Painting Christmas balls with acrylic paints - a snowman and a house. DIY Christmas balls: fireworks of brilliant ideas! What colors are used to paint Christmas balls

How do beautiful balloons on the tree? Buy ordinary plastic round toys, a brush, acrylic materials in the store: contours, paints. And start implementing your bold ideas.

Applying curls with acrylic paint with your fingers.

Apply a few drops of acrylic paint of different colors to the surface of the balloon. With your finger, spread it in a circular motion. You should get something similar to curls. First make a pattern on the first half of the ball, let dry. Finish painting on the other side.

A beautiful pattern on New Year's balls with a hard brush.

Dip the tips of a hard brush into the paint. Pinch the bristles closer to the tips with your fingers, flattening the brush itself a little. This method will increase the captured area when applying smears. Sweep the brush over the ball with rough strokes.

The most spectacular combination is when strokes of gold or silver paint are enticingly drawn on a dark ball.

Painting a ball with a sponge stencil.

First you need to make a stencil from a sponge. Cut it into any shape, dip it in gold or silver acrylic paint. Now print it (put prints) on the surface of the ball. Decorate the whole ball.

If you use two colors, you can make a small overlay of one stencil on another. Leave the ball to dry. Apply any pattern with an acrylic outline.

Decoration of the New Year's ball with acrylic embossed (volumetric) paste.

An ordinary ball can be decorated with embossed paste. This is done very simply. Use your fingers to apply the voluminous paste to the top of the ball, where the loop would normally be. Apply the paste to make a pea. Leave to dry. As the paste hardens, paint with an acrylic outline, applying any pattern.

If you are not satisfied with the white color of the paste, then it can be tinted with a different color of paint (necessarily acrylic). By adding blue or cyan paint, get the effect of snow like on old postcards.

Decor balloons with acrylic contour paint.

Acrylic outlines are a godsend for quick and easy decoration of Christmas balls. They apply inscriptions, any patterns. The thickness of the contour depends on the nozzle in the tube, but it varies and depends on the manufacturer. contour painting can be combined with other techniques for decorating Christmas tree balls.

Artist: Larisa Sosnovskaya.

Using acrylic paints, contours, paste, you can easily make beautiful christmas balls. The painting on your balls will be unique, because each of them is unique. You can make a name ball by writing the name of the future owner on it. This gift will please anyone. Make the New Year unforgettable for your friends!

New Years is soon! We invite you to learn how to paint Christmas balls yourself. After all, there is nothing better than exclusive hand-painted Christmas decorations!

For this you will need:

acrylic paint on glass and ceramics "Decola", acrylic primer, contours on glass or fabric "Decola", thin brushes, sponge, a little skill in painting with paints.

Let's take a Christmas ball without a pattern.

Then, using a sponge, apply white acrylic paint (or acrylic primer) to the entire ball with gentle tamponing movements.

Hang the dyed ball to dry. Acrylic paints dry quickly, so in an hour and a half our ball is ready for painting.

If the acrylic coating is transparent, coat the ball with white acrylic paint twice.

So, the ball is ready for painting. Let's draw a picture on the ball with a simple pencil. Pencil marks are clearly visible on the white acrylic coating. You can take a drawing from any postcard, napkin or come up with your own. I draw a cheerful snowman in a hat near the Christmas trees. I saw the drawing on a napkin, and I really liked it!

After the contour of the drawing is applied with a pencil, we begin to color the drawing with the help of acrylic contours on glass. The contours of the fabric also fit very well on the glass.

The contour on glass or fabric can be used with or without a nozzle (then acrylic paint from a tube can be applied with a brush). I outline the drawing on the glass with a nozzle and fill the outlined space with the same acrylic paint using a brush. Acrylic paints can be mixed on a palette or in a small jar, can be diluted with water.

So, with the help of a brush, I filled the hat and mittens of the snowman with red acrylic paint, and the bow with yellow. While the snowman's paint is drying on his hat and mittens, I outline the Christmas trees with a green outline with a nozzle. Now with a thin brush I prescribe branches of fir trees.

We apply the paint gradually, filling the fields of the same color or shade. For example, while I am painting fir trees, the rest of the painted fields are drying.

I will write a snowball on the Christmas trees with white acrylic, and Christmas decorations with red.

I will paint the shadows on the snowman and fir trees with a brush, mixing blue and white paint. I’ll finish tracing the contour of the snowman with a brush with black acrylic, I’ll draw a “face”.

There are finishing touches left, and the snowman is ready. Try, fantasize and do not be afraid to spoil anything, because when painting with acrylic paints, everything can be fixed!

