Elegant painting ideas
45 Creative Wall Paint Ideas and Designs — RenoGuide
Marj Licos
Marj Licos
Splashing on a fresh coat of paint is the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to refresh your home interiors. Aside from just painting the walls, you can also use them as the room’s accent or décor. With a little artistry and a lot of imagination, your walls can be highlights of the room or the house! Here are some easy DIY wall paint ideas and designs that will instantly transform the wall from humdrum to fabulous. Check these out and get ready for some painting!
1. Random Rectangles
Cool, modern, eye-catching. This easy-to-create wall paint feature will complement your modern home interiors and don’t need creative or artistic skills to complete. Just pick your favourite colour palette and paint away random rectangles in different shades.
2. Nordic Blues
Blue-grey shades are typical of the cool, modern and minimalist interiors of Scandinavian designs. Use several shades of Nordic blues to cover blocks of your wall. Use painter’s tape to achieve clean straight lines.
3. Honeycomb
Perk up a plain white wall with several shades of honeycomb. The randomly placed hexagons create a fun and funky vibe to the room. Use colours that complement the room’s interiors and use – brighter shades for kid’s bedroom, more toned-down for the living room or dining area.
4. Turquoise Ombre
Bring in the bright and cool of the ocean with this turquoise ombre wall paint. Match the colourful wall with sea-themed accents, glass and gold.
The light-toned wood flooring works to soften the glare.
5. Gingham Style
Painting squares can’t be that hard! This gingham-inspired wall feature gives the room an idyllic charm and rustic vibe. The key to a successful gingham wall feature is in carefully studying the shades, planning the painting and keeping the lines straight.
6. Grey Diagonals
This is one of the easiest wall paint ideas and designs for an accent wall. Upgrade a blank wall into this sleek and attractive wall accent. Painting a plain grey wall with diagonal lines of different thickness and shades creates a trendy and upbeat vibe. Perfect for modern minimalist homes.
7. Elegant Lines
The headboard wall is the ideal accent wall of a bedroom. This modern bedroom highlighted the wall with a dark shade of peacock green amongst a predominantly white interior.
Black thin lines are added to create a modern chic look.
8. Orange Burst
Easily dress up a narrow blank wall with this orange burst paint feature. Take your favourite colour, then create several shades of it by gradually adding white paint. An easy and fun way to add a pop of colour to an otherwise gloomy corner.
9. Vertical Divide
Sleek, modern and creative. Easily upgrade your interiors with this three-tone vertical divide paintwork. The grey shades complement the modern minimalist room, while the perky yellow serves as the accent colour. Add yellow décor pieces to pick up the colour theme.
10. 3D Boxes
Add fun to your room with some 3D wall effect. This three-tone 3D box design is easy to accomplish. Draft the lines and mark the colours so you won’t get confused. Using painter’s tape will hasten the process and ensure straight lines.
11. Circle Ombre
This circle ombre paintwork is perfect for when you just need a fun feature to dress up a blank wall. Draw a huge circle on the wall and divide into several vertical segments. Starting with the original paint colour, paint the middle part. Dilute the paint with white and work your way painting the outer segments. Remove the painters’ tape dividing the sections.
12. Charming Check
Fun, charming, unique. This blue-themed check wall feature complements the coastal home interiors. But you can make your own check design and put in on your wall! Pick your favourite colour and create three more complementary shades to complete your check design.
13. Colourful Geometrics
This bright and colourful geometric design works for homes and is best for rooms where you need a lot of positive energy flowing, like the living room or the family room.
Its bright colours are captivating, while the diagonal strokes give the design a dynamic look.
14. Flower Accent
Brighten up a forgettable corner of your home with this charming and fascinating wall flower accent. You can go as bright as you want by using red or orange shades, or as cool as this yellow on grey rose accent.
15. Random Lines
Eliminate blank and boring walls easily with some ingenuity and a free weekend to work on your wall. This enthralling two-tone paint wall accent is fun, modern and original. Its random lines and colour blocking aspect effectively delivers drama and character to the room.
16. Pastel Triangles
Fun, cheerful and bright! One of the most festive wall paint ideas and designs. Pastel triangles on the wall will make you think of confetti, party and excitement.
Ideal wall feature for children’s bedroom, the playroom, the family room or even the kitchen!
