Whether you want to bring an old table back to life, jazz up a wall, pick out a cornice, or make a staircase look like marble, this handbook sets out to demonstrate how to achieve intriguing painting effects on a wide variety of surfaces. It contains instructions on both planning and techniques.

Paint Finishes Handbook

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hemming, Charles

Crafts & Hobbies

Little,Brown

Explains how to achieve painting effects on a wide variety of surfaces and includes hints on masking problem surfaces

Paint finishes

Home Improvement & Design

Macdonald

British Painters of the Coast and Sea: A History and Gazetteer

Arts & Photography

Painting

Victor Gollancz

British landscape painting can trace its origins to a 17th century printmaker from Prague, Wenceslaus Hollar. Landscape painting developed almost incidentally as a background to "prospects", portraits of large country houses commissioned by their wealthy landowners. Hitherto the vast tracts of unfenced common land had been regarded as a void around civilization and unworthy of record. However, during the 18th century, it became fashionable to paint ruins, and with the onset of the Romantic Movement in the 1770s, mountains and moors were no longer regarded as wild, uncouth and unsavoury places. The Lake District became the height of fashion. Landscape has often played a deceptive part in social history. In times of war, when bread was in short supply, harvest scenes reached new heights of popularity, and during the most miserable periods of the industrial revolution, there was scarcely a townscape to be seen. Victorian poverty was made cosy with pictures of rose-encrusted cottages and idyllic landscapes. And today, in the age of the train, the car and huge noisy farm machinery, a naive nostalgia and myth-making still pervades portrayals of the British countryside - unpolluted in painting by mechanization. The book is divided as follows: the introduction covers the changing use of the British countryside and shows how this affected the changing fashions of painting. The history chronicles the development of regional painting schools and the lives and work of the "giants" in landscape painting. The gazetteer covers some 250 places, listing the artists who lived and worked there. All the great painters are covered, as well as many interesting but less well-known ones. This book is a companion volume to "British Painters of the Coast and Sea", by Charles Hemming, who is also the author of "Paint Finishes".

British Landscape Painters: A History and Gazetteer

From its simple roots as a room divider, the folding screen has evolved into a wonderful fusion of fine and applied arts. As both a practical object of furniture and a work of fine art, it became a medium that could reflect the changing styles and fashions of art and design. This fascinating study traces the development of the folding its conception in the Orient during the eighth century, to its appropriation by Europeans in the sixteenth century, right up to the current day. With over 150 illustrations, this book depicts the intriguing role of the screen through history. Many leading figures in the world of art and design have adapted the screen as a medium since the turn of the twentieth century, and The Folding Screen is the first book to give due attention to the most recent work in this area. Artists such as Odilon Redon, Josef Hoffmann, and Alphonse Mucha are all featured, as are the pioneering designers Eillen Gray, Donald Deskey, and Charles Eames. The tradition of the screen continues to the present day with the contributions of such artists as Jim Dine, Allen Jones, Danny Lane, and Kenneth Armitage. From the height of the screen's popularity during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to its current resurgence in urban lofts and studio apartments, The Folding Screen examines the numerous and changing interpretations of this versatile piece of furniture.

The Folding Screen

Aldbrook, Mark

History & Criticism

Rizzoli

Paint Finishes

Science & Math

Technology

Quantum Books Ltd.

“A welcome companion...The first two chapters—on space and color and on inspiration—set the stage perfectly as motivational tools....Most appealing are the brilliant, illustrative color photgraphs. Twenty projects demonstrate the range of Carter’s artisty....Enjoy this for ideas and inspiration.”—Booklist

The Complete Book of Paint: A Comprehensive Guide to Paint Techniques for Walls, Floors, Furniture, Fabrics, and Metalwork

Carter, David

Friedman

Fishing Mania (The Mania Series)

Foster, Nigel

Ravette Publishing Ltd.

The Bluffer's Guide to Antiques: Bluff Your Way in Antiques (Bluffer Guides)

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Sex Mania (The Mania Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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