Australian Native Folk Art Designs

A teach-yourself guide for folk artists which features Australian floral designs. Contains over 30 illustrations in colour with the accompanying stencils. Gives step-by-step instructions including requirements, colours and paints used, techniques for applying the designs, a plate of various brush strokes and instructions on how to paint the individual parts. The author is a teacher of folk art.

Part of a series on Australian folk art, this second book features slightly more difficult techniques and designs than the first volume. Gives descriptions and illustrations of a range of nuts, flowers and leaves as well as careful explanation for painting a scene. There are six complete colour designs with outline drawings and descriptions for painting the designs. Author is a teacher of folk art and has an art and craft shop in Sydney.

Part of a series on Australian folk art, this fourth book is full of new ideas and useable designs. It features an array of native flowers, most of which have not previously been shown in this series. Instructions are clear and concise with colours, brushes and strokes carefully explained for each part of the design. As well as four arrangements of flowers there are two scenes and three designs for painting on door wreaths. Author is a teacher of folk art and has an art and craft shop in Sydney.

Part of a teach-yourself series on Australian folk art specialising in Australian native flowers. Includes easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on how to paint the flowers and foliage. Contains 12 colour plates with six complete designs. An outline of each design is given with a complete description of colour, techniques, brush strokes and instructions on how to proceed. Author is a teacher of folk art and has an art and craft shop in Sydney.

While conceding the difficulty of comprehensively defining this most undogmatic and democratic form of art, this publication examines Australian 'folk art'--under the headings of scrimshaw, Indigenous objects, furniture, ceramics, quilts, textiles and rugs, bird-scares and decoys, metalwork, toys and miscellaneous objects. It samples the glory of an array of everyday objects: from bush furniture and the Rajah quilt (1841), to shell necklaces, farm bird-scares cut from galvanised iron, and the 'vernacular' ceramic vases and bowls of 1930s Melrose ware.