Decorative Painting Techniques: Whisper Painting

By Suzy Eaton

Book Overview

The first in a brand-new series, each focusing closely on a specific faux finish. Whisper Painting is a popular style that's soft, subtle, and easy to do, and with these ample photos as a guide, anyone can give plain walls, furniture, and home accessories beautifully understated decorative finishes. The projects showcase 30 different techniques, and start with such simple, unintimidating processes as tracing, decoupaging, ragging, and dragging. Add texture to a mantelpiece with dimensional pa? antique a brand-new mirror so that it looks like a Renaissance work of art; and reproduce an aged stone wall. Introductory sections provide paint and color basics, and each project is labeled with one, two, or three paintbrushes according to difficulty.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402725655
• ISBN13: 9781402725654
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Love It!

This book was so helpful. It shows how easy it can be to make my white walls have depth. Simple step-by-step guidelines that you can fallow or throw in some from other projects in the book. It was a great find.