Chinese nail painting

The design of nails with Chinese painting has many fans among girls and women of any age. This is achieved due to the extraordinary beauty, airiness and volume of the images obtained by such images. This nail-art simply can not leave anyone indifferent.

Materials for Chinese nail painting

It is a mistake to think that designs with different hieroglyphs refer to Chinese painting. This picture is usually a variety of plant and flower motifs , in which there is a large number of colors, shades, smooth transitions, ink flows, which creates a three-dimensional 3d image. To learn the basics of Chinese painting on nails, you need to purchase the necessary materials:

  1. Paints for Chinese nail painting. Chinese nails are painted with acrylic paints, which can be purchased at a regular art store. Later, when you achieve mastery in drawing various designs, you will be able to purchase special 3d-acrylic paints to create an even greater volume and convexity effect, and the usual palette will remain for drawing the background. However, in the first stages it is quite suitable for both the background and for creating the main picture.
  2. Brushes for Chinese nail painting. Use flat brushes of two types: with a flat or bevelled tip. They allow you to create voluminous pictures with smooth color transitions. Brushes of a different kind, for example, with round edges, are rarely used to create any additional visual effects.

Chinese painting on nails

Chinese painting can be done on short nails, but this significantly reduces the area for creating a drawing, so it's best to train on long nails. The technique of Chinese painting is quite difficult to perform and requires some training, so before you start creating a manicure, you first have to practice on paper or try to make Chinese painting on the forms for the nails.

Before drawing the drawing, you should carefully process the nails and make a manicure. Then the marigolds are covered with a base coat. It is best to work with gel-varnish, because a well-polymerized coating allows you to correct small inaccuracies in the picture, without worrying about the safety of the base. In addition, the gel coating will extend the life of your manicure, which is important, as it can take several hours to create it.

If necessary, then a colored gel coating is applied to the nail or acrylic paints paint the background. We give him a good dry.

After the nails are prepared, you can start drawing Chinese painting on the nails. From the palette of acrylic colors, choose two colors, most of all you like or suitable to the conceived drawing. Extrude some of the color of these colors on a palette, cardboard or paper. Then with one edge of the brush take a little one shade, and the other - the second. Now you can start drawing. There are several drawing techniques: smooth, half-laced, openwork, feather, wave and aqua. The secret of Chinese painting on nails is to master and skillfully use them. It is different types of strokes that allow you to create unusual volumetric drawings, when the flowers look like living.