus, delphinium petals superimposed on each other are suitable for depicting the sky. The reddish reflections of dawn will be filled with the thinnest dry petals of poppies; Moonlight highlights will be obtained using the mother-of-pearl partitions of the lunaria pod.

Collage depicting a landscape

To create a landscape, you first need to think through the composition, because without knowing the laws of perspective, without creating a foreground, middle and background, you won’t get a full-fledged landscape. You also need to choose a suitable background, baguette and mat.

Bouquet of flowers

Using the collage technique, a bouquet in a frame can be depicted in a variety of ways. These may turn out to be very convex works that do not even need to be covered with glass, or there may be flat paintings that can be framed under glass.

L. Mogilenets “Bouquet” T. Kochebina “Summer Bouquet” L. Elikov “Fantasy”

Postcards, bookmarks, stickers, covers

Flatly dried flowers are used to decorate postcards, bookmarks, diary covers, etc. To protect collage work on these items from mechanical damage and moisture, they can be covered with transparent shrink film, which adheres well to the flower and cardboard.

Another method of protection that is acceptable for postcards is to enclose them in a passe-partout.

You can cover the surface with wax, this is also good protection.

Professional florists are familiar with a special coating for dried flowers called “elephant skin”. It is sold in florist shops in aerosol cans. By spraying collage work with this composition, you get a thin film that protects it quite well.

Relief collages

Works that use convex natural materials and a non-smooth base coating, and that are not framed under glass, are called relief collages. They are made by using textured volumetric objects of plant origin (cones, sticks, roots, fruits, seeds, cones) based on thick cardboard or boards.

Preparation of bulk plant material

There are many plants that produce fruits of interesting color and texture. Some of them dry easily in air and do not deteriorate for a long time without any pre-treatment. These are a variety of pine cones and nuts.

For collage, you can also dry some juicy fruits with good results - pomegranates, tangerines, oranges, limes...

Techniques for working with seeds and fruits

Some rules to help you cope with collage works from fruits and seeds (ornament, figures).

Gluing usually starts from the bottom; the seeds are placed with the sharp end up; It is better to apply glue using a pointed match. The glue is not applied all over, but only on the central part, then it “breathes” and has volume.

Relief bouquet in a frame

There are several ways to create a relief bouquet in a frame. Plants can simply be placed in a deep frame, secured with glue. Or you can put together a composition based on a floral sponge for dry bouquets.

The frames for such collages are chosen to be deep and with a complex profile.

Arabesque

Arabesque is the name of an ornament built on the principle of constant repetition of various geometric and floral motifs, decoration in color with an intricate interweaving of leaves and flowers.

Styles in collage works

Plants or parts thereof, taken out of their usual context, painted or modified in some way, can be used for unexpected combinations.

Using an ordinary mass of plant material makes it possible to create new structures at will. This is also facilitated by the addition or repetition of elements from various organic and inorganic materials.

Collages in the interior

Collage in the interior either appeared and even replaced paintings, then disappeared until complete oblivion. With the return of ascetic style and minimalism in the outlines of modern interiors, it seems that collage, especially floral, is in demand again.