What is the best way to attach a picture by numbers? Coloring instructions

Coloring occurs as follows: a specific color is applied to each numbered section of the picture according to the number. Typically, canvas painting kits use durable acrylic paints. Mixing different shades it is not required, so the work is not particularly difficult.

Images printed on canvas look most impressive. IN ready-made version they represent a full-fledged picture, which, thanks to the stretcher and fasteners, can be hung on the wall. It can also be presented as a handmade gift.

Coloring by numbers on canvas is a great choice for beginning artists.

If you are interested in the opportunity to create a real artistic masterpiece at home, then welcome to the website of the I-PA company. We have a large selection of paint-by-number paintings that can be purchased in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions of Russia with delivery or pickup.

In the painting catalog you will find a variety of subjects:

• landscapes,
• still lifes,
• flowers,
• animals,
• cartoon characters,
• abstraction,
• painting reproductions famous artists.

You can choose these and many other stories for both adults and children. For convenience, use online filters: with their help, you can select the desired canvas size for painting by numbers, the theme of the drawing and the price category. Have fun creating and discovering new talents in yourself!

Finally, your dream of painting a luxurious landscape for the living room or a bright still life for the kitchen is coming true! You have in your hands your first painting kit and your future first masterpiece. Where to begin?

Workplace

Before the beginning creative process prepare workplace. For quality work It is necessary to take care of good lighting. You can draw on a table, but it’s still much more convenient to do it on an easel. Prepare a container with clean water, in which you will wash your brushes. Arrange the brushes, control sheet, paints and napkins for drying the brushes in a sequence convenient for you. The main thing is that everything is at hand!

Preparing paints

The colors from the set are in front of you! The kits contain already mixed paints of all the desired shades. Carefully read the instructions for their use. There are sets in which the paints are in numbered jars, and there are sets with paints in tubes, empty jars and stickers with numbers. In the first case, you can use paint directly from a jar of the required number. And in the second - first select a tube with a number, stick the same number on the jar and squeeze a little paint from the tube into the container. Although the process is a little delayed, it has its advantages. Acrylic paints in tubes last much longer.

Let's get creative!

On the canvas there are areas with numbers, which are also used to number the jars. With a damp brush, pick up paint, for example, with the number 3, and paint over all the fragments with this number. Why all the fragments at once? Open acrylic paints dry very quickly. Therefore, it is not advisable to immediately paint areas different colors. Sometimes this has to be done when completing a work, when there are many small unpainted contours left on the canvas.

Coloring methods

1. You can start coloring with large light fragments located at the top, gradually moving down. This approach is convenient because with dark paints it is easier to correct flaws made when painting light areas. If upon application light paint the numbers or boundaries of the contours are visible, it is enough to apply another layer of paint. Some craftsmen use a correction pencil before applying paint, others have their own secrets. But 2-3 layers of paint are enough - and the emerging contours will disappear.
2. You can paint by first painting the background of the picture, and gradually move to the foreground. For example, you need to paint the landscape. Then first you paint the sky with clouds, then the meadow and trees, and then the leaves and flowers.
3. Some coloring enthusiasts first paint over the fragments of one color that are most numerous on the canvas, moving on to smaller quantities. For example, with paint No. 2 you need to paint 20 contours, and with paint No. 3 - 15 areas.
4. Other fans of painting by numbers prefer to paint sequentially, based on the numbering of paints in the set, starting with No. 1.

Over time, you will choose your own method that is convenient for you. Or come up with your own!

• You need to hold the brush like a handle, and for stability, place your hand on the surface. The painting can be rotated so that its position is convenient for painting a particular area.
• When painting, it is better to first outline the fragment with a thin brush, and then paint over larger areas with a wider brush.
• When changing paint or when painting large fragments with one paint, you need to thoroughly rinse the brush, especially paying attention to the place where the fibers are attached.
• If the paint is thick and does not adhere well to the canvas, you can add a drop of water to it from time to time and mix the paint to the desired consistency. If the paint is of normal density, then dry the washed brush with a napkin before painting.
• Very small fragments can be painted over with a toothpick. Just dip the tip of a toothpick into the paint and paint the desired area on the canvas.
• If the numbers are difficult to see in small areas, then a check sheet will come to the rescue. It will help if you accidentally made a mistake and painted an area with the wrong paint number. Just wait until it dries and cover the fragment. the right paint. On the same sheet you can practice drawing contours or try artistic techniques, which you can use to create your future painting.

