Decorative Painting: Techniques and Designs for Transforming Everyday ObjectsRead-to-use templates accompany each project making it easy to transfer designs onto furniture, walls, floors, platters, clocks in need of a personal decorative touch. |
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acrylic paint Alizarin Crimson Antique Blue Antique Gold Antique Green Antique White Antiquing medium base basecoat Bold Red bristles brush Art carbon brush side loaded brush with Antique brushstrokes Burgundy Burnt Sienna Burnt Umber artists coats of satin Cobalt Blue comma strokes cosmos flowers crackle glaze Crackle varnish create damp cloth deer foot stippler detail brush dots Finishing flat brush flowers highlight Hooker's Green Indigo liner brush load and palette load the brush loaded with Antique loaded with Yellow Low tack tape marble mix marine sponge MATERIALS Round brushes Ocean Green pale mix palette blend Pansy Payne's Grey Persian Rose petals Raw Sienna retarder round brush loaded ruffle technique Russian Blue Satin varnish INSTRUCTIONS scrolls second colour side tip loaded sponge brush stamens steel wool Stipple the centres Stylus Tracing paper surface Terracotta tulip Ultramarine Blue Varnishing brush Art wave stroke white spirit wipe Yellow Light Yellow Oxide