Three -dimensional wall painting with gypsum with your own hands

Three -dimensional wall painting with gypsum is a way to create three -dimensional compositions on the walls using gypsum, wood, paints and other improvised materials. Using this method of wall decoration, the interior is completely transformed, the irregularities of surfaces are aligned, and the living space visually increases.

Choosing an idea for a three -dimensional painting

This method of decoration is used by world -famous designers, for example, the world -famous interior artist Tom Berg creates compositions that transfer the owner of housing and his guests to a real forest. In the creations of Tom Berg, trees grow from the walls, and three -dimensional landscapes inhale freshness and life into the room. There are work of such masters of considerable money, but using a little patience, desires and necessary materials, gypsum walls are easily created with their own hands with minimal costs.

Approximate procedure:

• The creation of a three -dimensional plaster painting begins with the choice of an idea. The place of placement of painting, its lighting, size, materials and concept is selected. The idea is selected, based on its own preferences - a marine landscape, murals in oriental colors, scenes from the life of wild animals, quarters of the beloved city and much more. Further, the selected ideas are selected under the interior so that the painting emphasizes it, fit harmoniously and does not fall out of the general accent.
• After creating an idea, its layout is created - a drawing or a sketch of a future masterpiece. The size is carefully thought out so that the drawing is not lost against the background of the large plane of the empty wall, but also does not press its size in a small room. With the help of programs such as Photoshop, excellent layouts are created that will clearly demonstrate the appearance of the future painting.
• As the simplest ideas that do not require mounting structures made of wire or hyposcarton and do not need a thorough selection of lighting, murals in the oriental style are. It is not difficult to perform intricate patterns and drawings, this does not require artistic and engineering skills, and they will complement the premises with exquisite beauty and style.

• Easy to perform landscapes without protruding elements - branches of trees, cascades of waterfall, figures of animals and other things. In this design, much attention should be paid to the further design of its paints. This will revive the painting, make it bright and intricate. To create complex figures of a natural landscape, natural leaves and flowers are used. They are dried and covered with gypsum. This eliminates the need for complex modeling of such elements from a whole piece of gypsum.

• The size of the composition is selected individually, based on the size of the room and its own aesthetic preferences. This can be a small painting around the switch, doors or in a corner free of furniture or a whole picture that makes all the walls of the room.

The selection of lighting for the design of a three -dimensional painting gypsum

One of the most important points of creating painting is lighting. The orientation and intensity of the flow of light completely changes the perception of the painting. Light hides all the shortcomings of the picture and distinguishes its advantages. In the absence of lighting or its incorrect selection, some areas are shaded, this leads to visual deformation of the convex parts.

As a result, even the most even lines on an absolutely perfect painting will seem damaged. It is necessary to select the backlight at the very end of the work, when the painting is completely ready. It is at this stage, by trial and errors or by the method of clear calculations, lighting or ordinary stationary lamps, whose light falls on the dark, is established. If it is planned to create an internal illumination of the picture, then its equipment is thought out at the very beginning, since it is then impossible to lay all the communications in the wall without prejudice to painting.

Installation and testing of the backlight is carried out in the process of creating a composition. When creating a composition with internal illumination, they think over the ways of easy repair of its elements. With a breakdown of one of the lamps or diodes, inside the composition they can be easily replaced without violating the integrity of the picture. To do this, leave small opening windows in the composition. Use wood, drywall, metal wire or decorative elements. For example, in a composition in the style of a night city, where the windows of houses are highlighted in small light bulbs, the windows are made opening.

Materials used to create a three -dimensional painting

• When creating a plaster from gypsum on the wall, many materials are used. The basis of the whole composition is gypsum. It is used not only in its pure form, but also in the composition of gypsum plasters and putty, this does not affect the quality of the composition. If it is planned to lay large layers of material, it is advisable to use plaster. For small details, tinting and smoothing the compositions use putty. To create hidden cavities and layers, drywall is used.

• If you need to create an additional volume and strengthen the structure, use wood materials. For example, with their help, a framework, lines are created, to distinguish the space of the composition and create straight lines, rails and bars are used. Compositions with wood trunks protruding from the walls are created from real branches. They are well dried, attached to compositions and then coated with gypsum solution so that the wood organically fits into the landscape. The tree is also used as a frame.
• Metal structures strengthen gypsum elements. Metal wire is an excellent material for creating elements of complex shape. With its help, constructions of various difficulties, hollow elements, figures of animals, protruding from the wall, details and much more are created.
• A natural stone is used in the formation of nature landscapes. Grotto, waterfalls, rocks or beaches are formed from it. To reduce the weight of the structure, it is advisable to choose a shell or sandstone. The base of the stone is smeared with a layer of gypsum, if the composition requires it or simply grinds and is treated with varnish.

