Create Your Own Wall Art - Softcover

Donovan, Henny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764134701 ISBN 13: 9780764134708

Publisher: B E S Pub Co, 2006

Synopsis

Here's a great how-to book for do-it-yourselfers who want to add color and sparkle to interiors in their home or apartment. Wall art is a great way to enhance and enliven a room, and the designs shown in this book are professional looking and inexpensive to produce while requiring only the most basic decorating skills. Each design is demonstrated with step-by-step color photos that accompany detailed instructions. Wall art examples for copying include cityscapes, nature themes, collage designs, and children's motifs. Organized into sections that focus on appropriate designs for different rooms, this handsome book offers readers wall art projects for bedrooms, living rooms, halls, and virtually everywhere else in the home. Hundreds of instructive color photos.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

(back cover)
Enhance and enliven your home with your own unique wall art. This inspirational and practical book features 25 original designs to copy and adapt including cityscapes, portraits, nature themes, and children s motifs. Organized into sections tailored to different rooms in the house, this book shows how you can find the perfect project for halls, stairways, living areas, and bedrooms.

Each design is demonstrated with step-by-step photographs and requires only basic decorating skills and inexpensive, readily available tools and materials

Learn how to transfer photographic images, produce large-scale calligraphic works, create collages and textured panels, paint colorful motifs and bold pop-art canvases

All basic techniques are clearly explained, from copying and enlarging images to producing dramatic painted effects using sponging, spattering, and brushwork

Create a focal point with a stunning individual image, add visual interest using a series of varied panels, and find inspired ideas for hanging and lighting your finished artwork

Edition details

• Publisher: B E S Pub Co
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764134701
• ISBN 13: 9780764134708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128