False Graining Techniques: How to Add the Rich Look of Wood to Your Next Project

By Jim King and Beth Oberholtzer

Book Overview

False Graining Techniques introduces you to the unique craft of grain painting, the decorative technique of imitating wood grain on furniture, accessories, and other objects. With this book, you can try your hand-literally-at making beautiful designs with such tools as corncobs, rubber combs, foam brushes, and even your own fingers. The authors provide all of the information you need to get started, with handy tips on tools, materials, and techniques. Six easy projects show how to transform plain surfaces into textured and stylized veneers. Step-by-step photos cover all the details necessary to achieve artistic painting effects. A colorful gallery of finished pieces will inspire you with expressive modern variations of this innovative technique.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565237978
• ISBN13: 9781565237971
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.4" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Not a helpful book

Disappointing - the techniques shown do not create credible woodgrain patterns. At best, they might appeal to someone who has never seen real wood. Not for the serious decorator. "Artistic" in the title says it all.