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Books + Guides
Applique
Art + Drawing
Business Of Art
Calligraphy
Cartoon Drawing
Collecting
Color
Colored Pencil
Drawing
Figure Drawing
Landscape Painting
Pastel
Reference
Study + Teaching
Watercolor Painting
Baskets
Beadwork
Bonsai
Book Making + Binding
Candlemaking
Carving + Whittling
Clock Making
Crafts for Kids
Crocheting
Cross-Stitch
Decoration
Dollhouses
Dough
Dried Flowers
Dye
Embroidery
Fashion
Flower Arranging
Framing
Glass + Glassware
Jewelry
Knitting
Lace + Tatting
Lapidary
Leathercrafts
Make Money With Crafts
Metal Work
Miniatures
Mobiles
Models
Model Trains
Needlepoint
Needlework
Origami
Painting
Painting + Wallpapering
Papercrafts
Patchwork
Photography
Potpourri
Pottery + Ceramics
Printmaking
Puppets + Puppetry
Quilts + Quilting
Radio Operation
Reference
Ribbons
Rubber Stamping
Rugs
Science Projects
Scrapbooking
Seasonal
Sewing
Soap Making
Spinning
Stenciling
Stuffed Animals
Textile Arts
Toymaking
Weaving
Wood Toys
Woodworking
Wreathmaking
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By Ed Roth
Chronicle Books
Paperback (12 pages)
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This portfolio of reusable stencils, project instructions, and photographs lets DIY designers embellish walls, furniture, and more with cool custom patterns. Whether it's glam chain motifs on a wall or bold geometrics on a bathroom backsplash, these durable and recyclable stencils make a big impact. Each design is meant to be tiled simply line up each corner's registration marks to get a paint-your-own wallpaper effect. It's a quick, unique, affordable way to achieve the latest look in interior d cor. |
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By Susan Hershman
Gibbs-Smith
Released: 2007-09-07
Kindle Edition (336 pages)
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House Colors is a comprehensive guide that takes the guesswork out of choosing an exterior home color. Selecting paint colors can be overwhelming, and exterior colors are particularly tricky-a house is a very large object to paint, color looks different blown up to a large scale, and colors change dramatically under different light conditions. Now, eliminate painting anxiety with this broad resource that reveals everything you need to know to achieve professional results. Dozens of color combinations, hundreds of homes, and a wealth of overall design information is included. |
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Sunset Pub Co
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This all-new edition of one of Sunset’s perennial best sellers is back and better than ever with loads of ready-made color combinations, tips on choosing the right painting effects, advice from the pros, and information on specialty tools. It has tons of photos to get your creative juices flowing and confidence-building instruction on techniques and materials to see you through to the successful completion of your masterpiece. Features: * This comprehensive decorative painting guide is the second edition of a Sunset best seller * Provides instruction on thirty decorative paint techniques with step-by-step photography and color combining recommendations * Includes newer techniques as well as tried-and-true favorites that will inspire novice and experienced painters alike * Completely updated resource and materials guide |
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By Gary Lord
North Light Books
Paperback (144 pages)
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Sophisticated Home Decor Made Easy Nothing can transform a room quite like paint! In this groundbreaking guide, professional decorative painter Gary Lord presents 30 brand-new finishes for your walls, floors, ceilings and furniture. Designed by Gary and 23 of the top names in the industry, these cutting-edge finishes bring style, sophistication and value to every part of your home. Each project shows you step by step how to use the newest tools and painting products on the market to achieve elegant, updated home décor without the expense of hiring a professional. Everything you need to do it yourself successfully is included, such as: · Complete lists of tools and materials · Large, full-color step-by-step photos · Tips from the pros that help you customize your project and avoid mistakes · Detailed instructions for room and surface preparation · Inspiring photos of completed projects in actual homes · Bonus DVD takes you step-by-step through 5 spectacular projects Whether you’re a seasoned home decorator or a novice faux finisher, with this guide you’ll have the inspiration and knowledge it takes to create a truly unique and beautiful home. Best of all, the designers featured here keep you ahead of the curve with their up-to-the-minute styles and techniques. From floors and walls to ceilings and beyond, make your home the best it can be. www.artistsnetwork.com Ideas. Instruction. Inspiration. |
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By Brian Santos
Meredith Books
Released: 2004-01-06
Paperback (128 pages)
