Author: Donna Dewberry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440317232
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Donna Dewberry, America's favorite painter, will help you create beautiful murals and borders for your home You can keep a garden blooming all year 'round! Donna's trademark one-stroke methods will help you quickly and easily create charming murals, borders, and wall treatments. Brighten any room in your house or apartment. With easy-to-follow photos and her step-by-step instructions, Donna shows you how to paint: • Beautiful borders of roses, hydrangeas or trailing ivy • Tranquil landscapes framed by faux marble columns • Lively birdbath scenes • Stunning metallic or floral wall treatments Donna also includes practical advice on how to turn your mural painting into a business, and encourages you to use the murals inside as starting points for creating stunning designs of your own. Make your walls come alive, with the beauty of hand-painted murals!
Donna Dewberry's Quick & Easy Murals
Author: Donna Dewberry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440317232
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Donna Dewberry, America's favorite painter, will help you create beautiful murals and borders for your home You can keep a garden blooming all year 'round! Donna's trademark one-stroke methods will help you quickly and easily create charming murals, borders, and wall treatments. Brighten any room in your house or apartment. With easy-to-follow photos and her step-by-step instructions, Donna shows you how to paint: • Beautiful borders of roses, hydrangeas or trailing ivy • Tranquil landscapes framed by faux marble columns • Lively birdbath scenes • Stunning metallic or floral wall treatments Donna also includes practical advice on how to turn your mural painting into a business, and encourages you to use the murals inside as starting points for creating stunning designs of your own. Make your walls come alive, with the beauty of hand-painted murals!
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440317232
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Donna Dewberry, America's favorite painter, will help you create beautiful murals and borders for your home You can keep a garden blooming all year 'round! Donna's trademark one-stroke methods will help you quickly and easily create charming murals, borders, and wall treatments. Brighten any room in your house or apartment. With easy-to-follow photos and her step-by-step instructions, Donna shows you how to paint: • Beautiful borders of roses, hydrangeas or trailing ivy • Tranquil landscapes framed by faux marble columns • Lively birdbath scenes • Stunning metallic or floral wall treatments Donna also includes practical advice on how to turn your mural painting into a business, and encourages you to use the murals inside as starting points for creating stunning designs of your own. Make your walls come alive, with the beauty of hand-painted murals!
Donna Dewberry's Essential One-Stroke Painting Reference
Author: Donna Dewberry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440317224
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The ultimate guide to one-stroke painting Become a one-stroke wonder with this all-in-one reference! Here, beloved decorative painter and PBS television instructor Donna Dewberry takes you step-by-step through more than 60 demonstrations using her popular One-Stroke techniques. From flowers, trees and berries to birds, fruit and more, the at-a-glance format makes it quick and easy to find the subject you want. Simply grab a brush and follow along as Donna guides you through mixing colors, loading brushes and making strokes. Each demonstration features big, beautiful color photos, color swatches, brush selection and complete instructions that will have you painting like a pro right away. Donna even helps you put it all together with 10 gorgeous designs that show you how to create great compositions every time. This really is the perfect reference for every decorative painter. Start at the beginning to learn the basics, or flip through to quickly find what you need. Either way, Donna Dewberry's Essential One-Stroke Painting Reference is the book you'll turn to again and again for inspiration, instruction and instant creative success!
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440317224
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The ultimate guide to one-stroke painting Become a one-stroke wonder with this all-in-one reference! Here, beloved decorative painter and PBS television instructor Donna Dewberry takes you step-by-step through more than 60 demonstrations using her popular One-Stroke techniques. From flowers, trees and berries to birds, fruit and more, the at-a-glance format makes it quick and easy to find the subject you want. Simply grab a brush and follow along as Donna guides you through mixing colors, loading brushes and making strokes. Each demonstration features big, beautiful color photos, color swatches, brush selection and complete instructions that will have you painting like a pro right away. Donna even helps you put it all together with 10 gorgeous designs that show you how to create great compositions every time. This really is the perfect reference for every decorative painter. Start at the beginning to learn the basics, or flip through to quickly find what you need. Either way, Donna Dewberry's Essential One-Stroke Painting Reference is the book you'll turn to again and again for inspiration, instruction and instant creative success!
