Kinkead, Elise.

50 ways to paint furniture : the easy, step-by-step way to decorator looks / Fifty ways to paint furniture Elise Kinkead. - Chanhassen, Minn. : Creative Pub. International, c2007. - 128 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Creating your style -- Secrets to discover before you begin -- All about... -- Basic techniques -- Creative paint effects: Negoro nuri -- Steel-wool stria -- Mottled -- Textured plaster -- Photo montage -- Crackle -- Broken paint -- Intarsia -- Striping -- Soft geometry -- Torn paper -- Words and numbers -- From the can -- Stamping -- Found objects -- Magnetic paint -- Chalkboard paint -- Checkerboard tabletop -- Drip and spill -- Squeegee combing -- Fabulous fakes: Faux tiles -- Parchment -- Faux marquetry -- Faux leather -- Shagreen -- Faux goatskin -- Malachite -- Faux stone -- Marble -- Shaker finish -- Burled wood -- Basic wood graining -- Mahogany -- Rust -- Bronze -- Verdigris patina -- Provincial lapis -- Antiquing and gilding: Stain antiquing -- Staining and distressing -- Distressed latex -- Oil paint antiquing -- Aluminum gilding -- Copper gilding -- Carved surface gilding Tarnished patina -- Noton -- Antiqued gold -- Pickling -- Trompe l'oeil panel -- Burnished metal.

Provides step-by-step instructions for fifty painting techniques to be used on furniture, and includes burled wood, torn paper, faux leather, found objects, broken paint, pickling, and many others.

Adult Follett Library Resources

9781589232921 (soft cover) 1589232925 (soft cover)

2006032897


Furniture painting.
Finishes and finishing.
Furniture--Painting.
Finishes and finishing.

TT199.4 / .K56 2007

745.7/23