Decorative Folk Art


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A complete course in decorative hand painting. Covers everything from base coating to special techniques. Includes bibliographical references and index.




Decorative Folk Art


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Decorative Folk Painting


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"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.




Decorative Painting of the World


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Folk Art Designs


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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.




Folk Art and Tole Painting


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"...folk art and tole painting as it should be. Each project is painted with rich, loose, brilliantly colored strokes that look like the work of our country's original decorative painters. The added beauty of these pieces, however, is that they're painted with the acrylic paints of today...."--Decorative Artist's Workbook. 84 pages (12 in color), 30 b/w illus., 8 1/2 x 10 3/4.




Folk Art Style


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The author explores three distinct genres of decorative folk painting - traditional strokework, bold painting and blending - demonstrating the brush strokes and illustrating the huge variety of finished styles which can be achieved with them. Traditional folk motifs, fine art themes, Art Deco designs, contemporary minimalism - all these and more are used as the inspiration for 20 handpainting projects.




Drawing on America's Past


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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.