Artistic techniques for coloring pictures by numbers

If coloring by numbers becomes your hobby, you can try different art styles application of paint that gives the painting a different color effect. It could be:

• color transition - paint is applied in small strokes to the contour between two border colors;
• relief effect - thick paint is applied in a thick layer to those fragments that need to be highlighted;
• pointillism - method French artist Saint-Georges, who painted pictures with dotted strokes;
• feathery transition - paint is applied along the border of two colors with quick sliding movements;
• light coating that allows you to achieve transparency of colors using diluted paint;
• decoration is the final stage, when individual elements are carefully drawn and the painting takes on a completed look.

Light coverage is the most convenient technique for beginning artists.

Finishing touches

If desired, a few days after completion of the work, the painting can be varnished. Glossy varnish will make your masterpiece brighter, and matte varnish will remove glare. The varnish is distributed on the surface using a soft wide brush. A day after varnishing, place the painting in a suitable frame and hang it on the wall. Color by numbers look great even without a frame. In this case, simply paint over the ends of the picture with the remaining paints of your choice.

How to preserve paints?

It is advisable to paint a picture without long breaks. The paint, in an already opened jar, must be used within three months. In the future, it may dry out. After use, the jars should be tightly closed. You must first remove all traces of paint from the edges of the jars and lids by carefully cleaning the sealing grooves with a needle or toothpick. If a long break in work is expected, then tightly closed jars must be wrapped in a damp cloth and placed in a plastic bag. This can extend the shelf life of paints, but does not guarantee the safety of their properties.

Caring for your brushes

1. After painting, remove the remaining paint from the brush and rinse the brush in warm water.
2. Gently wash the brush with gentle soap and rinse again.
3. Using a napkin, wipe the brush with rotating movements, giving it its original shape, and leave to dry.

It is important!

• Do not use a working brush to stir paints - you can use an unnecessary brush, match or toothpick for this.
• Do not leave brushes in water for a long time - they will quickly lose their quality.
• Do not clean the brush with chemicals or your nails.

But the most important advice is don’t be afraid! Draw pictures with pleasure - and everything will work out for you! And looking at your work, hardly anyone will guess that this masterpiece is paint by numbers.

Painting by numbers is a fun activity for children and adults. Drawing teaches calmness, attentiveness, patience, develops taste and Creative skills. This activity does not require special training or additional tools. The set contains everything you need for creativity.

Inside the set you will find a canvas on a frame, pre-lined into multiple areas. Each area is indicated by a number. Fill the numbered areas with paint of the corresponding color. Once you fill all the areas, you will receive finished painting.

How to draw

1. Prepare your work area. Cover the table so it doesn't get dirty. Prepare jars of water for rinsing your brushes.

2. Fill the numbered areas with the appropriate color of paint. When transitioning from one color to another, use a dry, clean brush.

3. Fill in all areas with the same color first, going from large areas to small ones. Start at the top and work your way down

4. It is better to start with large areas and gradually move to small ones, which are more difficult to paint.

5. Try to fill the areas carefully and not go over the edges.

6. If numbers appear somewhere during the painting process, apply a second layer of paint.

7. To give relief, several layers of paint can be applied to some elements. You can also show your imagination and add something of your own to the picture.

8. When the painting is dry, it can be coated with matte or glossy varnish.

9. Frame the finished painting.

Special Moves drawing

• If you want to soften the transition between two colors, you need to dry the brush, dip it in paint and carefully smudge the border between adjacent colors.
• To make colors transparent, thin the paint and lightly apply it to the canvas.
• If you want the border between different colors to be torn, paint quickly, barely touching the canvas with your brush.

Attention!

• Always close your paint pots after painting, otherwise the paints may dry out.