17. Blended Grey
When you want a plain grey wall, but you also want it to be exciting and unique! This blended grey wall is surely captivating and extraordinary. To achieve the cloud-like effect, use two tones of grey. Paint the lower part of the wall with the darker tone and the top with the lighter one. Use both colours in the middle part, using quick bold strokes to get the blended effect.
18. Cross-stitched Accent
Unique, nostalgic and beautiful. This wall feature will take a lot of painstaking and detailed work to get right. But with the right attention to details and a lot of patience, it is possible. A great surprise or gift of labour for someone who’s into cross-stitching.
19. Paint Drips
You’ll never have to worry about the drips, the overpainting and the mess with this design.
Drips are encouraged and the messy result delivers a beautiful and arresting wall feature. For smaller rooms, you can do one layer of paint applied on the top of the wall, right next to the ceiling and dripped randomly.
20. Vertical Stripes
Stripes are classic, neat and a staple in almost any design. Adding some black vertical stripes to a plain white wall will instantly transform it into this chic and elegant wall accent. From a forgettable foyer to a stylish one.
21. Sunset Ombre
Capture the magic of sunset with this incredible sunset ombre wall design. Warm, bright, mesmerising. The key to achieving the seamless ombre wall is the careful blending of colours. Start with sky blue from the top, follow with blush, then with warm honey orange, and end with salmon at the bottom. Blend colours between shades.
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Blue MountainsRelaxing, cool and fascinating. Adding a tranquil wall décor such as this blue mountain feature evokes peace and quiet into a room. Best for bedrooms, bath or the music room. Using several shades of blue-green paint, draw and paint the dips and peaks of your mountains. You can even recreate a favoured mountain range!
23. Dividing Diamonds
Adding pizzazz to a plain wall is easy and fun! Instead of abruptly cutting off from one colour to another, transition by adding these dividing diamonds. This wall transitioned from blue to white, and to divide the two blocks of colour, several shades of blue and white diamonds were added in between. Fun, attractive and charming!
24. Prints and Patterns
Sleek, light and neutral. This is the perfect wall accent for the modern minimalist home. Using painters’ tape, divide the wall into triangles.
Working with each triangle, randomly paint them with either grey or white, or create different patterns like stripes, fish tales, slants, starts, circles, and whatever you fancy!
25. Connecting Dots
Give your plain white wall a fun upgrade with this dots and lines design. Easy to create but might take you some time to complete. This is easier with a sharpie. Just create random dots a few inches from each, then draw lines to connect the dots.
26. Watercolour Effect
Arresting, creative, unforgettable! Pick some of your favourite colours to use for this colourful wall accent. Diluting acrylic paint with water will give you this fascinating watercolour effect. Keep the rest of the room muted so as not to overwhelm the overall design.
27. Rainbow Wall
Everyone loves rainbows! Adding a cheery rainbow to your home will instantly uplift its mood and ambience.
This accent wall highlights a basic rainbow arch on white. The colours more than provide the vividness that the all-white room needs.
28. Bright Colour Blocks
Brighten up a gloomy corner or decorate a blank wall with some blocks of bright colour paint. This plain white section of the house is turned bright and interesting by just adding blocks of red, orange and yellow. Not artistic skills required, just keep your lines straight with the help of painters’ tape.
29. Grunge Watercolour
Don’t be afraid to play with your walls and colours! This grunge watercolour wall speaks of an edgy, free and creative personality. To create the look, use acrylic paint, pick your favourite colour and dilute with water to achieve the fading effect. No rules for this design, just have fun.
30. Origami Accent
Minimalist, colourful, fun.
This bright and eye-catching origami wall accent is all you need to perk up a room! Its sleek lines and minimalist design are perfect for the modern minimalist home – just the right amount of colour and fun but without the clutter and fuss.
31. Graded Ombre
Want to do the ombre wall but can’t achieve the seamless blend? Try this graded ombre – the easier and simpler version of the delightful wall paint trick. Instead of going for the seamless, you’ll have to do the transition in segments. Just add colour or dilute the paint as you go from one panel to the next.
32. Dripping Mountains
Striking, colourful, inventive. This streamlined version of the mountains mural is brighter yet more subtle. Using several pastel shades of acrylic, dilute the paint with water to achieve the right drippy consistency. Fill large syringes and carefully work your way making mountain ranges across the wall.
