Paint Your Way through the Year! Paint something happy and heartwarming for every holiday and season. Painting Heartwarming Holidays by Jamie Mills-Price gives you all the inspiration and guidance you need. From designs that celebrate every major holiday to lovely landscapes highlighting the beauty of each season, you'll delight in these 12 charming projects in acrylics. Whether you're a beginning painter or a more experienced artist looking for new challenges, you'll find this book has plenty to offer. Each design gives instruction that not only covers the simplest strokes in colorful detail, but also provides ideas and techniques for pushing your creative potential to new heights. You'll find: Whimsical designs for celebrating Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, plus all four seasons Traceable patterns, color mixing information and complete materials lists Instructions for preparing and painting on all kinds of surfaces, including wood, metal, ceramic bisque, glass and paper A special section on designing that shows you how to "build" your own unique compositions You can follow the step-by-step instructions to recreate Jamie's playful designs exactly as they're shown or change the colors and elements to match your own d?cor and creative spirit. Either way, you'll find Painting Heartwarming Holidays to be instantly gratifying. Why wait? Begin a yearlong celebration in painting today!

Presents a collection of Christmas ornaments and craft ideas with patterns and complete instructions for painting and decorating them.

The perfect reference for painters! Fast instruction and inspiration is at your fingertips! Jam packed with a large collection of bright and colorful, fun-to-paint Santas and snowmen, you will get lots of quick, fresh and new ideas for your holiday gifts and decorations. The range and variety of designs is like no other book! This accessible guide provides over 350 color photos and step-by-step instructions with easy-to-use painting techniques. In addition, you'll find 24 projects - from whimsical and comical snow-people to traditional and charming Santas of all shapes and sizes. This invaluable combination of painting demonstrations and grab bag of ideas is guaranteed to bring you success in all of your work.

Provides information on using and transferring patterns; choosing supplies; and mastering techniques such as shading and highlighting, blending, changing colours and finishing the piece. This book also covers preparing and painting on different surfaces, from glass and fabric to wood and metal.

With these nine step-by-step projects from renowned decorative painter John Gutcher, readers will learn how to paint their favorite Christmas themes, including Santas, angels, elves and more, on everything from glittering ornaments to festive albums. Giving them the flexibility to paint in either acrylics or oils, John provides plenty of practical guidance for choosing supplies, mixing colors, creating values, and mastering the basics of portrait painting. He even makes learning those tricky details simple with special tips for painting fur, richly textured clothing and realistic flesh tones. * Holiday themes are extremely popular among decorative painters * Includes 9 fun, fabulous step-by-step projects * Perfect for holiday gifts! * Includes detailed instruction in the basics of portraiture John Gutcher is one of the most popular and beloved artists and teachers in the decorative painting field. He has appeared as a guest artist on the TV series Home Decorating Workshop and on the PBS series Perfect Palette. He was a featured artist in North Light's Best of Decorative Painting and he has been published in all the decorative painting magazines, including Decorative Artist's Workbook. He lives in Tampa, Florida.

Best known for her graceful roses and loved by thousands of student painters for her clear and enthusiastic style of teaching, Priscilla Hauser has earned a reputation as "America's First Lady of Decorative Painting." &break;&break;In this complete guide, Priscilla shows you how to paint your own beautiful roses - along with daises, lilacs, violets, poppies, irises, tulips and other lovely flowers. &break;&break;You'll find everything you need to get started: &break;Supplies. A handy guide to all the supplies you'll need for a decorative painting in oils and acrylics, including which brushes to use and how to care for them. &break;Surface Preparations and Finishes. Learn how to properly prepare wood, metal, fabric and other surfaces for your decorative painting. Plus, you'll find easy techniques for creating fabulous finishes such as antiquing and crackling. &break;The Basics. Practice these fundamental skills - from basic brushstrokes to blending - and you'll be painting flowers in no time! &break;&break;Watch your brushstrokes bloom in 22 flower painting projects! Starting with simple patterns and techniques and progressing to more challenging ones, these projects will show you how to paint an assortment of leaves and flowers. Priscilla includes paint-along worksheets for practice; patterns for you to copy; step-by-step photos and instructions; photos of the finishes pieces' and lots of ideas for using your painted flowers to decorate an endless variety of surfaces. &break;&break;Whether you're a total beginner or an experienced painting, Priscilla's techniques and patters will help you fill your home (and friends' homes!) with the ever-fresh beauty of painted flowers.

Decorative painters love the charming country landscapes found in the art of American masters Grant Wood, Rufus Porter and Charles Wysocki. Their simplified styles celebrate rural America through paintings of rolling hills and farmlands dotted with sheep or old-fashioned farm houses.Now, anyone can paint these nostalgic scenes with the easy instructions found in Painting Americana. In this book, readers learn:* Simple techniques for painting hills, farm animals, trees, barns and more that even beginners can master* How to achieve rustic effects on wood and metal surfaces* 10 unique step-by-step projects, including a Pennsylvania Dutch design on a door crown and French country chickens on a bentwood boxStunning finished pieces make perfect gifts and family keepsakes.