• There is no need to dilute the paints with water, but if the paints have thickened as a result of prolonged painting, you can add a few drops of water and mix thoroughly with a toothpick. You cannot mix the paint with a brush.

• Rinse and dry brushes when not in use.

• If you make a mistake, no problem. Wait until the paint dries and apply a layer of the desired color on top.

“Anyone can become an artist!” - today this motto is more relevant than ever. Yes, don’t be surprised, nowadays anyone can feel like the inventive Leonardo da Vinci or the expressive Van Gogh. After all, in the past, in order to paint your own canvas, you had to study at an art school for years or, at a minimum, complete expensive drawing courses. And everyone, regardless of gender and age, can create their own still life, portrait or landscape in just 3-5 days - just like a real master exhibiting in famous galleries.

What is the reason for this phenomenon? In paintings by numbers, which are gaining more and more popularity in the 21st century. After all, they allow you to reveal creative potential to everyone who craves it, even without sufficient experience or free time.

We draw according to the “all inclusive” principle

What’s especially nice is that any set for home painting already includes everything you need: numbered jars of paints, one or more brushes, instructions, a check sheet for checking shades, divided into sectors and marked with numbers on cardboard or canvas with a stretcher, varnish mixture and wall fastenings for the finished painting. You can start creating right away! But first, you should choose the desired basis for the picture and get acquainted with life hacks for coloring.

Cardboard vs canvas

Experienced paint-by-numbers believe that it is worth starting with cardboard. After all, this material is very cheap, but at the same time it is able to absorb excess paint applied to it, which is important for beginning artists. But cardboard does not give the paintings the texture and “realness” that canvas gives: slightly rough to the touch, already primed and stretched on a real stretcher. The canvas, in turn, is available with a monochrome numbered outline or a colored one. The latter type of canvas is suitable even for elderly and visually impaired people, as well as children, because... coloring becomes intuitive. It’s better to start with small formats and clear subjects: animals, fish, birds, landscapes, nature or flowers. But you should move on to drawing people, angels, icons or complex architectural structures after mastering the basic techniques of number painting.

With or without rules?

Certainly, contemporary art no longer has clear instructions on “dos” and “don’ts”, and the rules modern art exist solely to violate them. But for this you need to know them at least a little, and therefore, before you start unpacking the treasured box with canvas and paints, it is worth studying online encyclopedias in order to learn or refresh your memory of the concepts of light and shadow, line and shading, perspective and plane, front and background, color separation and contrast...

And if you are still a beginner and do not have experience in creating paintings by numbers, then it is better to strictly follow the instructions that are in each set. And when you master the basic techniques of this type of painting, you can already develop a wealth of your own techniques and tricks. Moreover, there are not so many basic techniques that significantly facilitate drawing.

"Magnificent Four" methods of coloring pictures by numbers

There are 4 principles for painting a canvas. You will remember them without difficulty, because they are unusually logical and functional; they are already suggested to anyone who draws by common sense and convenience.

From light to dark

By painting over white, yellow, blue or pink areas at the very beginning, you will avoid accidental marks. After all, it is much easier to erase or cover up a pastel shade with another color than a bright or dark color.

If you color all the large details of the picture at the very beginning, then you will not only avoid the blunders and blots mentioned above, but you will also be able to correctly arrange the nuances and draw small details, put the right strokes and highlights. This way it will be easier to compare the “small things” with the main semantic spots of the picture: you must admit, by painting over the vase and the three largest buds in it, it will be easier for you to place medium-sized flowers and leaves of the bouquet next to each other.

Moving in this direction, you will definitely not smear the design already applied on the edge with your shirt sleeve or elbow. As a rule, it is in the middle of the picture that classical artists place main image, be it a hut in a pastoral landscape or a bowl of fruit in a delicious still life.

How to hold a brush and make strokes?

The brush is easiest and most comfortable to hold in the same way as you hold a ballpoint pen. Your hand should have support. This is enough so that you do not get tired, and the picture turns out neat. To begin with, you should master the usual strokes: just try to paint over each numbered fragment as evenly as possible, making smooth movements with the brush from left to right (if you are right-handed), applying paint in an equal layer of thickness, without going beyond the outline.