33. Rainbow Splatter
This is another fun project to upgrade a blank wall into something colourful and exciting. Very minimal artistic skills required! Just pick out the colour theme you want; it could be several shades of one colour, a three-colour combi or this explosive rainbow collection.
34. Pastel Geometrics
Charming, understated, elegant. This colourful wall of muted pastel geometrics is easy to create. Using painters’ tape, map the wall out with random shapes, then fill each one with a different pastel colour. Mix some neutral shades with the pretty pastels to get the classy elegant look.
35. Into the Woods
With the right technique, painting a forest on your wall isn’t as hard as you would imagine. This green forest wall accent is easy to create. Start from the top background paint, then work your way down making tree silhouettes and adding more of the dark green paint as you go.
36. Red Grunge Fade
Edgy, fascinating, extraordinary. This rust-red grunge paint wall accent brings in an edgy and vivacious character to the room. The awesome way to disrupt the perfect orderliness of the modern minimalist interiors. After painting a section of the wall, press a wet rug to the newly painted section to create the grungy effect.
37. Hand Drawn Herringbone
Funky and creative, minimalist and attractive. Add a fun and trendy vibe to the room by creating this easy-to-do hand drawn herringbone wall accent. You’ll need a lot of patience working your way across the wall, but the work is simple enough. This is the only time you’re allowed to draw on the wall!
38. Colourful Fish Scales
This fish scales wall paint feature will not only dress up your wall, but it will also bring fun and excitement to the room.
Adding some party colours in fun shapes will instantly transform a humdrum wall into this colourful and gorgeous feature. Best for children’s bedroom, the nursery, the family room or even for outdoor hubs.
39. Unfinished Half
This may look like you’ve run out of paint, but it is actually a fun and quirky wall paint feature. This unique wall accent is a great conversation starter and is one of the easiest to accomplish. The streamlined elegant look underlines the fun and creative whimsy of the wall feature.
40. Elegant Minimalist
Some of the best wall paint ideas and designs actually use a sharpie. This elegant and classy wall accent is very easy to achieve! The first step is to paint the wall with a dark shade of colour. Once the paint has dried, use a gold sharpie pen to create the thin elegant lines. Done!
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Patterned PastelsFunky, bright, exciting! Eliminate boring walls with some fun pastel prints and patterns. Design patterns and options are endless, just use your imagination! This colourful concoction of dots, shapes and patterns results to an electrifying fun wall.
42. Floral Doodle
Express yourself and showcase your art on your wall! This amazing floral doodle wall feature is elegant and astounding as it is in black and white. You can also opt for the more attention-grabbing finish by adding in colours.
43. Vertical Lines
Subtle, elegant, modern. Adding random vertical lines to your plain wall will instantly give it a more modern and exciting look. The white vertical slants on grey background wall accent give this bedroom a contemporary yet stylish finish.
44. Painted Wood Planks
Love wood planks on your walls but would also like some colour? This painted wood planks wall gives a fascinating, fabulous and unique look to the bedroom.
The bright colours instantly uplift the bedroom from mundane to stunning. Highlight the wall feature with some spotlights.
45. Random Curves
In the minimalist trend of neutral colours and straight lines, this accent wall of curves and pastels is a standout. The circles and curves soften the look, while light pastels complement the modern minimalist styling.
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17 Creative Wall Paint Ideas for Every Room in Your House
Like a great pair of jeans or the very carefully considered addition of bangs (seriously—think it over. And then think it over again), a fresh coat of paint can be totally transformative. From a crisp white that makes your space feel brand new to a punchy pick that ups productivity in your office, the right hue can have a wide-reaching impact on how you live in—and interact with—your home.
The best part? When it comes to creative (and inexpensive!) ways to upgrade your home in just a weekend, nothing is easier to pull off. And for every paint color out there—and there are thousands—there's a unique application that will match the personality and vibe of your home perfectly. Looking for a little wall paint inspiration? Check out 17 of our favorite ideas below—but don't blame us if they immediately inspire a trip to the hardware store.
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Paint on a Pattern
Robert Peterson / Rustic White I
It may be the oldest trick in the book, but using paint to create a striped pattern is a classic for a reason. Designer Vern Yip relied on the technique to bring a nautical touch to his family's Florida beach house, coating his kids' "sleepover room" in white (Alabaster by Sherwin-Williams) and navy (Commodore by Sherwin-Williams) stripes.
