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.

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 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.

Nothing looks more beautiful in a flourishing garden than decorative items painted with traditional folk art designs--the combination of nature and old-fashioned, rustic imagery works perfectly. These patterns, along with instructions for basic brushstrokes and priming surfaces, make it simple to turn everything from ceramic pots to old wheelbarrows into unique pieces festooned with elaborate landscapes, floral scenes, wreaths, swags, posies, and arabesques. Adorn a watering can with a garden view that features flowers and a white lattice fence. An umbrella stand features a country village, complete with windmills, a charming house, rolling hills, and white puffy clouds floating in a blue sky. There are a birdhouse and feeder, gardening tools and gloves, apron, pots, chairs, windchimes, and more! A Selection of F&W's Book Clubs. 72 pages (12 in color), 22 b/w illus., 8 1/4 x 10 3/4. REISSUE

Each of the authors is known for her individual style of bears. They have combined their unique talents to create the ultimate bear book. Debbie Coles winter bear holding an igloo birdhouse is painted with soft pastel colors. Debbie Mitchells Cozy Cubbies are frolicking in the snow. Cheryl Bradshaw (Chezzas Bears) has painted a nautical bear that rotates on a music box. Youll also find three very special memory boxes. Three color worksheets Acrylics 80 pages / 11 color

Decorative painters love the charming country landscapes found in the art of American masters Grant Wood, Rufus Porter and Charles Wysocki. Their simplified styles celebrate rural America through paintings of rolling hills and farmlands dotted with sheep or old-fashioned farm houses.Now, anyone can paint these nostalgic scenes with the easy instructions found in Painting Americana. In this book, readers learn:* Simple techniques for painting hills, farm animals, trees, barns and more that even beginners can master* How to achieve rustic effects on wood and metal surfaces* 10 unique step-by-step projects, including a Pennsylvania Dutch design on a door crown and French country chickens on a bentwood boxStunning finished pieces make perfect gifts and family keepsakes.

Here is the long awaited update of research on the Rufus Porter Landscape Mural School, greatly expanding the knowledge and understanding of this uniquely American folk art field of the 1820s to 1840s. The text provides detailed documentation never seen before in print. The book takes the reader on a virtual tour of Porter School murals in the New England states, presenting and analyzing more than 400 colorful images, which will provide inspiration for historians, researchers, designers, and painters alike. It offers evidence regarding the attribution of these mostly unsigned works, and encourages readers to apply that evidence in reaching their own conclusions. In addition, there is a section concerning the preservation of historic murals and various challenges and threats to such preservation. Finally, the book offers a "how-to" section that interprets Porter's original published mural painting instructions in terms of modern equipment, materials, and supplies.

A comprehensive guide to decorative painting with tips on choosing supplies, preparing paint surfaces, mastering brush strokes and control, and developing individual style.