How to paint a frame for a picture?

The process of painting the frame for the picture is a rather creative and unusual occupation. Refreshing a baguette will help the application of some tricks and secrets. You can arrange as a self-made frame, and give a second life to the old product. In this article, we will consider options for how to paint the frame for a picture with your own hands.

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How to paint a photo frame for a picture?

If you purchased a new baguette for a picture that is not painted, then you can transform it yourself. How to paint or restore the frame? To paint the product, paint of a suitable shade is used, as well as bronze or silver.

Bronze powder

If bronze powder is used, then it is necessary to perform the following actions:

1. The baguette is covered with alkyd varnish or paint of the desired tone.
2. After that, bronze powder is applied to the sticky varnish.

Important! This procedure creates a spectacular appearance with a golden or bronze tint. But such a frame for paintings is short-lived. Even a touch of the fingers causes a fading of “goldenness”. Therefore, it is necessary to apply an additional procedure, in which the powder is covered with a layer of varnish. Recoating reduces the “golden effect”.

Bronze paint

To paint a baguette for paintings, apply bronze paint, which can be purchased ready-made in hardware stores. In addition, you can make such paint yourself from bronze powder. To do this, stir the bronze powder in the composition of alkyd varnish, varnish. Even ordinary sunflower oil is suitable for such a procedure.

Important! If you use varnish, then it must be diluted with a solvent. The more diluted the varnish, the greater the “goldenness” of the paint. The coated surface of the frame in this case is not strong enough.

Aged Bronze

How to make aging frame? The picture frame, reminiscent of aged bronze, looks very stylish and beautiful. This effect can be achieved if several sequential steps are taken.

How to paint the frame for a picture in the style of aged bronze with your own hands:

• First, the frame is given a dark shade, using a black-brown shade, brown-green tone and other color schemes.

Important! The paint used must have a matte finish.

• The field of this bronze spray paint is sprayed over the surface of the frame with sliding movements.

Important! As a result of this procedure, all the protruding parts on the surface of the frame will be golden, and the hollows will remain dark in color. In this way, the effect of the old product is created, from which the gilding has peeled off.

Wood imitation

Modern technological processes allow creating an imitation of the valuable texture of wood on the surface of the frame. In this case, it is necessary to perform the following actions:

1. The baguette is coated with a primer or treated with matt white paint.
2. Then, in the varnish, the coloring pigment is diluted to the desired color scheme. Basically apply a dark brown color with some shade. The composition of the prepared paint should be a translucent consistency.
3. This paint is applied to the surface of the frame with a brush with hard bristles. Such a brush scratches the layer of applied paint and under it the white base is unevenly visible.

Important! To apply paint by this method, certain skills are required. The imitation of wood texture will depend on how the brush is located in the hand and what movements are applied during application. A high level of skill allows you to independently invent patterns of all kinds of wood textures.

Foil coating

There is another original method of painting. For this, the frame for the picture is covered with foil. How to decorate the frame for the picture with foil yourself:

1. Before this, the baguette is treated with glue or varnish.
2. While the coating dries, foil or potal is applied to it and pressed down with a sponge. The glued foil follows the relief of the frame and fits snugly on the baguette.
3. The resulting metal surface must be tinted with translucent paint.

Important! When using not golden, but white aluminum foil, a warm shade of bronze is created by using grated stylus from colored pencils. The lead must be ground to a powder state. This composition is rubbed into the metal surface of the frame with a brush with a rigid base or rags.

For independent decoration of a baguette, a wide imagination, creative thinking and versatile creativity are necessary. By experimenting and improvising, you can come up with new techniques, methods, and achieve interesting compositions in such a creative process.

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How to age a frame for a picture?

The appearance of objects in the living room depends on the style of the interior. So, the interior in the style of Provence, Vintage and Shabby-chic implies decorating the pieces of furniture "antique". The old-fashioned image creates a set of furniture, complemented by aged chairs, tables and chests of drawers.