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Cover (Almost) Every Surface
Thijs de Leeuw/Space Content/Living Inside
All-over color is a great way to make a big statement, transforming what was once a regular room into a cozy jewel box of a space.
Case in point? The dining area of this Amersterdamn home, which designer Nicole Dohmen of Atelier ND Interior painted floor to ceiling in dusty lilac. She complimented the custom shade (try Hazy Lilac by Benjamin Moore for a similar look) with upholstered dining chairs and curtain fabric by Étoffe in the same tone.
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Try a Trendy Hue
Amelia Stanwix
Paint is a great way to, ahem, dip your toes into a trend before committing hardcore to an of-the-moment palette or hue in more consequential ways (like, say, furniture). Dynamic chocolatey brown—like the shade Rich Biscuit by Dulux, seen here in a bedroom designed by Fiona Lynch—is about to be everywhere in the coming year. Mark our word—and your walls, you trendsetter, you.
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Choose High Gloss for High Glamour
Thomas Loof
Want to up the glam factor in your home? Opt for an impactful paint color in a high gloss (or lacquer) finish to add sophistication and stately appeal to a forming living or dining space.
In the 1930s Tudor seen here, designer Kati Curtis turned to an oil-based lacquer from Fine Paints of Europe to bring much-needed attention to what was once a forgotten transitional breezeway in a circa-1930s Tudor.
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Go Dark for Drama
Chris Mottalini
A dark paint pick says so much about a homeowner—mainly, that you're supremely confident and not afraid of a little drama (the good kind, that is). If you have a room with cavernous proportions, juxtaposition the scale with a moody, encapsulating hue, like the charcoal shade (Amherst Gray by Benjamin Moore) seen here in an apartment designed by Nannette Brown.
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Try a Transportive Mural
Paul Costello
Encourage a flight of imagination by hiring a pro artist to cover the walls with one-of-a-kind artwork meant to inspire and transport.
"The dining room was our greatest challenge, but it ended up becoming the most exciting room in the house," says designer Sarah Gilbane of this Everglades-inspired space she dreamed up for an adventurous client. Artist Brian Leaver took to the walls—already covered in a textural grasscloth wallpaper—to paint a tropical scene, then created a trompe l'oeil tented ceiling for added charm.
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Add Dimension With Moulding
Brie Williams
Help your paint pick enter a new dimension by coating a wall that already boasts decorative molding. Designer Ariene Bethea of Dressing Room Interiors Studio revived some of the character in her North Carolina home by adding molding wherever she could. In the office space, a saturated berry hue (Framboise by Sherwin-Williams) coordinates with the surrounding glam-eclectic decor, including a 1970s Gastone Rinaldi metal dining set that Bethea reupholstered with fabric remnants.
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“Dip” Your Wall in Color
Stephen Karlisch
Just because you choose to paint your room, doesn't mean you have to choose to paint your whole room. Consider "dipping" the space instead, carrying the color up three-quarters of the wall to create visual interest or appeal to an architectural accent already in place, like the vertical paneling seen here. Designer Stephanie Sabbe gave the 2021 House Beautiful Whole Home timeless charm using a similar technique and the laid-back hue Chapelle Green by Farrow & Ball.
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Use Paint as a Room Divider
David Tsay
Ease a transition between spaces by utilizing a color that bridges the gap between two rooms and unites their design. Here, pro Justina Blakeney accented the flow between the living and kitchen spaces in her petite 1050-square-foot bungalow by coating the wall in Breakfast Room Green by Farrow & Ball—a hue that seamlessly blends with nearby tiles from Badia Design.
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Fake Architectural Interest
PETER MURDOCK
Working with a plain, builder-grade home? No problem! For a quick fix, use this clever painting technique to create (faux) architectural interest around a doorway or window frame. "There was no ceiling molding and no molding around the doors in this apartment, so I added them with paint!" says designer Aldous Bertram of this creative and feminine space.
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Coordinate With Your Wallpaper
Stephen Karlisch
Paint can be used to lend attitude to a space—or dial up the funk that's already present. Emphasize an arresting wallpaper pattern by coordinating the paint in a nearby room to a color in the print. This bathroom—designed by Heather and Matt French for the 2021 House Beautiful Whole Home—relies on Farrow & Ball's Duck Green to accent the adjacent malachite-inspired wallpaper by Phillip Jeffries.
