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Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: Gramercy
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780517022658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains in detail about mixing colors, applying paint, brushes and equipment required. Easy to follow instructions and step by step photographys.
Author: Priscilla Hauser
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781402714740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPriscilla Hauser, the queen of decorative painting, and Boris Grafov, a Russian-born painter whose native village is world-renowned for its art, have produced a luminous follow-up to their Russian Folk Art Painting. This radiant new volume features bright arrangements of flowers, fruits, and leaves, bordered in gold or silver filigree, and set off by a black lacquered surface. It’s a style with a timeless appeal, and Hauser and Grafov provide comprehensive instructions for creating ten beautiful patterns on furniture and other objects. All the necessary skills are explained, with plenty of advice on preparing the surface, wielding the brush, and mixing colors. Start by painting the intricate borders of wreath and linked motifs, then, make the designs more luscious with every colorful layer.
Author: Priscilla Hauser
Publisher: North Light Books
Published: 1997-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780891347224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest known for her graceful roses and loved by thousands of student painters for her clear and enthusiastic style of teaching, Priscilla Hauser has earned a reputation as "America's First Lady of Decorative Painting." &break;&break;In this complete guide, Priscilla shows you how to paint your own beautiful roses - along with daises, lilacs, violets, poppies, irises, tulips and other lovely flowers. &break;&break;You'll find everything you need to get started: &break;Supplies. A handy guide to all the supplies you'll need for a decorative painting in oils and acrylics, including which brushes to use and how to care for them. &break;Surface Preparations and Finishes. Learn how to properly prepare wood, metal, fabric and other surfaces for your decorative painting. Plus, you'll find easy techniques for creating fabulous finishes such as antiquing and crackling. &break;The Basics. Practice these fundamental skills - from basic brushstrokes to blending - and you'll be painting flowers in no time! &break;&break;Watch your brushstrokes bloom in 22 flower painting projects! Starting with simple patterns and techniques and progressing to more challenging ones, these projects will show you how to paint an assortment of leaves and flowers. Priscilla includes paint-along worksheets for practice; patterns for you to copy; step-by-step photos and instructions; photos of the finishes pieces' and lots of ideas for using your painted flowers to decorate an endless variety of surfaces. &break;&break;Whether you're a total beginner or an experienced painting, Priscilla's techniques and patters will help you fill your home (and friends' homes!) with the ever-fresh beauty of painted flowers.
Author: Di Singleton
Publisher: North Light Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781581802528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only difficult thing about decorative painting is really believing in one's ability to do it. with this book and some practice, readers can become competent decorative painters--even if they have never picked up a brush before. By taking a structured approach to brushwork, designs can be mastered and embellished as skills are acquired. Readers will learn how to master a variety of techniques, including masking, sideloading, mopped shading, smoking, stenciling, tinting, crackling and decoupage. Over 50 step-by-step techniques, suitable for novice and advanced painters alike, ensure that any project can be tackled with success. Di Singleton became hooked on painting as a hobby and years later decided to turn it into a business. She runs a decorative painting studio in South Somerset, England where she also teaches classes for beginners and intermediate painters. She also runs an Internet magazine for decorative painters and travels to the U.S. once a year to take classes, improve her abilities and get new ideas.
Author: JoSonja Jansen
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780823025626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive guide to decorative painting with tips on choosing supplies, preparing paint surfaces, mastering brush strokes and control, and developing individual style.
Author: Editors of Sunset Books
Publisher: Oxmoor House
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780376013897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis all-new edition of one of Sunsets perennial best sellers is back and better than ever with loads of ready-made color combinations, tips on choosing the right painting effects, advice from the pros, and information on specialty tools. It has tons of photos to get your creative juices flowing and confidence-building instruction on techniques and materials to see you through to the successful completion of your masterpiece. Features n This comprehensive decorative painting guide is the second edition of a Sunset best seller n Provides instruction on thirty decorative paint techniques with step-by-step photography and color combining recommendations n Includes newer techniques as well as tried-and-true favorites that will inspire novice and experienced painters alike n Completely updated resource and materials guide
Author: Patti DeRenzo
Publisher: Northlight
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780891349952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a complete course in the basic techniques of realistic painting, in which the reader learns about form, values and colour - the building blocks of realism - while painting six projects. The author also shows how to paint such textures as metal, porcelain, glass and fabric.
Author: Suzy Eaton
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781402725654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brenda Stewart
Publisher: Northlight
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780891349365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book features new projects from Brenda Stewart, a favorite designer among today's decorative painting audience. Aimed at the "advanced beginner," this book features delicate Victorian designs and soft, pretty colors: elegant florals (roses, violets, daffodils), graceful still lifes, and old-fashioned Santas and angels. The projects are painted in acrylics and alkyds on wood, china plates, trays, boxes and other surfaces. Every project includes step-by-step illustrations, complete instructions, pattern, material list, color mixing recipes, and a gorgeous shot of the final project.
Author: Jackie O'Keefe
Publisher: Northlight
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780891348252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to using lettering in design, featuring letter-by-letter demonstrations, and over fifty alphabets to copy or trace.
