Gretchen Cagle's Decorative Painting Keepsakes


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Featuring 31 step-by-step projects. With traceable patterns, colour mixing recipes, and tips to make your painting more fun and successful. Colour photos.




Decorative Painting with Gretchen Cagle


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Use these charming motifs to brighten walls, give new life to old furniture, and create unique accent pieces and special gifts.




Making Mini Flowers With Polymer Clay


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Barbara Quast's miniature flower creations are simply exquisite. She uses the fun and easy medium of polymer clay to capture the delicate details and lifelike colors of a variety of blooms. With the simple instructions in this book, you can too! It's surprisingly easy to create these incredible little works of art. Just follow along with the fully illustrated step-by-step demonstrations to create seven different kinds of flowers. You'll also find some great ideas for using your miniature blooms to decorate picture frames, jewelry, hair accessories and more.




Decorative Painting


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Renown for their mastery of the art, signature styles and remarkable gifts for teaching, these "Big Brushes: are decorative painting's shining stars. Sharing their respective secrets for creating beautiful designs, each artist offers a never-before-published project that focuses on her "specialty: subject, style and surface. With patterns, step-by-step instructions and gorgeous, full-color photos, even beginners can paint along!




Decorative Painting Sourcebook


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CRAFTS Craft shops have a bewildering array of unfinished items made of wood, plaster, ceramics, and other materials all intended for decorative painting. The problem for many craftspeople is in getting started. This handbook, compiled by the editors of Decorative Artist's Workbook magazine, supplies the answers in the form of a variety of material from past issues. Brush strokes, surface preparation, painting techniques, and finishes are covered in the first part. The articles provide the basics for using modern paints and brushes in folk decoration such as Scandinavian rosemaling and Pennsylvania Dutch designs, as well as other popular styles. The second part deals with supplies and resources. There are step-by-step instructions with excellent color illustrations throughout. For all collections.-




Decorative Paint Finishes for the Home


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This clearly laid-out guide presents all the steps involved in creating rooms, furniture, and accessories.




The Best of Decorative Painting


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103 decorative painters briefly discuss one of their pieces, which include a wide range of mediums, surfaces, subject matter, and styles.




How to Start Making Money with Your Decorative Painting


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Decorative painters with an entrepreneurial spirit will turn to this one-of-a-kind guide for essential business advice, encouragement and information. It covers the ins-and-outs of starting a decorative painting business, helping artists to identify their niche and achieve success, featuring: -- how to sell at shows, from getting space to merchandising and pricing-- ways to generate additional sales through consignment, co-ops, sales reps, catalogs and magazines-- tips for setting up and running classes, workshops and seminars-- how to sell pattern packets, project booklets and articles to magazines and publishers.




Library Journal


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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.




Decorative Tole Painting


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