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Add Some (Faux) Texture
Genevieve Garruppo
Fake the look of a storied space—or accent an already stately home—with a painting technique that lends a sense of history and texture to your walls. Limewash paint has become a designer go-to for creating movement and dimension and can be realized in a range of hues, from deep clay to the cloud-like blue (from Porter's Paints) seen here in a dining room designed by Caroline Rafferty.
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Sneak in a Surprise Pop
STEPHEN KARLISCH
For an added dose of fun, coat an unexpected area (like the interior of a closet, pantry, or cabinet) in a standout shade. For a playful punch in this pantry, Pulp Design Studio used Daredevil by Sherwin Williams in a satin finish, which is low sheen but still wipeable—a must for a utilitarian space.
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Craft Up a Mega Chalkboard
Paul Raeside
Chalkboard paint has earned a reputation as a go-to for classrooms and kid's spaces, but it can actually skew stylish, too.
The proof: this sophisticated apartment by designer Garrow Kedigian, which is coated in floor-to-ceiling chalk paint by Rust-Oleum and embellished with real chalk sketches by artist Rajiv Surendra.
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Coat Just the Trim
Read McKendree
If you prefer your use of color whisper instead of scream, you'll love this next idea. Instead of covering an entire wall or room in an eye-catching shade, have a bit of fun by painting just the decorative trim or molding. In this space, designer Chauncey Boothby used the nearby kitchen island as inspiration, cutting that hue (Benjamin Moore's Yarmouth Blue) by 50% with white to highlight the trim work in the neighboring dining room.
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Get Graphic with Graffiti
Karyn R Millet
At the end of the day, painting your home should be an artistic expression of your personality.
Take that ethos to the max by hiring a graffiti artist (or getting your hands dirty yourself!) to tag your walls. In his California home, designer Eric Olsen tapped artist James Goldcrown to cover the walls of his daughter's bedroom with his signature graffiti hearts.
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Highlight Your Transitions
Frank Frances Studio
Think of this next idea as a highlighter stick for your home. Call attention to your doorways and window frame—or any favorite architectural feature—with a strategic splash of paint—the brighter, the better. Need some inspo? We love how designer Courtney McLeod of Right Meets Left Interior Design dialed up the drama in the hallway of this Manhattan apartment, accenting the Flavor Paper wallpaper with pops of Confident Yellow by Sherwin-Williams and Apple Green by Benjamin Moore.
Drawing lessons. 12 books that will teach you how to draw at any age
It doesn't matter if you're going to be an artist or just want to learn how to communicate your ideas visually - it's important to do it technically.
We have selected 12 books that will help you convey to the audience the subtle shades of soul and meaning - everything that you wanted to say.
Being able to draw every day fills life with meaning and makes you happier.
1. Simple drawing
Do you want to discover drawing from a new side? Dmitry Gorelyshev will help: share knowledge and tools, tell you how to get away from templates, teach you to act sincerely and enthusiastically. His book is a great collection of exercises, examples and inspiration. It will be useful for illustrators, designers, animators and general artists. Beginners and professionals. The effectiveness of the methodology has already been assessed by students of the Stroganov, British, and Simple Schools. And now you can too.
A few lessons - and you are already drawing a fantasy costume, a figure in an interior, an architectural portrait, an imaginary landscape, a person in motion or a panorama.
2. How to understand watercolor
Have you licked the tip of the watercolor brush? Remember how sweet she tasted? She is still just as sweet and waiting for you. In this tutorial, renowned artist and experienced teacher Tom Hoffmann reveals the secrets of watercolor painting and shares professional tricks. You will learn to THINK like a watercolorist.
It has never been so easy to tame this rebellious paint, which fascinates with its spontaneity, conveys the play of light and emotions.
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3. Drawing. Complete guide
If you are serious and want to learn only from the best, take the book of the famous Italian artist and professor of the Milan Academy of Fine Arts Giovanni Civardi. This is a detailed guide for those who love to draw and want to improve their skill level by mastering all aspects and techniques of drawing.
On the pages of the book you will find detailed step-by-step illustrations of the creation of portraits, a figure of a man in clothes, nudes, hands and feet, groups of people, natural and urban landscapes.
4. Watercolor landscapes
The right brush and a good mentor is what you need for landscape watercolor. The advice of the master of beautiful, light and airy drawings, Terry Harrison, will allow you to draw easily and confidently. You will learn how to achieve the desired effects and consciously wield brushes. Surprisingly beautiful landscapes will conquer you: Venetian streets, snow-covered plains, tropical beaches and many others.