Fast & Fun Landscape Painting with Donna Dewberry
Author: Donna Dewberry
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9781600610257
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Paint lovely landscapes in an afternoon! Learn to paint gorgeous landscapes the one-stroke way! In this inspiring guide, beloved artist and PBS painting instructor Donna Dewberry shows you how easy and fun it is to paint a range of enchanting outdoor scenes, using her popular one-stroke painting techniques. Open this guide and explore the creative possibilities. From peaceful sunsets and breathtaking vistas to flowered fields and blooming gardens, Donna makes every painting achievable and satisfying. Just follow along, step by step. In addition to in-depth guidance on choosing materials and mastering basic strokes, you'll find: 15 complete start-to-finish landscape painting demonstrations 15 tear-out cards featuring Donna's easy color recipes 7 painting projects designed to function across two, three and four canvases for enhanced home-decorating potential 27 quick demos on those landscape details that make your paintings pop Best of all, most paintings can be completed in an afternoon or less, thanks to Donna's clever sponging and brush-loading techniques. What could be better? With Donna Dewberry and your own creativity, a world of lovely landscape painting awaits you.
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9781600610257
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Paint lovely landscapes in an afternoon! Learn to paint gorgeous landscapes the one-stroke way! In this inspiring guide, beloved artist and PBS painting instructor Donna Dewberry shows you how easy and fun it is to paint a range of enchanting outdoor scenes, using her popular one-stroke painting techniques. Open this guide and explore the creative possibilities. From peaceful sunsets and breathtaking vistas to flowered fields and blooming gardens, Donna makes every painting achievable and satisfying. Just follow along, step by step. In addition to in-depth guidance on choosing materials and mastering basic strokes, you'll find: 15 complete start-to-finish landscape painting demonstrations 15 tear-out cards featuring Donna's easy color recipes 7 painting projects designed to function across two, three and four canvases for enhanced home-decorating potential 27 quick demos on those landscape details that make your paintings pop Best of all, most paintings can be completed in an afternoon or less, thanks to Donna's clever sponging and brush-loading techniques. What could be better? With Donna Dewberry and your own creativity, a world of lovely landscape painting awaits you.
Creative Kids' Murals You Can Paint
Author: Suzanne Whitaker
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9781581808056
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Paint Imaginative Murals Especially for Kids!Transform an ordinary room into a playground of imagination. Creative Kids' Murals You Can Paint blends inspiration with instruction so you can create the perfect mural for every special child you know. More than 50 whimsical wall paintings by author and children's muralist, Suzanne Whitaker, offer you a range of unique ideas, themes and color combinations, complete with 32 step-by-step demonstrations that make these murals easy and fun to recreate on your own walls. All the guidance you need is in this book, including: Start-to-finish steps for painting kids' favorites like a castle, Mother Goose characters, sports paraphernalia, bunnies, dog and cat, letters, numbers and much more Clear instruction for choosing materials, performing basic techniques, preparing surfaces, selecting colors and creating customized compositions Several theme-based galleries of additional designs for extra inspiration You can paint murals exactly as they're shown or use them as a jumping off point to design your own. These step-by-step demos allow you to mix and match mural components to suit you and your child's preferences. Wow your family and friends! With this guide, you really can paint creative kids' murals.
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9781581808056
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Paint Imaginative Murals Especially for Kids!Transform an ordinary room into a playground of imagination. Creative Kids' Murals You Can Paint blends inspiration with instruction so you can create the perfect mural for every special child you know. More than 50 whimsical wall paintings by author and children's muralist, Suzanne Whitaker, offer you a range of unique ideas, themes and color combinations, complete with 32 step-by-step demonstrations that make these murals easy and fun to recreate on your own walls. All the guidance you need is in this book, including: Start-to-finish steps for painting kids' favorites like a castle, Mother Goose characters, sports paraphernalia, bunnies, dog and cat, letters, numbers and much more Clear instruction for choosing materials, performing basic techniques, preparing surfaces, selecting colors and creating customized compositions Several theme-based galleries of additional designs for extra inspiration You can paint murals exactly as they're shown or use them as a jumping off point to design your own. These step-by-step demos allow you to mix and match mural components to suit you and your child's preferences. Wow your family and friends! With this guide, you really can paint creative kids' murals.
