When buying household appliances, electronics or other goods in the store that need careful transportation, a large amount of packaging foam accumulates in the house, which, if you show creative imagination, you can try to use to decorate the walls.
An interesting solution to decorate the walls would be the use of figured foam blocks from the packaging of household appliances with recesses and protrusions. You can also use foam rectangles, which are used to insulate or soundproof walls. The foam will serve as a base (stretcher) for photographs, posters, colored fabrics or drawings. This creates a volume effect. As a result, you can create a whole gallery of three-dimensional diptychs, triptychs and polyptychs.
For work, we need the following set of materials and tools:
- thick foam or expanded polystyrene boards (in this example, polyethylene foam boards are used);
- image, photo or fabric - the canvas of the picture;
- scissors;
- glue;
- tape for the side decor of the picture.
Where to start? First of all, you need to prepare the image. It can be a photograph, a picture from the Internet, a poster, or even pieces of fabric of different textures. If you want to make a diptych, the drawing must be cut into two parts, the triptych into three parts, and not necessarily the same.
After that, the image should be glued to the foam. If you know how to draw, then you can make a drawing on the foam with paint.
The side parts of the foam also need to be decorated by pasting them with paper or tape of similar colors with the main background of the picture.
A hook or eyelet must be attached to the back of the picture so that it can be hung on the wall.
Thanks to creative imagination, you can experiment widely with the parameters of the paintings. They can be of any geometric shape, and must necessarily fit into the style of the room in which they will hang. You can emphasize the combination of small details of the interior with the picture by making small vases, candlesticks, pencil holders, etc. from polystyrene foam, and pasting them with the same material as the pictures.
You can hang the polyptych on the wall above the bed in the bedroom, pasting over the foam blocks with fabric in contrasting colors to match the bed linen, which will give the atmosphere a special cosiness.
DIY foam paintings. Photo
I want to give a few more examples of foam paintings for inspiration. Maybe someone will take the idea for themselves and make something similar or even better works of art.
Painting in the technique of kinusaiga. Master class with step by step photos.
Shabanova Marina Gennadievna, primary school teacher, MBOU Sarasinskaya secondary school, Sarasa village, Altai district, Altai TerritoryMaterial Description: this material will be useful to teachers, teachers of additional education, parents and all creative people who love to create beautiful and unique things with their own hands. The work can be done with children of primary and secondary school age (children of older preschool age can also cope with this technique).
Purpose: interior decoration for the holiday, a gift, participation in competitions.
Target: making a picture using the kinusaiga technique.
Tasks:
Tutorials: to form skills and practical skills in working with various types of fabric.
Developing:
- develop artistic taste, creativity, fantasy, imagination;
- develop fine motor skills of hands, eye, spatial imagination;
Educational:
- to instill interest in art, arts and crafts;
- educate independence, patience, perseverance.
To work, you will need the following materials and tools:
- penoplex 27cm x 27cm x 3cm;
- pieces of fabric (can be used);
- scissors;
- manicure nail file (another manicure tool or plasticine stack);
- stationery knife / cutter (preferably narrow);
- pencil;
- iron ruler.
Rules for safe work with scissors
1. Keep order in your workplace.
2. Before work, check the serviceability of the tools.
3. Do not work with loose scissors.
4. Work only with a serviceable tool: well-adjusted and sharpened scissors.
5. Use scissors only at your workplace.
6. Watch the movement of the blades as you work.
7. Put the scissors with the rings towards you.
8. Feed scissors rings forward.
9. Don't leave scissors open.
10. Store your scissors in their sheath with the blades down.
11. Do not play with scissors, do not bring scissors to your face.
12. Use scissors for their intended purpose.
Rules for safe work with a clerical knife
1. Pull out a small part of the blade.
2. Work with a clerical knife on the work board.
3. When making cuts, hold the knife firmly with one hand and the material you are working with with the other.
4. When the knife is not in use, the blade should be hidden inside.
On the square of the penoplex, we mark the frame. We retreat from each edge by 3 cm, mark with a pencil, through the mark points with a cutter along an iron ruler we make cuts to a depth of about 5 mm.
On the reverse side, we draw frame lines to the width of the ruler.
We make cuts from the lines of intersections of the frame to the corners. On the end side, we also make cuts in the corners.
Let's make a printout. My printer is black and white, but this does not interfere with subsequent work.
We impose the scheme on the inner square. For beginners, you can fix the scheme with safety pins.
With a blunt pencil, we circle all the main lines of the drawing. Note. When transferring an image to penoplex, many use carbon paper. It seems to me, but this is only my subjective opinion, that this creates excessive dirt.
Removing the diagram, the lines from the pencil are clearly visible.
Use a utility knife to make cuts along the contour to a depth of about 5mm. We expand the slots with a nail file.
Using a nail file, we set the fabric into the slots. I started with weed, you can start with any other detail.
We cut with scissors along the contour, while leaving 2-3 mm.
We set the edges into the slots with a manicure nail file.
You can draw several details at once.
Small details: we set the fabric, cut along the contour, additionally cut the corners to avoid pits in the picture.
Insert the fabric into the slots.
I decided to make a flower in two colors. First, I set the details of the same color.
Then another color.
We make the middle.
When making several parts of the same color located side by side, you can use the following technique: we set the fabric IMMEDIATELY into all the details.
Cut along the contour. We set.
We continue to work on the same principle.
The inside of the wings is ready.
The outer part of the wings is made of plain fabric.
You can change the order in which the details are filled in. The second butterfly began to be made from the outer contour.
Then I filled in the inside.
