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.

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.

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