Go through 10 exciting step-by-step lessons from the book and you will understand that watercolor landscapes are available not only to Aivazovsky.
Photo by @allalsk
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Sketching with markers with Anna Rastorgueva
Anna Rastorgueva's sketches are extraordinarily attractive — juicy, bright, elegant. From broccoli to a carved throne room on a distant island. You will learn how to choose markers, build a composition, keep a sketchbook. The book describes six main genres of sketching: still life, interior, reportage sketches, portrait, cookbook, travel diary.
Throw away shyness, choose a subject to your liking, take a marker in your hands and make this life brighter
6. Watercolor without rules
The book has a telling title. And you will feel boundless freedom, inspiration and joy from the fact that you can do this with watercolor - without rules, boldly and sweepingly. Together with professional artist Jean Haynes, you will go on a colorful journey. All you need to practice this book is a couple of tubes of paint, two brushes, paper, salt, a toothbrush, and water.
Remember, the process is more important than the outcome.
This is not a book, but a continuous watercolor meditation
7. Letter to letter
We are surrounded by letters. They wish good morning from the screens when we wake up, they talk to us in the afternoon from work mail letters. They support us when we are having a hard time. Calm down when we are sad. Each has its own mood. Can you guess it? How about creating that mood? Lettering is a spiritual and useful activity. Having mastered simple techniques, you will see that lettering is suitable for a variety of tasks: designing invitations, postcards, posters, posters, books. The book contains theory, practice and many examples of fonts and compositions.
You will learn how to make beautiful postcards for loved ones. And posters - certainly with your favorite quotes. Fill out art books. Express yourself, after all.
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Diary of a naturalist artist
Observation helps to love life. John Muir Lowes is sure that in the forest a diary is like binoculars - it helps to see the main thing and feel life in its entirety. This magnificent and voluminous (300 pages!) book contains an incredible amount of valuable advice: you will learn how to choose materials, draw animals and plants, landscapes and the sky correctly. You will learn how to work with colored pencils, markers, ballpoint pens and watercolors.
Listening to forest karaoke and enjoying every moment that is saturated with the smell of lingonberries and creativity - that's what it's like to be a nature artist.
You will begin to notice things that you have never seen before: the falling shadow of a leaf, the pure natural colors, the ripples of the water, the reflection of the sun. — Spread from the book
9. Watercolor sketch
The world is full of color.
Glossy cherry, burgundy maple, chamomile fields - ah! But with the advent of winter, the riot of colors disappears, and after sunset, darkness reigns. Watercolor will help keep the color! This book is a real story in pictures with a lot of useful tips and practical comments, illustrated with unusual and bright sketches by the author. Felix is inimitable: easily and naturally, interspersed with interesting facts and advice, he sets out a necessary and important theory.
You read a book and you are charged with confidence: I will succeed!
The book contains unusual bold bright illustrations, little-known tricks and unusual sketching tips from a contemporary artist.
10. Beginner Acrylic
Another beautiful book about drawing. This time - acrylic! You will work with acrylics for two weeks. Step by step - every day a new picture. The proposed plots will appeal to both beginners and experienced artists: they will help to deepen the technique or practice.
This is an intensive course for acrylic lovers, which will reveal the techniques and methods of creating an image and much more.
14 days - 14 paintings
In acrylic painting, it is easy to correct both small and large flaws. Show spontaneity, intuition and passion.
11. Botanical illustration with colored pencils
Watercolor pencils are something new: they are easy to handle and appreciated for their ability to render small details with great precision. With the help of pencils, you can achieve the same amazing effects as when drawing with paints. Ann Swan will teach you how to do underpainting, work in the layering technique and polish the paint layer, select and mix colors.
Down with stereotypes! Not only children in kindergartens have been drawing with pencils for a long time. A new world is waiting for you.
In the book you can draw new knowledge for yourself and find inspiration for independent work
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You will be able to draw in 30 days
A vibrant book that will inspire you to find and follow your true calling. Inside are delicious stories. Useful exercises. And sea. A sea of inspiration on every page. This book is written in support of your inner voice that says that you can give this world something special.
Photo by @nad3v.
