Eggshell painting. Just look at the masterpieces that come out of eggshells

Medieval artists came up with the idea of ​​using eggs to create paintings. Based paints natural materials formed the basis of the most outstanding works of art. This master class offers a look at the egg as a tool for creativity from a new perspective. This time the shell will be used.

For the project you will need:

• eggshell;
• gouache of different colors;
• water;
• brushes for paint and varnish;
• clear varnish;
• tweezers;
• acetone;
• PVA glue

First you need to prepare the eggshells. If the eggs have traces of dirt, it is better to wash them before cracking. Dry the eggs with a towel and crack into two halves. Let the shell dry. Apply gouache to the dry shell halves. Fresh paint does not need to be diluted with water so that the layer is dense and uniform. Because you need different colors, make sure that there is a napkin or towel on the table that you can use to wipe away traces of different paints.

Paint the entire shell. It is better to prepare it with a reserve. Instead of gouache, you can use acrylic paint, especially if you want to get a gold or silver shell. Wait completely dry paint before applying varnish. Lift the shell halves with tweezers to avoid damaging the color and coat them with varnish. If you use aerosol varnish, you can spray all the shells directly on the table. If pieces break off during the process, cover them with varnish and paint - they will be useful for mosaics. When finished, wash the varnish brush and tweezers in acetone. Leave the varnish to dry.

After the shells are completely dry, break them into small pieces. It is important that they are almost flat. All that remains is to choose the surface that will be decorated. This could be a cardboard base with a printed design, a vase, or even a mug.

PVA glue is well suited for such mosaics. Apply the base and let it dry a little. Then apply glue to the colored piece of shell, holding it with tweezers. Post your chosen drawing.

You can decorate with shells voluminous objects, such as vases or flower pots.

You can complement the mosaic with other types of decor. On vases, pots and other objects that perform not only a decorative function, it would be a good idea to additionally coat the mosaic with varnish.

The mosaic made using this technique looks original on costume jewelry.

You can try to imitate the pattern of natural stone.

You can create interesting panels on any topic. For example, such a picture can decorate a bathroom. But for a damp room an additional layer of varnish is required.

Each of you uses chicken eggs when cooking, but most likely not everyone knows that eggshells you can create masterpieces. The shell is appreciated by craftsmen who compare it to stone and marble. In terms of durability and range of colors, it is not inferior to other ornamental materials, having a good smooth surface structure and color shades. That is why crafts made from eggshells are highly valued. So let's make an original mosaic using the master class from already unnecessary eggshells quickly and easily with our own hands!

We create a mosaic from eggshells with our own hands in a master class

Making paintings using the crackle technique has been used since ancient times in the East. Nowadays, many people, having mastered this technique, create paintings or decorate surfaces. various items interior with craquelures - creating the illusion of cracked polishing.

Step-by-step instructions are provided for children, using them you can easily make an unusual picture.

• Eggshell.
• A smooth board for the base of the picture or a thick sheet of cardboard (size - 1/2 format - A 2)
• Two boards for crushing shells.
• PVA glue.
• Flour paste.
• Tracing paper.
• Mascara.
• Sheets of paper.
• Scissors.
• Fine sandpaper.
• Napkin.
• A wooden stick that you can make yourself by polishing the even tip well.

1. If you have accumulated enough shells different shades, then you can start working. First, rinse them well with warm water, then soak them in salt water for a few minutes to degrease the surface and dry well.
2. Then, the dried shells must be crushed. How to do this correctly?

To make it convenient to work, you should glue the shell onto a paper base. To do this, spread a sheet of paper on a thick board, grease it with glue and place shells of the same color on top, with the convex side up. Then cover with a second board and press lightly, the shell should flatten. Keep them in this position for 2-3 minutes so that the glue has time to dry.

1. Remove the top board and very carefully iron each piece with a stick, which will crumble into many more fragments with small cracks - this is craquelure.

1. And now you have a finished piece of paper, from which it is now easy to cut out the fragments necessary for the craft. Do the same procedure with the remaining shades of the shells.

The technology for making this painting is quite simple.

