Paintings made of stones are an amazingly beautiful and unusual kind of needlework. What is not always possible to convey with paints can be brilliantly embodied thanks to the original material. A sparkling starry sky, iridescent drops of dew in the morning dawn, a transparent sea wave - all this can be reliably depicted in a stone canvas.
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The growing interest in various types of needlework has led many women to engage in homemade art. The high pace of life, urban rhythms require maximum dedication from people in a constant struggle with life's difficulties. Pictures of stones as one of the varieties of needlework allow you to plunge into the world of beauty and mystery. Through painstaking work, you can relax spiritually, enjoying the birth of wonderful paintings that magically appear thanks to their own skillful hands.
Classes with stone material are interesting not only for women, many men are interested in them. Some professional artists have chosen such creativity as the main focus of their activities. Today you can visit exhibitions and see whole galleries of paintings in the "stone" version.
To create paintings of stones yourself, you need to have an artistic taste, patience, perseverance. Methodicality of action does not endure fuss. Over the work, the author can spend many months.
Semiprecious Stuff
When creating a picture of semiprecious stones , an unusual effect is achieved from the play of light on sawn edges. For such works, minerals such as jade, carnelian, malachite, jasper, marble, quartz, charoite, muscovite and many others are used.
The process of creating paintings begins with a sketch of the future canvas. Based on it, material of the required quality and shades is selected and sorted. Selected samples are crushed, trying to achieve the same size. To create a background, part of the stones are crushed to a state of dust. Using glue, stone chips are fixed on the canvas, creating the necessary foundation.
Next stage
Then comes the stage of drawing the main elements of the picture. To do this, use small pebbles. The total volume and detail of objects can be achieved by using larger particles. In fact, it turns out not pictures from stones, but rather applications.
In order to achieve maximum realism of the work, the artist has to spend hours looking through the smallest particles, examining them under a magnifying glass. The brush is not used much in the work, it is more necessary to work with miniature tools designed for delicate work.
Beautiful home decoration
Pictures from Swarovski stones look absolutely stunning . To create such paintings, you need to use special cut rhinestones. The uniqueness of the material is that the crystal is able to reflect light and shimmer like no other stone. To achieve the effect, stones with fourteen faces are used in the work. Pictures created from Swarovski crystals are a real work of art.
Creating paintings from stones requires considerable material costs. But what about those who do not have such an opportunity, but who wholeheartedly strive for this kind of art? For everyone, the industry produces special kits containing the necessary materials for work. As a rule, the kit includes an image scheme, instructions for performing actions, the basis of the picture, and the material itself. Stones in such sets are used inexpensive, often artificial, well imitating real ones.
Conclusion
The ability to create paintings can push creative people to further work with the stone: decorating clothes and accessories, making jewelry, decorating shoes and handbags.