If the owner of a house or apartment wants to make a decorative wall of stone in the room, but does not have building skills, then you can depict the masonry no less realistic. The work is difficult, because you have to apply acrylic paint and correctly line the surface of the wall. To paint a brick wall with paints like a professional, you will need experience. For a beginner, this business will take a lot of time, but the result is worth it.
Variety of options
Figures in the form of masonry are depicted in different ways. You can add your ideas or use ready-made options for work. For example, a black background is created on the wall and red bricks are drawn with smooth lines without roughness.
You can draw brickwork on an old wall with microcracks. Paints add a porous texture, outline slightly curved lines. The image looks good in the kitchen or in the hall. Roughness is created with a sponge.
Use any color. The masonry can be drawn on a black background with white bricks. Or make it goldenshades. Take into account the overall interior of the room and make a sketch. For realism, chiaroscuro is added to such a large-scale picture, and the most advanced artists depict hand-drawn 3D masonry.
Inventory for work
Beginners do not need to immediately take on large-scale work. First, they learn to apply paint with a brush and accurately draw lines on a cardboard sheet. And after practice, you need to draw a brick wall. What tools will be required:
- plastic bucket; brushes N4 and N20;
- toothbrush;
- to stir acrylic paints you will need a palette of plastic plates;
- chalk or marker;
- medium to large pore sponges;
- piece of pure matter;
- adhesive tape;
- stencil or long metal strips to secure drywall;
- acrylic emulsion (amount depends on wall area) - carbon black, red and light ocher, titanium white, brown mars, burnt and natural sienna, umber.
10 cans of paint are enough to apply the image on an area of 50 sq.m. A beginner is able to paint 30 square meters. walls in 8-10 hours.
Construction of the stencil
Accessories will speed up the drawing of brickwork. There is a sufficient variety of materials from which the stencil is made. To paint brickwork on the wallpaints, like the masters, you need to choose the following options:
- Chipboard sheets. Strips are cut from the slab along the height of the brick, but 1-2 cm more, since there must be a seam between the stones. At the joints, pieces of pressed plates are laid and the parts are fastened with a stapler and staples. Forms of red or silicate bricks are marked on the stripes. Unnecessary sections are cut out with a clerical knife, applying a ruler or building level to the lines.
- Styrofoam. Similarly, strips of the desired size are cut from the foam boards. The elements are glued. Inside, the shapes of stones are cut out with a knife. If the owner wants to paint the wall rough, this option is better.
- Scotch. The adhesive tape is applied to the wall horizontally over the entire area. You can cut long pieces 1-2 cm wide, which will cover the place of the seams. These strips are glued horizontally and vertically to form stone shapes. This material is being replaced with adhesive tape, which is sold in different widths.
It's easier to use a metal profile and create markings with a marker or chalk. In this work, one cannot cope with drawing without an assistant.
Creating a background
Tape or newspapers are stuck in the corners of the working area so that the paint does not get on the adjoining walls, floor and ceiling. Erase acrylic is difficult, so try to draw carefully. How to draw a brick painting on the wall correctly:
- The background color is prepared in plates. Stir umber, titanium white and black paint.
- The made components are gradually added to a clean container and the desired shade is achieved.
- For applying paint use a large porous sponge. It is soaked in liquid and the background is painted on top of the wall.
- With a small sponge, rub the gaps formed until a uniform color.
Waiting for the applied coating to dry. They check the work for the presence of roughness and gaps, if there are any, then they are covered with a new layer of acrylic. Before painting a brick wall, the surface is wiped and treated with a primer.
Correct markup
Use a stencil or steel profile. In this case, a metal rail, tape measure and marker are used. We draw a brick wall according to the plan:
- Measure 1-2 cm from the bottom of the wall - this is the seam. From the received mark, they retreat to the height of the brick and outline the dash.
- From the auxiliary points, a profile is applied horizontally and broken lines 25 cm long are drawn in 1 cm increments. Similarly, mark the wall to the ceiling.
- They also make equally intermittent vertical contours - length 6-8 cm with an interval of 1 cm.
- The lines marked with a marker or chalk should not cross opposite lines. For example, a vertical path follows the boundaries of horizontal lines. If there is an intersection, then this is an asymmetry. Will have to redraw.
It is more convenient to draw with a marker than with chalk, but if a beginner makes a mistake, then it is difficult to hide the defect. You will need to stir the paint withthe right shade and paint over the lines on the background.
Drawing masonry
In order not to accidentally smear the primary layer of paint, an adhesive plaster is glued between the lines where the seam is located. Brushes and sponges are washed in buckets of water. How to draw a brick wall step by step:
- The artist stirs sienna and ocher in a plastic bowl. Brings brown, yellow and red colors into these paints. Achieve imitation of brick.
- The edges of the stones are drawn even, marker or outlined lines are also painted over.
- Work with a wide brush. The base color is applied at the brick markings.
- Waiting for partial drying and starting to re-apply the layer so that the background in the forms is completely hidden.
- Gradually add shades. Brown mars is diluted with water so that the color is not saturated, and is drawn from left to right and from bottom to top. This way of moving the tool carefully hides all the flaws.
- Stir burnt sienna and white. Similarly, dull shades are applied to traced stones.
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Depicting the texture of a brick with a toothbrush. Ocher, whitewash and burnt bone are mixed. The tool is lightly sprayed with a sparse liquid over the coating.
step by step work
Acrylic does not crack, dries in a short time, it is convenient to apply even layers, a large selection of colors. Such paint after application may darken after a few days. Therefore chooselight colors.