1. Copy the finished sketch from the photo.

1. Attach tracing paper to it and copy the drawing, carefully drawing the outline of the details. Then transfer the copy onto a thin piece of wood - the basis of your painting. Number each detail according to color and undertones.
2. Next, attach the patterns of the parts to the plates with craquelures, outline them with a pencil, then apply numbers corresponding to the colors of the main pattern and cut out the parts with ordinary scissors. Then glue the finished parts onto the picture with PVA glue according to the numbers.

1. Fill in the tone with black ink, let it dry and start painting the fragments of the picture. This is a very exciting process.
2. The final stage of work is the most important and painstaking, which requires special care; this is grinding and polishing the surface of the product. When working, keep in mind that the shell is thin and careless movement can damage the surface of the painting. Take a wooden block, wrap it first sandpaper and sand the shells well. Then wrap the block plain paper and polish the fragments to the desired result.

We study the design of a bottle with craquelures and decoupage

Craquelures on a bottle, vase or glass will look original.

Degrease the shells washed with warm water saline solution, dry and grind until required sizes. Try to keep them not too convex. Clean the glass surface of the vessel thoroughly from labels and dirt, degrease detergent or alcohol, dry it and get to work.

Apply PVA glue to a small area of ​​glass and begin laying pieces of shell on it. The distance between the fragments must be immediately adjusted using a toothpick or pin. Continue to cover the bottle in this manner until the end. When the entire surface is covered, prime it with acrylic paint.

Easter is approaching, which means there will be a lot of colored eggs in every home. So it's time to master new technology handicrafts: eggshell crafts.

Eggshells are an excellent material for creativity. And we offer you two options for using it:

Materials and tools for crafts made from eggshells

• eggshell
• PVA glue and brush
• thick cardboard or other surface (box, vase, etc.)
• tweezers
• a small wooden stick for pressing shells (a manicure stick is great)
• acrylic paints if the mosaic is made from white shells
• napkin for decoupage (if necessary)

First you need to prepare the material. To do this, the collected eggshells are washed in warm water(and for better degreasing, you can even dip it in boiling water with a soda solution). After this, the shell must be dried, the inner film removed from it and arranged by color.

Professionals use shells from raw eggs, because the shells are past heat treatment, loses hardness, its surface becomes more friable. But for children's crafts, you can use any shell, including those left over from boiled Easter eggs.

Eggshell mosaic

To make a mosaic from eggshells with your own hands, you will need a template for the future design. If you have artistic abilities, then simply draw a template on a piece of paper. If not, you can take any drawing intended for children to color. All contours are clearly drawn there and are usually not required large quantity colors. Glue the sheet with the pattern onto thick cardboard.

Now we begin to glue the shell. To do this, grease a small fragment of the pattern with PVA glue and place a piece of shell on top. If the shell is too large, then you just need to press on top with a stick, the shell will crack and fall apart into several small pieces. Make sure that there is approximately the same distance between the shells.

Having completed one fragment of the picture, we move on to the next.

After filling the entire design, set it aside until the glue dries completely. If you used a white shell, then only after drying can the drawing be painted with acrylic paints.

The finished work must be varnished. The result is a unique version of eggshell appliqué.

Look what wonderful paintings real craftswomen make from eggshells!

If you decide to do decoupage using eggshells, then first select a blank for the future craft. It could be a box, a key holder, a bottle or even a vase.

Master class on decoupage on eggshell wooden box

This box is wooden, so first we sand the entire surface (both internal and external) with sandpaper. If you started decoupaging a bottle with eggshells, then the surface must first be degreased with alcohol.

It depends only on you how large the shell pieces will be and the distance between them.

We fill the entire surface like this.

And once again we cover everything with a layer of PVA glue.

After this, we cover the entire workpiece in several layers with white acrylic paint.

And we move on to gluing the napkin, i.e. directly to the decoupage itself.

Let me remind you that three-layer napkins are usually used for decoupage. We only need the top layer - the one with the drawing on it. Coat the work surface with PVA glue. If the surface is very large, or you are working with round objects (vases, bottles), then it is better to cut the napkin into two or three fragments. We place the napkin element on the surface and immediately apply PVA glue on top. We brush from the center to the edges to expel the air from under the napkin.