Christmas ball painting - New Year's house

The New Year is coming. Do you want to decorate the Christmas tree in an original way, not "like everyone else"? Then your Christmas decorations should be original, hand-painted.

Let's try to turn ordinary purchased toys into unusual ones. We will paint Christmas balls with a contour on glass and acrylic paints. This technique is quite accessible for beginners! To do this, we need: plain Christmas balls of different sizes, a contour on glass and ceramics "Decola", acrylic paints "Metallex", a pony brush No. 2, varnish with glitter "Holographic silver".

At first, I recommend taking a Christmas tree ball with a pattern and trying to draw an existing image from above with a contour on the glass for training. Use an outline of different colors, depending on the color of the pattern fragments on the ball.

Try making nice round "dots" by placing the tube with the contour on the surface of the ball and pressing the tube so as to squeeze out the desired amount of contour liquid. In this way, draw pink flower petals and put yellow dots in the middle of the flowers.

Then try to repeat the contour of the green leaves and fill the leaves inside with liquid. Let's hang it to dry. Thus, I refreshed the already existing drawing on the old ball and practiced working with the outline.

Now we take any Christmas tree toy and draw on it, using our imagination. For example, it is not difficult to draw radial stripes on a toy of this shape, the contour fits well into concave "folds".

We draw from top to bottom with a contour "silver", holding the toy with two fingers of the left hand from above and below. It is difficult to make a mistake and draw a curved line here. Let's hang it to dry. When the outline dries, draw spots all over the toy with a lilac outline. Here is such a New Year's toy turned out!

On elongated Christmas decorations, you can draw delicate flowers with pink petals and green leaves. First, we put the points of the petals with a pink outline in a circle.

Then, with a yellow or gold outline, we put dots in the middle of each flower.

Gently, with a green contour, slightly pressing on the tube, draw green leaves. The toy is ready!

You can try to paint Christmas decorations with acrylic paints using a thin brush. For beginners, I recommend taking a toy of such a shape that simple flat components, such as squares, stand out on its surface. Acrylic paints "Metallex" draw squares on the "equator" of the Christmas ball.

Hang to dry. Then you can use a brush to cover the ball with acrylic varnish with sparkles. It turned out something "cosmic"!

Imagine, come up with drawings and make original Christmas balls with your own hands!

You can also try your hand at painting a New Year's ball with acrylic paints by watching this video master class:

If you want to draw a real winter story on the ball, then check out the following video tutorial on art painting a Christmas ball:

As you can see, the complexity has increased significantly. But you can practice gradually increasing the skill.

Christmas balls are an integral part of decorating a Christmas tree. Of course, you can always buy Christmas balls in the store, but you must admit, DIY Christmas balls are something special! In addition, if you have time and desire, you can easily make your unusual New Year's toy in the form of a ball, and we will show you several ways to make a New Year's ball with your own hands.



To begin with, let's make a reservation that in order to make a New Year's ball you will need a base: it can be an old New Year's glass ball, a plastic ball, a foam ball, a foam ball, or even a papier mache ball. True, in the latter case, you will have to tinker, but I will not dwell on how to make a papier-mâché ball. Let's agree that you already have the base and talk about how you can decorate / change the old ball or make a new one from transparent glass (plastic) balls.

DIY Christmas balls master class

Everyone has old Christmas balls - therefore, we start with them. The simplest thing you can do with last year's Christmas ball is to wrap it with some beautiful fabric, tie a thread for hanging, then at your request: tie it with a ribbon, add some more decorations (spruce branches, berries, snowflakes, lace - everything whatever you like). It turns out very beautiful New Year's balls, and most importantly, the next one, you can remove all the decor and do something new.



And you can use not a single piece of fabric, but strips or ribbons. And in this case, again, you can use the old New Year's ball or any other round base.

New Year's balls pasted over with round fabrics look good.

Or even Christmas yo-yo flower balls. By the way, they are made very simply. We cut out a circle template from cardboard, circle it on the fabric, cut out the circles from the fabric. We sew our circles of fabric along the edge with a thread (photo No. 3), then tighten the thread - the seam should be in the center, fix it and cover it with a piece of fabric and a bead. Glue the finished yo-yo flowers to the ball. We decorate the top with twigs, cinnamon sticks, roses, etc.

In addition, beautiful multi-layer Christmas balls are obtained from the fabric. True, in this case, you need a foam ball and tailor's pins. The technique for making such balls is shown in the photo. In principle, nothing is difficult, and most importantly, you can create different color combinations.

