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A complete course in decorative hand painting. Covers everything from base coating to special techniques. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hoessinger''s teaching has helped thousands of decorative painters around the world discover the joy of painting in the folk art style. In this book, she illustrates her techniques step-by-step, showing how to paint 20 flower variations.'
Tole 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.
Priscilla 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.
This book presents watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts in the Index of American Design, a visual archive of decorative, folk, and popular arts made in America from the colonial period to about 1900. Three essays explore the history, operation, and ambitions of the Index of American Design, examine folk art collecting in America during the early decades of the twentieth century, and consider the Index's role in the search for a national cultural identity in the early twentieth-century United States.
This is a source of ideas for all craftspeople and artists. The designs are copyright-free and can be photocopied, traced, coloured, adapted or used as inspiration for creating one's own designs.
Paint Your Way through the Year! Paint something happy and heartwarming for every holiday and season. Painting Heartwarming Holidays by Jamie Mills-Price gives you all the inspiration and guidance you need. From designs that celebrate every major holiday to lovely landscapes highlighting the beauty of each season, you'll delight in these 12 charming projects in acrylics. Whether you're a beginning painter or a more experienced artist looking for new challenges, you'll find this book has plenty to offer. Each design gives instruction that not only covers the simplest strokes in colorful detail, but also provides ideas and techniques for pushing your creative potential to new heights. You'll find: Whimsical designs for celebrating Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, plus all four seasons Traceable patterns, color mixing information and complete materials lists Instructions for preparing and painting on all kinds of surfaces, including wood, metal, ceramic bisque, glass and paper A special section on designing that shows you how to "build" your own unique compositions You can follow the step-by-step instructions to recreate Jamie's playful designs exactly as they're shown or change the colors and elements to match your own d?cor and creative spirit. Either way, you'll find Painting Heartwarming Holidays to be instantly gratifying. Why wait? Begin a yearlong celebration in painting today!
This beautiful book shows how easy it is to depict folk art's quaint, picturesque scenery on everything from boxes to picnic baskets.
"Each of the 20 painting projects contains elaborate directions, from painting different color roses to capturing Pennsylvania Dutch motifs on metalware. Even more impressive are the details of preparation, painting, equipment, and, more specifically, brushstrokes. Methods of applying dots, scrolls, tendrils, and stippling, among other techniques, are both discussed and illustrated."--Booklist. 128 pages, 40 color illus., 100 b/w illus., 8 1/4 x 10 1/4.