Create a panel of natural materials with your own hands

Decorate your home, make it cozy and give an individual, not a typical appearance - our natural desire. But what if there is no time for embroidering with a dagger, weaving mats or decoupage, and complex techniques like cutting, embossing 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 stunning! Suffice it to mention that both venerable artists and designers do not neglect this kind of creativity.

Learning, imitating

This is the easiest way. Walk through art galleries, clubs, cafes, bars. Pay attention to the trends: panels made of natural material, made by themselves, are increasingly decorating the walls of such institutions, giving them originality. What is the beauty of such scenery? Just that they are unique. Find absolutely identical pebbles, branches, shells is impossible. But to spy the idea is always worth it. By the way, artists often decorate various establishments, hanging wall panels from natural material, for good reason. After all, visitors pay attention to the situation, to the decor - and can buy the thing they liked. Such a "functional" gallery is also one of the new trends in exhibition art. Take this note when you want to sell your decorative panel of natural material.

Stages of preparation

After watching the works of others, we go ... to the forest, to the field, to the meadow, to the beach. To whom that liking. Etchikol in art is so good that "raw materials" for works can be found literally under your feet. The trained eye will immediately pay attention to the original coloring of the stones, to the bizarre bend of the twigs, to the strange patterns of the tree bark. We stock up all that we liked - and home. How to mount details for a panel of natural material? With your hands, collecting the entire composition, you need to take care that the junctions are imperceptible. Large parts (pieces of bark, branches) are usually not glued, but attached to a thin wire. In the substrate - and it can be canvas, wood, plywood, dense cardboard - holes are made. They insert a string or metal wire, attach the part (which can also be discreetly punctured) and tighten from the back. 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 by our own hands - will most likely hang on the wall. If the parts are large, without lacquering, grinding, and the base is a board or sawed wood - they not only can not be framed, but also do not do it. Otherwise, you can lose the fancy shape of the background itself and its natural beauty. If the whole composition is made up of small, elegant, lacy fragments (for example, dried flowers, leaves, small shells, sand), then the finished shape will give it a frame. Its color will depend on the shades that dominate the panel. He can be selected by contrast or by the principle of semitones. Most often choose a simple wooden frame, which can also be decorated with appliqués or painted. Wall panels from natural materials can be made also on felt, on a dense fabric, and it is possible to make them openwork - without a background.