In this style flower pots, photo frames, all kinds of vases, wall clocks, frames for mirrors are decorated. It is not at all necessary to acquire such things in the markets, as the objects in the apartment can be transformed beyond recognition by yourself.

Let's consider how to paint a wooden frame for an old-style painting with acrylic paint yourself.

For this we need:

• ordinary wooden frame;
• brown-based acrylic paint, which we use as a base;
• white acrylic paint;
• acrylic craquelure varnish;
• tassel.

The first stage is painting the frame with paint, which serves as the basis

The base paint is used for pronounced cracks. Therefore, the base paint and paint that simulates a cracked surface are selected in contrasting colors. If we use a brown tone for the main color, then it will appear on the site of the cracks.

Important! We stock up on old newspapers so as not to stain the surface on which we will work. We put a picture frame on newspapers.

We start painting the frame with acrylic paint. Brown color in one layer. A single-layer coating is quite enough, since the paint has a dense composition. If somewhere the layer is not quite thick, then the second coating will be crater varnish and white paint, which safely cover any defects of the main brown background. About two hours, our frame should dry. Products treated with acrylic paint dry very quickly.

The second stage - processing the frame for the painting with crater varnish

We process the picture frame with varnish. Dependent on the thickness of the layer are the cracks:

• If the applied layer is thin, then the cracks will look small.
• With a thick layer of varnish - cracks will have pronounced outlines.

After painting, leave the frame to dry for at least 2 hours.

Important! Crater varnish is a coating that creates cracks. It is not the varnish that is cracking, but the paint applied over it. The crater component resembles ordinary varnish.

The third stage - painting the baguette with white acrylic paint

With quick movements, paint the frame with white acrylic paint.As a result, cracks literally appear in our eyes. The paint should dry for about 2 hours. When the product dries, the cracks become clearly pronounced and the desired texture of the product is viewed.

Important! It is very important to paint the frame over the entire surface, without tearing off your hands, with one stroke. You can pre-train when processing any other material. If you brush twice in one place, then the crack pattern is violated.

With the first layer, it has already appeared, and if you pass the second time, then the next layer of paint does not crack. In addition, the secondary passage literally smears the drawing.

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How to paint a frame for a specific interior style?

Stylishly designed frames can emphasize the interior design, so you need to choose the color scheme of the baguette, depending on the style of the room. How to paint a frame for a picture with your own hands, depending on the style of the interior:

• Carved wall decorations in dark golden or dark bronze colors complement the fashionable glamorous interiors and are suitable for the classic version.
• For the vintage style, a composition is characteristic, where there may be aged frames, a candlestick and various accessories such as mirrors on a stand, figurines, caskets, old perfume bottles.
• The elaborate frames painted in white, black and silver color emphasize the modern interior in fusion style.
• With a minimalist interior, standard square frames look great in white or any color that contrasts with the walls.

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Frame style depending on the genre of the picture

The frame is the “clothes” for the picture. Baguette design should not cover the composition of the canvas. But there are exceptions, mainly for small-sized paintings. The ideal option is to match the texture of the baguette and the style of the picture:

• The texture of the frame can even repeat the characteristic strokes of paint or ornament that are used in the picture.
• With a simple plot of the picture, the frame should be in a simple style. And vice versa - a deep storyline of the picture should be made out by an interesting design solution of a baguette.
• Modern abstraction will not look beautiful in the magnificent gilded design of the frame. Therefore, for the simple, the simple serves, and the complex corresponds to the complex.

Important! The strict aluminum frame for the picture cannot reveal the airiness of the watercolor painting. But she perfectly emphasizes the contrasting black and white photo. And graceful frames for paintings from carved wood in light tones are ideally combined with a delicate watercolor pattern.

• Very beautiful and modern technique of painting baguette. In this case, the image of the picture continues in the frame into which it “flows” smoothly.
• It also looks very impressive way to design a picture using two or more composite profiles, different in thickness. In this case, it is important that the composite profile consist of frames of different widths. The inner baguette, located near the picture, plays the role of a passe-partout, while emphasizing the picture itself, but at the same time emphasizes the beautiful design of the “external” frame.

