Have tired of your walls? Give it a new lease of life with simple wall drawings and a fresh splash of colour. With some creativity and imagination, you can transform your ordinary wall into an artwork.It’s actually not as difficult as you would imagine. Oh and on top of it, you can decorate your wall without spending any money! So put on your drawing hat and brace yourself for fun art time. Here’s a few easy wall art and DIY painting tips to help you get started!
Simple Wall Drawings
1. Gorgeous 5-Minute Leaf Prints
Nature is always a good idea to have in the living room, whether in actual or in an easy to draw form. So start your DIY journey will this simple and gorgeous artwork.
Gather the flat leaves having nice veins. Brush with paint on one side of the leaf and press onto paper and cardboard with the painted side facing down. Gently pull leaf off and allow paint to dry.
Your beautiful foliage is all done! Border and hang them on the wall.
2. Abstract Art to the Rescue
Abstract art is not made by picassos. Even non-painters can put together a great abstract art with the aid of the tutorials. A dash of color can make for a beautiful, but easy, wall art sometimes.
Doesn’t seem difficult, does it? Give this simple beginner wall drawing idea a try and see how it enlivens your walls. Additionally, you will have the great satisfaction of making it yourself.
3. Evergreen Framed Flowers
The use of flowers for living room decoration seems to have a magical quality. While you can always put fresh flowers on a vase, they wither away after some time. A simple method of preserving the delicate beauty of the favourite flower is by pressing and framing it.
Pick and flatten flowers in a stout book for several days. After the flowers dry, glue them down on white paper, and frame the paper. There you will have a beautiful botanical artwork to hang up on your wall.
4. A Sophisticated Corner
Have an extra canvas in the house? Put it to use with this simple abstract painting. The framed pieces of art fit in the blank corner space and bring some interest to your interior.
Be sure to select a colour that compliments your living room decor. For example, the purple color looks great on the white wall and will surely bring attention to it.
5. Standout Line Art
Geometric line arts are as easy to draw as gorgeous to look at. This contemporary living room ensemble is a beautiful geometric design in white and gold, woven across two frames. Its sharp angles lend it a mid-century-modern vibe and the generous amount of gold colour adds a royal and elegant touch.
The modern art pieces are an excellent match for the contemporary metal furniture and olive-green walls. Easy and simple wall drawings, a great way to achieve a high-end look for a budget.
6. Autumn Leaf Shower
Another easy wall drawing idea to add charm to your walls is stencil art. Thanks to their timeless appeal, stencils have been used in interior décor for centuries. The traditional designs also have a vintage feel to them, which makes them suitable for vintage home interior schemes, particularly in the living room and bedroom.
They’re so popular to use for wall decor because they’re so easy to replicate and have an endless pattern. So give your walls some extra oomph without much effort with simple wall drawings using stencils.
7. Aesthetic Landscape
Watercolour landscape paintings are always the favourite choice of everyone for landscape wall art, as they instantly brighten up the room wall and make it more pleasant. They not only make fantastic wall décor but are also great conversation starters.
However, why pay too much money for costly paintings when wall drawings can be easily created? These are some easy, yet gorgeous ideas for your landscape that you can follow in no time. You’ll want to sit by them and be whisked away to the still, peaceful scenes they portray at tea time.
8. Bevy of Baskets
Not in the mood to draw or paint on a canvas? Make a painting wall hanging to add interest to your walls. Simply put one or two bevy’s of baskets and your roomy living room becomes a chic bohemian room.
Gather baskets of different sizes, decorate with paint and hang on wall. Another fun addition to this décor idea is to design a fresh, colourful pattern on the old wicker baskets before hanging them.
DIY Wall Paintings
9. Stunning Vertical Divide
Adding a colour contrast is the most straightforward method of adding interest to your walls. This wall colour style works best with warm and cool colors. The picture’s contrasting yellow and grey colours look stunning in the simple and sophisticated living room.
The grey colour matches the minimalist theme, but the yellow adds a splash of colour and enlivens the space. Add décor pieces of matching colour to give the room a seamless look.
10. Colourful Geometry
Charming, classy and elegant, here’s another DIY wall paint design. It’s easy to make this vivid and vibrant geometry, even if you are not an artist. Take some painter’s tape and make random sharp cut-outs on your wall and fill each with a different colour.
Make sure that there is a balance of neutral and strong colors in order to look perfect. The black and red, yellow and white hues create an excellent ambiance for a home office. With a colour scheme as interesting as this, you won’t ever have to worry about additional wall décor.