• To create a volumetric picture, specialized thick paint with a filler is used. Such material is sold in art stores and helps to make volumetric strokes. This paste is easily prepared at home - a kner is added to the primer or putty and mixed until smooth. Moreover, this kind of mixture on gypsum surfaces creates a real monolith and grows better with the base. For application on wooden surfaces, PVA glue is added to the paste.

There is no limit of fantasy in creating a composition from gypsum. Dried and treated leaves of trees are added to the picture, which gives the image greater realism. Dried flowers, inserts made of genuine leather or fabric, feathers, jewelry and much more.

Three -dimensional mural of gypsum

After the idea is chosen and thought out and all the materials are selected, the walls of the walls begin to directly begin:

• Apply a pattern on the selected plane. If a color image is planned, then the pattern is applied with multi -colored pencils in order to once again evaluate the correctness of the choice of the layout before performing the work. At this stage, some adjustment of forms and size is carried out if they did not live up to expectations.
• In the absence of a sufficient amount of artistic skills, stencils are used. The workpiece for him is drawn on a computer, and then printed. There are two options for performing a stencil - hollow, in which the necessary parts are cut out, and then the composition to the wall is transferred along the internal lines. The second option is a regular pattern on the sheet, which is then transferred to the surface with copy paper.
• After transferring the picture, all the strengthening elements are mounted. In this case, the decoration of the mounting points on all adjacent surfaces is taken into account. All supporting structures made of wood, metal or drywall are assembled. When fixing and choosing stiffness, weight increase is taken into account after performing work.

• Next, all communications are carried out and their work is checked.
• Now the creative process begins - modeling. The first layer is applied with the starting putty, the construction reinforcing mesh is laid on it, it will help to combine all the elements of the composition and protect it from the formation of cracks and refusions. To speed up the process of creating a composition, it is divided into zones - a solution dries in one section, in the other there is a modeling process. In some cases, additional reinforcement is required with wire or mesh. The most important thing in the process of creating a painting is not to be afraid of errors and irregularities in the figure. The individuality of the composition made by your own hands is determined precisely by such small inaccuracies and errors.
• In the very option, a stencil is again applied to the putty layer and a gypsum pattern is cut along the lines.
• After the end of all the modeling work, when the black version of the painting is ready, it is decorated and the voluminous pattern is created by structural layers. At this stage, all decorative elements and volumetric lines are already ready.
• The composition is decorated and painted until its creator wants it. Only the artist creating a masterpiece decides when a three -dimensional painting is completed. At the last stage, any deviations from the initial project are possible, since the decor of the walls of three -dimensional painting is a creative process that does not accept the mathematical accuracy of any repair work.

Supplement of three -dimensional painting - bas -reliefs

The bas -reliefs will help to complement the volumetric composition of gypsum and harmoniously fit it into the interior. In the technique of creating a bas -relief, it looks like a three -dimensional painting. This is a regular three -dimensional pattern, which is created stationary on the wall or with the possibility of transferring on a schlikir. If a three -dimensional composition of gypsum is created in the room, it will perfectly complement the bas -relief of the same topic, placed on the other wall of the room or in the next room. This will create a general image for the whole apartment. The following materials will be required to create a bas -relief:

• sculptural clay;
• stacks;
• capacity;
• knife;
• water;
• pVA glue;
• rockbrush;
• brush.

The process of creating a bas -relief looks like this:

1. At the first stage, the wall is prepared, the surface is brought to perfect evenness, stained. If it is planned to create a portable bas -relief on a schlik, then it is prepared from the same mixture of clay, only more liquid. Barming -reliefs are also created on plastic, cardboard or fiberboard.
2. The future image is selected and transferred to the wall in the same way, which was described in the methodology of creating a three -dimensional painting.
3. The modeling begins with the central elements, from which the creation of the pattern then moves on the periphery of the composition. The selected section of the layout is sculpted, and then placed on the sketch of the picture. The form is given using glasses - it creates corners, lines, gives the shape to the figure. Thus, the element of the element lays the whole picture. Before applying the upper layers of bas -relief to the lower, it should be allowed to dry, otherwise they can be damaged. If clay loses its softness and elasticity, a little water and PVA are added to it.
4. When the composition is completely created, it is left for a week for complete drying.
5. Next, with the help of fine sandpaper, irregularities are removed. Dust from the picture is carefully blown away.
6. A mixture of PVA and water glue in a ratio of 1: 1 is applied to the pattern. Leave the bas -relief to dry for another two days.
7. After drying the protective layer, varnish and paints are applied to the bas -relief.

Three -dimensional painting from gypsum and bas -relief

The rules for caring for compositions from gypsum are simple. The first few weeks it is necessary to protect the gypsum structure from moisture, dust and tobacco smoke.

Otherwise, it will lose its brightness, and the colors will change its tone. The protective layer of varnish, which is covered with painting, must be updated. The frequency of this action is determined individually and depends on the intensity of light and the amount of dust in the room. Wipe the composition with a dry or slightly damp cloth, also use a soft panicle for this.