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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: 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: 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: Elise Kinkead
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
Published: 2009-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1589234537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Features concise, illustrated instructions for 150 of the most popular interior decorative painting techniques"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Yannick Guégan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780393730012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essential reference for amateur and professional alike, The Handbook of Painted Decoration is the first book to cover the whole spectrum of trompe l'oeil decorative painting, from classic marbling and wood graining to ancient techniques of decorative painting that have been nearly forgotten.
Author: Annie Sloan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2004-02-28
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781843400523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Annie Sloan's Complete Book of Decorative Paint Finishes' explores all the decorative techniques you will ever need to decorate your home creatively, innovatively, and with professional results. Techniques from ragging and sponging to woodgraining and marbling, stencilling with brushes, rollers or spray paints, traditional and modern decoupage, staining wood, and distressing metal leaf are explained with step-by-step instructions and illustrated on walls, furniture, and accessories. Examples of how the effects look using different colours are also included, so that you can choose the perfect combinations for your project.
Author: Ann Christin Johansen
Publisher: North Light Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781893164000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book features 23 step-by-step projects in the traditional style that takes the decorative painter on a journey into the world of wildflowers, berries, fungi, and small birds.
Author: Suzy Eaton
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781402725654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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: Pat Oxenford
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2008-09-05
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0811740862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTole painting refers to decorative floral designs applied to tinware, traditionally on trays, coffeepots, teapots, cups, mugs, canisters, document boxes, and match safes. In this book, acclaimed painter Pat Oxenford provides guidance on the tools and materials needed to get started, tips on preparing tin for painting, and techniques for pulling the basic strokes that are the foundation for creating designs. Step-by-step photographs and detailed directions are included for using the strokes to create a variety of folk-art flowers and then several complete projects. A gallery of painted tinware offers inspiration.