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Simple drawings on nails at home
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Manicure is one of the elements of a fashionable look. Professional nail design looks neat and attractive. However, at home, you can learn how to do a manicure that will be in no way inferior to a salon one. There are a lot of techniques, having mastered which, you can easily decorate your nails.
Simple drawings for beginners
Every girl can make an original drawing on her nails, even if she does not have artistic talent. All that is required for this is fantasy and simple items that every home has: varnishes of different shades, nail polish remover, cotton swab, brush, toothpick, needle, etc.
Before starting the process, prepare your pens for this. To do this, make them a bath with warm water and sea salt. After holding your fingertips in it for 15-20 minutes, you can easily tidy up the nail plate and cuticle. At the next stage, you need to lubricate your hands with any nourishing cream, waiting for complete absorption.
Avoid getting the cream on the nail, otherwise the future design may be damaged.
The easiest way to make dots, lines and other geometric shapes on the nails. They can be applied in an orderly or random manner. At the very beginning, the nail is covered with a base color. After the varnish layer dries, lines are drawn with a brush, and neat dots can be applied with a needle.
If you are not sure about the ideal lines, you can use special stencils. As soon as the drawing dries, the nail is covered with a layer of fixative, which will help to keep the manicure longer.
There are special tools for dotting. However, if you don’t have these at home, then they can be easily replaced with a needle, toothpick, hairpin or rod from an old ballpoint pen.
Tape Manicure at Home
Geometric nail designs can be easily done using adhesive tapes. They are easy to replace with ordinary stationery tape. The easiest manicure made by this method is all kinds of stripes and blocks on the nails. To begin with, the nail plate is covered with a base varnish.
After it dries, pieces of adhesive tape are glued on top, and the part that is not glued is crumbled with another varnish. So you can make a two-tone manicure.
Similarly, stripes and other geometric shapes are drawn on the nails. One of the most popular manicures today is a chess one, which can also be done using adhesive tape, which is cut into small strips in the form of a stencil.
Scotch tape will be indispensable for performing French or moon manicures at home.
Gradient manicure at home
Today is a very popular gradient manicure or as it is also called ombre. At first glance, it is quite complicated and it is not possible to repeat it at home on your own. However, there is one secret that will help achieve a smooth transition between shades.
For this, in addition to nail polish, you will need eye shadow and a sponge.
At the very beginning, the nail plate is covered with a base varnish. Without waiting for it to dry completely, with the help of a sponge, dry shadows of a suitable shade are applied to the nail. Finally, a clear varnish is applied.
Ordinary sparkles will help diversify the manicure, making it original. You can also use special varnishes with glitter.
Drawings with a needle at home
Flower patterns on nails are always relevant. Choosing the right shades, floral manicure can be combined with any outfit. It is not difficult to make such a pattern yourself if you have perseverance and patience.
To create it, you will need: base polish, varnishes of different shades and a needle, which can be replaced with a toothpick or other object with a sharp end. To begin with, the nails are covered with a base varnish. After it dries, with a needle, dots in the form of a flower are applied to the surface of the nail.
At the end, a fixing layer of varnish is applied.
If you have already mastered this technique, you can try something more difficult. For example, draw leaves near a flower. To do this, put a dot near the flower with a needle and, without tearing off the needle, draw lines to the petals, forming a leaf.
Using a needle or toothpick, various abstract designs can be applied to the nails. To do this, without waiting until the varnish is completely dry, use a toothpick to apply dots, lines or other shapes. Then, with light movements, connect them together, forming a pattern.
Drawings with a brush
Even a beginner can make a beautiful drawing on nails with a brush. To do this, stock up on tools with natural bristles of different thicknesses. First, try drawing simple lines. When thick and thin lines are already good for you, you can start drawing all kinds of curls.
Over time, you will learn how to draw even complex compositions.
Dots drawings
Do you want to have a beautiful and unusual manicure, but are afraid to work with a brush? Then use special dots. Drawings that can be made with them are very different: flower arrangements, images of animals and other figures, abstract patterns, etc.
Acrylic painting
Using ordinary acrylic paints, you can decorate your nails with real masterpieces. First, practice with simple ornaments. Later, having mastered the technique, proceed to more complex paintings.
First, the contour of the future drawing is drawn with a thin brush, after which its entire surface is filled with paint. To make the manicure last as long as possible, the top of the pattern is covered with a fixative.
Simple gel polish drawings
Of course, we always want our manicure to last as long as possible.
