How to make a collage of photos with your own hands on the wall: master class

As an interesting and informative decoration for your house, you can make a collage of family photos or, for example, pictures of your favorite pet. Now we will look at how to make a collage of photos with your own hands on the wall. This is not only a straight series of photos hung on the wall - it can be made in any form, framed or glued on paper. Some ideas involve decorating the collage with ribbons, buttons, beads, etc.

With a pet

Here is one of the interesting ideas on how to make a collage - from photos of your beloved ones. Your photos can also be inserted there - in the end, you are the mistress.

This work is very simple. On the paper, a silhouette is outlined, along which photographs are laid out. The degree of saturation with photographs is determined by yourself, but it is better to make sure that there are no empty spots. But the pictures should not overlap too. Next, the pictures are attached to the glue. After drying the glue, for security, the collage can be laminated and, if desired, placed in a frame.

Rules for the design of mini-exhibitions

1) Place your mini-exhibition anywhere: in the living room, bedroom and even in the corridor. The main thing, the theme of the collage should match the placement.

2) The main advantage of the collage is that the photos, especially the most successful and favorite, do not dust in the photo album, but are available for viewing. And now they can be seen not only on holidays, when you get a family album for guests, and every day.

3) For the organization of the right mini-exhibition, you need to think other than the subject matter and how to combine all the photos into one. The simplest, but also the most boring option - to buy the same frames and post pictures in orderly rows.

4) If you categorically do not want to show imagination, buy the same frames, but then in a very large amount. Because to create an interesting collage you have to hang them all over the wall.

Or buy a multi-colored portfolio.

5) In a favorable light, black-and-white photographs also look, for which frames are not even necessary. By the way, real photo artists still perform their masterpieces mostly in black and white.

6) Do not place pictures in ascending order. It's not beautiful.

7) The framework can also carry its idea. They can be not only framed photo, but also an additional emphasis on it. Particularly advantageous are the frames made by themselves.

8) When creating a collage, select photos that blend harmoniously with each other.

9) It will be very interesting to look at the collage enclosed in a huge frame.

10) Several galleries can be merged into one common gallery.

Here are the basic principles of making collages.

Additional design of

The theme of this decoration can be not only family photos and photos of pets. You can use landscapes, like pictures from magazines, other people's photos. The main thing is that all this should be combined both in color and in terms of the semantic load. If you have a rich imagination and good taste, you can even combine your photos with other people's compositions. It is possible on the sheet of Whatman, to which the collage is attached, to draw a picture with his hand. It is better that at the same time you can draw, otherwise you can just spoil the general impression.

In addition, it is absolutely not forbidden, and even the decoration is welcomed with all sorts of accessories.

Without even noticing, we just held a real master class on making a collage of photos with our own hands.

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