Mixed-Media Mosaics
Author: Laurie Mika
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1600612156
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Imagine beautiful mosaic pieces with tiles that you easily create yourself! Mixed-Media Mosaics offers a fresh, new approach to a traditional art form. By making your own tiles from polymer clay, you control the size, shape, color and even the texture, resulting in beautiful finished pieces that include tabletops, boxes, jewelry and shrines. In addition to learning traditional tiling techniques such as working with grout and cutting glass tile, you'll also explore creative options for personalizing tiles: • Discover the magic of mica powders and the regal look they can give to mosaics • Learn quick and easy ways of adding paint to handcrafted and commercial tile • See how easy it is to create molds and cast your own relief tiles • Find ways to add personal meaning to your work with the addition of text tiles • Experiment with the addition of beads, jewelry and other embellishments by embedding them right into the tile! Whether you'd like to complete a mosaic tabletop for your patio, a jewelry box as a special gift, or simply experiment with jewelry, you'll find the inspiration you seek in Mixed-Media Mosaics. Start creating your custom mosaic pieces today.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1600612156
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Imagine beautiful mosaic pieces with tiles that you easily create yourself! Mixed-Media Mosaics offers a fresh, new approach to a traditional art form. By making your own tiles from polymer clay, you control the size, shape, color and even the texture, resulting in beautiful finished pieces that include tabletops, boxes, jewelry and shrines. In addition to learning traditional tiling techniques such as working with grout and cutting glass tile, you'll also explore creative options for personalizing tiles: • Discover the magic of mica powders and the regal look they can give to mosaics • Learn quick and easy ways of adding paint to handcrafted and commercial tile • See how easy it is to create molds and cast your own relief tiles • Find ways to add personal meaning to your work with the addition of text tiles • Experiment with the addition of beads, jewelry and other embellishments by embedding them right into the tile! Whether you'd like to complete a mosaic tabletop for your patio, a jewelry box as a special gift, or simply experiment with jewelry, you'll find the inspiration you seek in Mixed-Media Mosaics. Start creating your custom mosaic pieces today.
Donna Dewberry's Big Book of Decorative Painting
Author: Donna Dewberry
Publisher: All American Crafts Publishing
ISBN: 9781936708093
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Ultimate Donna Dewberry guide to her popular one-stroke painting technique. This well known author and decorative painter also shares tips and ideas for creating beautifully painted items for the home A must-have guide for decorative painters.
Publisher: All American Crafts Publishing
ISBN: 9781936708093
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Ultimate Donna Dewberry guide to her popular one-stroke painting technique. This well known author and decorative painter also shares tips and ideas for creating beautifully painted items for the home A must-have guide for decorative painters.
Watercolor Pencil Step by Step
Author: Pat Averill
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
ISBN: 9781560108023
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Watercolor pencil is a fascinating medium that allows you to create colorful and realistic renderings using various techniques. And these versatile, water-soluble pencils are great for drawing as well as painting! Watercolor Pencil Step by Step introduces the fundamentals of using this medium, complete with information on supplies, color blending, and special effects. Then professional artists Pat Averill, Barbara Benedetti Newton, and Debra Kauffman Yaun guide you through 12 colorful and intriguing lessons with easy-to-follow instructions and plenty of helpful hints and useful tips. This comprehensive guide has all the instruction and inspiration you need to master the art of watercolor pencil!