11. Magical Rainbow Arch
Who doesn’t enjoy a rainbow? They’re particularly loved by youngsters. Decorating their bedroom wall with a rainbow will add some color to the plain wall and instantly improve the ambience of the room.
Not to mention the magic aura that it will create on their mood. In the image, the rainbow arch has soft colors instead of bright colors. This simple wall drawing creates a calming and relaxing atmosphere, making the room appear spacious and inviting.
12. Nordic Blue’s soft whispers
This is a cool and refreshing interior in Nordisk blue color with a cool geometric design. The design theme is perfect for an all contemporary, minimal style interior. On this theme, make a colour block wall made up of a range of shades of blue. A painter’s tape will provide clean lines. For the floor, opt for light wooden tiles that will create a pleasing contrast to the dark ambiance of the wall.
13. Tattoos in stripes with a twist
The idea of painting the walls in stripes is very common, but here’s a way to add some variety to it. The combination of yellow and orange colors and the geometric form create a seamless look that appears to bring the wall to life. An easy wall drawing trick and a messy hallway corner becomes a chic corner.
14. Tranquil Peaks for a Serene Bedroom
If you’re a mountain lover, you must have had a mountain wallpaper on your laptops or smartphones at one time or the other. Why not go the extra mile and design a mountain background for your bedroom walls? It’s a fantastic way of bringing nature right into your bedroom.
With various shades of blue and green, paint majestic mountain ranges on the wall. It is a simple wall art drawing that will make an interesting, peaceful and relaxing ambiance within the room. So, seeing the mountains everyday could even make you aspire to new heights!
15. A Colourful Splash
This is an eye-catching wall art that no one will soon forget. Choose 2-3 vibrant colours to make this fun and easy wall drawing. You’ll get the splash look in the picture with a diluted acrylic paint in water.
This décor is completed with the addition of the surfboard, which adds a fun element to the décor and makes it a beachy look. If you want though, you can forego the surfboard and concentrate on the splash of colour instead. If the theme is already used, then the rest of it should be kept minimal so that it does not overpower the design.
16. Eye-Catching Ombre
Ombre accent walls are the trend these days in interior design. This is one of the most artistic methods for painting your walls and make a marvelous look on them.
For this effect, mark lightly on your walls in one-third increments. Fill in the bottom area with the darkest colour, and gradually lighten the colour to the midsection. The upper part should be the lightest.
The fading between sections may be created by mixing the darker colors with the lighter colors. The result is a fashionable wall everyone would want to replicate.
17. Bee-utiful Honeycomb Walls
The diamond pattern is the chip coolest paint in the list. The wall, however, is not as traditional as a diamond wall, as only half of the wall is painted in green, black and cream, diamond patterns, the other half being plain.
It adds a special touch to your space and won’t overpower the diamond designs. Also, it will make your painting project a lot easier. What more can be desired?
Final Words
With home decor, the key is to do a little work and go the extra mile. Hopefully, these simple wall art ideas were able to inspire the artist in you to create gorgeous wall art. Whether you want to reinvigorate your interior but don’t know where to start, you can always seek guidance from HomeLane.
FAQs
1. Let’s make the wall cutes and cute!
Cute walls are not difficult to create, if you put a little effort. There are lots of inexpensive and elegant methods of doing so. A simple solution is to draw a few simple drawings on blank walls. Read the blog for 18 simple wall drawing designs and DIY painting ideas that you can use to add charm to your walls.
2. Now, don’t tell me which paint is the best for wall drawing.
For simple, wall drawings, acrylic is the most preferred paint. They are translucent and opaque, with some premium models further being water and light resistant. The ease and comfort of wall art with these flexible and quick drying paints. Plus, they work on all surfaces, floors, walls. Thus, they are the perfect choice for you.
3. What can I do to create a wall of interest?
Simple wall drawings can be used to make plain walls interesting. Fortunately, you don’t need to be a drawing master to draw one. These wall art ideas above are all easy and can be done at home without the help of a professional. You will also save a lot of money with making simple wall drawings as opposed to spending a lot of money on wall art from the market. But if you’re in no mood to draw, you can use wallpaper or wall hangings to add character to your walls and make them attractive.
4. What to put on blank walls?
Tons of design possibilities are in empty walls. Some other suggestions for empty walls can be wall drawings, big pieces of artwork, prints of photos, textile hangings, accent mirrors, macrame decorations, origami paper crafts, floating shelfs, metal, woodcuts, etc. You can also take advantage of wall paints creatively and won’t have to worry about adding wall decors.