Once you get the hang of it, you can experiment with layer thickness, shading, and even dot painting if that calls for it. artistic design. For example, if you need to draw a heavy rain cloud saturated with water. After all, its lower part is rough and dark, which is well conveyed by small ripples of dots, and threads of rain descend below, which are easiest to imitate with short oblique strokes.

Bright mix: how to mix paints correctly?

As a rule, the paints in a set are already mixed, which is why there are so many numbers in it, because each of them means a certain shade, which sometimes differs only by a fraction of a tone from the previous one. If in the process of drawing you run out desired color, it is quite possible to mix it yourself from existing paints. Usually, light tones run out first, because there are usually more light spots in a picture than dark ones, and therefore you just need to slightly dilute with white the tone that is closest in shade to what you need. It is best to do this on a palette or a sheet of cardboard, and not directly in a jar, so as not to accidentally spoil the entire mass of paint.

Effective and impressive: blurring the boundaries

This is amazing, but with just two techniques - creating clear or blurred boundaries - you can give the picture depth, expressiveness, and professional look. To understand in which area you should make the clearest possible outline, and where you should slightly blur the edges, just carefully examine these places on the sample reproduction.

This is shine: 3 unique types of varnish

When the painting is ready, you will probably want to give it some shine and protect it from dust, cracking and fading by covering it with a transparent protective base.

Matte Acrylic varnish is good because it dries unusually quickly and also gives the paints additional brightness. Literally a couple of 6-8 hours after covering the painting, you will be able to proudly hang it on the wall and invite your family and friends to your own vernissage.

Gloss, as the name implies, gives the image a special shine and smoothness. This is a plus if you want to smooth out some roughness, but a minus if you want to emphasize volume. The aforementioned matte finish does a better job of imparting texture.

Craquelure truly magical: it allows you to nobly age completely in moments new picture, covering the surface with a network of intricate cobweb cracks, turning a newly created portrait or landscape into an elegant antique.

Auxiliary materials

Before starting work, you should cover the table with newspaper or film, install bright but not glaring lighting, and also stock up on toothpicks and cotton swabs. The first ones will help to draw even the most fine lines, and the latter will be useful in order to remove excess paint in time or correct a bad stroke. You may also need an additional set of brushes best quality and different diameters, a palette and even an easel if you are going to paint outdoors or in the country.

Don't forget to place a sippy cup of water and disposable napkins on the table. But don’t rush to open all the cans of paint right away: acrylic thickens quickly, so open them step by step, number by number.

Frame for a man-made masterpiece: choosing the ideal frame

Acrylic perfectly imitates classic oil paint, and therefore it is worthwhile to decorate the finished painting with dignity. A textured, slightly recessed and gilded or silver-plated frame in the Baroque style: with fine ligature, vignettes or vines will suit almost any subject. After all, then the image will acquire the proper volume and become a worthy decoration for your home art gallery!

Basically, when painting by numbers, acrylic paints are used. They are very popular in the art community because of their versatility. Suitable for both beginners and professionals, ideal for mastering new technology or expanding creativity. The texture is very similar to oil paints. For good result little patience or accuracy, the manufacturer also plays a big role. The quality of the paint is important outline drawings should be, on the one hand, clear and easy to read, on the other hand, invisible under a layer of paint. Special paper or canvas on which the paint will (or will not) adhere well.

1. Acrylic is a quick-drying paint. If you are not going to draw now, do not open the cans. Their original packaging allows them to be stored for an almost unlimited period of time, but after opening their service life is significantly reduced. If you have never tried this type of creativity, buy a small painting, as first you will need certain time to practice drawing by numbers skills.

2. If the paints have thickened a little during the painting process, you can add a few drops of water; this does not affect their properties. But if they are completely dry, it is impossible to restore them!