Filling in the background. We select the right fabric. We set it into the slots with a slight tension to avoid wrinkles.
The background is filled. Both large and small fragments.
It remains to make a frame. If the size of the fabric allows, you can lay out two sides of the frame at once.
We adjust the fabric at the corner on both sides.
On the reverse side, the fabric is adjusted with a slight tension. Creases and wrinkling on the knitted fabric become invisible.
Cut off the fabric with an allowance.
We make out a corner broach. We fill the fabric on the reverse side.
From the front side.
The corners around the edges look like this.
Carefully slide the fabric into the slot.
We make out the second part of the frame in the same way. The corner will look like this.
Gently set the fabric into the slot in the corner of the picture.
On the reverse side we make a suspension. You can use braid or soutache. We set the ends of the suspension into the slots of the frame. It is advisable to apply "Titanium" type glue to the attachment points, right in the slot. I use a saw blade for this.
For example, I will give a couple more photos. It happens that the fabric is not set very neatly.
You can always fix things with a nail file.
Styrofoam patchwork is a kind of patchwork technique, which is also called "patchwork without a needle." The styrofoam patchwork technique is based on the Japanese Kinusaiga technique, founded in 1987. It was a pity for the enterprising Japanese to throw away old kimonos from expensive fabrics, so they decided to find a non-standard use for them - to make paintings from scraps. But the Kinusaiga style involves making pictures on wood, and our method is on foam, which is much easier and faster.
Patchwork technique is quite interesting and unusual and will surely interest many creative people. Materials for making paintings on polystyrene are quite simple and affordable:
Thin sharp knife
A sheet of foam plastic (a new generation foam plastic is also suitable - foam plastic, as well as a couple of sheets of foam ceiling tiles glued on top of each other),
patches of fabric,
A blunt object such as a nail file (for sticking fabric into foam)
felt-tip pen,
Scissors,
Template for the future painting.
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1. We give the foam the desired shape and size. We transfer the drawing according to the template.
2. We cut the contours of the pattern with a sharp knife, the depth of the cut is at least 0.5 mm.
3. We try on pieces of fabric, put them on individual details of the pattern and lightly fill the edges of the fabric into the slots in the foam using a nail file or other thin, blunt object. Trying on the flap, do not try to put it deep into the slot. It is better to cut off the excess tissue with scissors and only then insert the flap completely.
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Do the above with every detail of the painting. If some details turn out to be too small and the edges of the fabric are too fringed, then coat the finished picture with PVA glue diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1.
Finish the edges of the painting. You can make a frame both from scraps of fabric and from wood (ready-made).
Paintings from scraps of fabric are a relatively new type of needlework called kinusaiga. The word is of Japanese origin, since it was there that this work originated. Kinusaiga is divided into several areas: patchwork, patchwork (quilting, quilting). They are united by the material - flaps, and the technique of execution differs from each other.
In this topic, the reader will learn how to make do-it-yourself paintings from scraps of fabric, the schemes of which can be downloaded and printed from the Internet.
Meet Patchwork
The uniqueness lies in the fact that the paintings are created from scraps of fabric without the use of a needle and thread. And the advantage of patchwork is the relative ease of execution, so even a novice master can create real masterpieces. Pictures from scraps of fabric:
- are a worthy decoration.
- will be suitable for any kitchen.
- will be a good gift to relatives or friends on the occasion of housewarming and other celebrations.
- do not require the purchase of expensive materials (everything you need can be found in any home).
- performed quickly (3-4 hours).
- have a 3D effect.
Before starting work, you need to prepare materials and tools so that they are always at hand.
- A sheet of foam plastic with a density of 25, a thickness of 2-2.5 cm. You can use pieces that pack equipment at manufacturing plants.
- All kinds of colorful patches of different sizes. It is desirable that the fabric is thin. Rough and dense matter is not suitable for small parts.
- PVA glue (superglue is not suitable, it melts the foam).
- Scalpel and clerical knife (one thing is possible).
- Manicure scissors.
- A seam ripper available at any craft store. Some craftswomen use a nail file; it is also possible, but the first option is more convenient.
- printed on a sheet of paper
The Japanese are a practical people. In essence, kinusaiga is the conversion of old kimonos (historically) into new paintings.
What you need to create a kinusaiga with your own hands:
– A3 cardboard;
- A4 cardboard;
– Multi-colored patches of fabric;
- Sintepon for stuffing;
- Wooden stick or toothpick
- Scissors;
- Acrylic paints;
– Thin brush;
- Soutache cord of different colors;
– Pins for sewing;
- Picture frame.
The scheme is, for example,
All the shreds that are at your disposal will be used:
Neatness is the main rule when creating your masterpiece in the style of kinusaiga
The sequence of work is as follows:
1. copy the drawing onto tracing paper, cut it into its component parts. Number the individual details of the pattern and cut out elements of fabric from them, as if using a stencil, with an allowance of 2-3 mm along the edges.
2. Prepare the field for the picture. To do this, stick a sheet of ceiling tiles, 0.5 cm thick, onto thick cardboard.
2. Glue the second copy of the printed drawing onto the foam plastic and cut out grooves 2 mm deep along the contours of the drawing
3. Lubricate the contour of the grooves with a glue stick. If you are doing this kind of work for the first time. you can smear the entire surface with a glue stick.
3. And the painstaking work with the textile mosaic begins: the edges of each element cut out of the fabric along the contour must be filled into the grooves.
Several schemes for making miniatures using the kinusaiga technique:
Kinusaiga, miniature
Miniature “Playful breeze” is suitable for beginners in this type of needlework 
The original drawing is attached: 
"Rain"
“Spring walk”