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Baguette color

If you are going to paint the frame for a picture with your own hands, the color scheme plays a big role. The color of the picture frame should be complementary, respectively - to shade the picture. In addition, the color scheme of the baguette implies a difference in tone from the main color either to the dark side or to the light.

Important! It is necessary to take into account such a nuance that a cold color frame is used for paintings in cold tones, and vice versa - a baguette of light tones is suitable for a warm image. However, there is an exception in which a natural tree is combined with any shades.

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Baguette Width:

• The larger the picture, the wider the baguette for the image should be.This correspondence favorably emphasizes the significance of the picture. Such compositions are placed at a central point in the interior and make them accent elements.
• Small paintings are decorated with wide frames. At the same time, they adhere to the correspondence when the total area of ​​the baguette is larger than the image area. This option looks very impressive. But you need to consider that such a design requires a stylistic approach for other indoor images.
• When choosing frames for small images, thin baguettes are often used. This choice looks stylish and modern, especially suitable for a whole group of paintings.

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How to decorate the frame?

When decorating paintings, the material can be anything: wine corks, various cereals, fabric, old filings of glossy magazines, all kinds of shells. Consider the most interesting options for decorating the frame at home.

Wine corks

This method of decorating a baguette is a modern hand-made art. To draw up such a frame, you need to take care of the basis for the baguette:

1. Wine corks need to be cut into thin circles.
2. Using acrylic paints, give the appropriate color. It turns out a kind of cork buttons.
3. Now you need to include creativity and imagination in order to carry out the decoration. You need to stick cork buttons of various colors on the main part of the frame for the picture.

Important! The frame can be decorated as in a multi-colored solution, made in two-tone or in a plain version. In this case, taste, personal preferences and the style of the interior play a role.

Groats

There is a very interesting option for decorating picture frames, which are designed to be placed in the kitchen. How to decorate the frame for the picture with your own groats:

1. The base of the frame is treated with PVA glue.
2. After that abundantly sprinkle the baguette surface with the selected cereals. All kinds of cereals can be used. Mostly barley, buckwheat, rice, wheat are used in decoration.

Important! The frame will look much neater if the base of the baguette is pre-treated with a paint corresponding to the color of the selected cereal.

Old magazines

Even from old glossy magazines you can design a framework for paintings that create a surprisingly beautiful interior:

1. Old glossy magazines cut into thin strips of the same size.
2. From the cut strips it is necessary to wind tight tubes and fix them with glue.
3. With such tubes, you need to glue the base of the frame for the picture, and the unusual design is ready.

Natural materials

For the decoration process, you can use natural materials:

• Small branches of shrubs can be used to decorate an outdated picture frame.
• Large branches are suitable for unusual and creative design of baguette.

Decoupage technique

Also, the basis of the picture frame can be pasted over with interesting fragments from old magazines and comics. To decorate the frame with your own hands, you can use special paper, which is characterized by a variety of plot lines.

the cloth

For true needlewomen, the design of the frame becomes a real art, so a beautiful fabric is also used. How to decorate the frame for the picture with a cloth with your own hands:

1. On a thick sheet of cardboard we make the basis of a baguette.
2. Cut it along the contour lines.
3. Then you need to drape the surface of the frame with a beautiful fabric.

Important! There is an option to make a soft frame. To do this, use cotton wool or synthetic winterizer, which fill the baguette for the picture.

Decorative tape

You can quickly and easily make a home-made frame by using decorative tape or self-adhesive decorative paper. Today in stores there is a huge selection of all kinds of drawings on decorative adhesive tapes. Therefore, everyone will be able to choose an interesting option to design a frame for the picture.

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In this article, we offered you a lot of interesting ideas on how to paint a frame for a picture and then decorate a baguette.Choose those that impress you more, and which you master in your practical decorating skills, then the result will certainly impress you!