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
ISBN: 9781560108023
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Watercolor pencil is a fascinating medium that allows you to create colorful and realistic renderings using various techniques. And these versatile, water-soluble pencils are great for drawing as well as painting! Watercolor Pencil Step by Step introduces the fundamentals of using this medium, complete with information on supplies, color blending, and special effects. Then professional artists Pat Averill, Barbara Benedetti Newton, and Debra Kauffman Yaun guide you through 12 colorful and intriguing lessons with easy-to-follow instructions and plenty of helpful hints and useful tips. This comprehensive guide has all the instruction and inspiration you need to master the art of watercolor pencil!
How to Draw Cats and Kittens
Author: J.C. Amberlyn
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 1580935001
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In this step-by-step guide, J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of cats with her beautiful, detailed drawing style in order to teach beginning artists to draw many different breeds of cats and kittens in pencil and pen-and-ink. Cats are creatures of beauty and mystery. They live among us but have never quite been tamed, drawing the ire of some and the admiration of others. They keep rodents away from our homes and offer purring companionship for those they have deemed worthy of their attention. The feline form exudes grace and flexibility and can be a joy to draw. How to Draw Cats and Kittens continues a rich tradition of cats in art. Covering all the most popular types of cats, as well as kittens, this book gives easy-to-follow instructions for drawing cats in many poses and a variety of expressions. Amberlyn includes basic information on art materials and the fundamental mechanics of drawing so that even beginners will feel confident and successful as they learn to produce highly detailed, lifelike drawings of their fluffy companions.
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 1580935001
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In this step-by-step guide, J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of cats with her beautiful, detailed drawing style in order to teach beginning artists to draw many different breeds of cats and kittens in pencil and pen-and-ink. Cats are creatures of beauty and mystery. They live among us but have never quite been tamed, drawing the ire of some and the admiration of others. They keep rodents away from our homes and offer purring companionship for those they have deemed worthy of their attention. The feline form exudes grace and flexibility and can be a joy to draw. How to Draw Cats and Kittens continues a rich tradition of cats in art. Covering all the most popular types of cats, as well as kittens, this book gives easy-to-follow instructions for drawing cats in many poses and a variety of expressions. Amberlyn includes basic information on art materials and the fundamental mechanics of drawing so that even beginners will feel confident and successful as they learn to produce highly detailed, lifelike drawings of their fluffy companions.
Library Journal
Author: Melvil Dewey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
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 Murals with Donna Dewberry
Author: Donna Dewberry
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9780891349884
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
With Donna Dewberry's help, even inexperienced do-it-yourself home decorators can turn any wall into a masterpiece! Donna has completed more than 1,200 custom decorative paint jobs for homes and businesses, perfecting a variety of surefire techniques along the way. In this book, she shares some of her favorite tricks and techniques for creating: &break;trompe l'oeil murals floral designs and leafy garlands faux wood, marble and other finishes popular theme designs, including gardens, animals and European scenes and other grand ideas for painting foyers, doors, windows, kitchens, dining rooms, bathrooms, bedrooms ... practically every room in your home! Just follow the illustrated, step-by-step directions for great, professional-looking results. The hardest part will be deciding which gorgeous effect you want to paint first. Donna helps there, too, offering expert advice on choosing the right effects and colors, along with answers to all your questions on surface preparation, tools, paints and more!
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9780891349884
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
With Donna Dewberry's help, even inexperienced do-it-yourself home decorators can turn any wall into a masterpiece! Donna has completed more than 1,200 custom decorative paint jobs for homes and businesses, perfecting a variety of surefire techniques along the way. In this book, she shares some of her favorite tricks and techniques for creating: &break;trompe l'oeil murals floral designs and leafy garlands faux wood, marble and other finishes popular theme designs, including gardens, animals and European scenes and other grand ideas for painting foyers, doors, windows, kitchens, dining rooms, bathrooms, bedrooms ... practically every room in your home! Just follow the illustrated, step-by-step directions for great, professional-looking results. The hardest part will be deciding which gorgeous effect you want to paint first. Donna helps there, too, offering expert advice on choosing the right effects and colors, along with answers to all your questions on surface preparation, tools, paints and more!