3. Paints are stored for a minimum of 12 weeks after opening, subject to certain rules.

Be sure to close the jars tightly and correctly, cleaning the edges of dried paint (this may prevent the lid from sealing tightly)

Use a toothpick to clean hard-to-reach places

In case of long breaks in coloring, wrap thoroughly cleaned and tightly closed jars in a damp cloth and pack them in a plastic bag or sealed plastic container. This will protect them from drying out.

During prolonged painting, the paints may become thicker. Don't be afraid to add a drop of water and mix thoroughly

4. Before you start coloring, prepare a jar of water (to wash your brushes), several rags (to wipe your brushes, hands, table, etc.), toothpicks - stir the paints and use them to paint the most small parts. A saucer, plate or palette - for mixing paints.

5. The sets, depending on the manufacturer, the size and complexity of the painting, include from one to 5 brushes. We recommend purchasing additional brushes in advance different sizes. They are inexpensive, sold in any office supply department, but will greatly help you when coloring. And, most importantly, you can separate the brushes - some can only be used for light colors, some are only for dark ones, which will completely eliminate the mixing of paints when carelessly washing the brush. 6. If you often paint by numbers, we recommend purchasing a set from art stores acrylic paints(base colors), which will allow you to eliminate the problem of paint drying (of course, selecting a shade will take some time) and enhance the relief of the work. However, the paint sets contain enough paint for complete painting in 2-3 layers.

6. Open jars carefully, following the manufacturer's instructions to avoid damaging them.

7. Hold the brush the way you would hold your hand. Don't bend your hand to make drawing easier - rotate the picture!

8. Apply paint only to the very tip of the brush. It’s better to dip the brush into the jar twice than to ruin the design by dripping on it. If, however, this happens, use wet cotton buds to remove excess.

9. Color the picture in one of two ways - linearly, from top to bottom, to prevent smearing by hand, or from top to bottom, but first the background, then the foreground.

10. Start coloring with light colors, then darker ones, color the mixed parts last.

11. If, after finishing painting, numbers are visible somewhere, apply a second layer of paint to these segments. To give relief and a resemblance to oil, apply several layers to some elements.

12. After drying, the painting can be coated with glossy or matte varnish; this will “strengthen” it and allow it to be wiped with a slightly damp cloth. In the first case it will become brighter, in the second it will not glare. A frame will add completeness to your work.

Canvas or cardboard??

This is not to say that canvas is better. Or, better yet, cardboard. Let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of both. Cardboard– it’s easier to draw on it; if this is your first painting, choose cardboard. Paints adhere better, paintings on cardboard are cheaper. But, if this picture hangs in a house with temperature changes (for example, at a dacha, where you only visit in the summer, but New Year) – the cardboard may begin to deform. True, if you put it in a frame, this will not happen. Canvas on stretcher– not afraid of humidity, looks more “real”, can be hung on the wall without a frame, it will look great. But. It's harder to draw, it's better to do it in vertical position canvas (use an easel or build a stand from scrap materials, such as books), the paint lays down more heavily. If you decide to use a frame, you will have to order it from a framing shop due to its thickness. Higher cost.

How do paintings from different manufacturers differ?

We sell paintings by numbers only from the best manufacturers, but they also differ very significantly. Let's talk briefly about each.

Schipper– Germany, premium class paintings. The kits do not require mixing paints. Material – cardboard, top layer – special paper, similar in texture to canvas. Bright colors, a large selection of reproductions of paintings by famous artists. Large selection in size, including 50*80, there are triptychs that look very impressive. A high price that is fully justified by its unsurpassed quality. “Solid” packaging, such a picture is an excellent gift (and if you take a large one, the gift will be simply magnificent). According to many - best coloring pages by numbers.

Menglei– the largest manufacturer in Asia, paintings of the highest quality. The paints do not require mixing. Material – canvas on a stretcher (self-assembly required). Full feeling of “real” drawing. Affordable prices at high quality, many reproductions, landscapes, still lifes. Various sizes, from 10*15 to 120*240 cm!!

Reeves– England, manufacturer with 200 years of “experience”. Paint mixing required. Material: cardboard, special texture very similar to canvas. This manufacturer’s assortment also includes sets for coloring with pencils, watercolors, colored pencils and others.

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