In addition to fabric, you can also use a lot of materials to decorate Christmas balls. You can glue them with sequins, threads, acorn caps, pistachio shells, buckwheat, buttons, pieces of old CDs, strips of paper and even tree leaves.

And you can make charming New Year's cupcakes from old balls, as shown in the photo below.

Or from a foam ball and large sequins.

Christmas balls with snow

Christmas balls with snow - of course with artificial snow are just great! Do not know how to make artificial snow with your own hands? In fact, everything is simple, in order to make artificial snow with your own hands you will need: semolina, white paint and glue. We mix everything together and the artificial snow is ready (experiment with the proportions, because there are no comrades for the taste and color). With the resulting mass, we cover the balls in whole or in part, let them dry, decorate from above with sparkles, beads, ribbons, etc. It turns out original Christmas - New Year's balls.

A similar effect (not so textured, but still) can be achieved using ordinary white paint - you just need to apply it with a sponge - in several layers.

Decoupage Christmas balls

Decoupage is always beautiful, and decoupage of Christmas balls is doubly beautiful. We glue “background” pieces on the ball, then the main pattern in the first photo is: an angel in front, and flowers in the back. Then we apply glue on the ball in places (on the top, in the center of the flowers) and apply the potal, “press” it with a piece of cotton fabric. Next, with light movements of the brush, we brush off the potal from the areas not covered with glue, at the end, you can varnish the ball. And, of course, we attach a beautiful loop.

Decoupage of New Year's balls can be done in different ways: using not only the potal, but again artificial snow or even coarse salt - unusual New Year's balls are obtained.

Another idea that deserves attention: not just decoupage, but decoupage with voluminous contours. In the first case, a napkin is glued, and then the same flower is glued on top, previously glued to thick paper (cardboard). Then, with the help of glue and sparkles, we create more voluminous bright accents - it turns out cute.

In the second case, we use volumetric lace. Cut out the necessary details. We apply soil to the ball. Then glue the pieces of lace. After the glue dries, paint the ball with white acrylic paint. Next, the most difficult: on the palette, mix wax and dark brown oil paint. Apply colored wax to the surface of the lace with a brush. Then we rub the wax into the voluminous surface with a foam sponge or sponge, thereby revealing the relief. With a cloth with a solvent, remove excess wax, brightening the surface gaps between the lace and the protruding parts of the lace. Next, rub a colored wax patina into the decorative surface of the ball with your finger, giving an even more aged look to the product.

Now let the patina dry for a few hours. If desired, the surface can be protected with an alcohol varnish. The varnish must be applied in two layers, allowing each to dry properly. The varnish will allow you to wipe the surface with a damp cloth. We decorate the finished ball with ribbons and admire the result!

Decoration of transparent Christmas balls

Transparent balls are no less interesting to work with. Firstly, glass balls can simply be filled - with what? Anything! With threads, strips of paper, pebbles, berries, cones or even sand with shells - you get an original sea ball.

And you can glue them on the outside. The palm print looks original; it can be made with paint or pure sparkles.

It turns out in an original way if you apply glue to the ball, let it dry, then wash it off - you get a slightly pale glass (frosted).

And you can paint them from the inside, and make a painting on the outside.

Those who have detachable balls can only be envied. You can make it difficult to paint Christmas balls, but work hard and make an unusual composition inside - a three-dimensional image, as you did before when decoupage balls. Reuse gold leaf, artificial snow, beads, etc.

Styrofoam Christmas ball decoration

Shown above are beautiful layered fabric balls paired with tailor's pins. Using the same pins, you can beautifully wrap the balls with threads, ropes, twine.

The beauty of foam balls is that they are “soft”; you can make cuts in them with a clerical knife, into which you can insert fabric or paper with a nail file. You can immediately press paper or fabric without a preliminary cut. And then we glue the seams with beautiful lace, ribbons or beads. By the way, using this technique, you can make images on the balls: stars, Christmas trees, cakes, etc.

And if you make a small basket of cardboard or wire and attach it to a balloon, you will get a charming toy in the form of a balloon.

By the way, a New Year's toy: a balloon can also be made from glass balloons.

The main symbol of the New Year and Christmas is the Christmas tree, and it, in turn, is decorated with various toys. Over time, fashion changes for the Christmas tree. If earlier only rich and noble people could afford to decorate the New Year's beauty with glass beads and balls, then people from the lower classes had to decorate the spruce with cardboard figures, which consisted of two extruded halves, which were glued together and then painted by craftsmen in factories.

