Patchwork style paintings

Despite the fact that paintings made with a brush and paints are in constant demand, recently in many houses and apartments you can find works of art made from fabric patches using the patchwork technique. They differ from classical masterpieces in their individuality, unusual appearance and serve as a decoration for children's rooms, bedrooms, halls and kitchens.

Patchwork paintings are a beautiful and unusual piece of decor made from scraps of fabric. Patchwork (patchwork) has appeared quite recently, but in this short time it has become incredibly popular when decorating rooms in a modern design.

Many novice craftsmen often confuse patchwork with quilting. Despite the fact that for these two directions, the remains of various fabrics are used as the main material, they differ in the principle of operation and the specifics of creating compositions.

Pictures made from scraps of fabric can not only be used as interior decorations, but also be presented to friends, acquaintances and relatives for various holidays.

The original wall panels, decorated in Provence and country styles, look especially gorgeous in the rooms. The main advantages of such paintings include the ease of creation - in order to prepare one simple composition, you need scraps of any fabric (they can be found in every home) and from three to four hours.

Before you start creating a patchwork painting, you should not only think over its design well, but also prepare the appropriate material and tools. First of all, you need to pick up the remnants of fabric (shreds) of all kinds of sizes, textures and colors. For beginners, experts recommend starting work with a thinner material, since it is much more convenient and easier to cut and cut.

In addition, for work you will also need:

• wooden ruler;
• buttons;
• comfortable scissors;
• black marker;
• stationery knife;
• PVA glue.

In addition, you will need to buy a seam ripping tool from the store, which can be replaced with a regular nail file. The basis for the picture will be a square or rectangular piece of foam, it is not necessary to purchase a new one - you can take the one that is used to protect household appliances from damage.

Styrofoam needs to be cut in a room where there are no carpets, otherwise exhausting cleaning will follow after handicraft. If you plan to create a picture from scraps of fabric for the first time, then it will not hurt to also find templates for creativity, many masters simply find drawings and pictures on the Internet.

Seeing photographs of finished paintings made in the patchwork style, everyone will want to sew them with their own hands. The only thing that novice craftsmen are recommended at first to choose simple schemes containing more straight lines, with the absence of small details.

Over time, when experience comes, it will be possible to create complex modular compositions using various applications. At first, experts recommend choosing schemes from children's coloring books, since they contain the simplest drawings adapted for children. It will be easy to make patterns, patterns from them, and then turn everything into a patchwork picture. These can be compositions where flowers (lilies, tulips, roses), cats and houses are depicted.

So, for Provence, scraps of beige, pale pink, pastel and green are ideal, small floral prints are allowed. For country, it is best to choose woody shades, a cage and a combination of swamp, dark brown colors. Paintings of a multifaceted form look beautiful in a modern style.

For kitchens, the Tea Party paintings are considered an excellent choice., for the creation of which ready-made schemes are used, they are printed on paper and each detail is separately cut out of pieces of fabric. Additionally, artificial stones can be used to decorate the composition. Pictures depicting sunflowers, trees, butterflies and fruits will look no less original in the kitchen.

Lovers of abstraction can choose the scheme "Hut / Well", which is characterized by a combination of cold and warm colors at the corners of the picture. Due to the mirrored arrangement of the patches, a visual "well" effect is created.

Despite the fact that many novice masters may find it difficult to create a patchwork painting, anyone can easily cope with it, using a step-by-step guide and a master class for the selected circuit.

• First of all, you need to prepare a piece of foam, which will serve as the basis for the future picture.You need to step back a few centimeters from each edge of the foam and draw a frame using a ruler and marker. Then the drawn lines are pressed with a clerical knife, as a result, "grooves" up to 0.5 cm deep will be obtained.

• Next, a template or a drawing printed on a printer is taken, placed in the center of the foam and fixed in four corners using buttons. Depressions are made along the contour of the image with a clerical knife. This completes the preparatory stage.

• The next step is the direct creation of a picture from shreds, which must be selected in advance by color and texture. The process is straightforward. An area is selected that is planned to be decorated with pieces of fabric, and a little glue is applied to it. Previously cut scraps of the required size are applied to the glued surface and gently pushed into the “grooves”; excess fabric can be tucked in or trimmed with scissors. Thus, the design of the remaining sections continues.

The creation of the picture is completed by attaching a hook so that it can be hung on the wall. If you wish, you can additionally decorate the composition with colored stones, beads and sparkles.

Recently, many hand-made craftsmen use a variety of materials for their crafts. At the same time, the creation of unusual paintings from scraps of colored fabrics, which can be found in almost every apartment, is especially popular. You can easily create beautiful compositions from multi-colored pieces of fabric.

• Panel with flowers. You can not only hang it on the wall in the hallway, children's room, in the kitchen, but also give it to your friends. To create such a masterpiece, you will need to prepare round blanks of several sizes, they are collected in a pyramid: they put the largest circle down and so they reach the smallest one. The finished pyramid is lightly tied with a thread, and a bead is fixed in the center of the flower. To give the flower petals a waviness, they are carefully burned with a candle flame, then the base is fixed to the foam. The manufacturing process is completed by cutting and fixing the leaves from scraps of green fabric.

• Panels with the image of sunflowers, daisies, tulips and roses look beautiful. If you wish, you can make huge bouquets of several flowers. If you plan to hang a picture in the kitchen, then you can add flowers with baskets, vases. In order for this decor item to fit perfectly into the interior of the room, it is recommended to choose the right color palette, which should be combined with the shade of the walls and curtains. Panels with flowers, decorated in an oriental style, look especially gorgeous; they are separately decorated with a bamboo frame.

• Pictures on the New Year's theme. The upcoming New Year holidays are always filled with troubles and the preparation of gifts, the most original of which are the paintings decorated in the patchwork style. Their schemes are simple and great for beginners. In this case, on the decorative canvas, it will be necessary to depict New Year's symbols in the form of gifts, Santa Claus, a decorated Christmas tree and a sleigh with reindeer. To make such a masterpiece, you will need to stock up on pieces of thin leather and multi-colored fabric, giving preference to green, red, white, blue and golden shades. For the background of the composition, it is best to choose a blue or snow-white fabric, pink patches will be needed to decorate the face of Santa Claus, and in order for his beard to look like a real one, the fabric must be additionally trimmed with fringe.

• Painting "Tea Party". A composition of scraps, in which two women are drinking tea, will look no worse in the kitchen than an expensive painting painted by an artist on canvas. To create it, you need to print a drawing, use it to cut out a samovar, a teapot and other details from the fabric. Then, gradually, all the blanks are fixed on the foam.To give the picture originality, experts recommend stitching each cut from fabrics on a typewriter. If desired, such a picture is inserted into a frame.

• Also interesting ideas include the creation of a patchwork valentine. For nature lovers, landscape paintings are suitable. No less interesting will also look in the modern interior of rooms and compositions with images of cats, there are a lot of schemes for their creation, ranging from the simplest to the most complex. For a children's room, it is best to choose standard compositions with images of owls, hares, raccoons and chanterelles, cars, boats and princesses.

For information on how to create a patchwork painting, see the next video.