The world is full of interesting ideas and creative ideas. It is worth deciding what you like, what your soul lies in. From any material that is in nature, you can make masterpieces. Stone is no exception. You can create amazing pictures from it. Looking at them, it is perhaps difficult to immediately say that they are made from ordinary sea pebbles. If you want to create a panel of stones, you need to choose stones, learn the technique of execution. The information in the article will help you take the first steps in this direction, perhaps give you some ideas.
Panel material
Experts consider pebbles to be the best material for making paintings and compositions from stone. These pebbles, processed by a natural grinder - the sea - are suitable not only for creating a picture, but also serve as a material on which the decor drawn with paints and felt-tip pens looks great. A panel of sea stones decorated with a decorative pattern will be an original addition to the interior of a room, corridor, kitchen.
You can create a panel of natural stones and minerals, which includemarble, granite, onyx, amber, malachite, onyx. The options for paintings created from this material are not limited. These can be pictures of nature, the coast of the sea, panels on domestic and tourist themes. Any stones can be purchased in the departments of decorative materials stores intended for crafts. The most budgetary option is to bring pebbles from places of rest and make original paintings from it.
Where to start?
Do-it-yourself stone panels are one of the most popular trends in creativity, developing imagination, individual abilities of children and adults. Using pebbles, you can create various attractive compositions that can be used for decorative purposes. In order to make a panel on the wall, you need to draw it and prepare materials for its creation. It should be:
- suitable frame in which the wall panel will be created;
- flat pebbles or any stone materials of various sizes;
- acrylic paints, acrylic varnish and brushes;
- glue gun;
- substrate on which the panel of stones will be formed.
The next step will be the selection of elements of the picture from the selected stone. If it is necessary to introduce additional material into the picture and it will only benefit from this, this can be done. The accompanying material can be twigs, tree bark, splint. In principle, any material that will make a panel of stones more beautiful.
Steps of work
Existing frame needs to be painted or varnished, depending onpanel option. You can use a photo as a substrate, which will serve as a background. It can be any landscape that would look great with a pebble painting.
If this stone wall panel is intended for a children's room, the next step will be the selection of pebbles, on which you will need to paint houses, cars and other constituent elements for the panel with paints. With such a task, the child will cope with pleasure.
The painted pebbles are ready to take their places in the picture. With the help of a glue gun, fine sand, miniature pebbles of the curb and twigs-trees are glued to the substrate. Then houses and cars are placed and glued. The panel can be covered with hairspray. It will add shine to the sand and prevent it from crumbling.
Paintings from amber crumbs
On a picturesque cut of a tree, edged with bark, a panel made of natural stone - amber crumbs looks great. Working with amber is not as difficult as it might seem. The main thing is to decide on the pattern according to which the work will be done. Original paintings of nature, seascapes and mountain ranges - a theme that looks very beautiful on a created stone panel. As always, you need to start with a drawing. The cut of the tree should be 1.5-2 cm thick. It should be carefully sanded with fine sandpaper and applied with a pattern.
The next step is sizing. It is a solution of PVA glue with water. It is applied to a wooden cut and allowed to dry. Drawing on wood is applied with tempera glue oroil paints.
Why can't you use watercolors and gouache? Amber on a wooden base will be glued to PVA. Water based paints may run. Drawing paints applied twice. The first underpainting is done liquidly, after drying, an adhesive film is formed. A second coloring is done on it for juiciness.
Inlay is made on the traced background. You can not pour a small crumb of amber on the picture. It should be laid out in places where the composition requires it. Larger pieces are laid out in places of large areas of hardwood. The smaller ones are glued between the larger ones. No need to glue the stones one by one. This makes the composition heavier. A panel with a birch will look great in any room.
Interesting ideas
To create a panel of stones, it is enough to have a few pebbles of different colors, a canvas and a glue gun. The idea of such a composition is to select the shapes and sizes of pebbles and place them on the canvas. It turns out quite concise plots.
Additional material in the form of a dry twig can be added to the pebbles for expressiveness of the picture. In one case, a branch plays the role of a log on which the family is located. In the other two cases (photo above) there are contrasting pebbles and a branch, on which, on one side, there are two birds, and on the other side, a bird and a nest. The composition feels incredibly light, although the pebbles are a heavy material.
Perfect gift
Having learned the art of creating panels fromstones, you can make a wonderful gift to your loved ones with your own hands. Firstly, it will be original, and secondly, by making it, you will put a piece of your warmth. And you will surely surprise your loved ones or extraordinary work.
For example, when preparing such a gift as in the photo above, you need to use multi-colored pebbles, a shell (for a skirt) and tree bark. Looking at such a panel, you involuntarily begin to smile. It seems that everyone without exception will like it, because it brings positive, causes positive emotions. Themes for stone panels can be different. It all depends on who the gift is given to and where it will be placed.