Later, with the development of industry, more affordable glass toys appeared. One of the first factories that began to produce Christmas balls and figurines was the Klin factory, which initially specialized in the production of pharmacy utensils. No wonder it was called "Herringbone", the skillful glassblowers of this enterprise produced the best Christmas tree decorations of that time.

Christmas decorations show how the country has developed over the years. In Soviet times, the top of the Christmas tree began to be decorated with a five-pointed star, although earlier it was six-pointed and symbolized the Christmas star. The glass characters have also changed over time. A crocodile and Aibolit from Chukovsky's poems appeared, little polar explorers who conquered the North, and then “the queen of the fields - corn”, such a glass ear of corn with a clothespin is probably kept in everyone's house.
Now, one can observe such a trend in the production of toys as plastic balls, which are widely available and very economical. They do not break like glass ones and do not require particularly careful storage, although glass jewelry, beads, and garlands of luminous light bulbs still remain along with them. Today's toys have become more elegant and, thanks to advances in modern chemistry, are made from materials lighter and stronger than glass, but unfortunately there are also disadvantages. Previously, toys were created in the hands of a person and almost every one was a unique work, but now not every ball or figurine can cause delight in the eyes of a child, unless you make this ball with your own hands or decorate it yourself with the most charming painting that will remind you of the warmth of your soul . And in order to paint the simplest plastic ball yourself, it is not necessary to be an artist, it is enough to have a desire to express yourself and make a unique gift for your loved ones, and besides this, you will also need a small list of tools and materials for painting:

- a plastic ball;
- acrylic paints;
- white and silver sequins;
- palette;
- a flat brush about 4-5 mm wide;
- flat brush 3-4 mm wide;
- a thin brush for drawing details;
- a jar of water;
- cotton pads or a cloth to wipe the brush;
- clear nail polish




1. You should start painting the Christmas ball with a warm shade of color, with which we will draw snow illuminated from the window of the house. No need to thoroughly stir the color, let it remain transitions from one color to another.




2. We take a flat wide brush, pick up color and draw snowdrifts with smooth, light strokes. First one below the middle of the ball.




Then another one on the right side.




On the left side, draw a couple more snowdrifts.




3. Before the first snowdrift, we make a few more strokes with a brush, so that they smoothly turn into the color of the ball.




4. Now we wash the brush in water and remove excess moisture with a cloth or cotton pad. We mix the color of the cold blue-blue color.




5. We pick up the color on the brush and in the foreground we make wide stains - they will serve as the basis for the foreground, where the bushes powdered with snow will be located.




6. On the right side, we begin to form the silhouette of the house, and with the help of a smooth edge of the brush, we make the future wall of the building and a snow-covered meadow behind it.




7. We also repeat on the left side.




8. Add more blue paints to the color scheme and fill in the free space between the illuminated snowdrifts.




9. On the right side of the ball, we also draw snowdrifts that are more saturated in color.




10. Again we add paint to the color scheme, but this time a little white. Strokes form the silhouette of the house.




11. Add another snowdrift in the background.




12. We make a brown color scheme.

14. With the same color we make a wall on the left side.




15. We collect yellow paint on a brush of medium thickness and add yellow strokes to the walls of the house.




16. Then we type in black and apply dark strokes on the far corners of the house. The walls of the building begin to acquire volume.




17. With white paint we draw a snow-covered roof of the house.




18. Add some blue hues towards the slopes of the roof to create volume on the snow cap. We draw windows.




19. We type blue color on the brush and draw shrubs in the foreground with short, jerky strokes.




20. With denser strokes, draw the bushes behind the house.




21. With large, soft strokes, we make the base of the trees in the third plane of the picture, on the left and right sides.








22. With white paint we make the snowy tops of the trees, for this we use a wide or medium brush.








23. With black paint, using a thin brush for drawing, we depict a fence from a palisade.








24. Repeat on the left side.








25. Let's start drawing trees. First, we make thicker trunks and branches, those trees that, according to the idea, are closer to us, and then those that are far away.












26. We draw branches of bushes in the foreground.

28. We finish the chimney on the roof of the house and the smoke coming from it.




29. Let the paints dry and cover some areas of the drawing (roof, tops of snowdrifts, tree tops and smoke) with clear nail polish. Sprinkle with glitter. After the varnish has dried, remove the excess with a dry brush.




Now our Christmas ball is ready, you can tie a matching ribbon to it and present it as a gift to your dear person, or you can create a whole author's collection to decorate your own home. In any case, such a ball or