In this way we glue the box on all sides.

Set aside for a while to dry completely.

And then there are two options (depending on your imagination). Finished work You can simply varnish it. You can also age the box. To do this, you can paint the shells with silver acrylic paint, and apply black pastel to the edges of the box using a foam sponge.

U creative person nothing goes to waste, not even eggshells. There are eggs in every refrigerator, but most people don’t even suspect that you can create a real work of art from their shells. In terms of its hardness, many professionals compare it to marble. Surface chicken egg very difficult to scratch. This is why eggshell mosaics are so highly prized and look amazing. Using eggshells you can create magnificent panels and paintings, do decoupage, create original mosaics and much more. Eggshells are a wonderful material for creativity, and we will prove it!

Creating picturesque paintings from broken shells is called crackle. In the East, this technique has been known since ancient times. Today, with its help, you can interestingly transform any object. This creates the effect of a cracked varnish coating.

Decoupage with eggshells

Let's make decoupage using eggshells using this box as an example. Using this principle, you can decoupage any surface with shells.

To do this, we will need items that are difficult to imagine together under any other circumstances: eggshells, paints, a manicure stick, PVA glue, a brush and the actual cardboard box.

There was an old cardboard box, and we decided to give it to her new life! First you need to “sand” the entire box outside and inside with fairly coarse sandpaper, and then go through it again with a “zero” sandpaper.

For decoupage we will need: eggshells, brush, PVA glue, manicure stick

First, apply glue to a small area of ​​the box (we work with in small areas, because PVA dries quite quickly). Then we take a small piece of the shell, apply it to the surface and lightly press the stick on the shell so that it cracks, as shown in the photo:

Using the sharp end of a stick, we move the shell fragments apart to the required distance, thus forming a mosaic pattern. The shell fragments, as well as the distance between them, can be large or small at your discretion. After the shells are moved apart to the required distance, they must be pressed to the surface with the flat end of the stick.

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Needlework

If your child is creative personality and loves to create various kinds crafts from improvised materials, invite him to make a mosaic from eggshells. This lesson develops fine motor skills and develops in children the habit of being assiduous, which is undoubtedly a huge plus for little schoolchildren. Creating mosaics will be interesting not only for girls, but also for boys, if you choose the right picture.

In order to do this shell craft, you will need the simplest materials:

Shells from raw eggs.

PVA glue.

Any drawing.

Acrylic paints.

Fig.1 Eggshell mosaic

Eggshell mosaics there are two types:

1. The first, the simplest and most suitable for little craft lovers, is when the eggshell, after gluing it onto the main drawing, is painted in different colors using acrylic paints. Or when the shell is painted before gluing it to the surface. This way the main background of the image can be preserved.

Fig.2 Eggshell mosaic

2. The second method is more complex and is suitable for older children. In this case, shells of different natural shades are taken. This creates a mosaic of eggshells in pastel colors. It turns out very beautiful.

Fig.3 Eggshell mosaic in natural colors

Instructions for making a mosaic from eggshells.

1. First you need to prepare the shell.

1.1. Carefully break it into two parts raw eggs and plunge into cold water for 10-15 minutes.

1.2. Then we remove from inside shell film, after which we dry it well.

As mentioned earlier, you can paint the shell at the very end, after gluing it onto the images.

2. When the egg shells are prepared, you can start choosing a design. It is recommended to select images with large details and clear outlines. It is much more convenient for children to glue over fragments with clearly visible edges.

Fig.4 Eggshell mosaic in the shape of a butterfly

3. Once the design is selected, it needs to be pasted onto a cardboard surface or transferred using carbon paper. This is done so that the surface on which it will be glued eggshell mosaic did not swell or deform.

4. When the drawing and eggshell are prepared for work, you can proceed directly to gluing the mosaic. To do this, apply PVA glue to a small fragment of the image.

5. Then take a large piece of egg shell and gently crush it on a flat surface. This way the mosaic details will be the most suitable friend to friend. They should be glued with a slight indentation from each other (about 1 millimeter). For convenience, it is recommended to use tweezers and a thin wooden stick. With their help it is much easier to pick up and move fragments eggshell mosaics.