Create a panel of natural materials with your own hands

Decorate your home, make it cozy andto give an individual, non-typical look is our natural desire. But what if there is no time to cross-stitch, weaving rugs or decoupage, and complex techniques - like cutting, chasing or beading - require special knowledge and tools? There is an exit! Anyone can make a panel of natural material with their own hands, and the effects can be simply amazing! It is enough to mention that both venerable artists and designers do not neglect this kind of creativity.

Learn by imitating

This is the easiest way.Walk through the art galleries, clubs, cafes and bars. Pay attention to trends: panels made of natural material, made with your own hands, more and more adorn the walls of such institutions, giving them originality. What is the beauty of such decorations? Just that they are unique. It is impossible to find completely identical pebbles, branches, shells. But spying on the idea is always worth it. By the way, artists often decorate various places, hanging wall panels from natural material, for a reason. After all, visitors pay attention to the decor, to the decor - and can purchase the thing they like. Such a "functional" gallery is also one of the new trends in the exhibition art. Take note of this when you want to sell your decorative panel from natural material.

Stages of preparation

Seeing the works of others,we go ... to the forest, to the field, to the meadow, to the beach. Whom that like. Ecostyle in art is so good that “raw materials” for works can be found literally under our feet. A keen eye will immediately draw attention to the original coloring of the stones, to the bizarre bend of the twigs, to the strange patterns of the bark of the tree. We stock up on everything that we liked - and go home. How to fix parts for panels of natural material? With your own hands collecting the entire composition, you need to take care that the joints are invisible. Large parts (pieces of bark, branches) are usually not glued, but are mounted on a thin wire. In the substrate - and it can be canvas, wood, plywood, thick cardboard - holes are made. They insert a twine or metal wire, tie the item (which can also be imperceptibly punctured) and tighten it from the back side. Light elements (leaves, dried flowers) can be sewn or glued with a special thin gun.

Framing

The finished composition - that is, our panel of natural material, created with our own hands - will most likely hang on the wall.

If the parts are large, without varnishing, grinding,and the base — the board or saw cut of the tree — not only can they not be framed, but they should not be done. Otherwise, you can lose the bizarre shape of the background itself and its natural beauty. If the whole composition is created from small, elegant, lacy fragments (for example, dried flowers, leaves, small shells, sand), then the frame will give it a finished look. Its color will depend on the shades dominating in the panel. It can be selected in contrast or on the principle of semitones. Most often they choose a simple wooden frame, which can also be decorated with appliqués or painted. Wall panels from natural materials can also be carried out on felt, on thick fabric, or you can make them openwork - without a background.