Practical Paint Effects

Provides projects, fully illustrated with step-by-step instructions for painting objects to decorate the home.

"Modern products such as pearlized, metallic, glossy, and sparkle paints are explored and illustrated alongside inspired contemporary ways with traditional techniques such as stenciling, stamping, and paint and glaze effects."--Cover.

Provides projects, fully illustrated with step-by-step instructions for painting objects to decorate the home.

This practical guide to paint techniques for the home explains all popular methods and applications, including advice on how to mix paint, use glazes and varnishes, and how to make your own stencils and stamps.

“[This] perfect tool...begins with the basics such as color schemes, then moves on to techniques like marbling, ragging, stenciling and sponging. Also included are full-color photos, step-by-step instructions, a color wheel and design templates.”—www.decorativeartist.com. “Even if you’ve never picked up a paintbrush before...simple instructions...will have you creating walls with wow in no time.”—Better Homes & Gardens.

Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.