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Drama school hopefuls who use this book to supplement their training will find themselves on an inside track previously available only to students of the very best professional drama coaches. The author, a retired successful actor on the London stage and currently a renowned drama teacher, presents a variety of effective tutorials that focus on voice, movement, text, and the understanding of character. His instruction relies extensively on the time-proven Alexander technique, an exercise regimen for ridding oneself of detrimental bodily tensions and developing a sense of physical grace and balance. Followed precisely, his tutorials will equip acting students with the wide array of skills they need to pass that elusive audition that gets their career off to a successful start. They focus on preparing monologues, understanding the differences between comic and tragic acting, researching character, working with accents, and much more. In addition, author Jona Howl advises on maintaining health and vitality through exercise and diet, and gives tips on developing positive mental attitudes. The text is supplemented with more than 350 instructive illustrations. |
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By Annie Sloan
Laurel Glen Publishing
Paperback (144 pages)
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Traditionally the center of the home, the kitchen is key to successful living. Decorator Annie Sloan, one of the world's leading experts on color and interior painting, has produced a range of stunning professional schemes to give the most popular room of the home an entirely new look with a minimum of effort and little expense. Using her unique expertise, she shows how to decorate every kitchen area - walls, cupboards, and surfaces - providing clear instructions and step-by-step color photography. Projects range from an exuberant Mexican-style blue-and-yellow color-washed kitchen to revamping a battered family table and chairs as Swedish-style lime-washed dining furniture. Annie Sloan's Painted Kitchen also reveals simple afternoon makeovers and ingenious finishing touches, such as painting cupboard knobs or the inside of kitchen drawers in a contrast color to the outside for a fun, fashionable finish. All the projects are suitable for beginners and many feature style variations for the more adventurous. |
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By Curtis L Heuser
North Light Books
Hardcover (144 pages)
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Readers will love this "treasure trove of inspiration" filled with stunning before and after photography of finished rooms and interior details. Inside are over "30" astonishing mural and faux finishing "step-by-step" projects, accompanied with interesting chatty side notes and expert tips - as author and artist Curtis Heuser guides the reader "room-by-room" through his beautifully renovated Historic private residence. Readers will learn the secrets to creating unique paint effects, and pick up invaluable designer tips on everything from choosing colors to decorating a bookshelf. Whether a professional or novice in the field, "YOUR HOME A Living Canvas" promises to sweep you up to new inspirational levels!!! |
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By Annie Sloan
Readers Digest
Paperback (224 pages)
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Click Here | - Annie Sloan shares her secrets to help you create a variety of patterns and effects to decorate your home.
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Annie Sloan shares her secrets to help you create a variety of patterns and effects to decorate your home. Includes information about decorating tools, materials, paint effects, stenciling, decoupage, wood finishes, gilding, and more. Step-by-step instructions and practical tips on trouble spots make this a complete how-to guide. |
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By Ina Brosseau Marx & Robert Marx
Potter Craft
Released: 2008-09-16
Paperback (288 pages)
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The world’s leading experts reveal how to paint great finishes—and make money doing it!
• classic, now in paperback for the first time
• Basics plus step-by-steps for more than 55 techniques—glazing, marbling, graining, more
• Full information on running a furniture-restoration business
Booklist called the Marxes’ latest collaboration, Furniture Restoration, “a book to be pored over again and again.” Now their classic first book, Professional Painted Finishes, is available in a handy paperback edition. Drawn from the authors’ 30 years of experience in the field, these painted finishes simulate a wide variety of wood grains, stones, and marbles. More than 55 techniques are explained in depth, with hundreds of step-by-step color photographs and complete lists of the materials and tools needed. Everything that a professional or hobbyist needs is here, from basics, to specific techniques such as marbling, glazing, and graining, to an overview of business practices, including startup, preparing estimates and contracts, and getting the job done. A comprehensive decorative painting resource, ideal for professionals, aspiring professionals, and committed amateurs, Professional Painted Finishes packs the combined knowledge of three top experts into one indispensable reference. |
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By Annie Sloan & Michael Murray
Grove Pr
Hardcover (128 pages)
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Decorative paint is the perfect way to give new life to old furniture, and 200 full-color and two-color illustrations can teach the reader everything from graining to trompe l'oeil. It is the ideal introduction to a versatile decorating technique. |
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