Decorative Furniture with Donna Dewberry [Paperback]

Donna Dewberry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2000

Transform Plain Furniture into Family Treasures!

It's easy and fun with Donna Dewberry. In this inspiring guide, she demonstrates her trademark, one-stroke painting techniques in 10 all-new projects designed especially for furniture. Just follow along. You'll transform old and new tables, chests and cabinets into elegant objects that complement the decor of every room.

From soft florals and meandering vines to ripe cherries and delicate china, Donna shows you how to achieve her realistic style with clear, step-by-step instructions that detail every stroke.

Donna leaves nothing to chance, providing complete instructions for surface preparation, brush loading and stroke technique. In no time, you'll be taking her easy techniques one step further, painting your own designs on anything in need of a decorative touch.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Decorative furniture, in Dewberry's viewpoint, means painting in the one- (or a few-) brushstroke technique--not the sponging, ragging, and stenciling that Jocasta Innes articulated. In fact, the entire how-to and project orientation here focuses on painting; there's nothing about preparation, stripping, and other preliminary methods needed for a clean, ready-to-decorate surface. Yet for fanciers of this traditional technique, the sky is virtually the limit of possibilities--10 projects show, from background to final varnish, the best effects of applying colorful flowers and fauna and displaying blue-and-white china atop chests of drawers, tables, trunks, and screens. Great step-by-step photographs help master this art. Resources appended. Barbara Jacobs
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About the Author

Donna Dewberry is without doubt the most successful and well-known decorative painter ever. She has done nine books for North Light since 1998. She is contracted through 2007 with PBS stations nationwide for her program One-Stroke Painting with Donna Dewberry and is also a regular presenter on the Home Shopping Network. Her designs are licensed for home d?cor fabrics, wallpapers, borders, stick-ons, bedding, etc. Donna's most recent North Light books are Donna Dewberry's Designs for Entertaining (2006) and Painting Fabulous Flowers with Donna Dewberry (2006).

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books (November 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581800169
• ISBN-13: 978-1581800166
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #680,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The world's most adored decorative painter, host of PBS' "One Stroke Painting with Donna Dewberry," and popular QVC personality, Donna Dewberry takes her popular garden motif and enhances clothes, gifts and the family home using machine embroidery, in Donna Dewberry's Machine Embroidery Flowers. She's sold 500,000 copies of her previous books.

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just wonderful!, April 16, 2001

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This review is from: Decorative Furniture with Donna Dewberry (Paperback)

Donna Dewberry is an amazing artist who shows you step by step how to create beautiful decorations on furniture in your home. Decorative Furniture was written with the beginner painter in mind. Everything is made simple, and it starts from square one.

Decorative Furniture starts out by showing you what materials you will need to complete every project in the book. Amazingly, it isn't a huge list of materials. Donna Dewberry strives for simple, yet extraordinary projects. She also shows you what brushes are needed and how to load them with paint.

This book also covers basic one-stroke painting techniques, such as how to make a vine, leaf, or flower. Even if you already know the one-stroke painting techniques, this serves as a very useful reminder of how things should look.

My favorite part of this book is how it teaches you how to do special effects such as giving a piece a textured look, such as the project on page 32. I plan to start this one soon!

As with all Donna Dewberry's books, don't feel that the projects are only for furniture. You really can use the same techniques, and patterns on nearly anything you wish to paint!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars decorative furniture with donna dewberry, June 25, 2002

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Great book for anyone who thinks they can't paint freehand! Donna Dewberry is the master of instructional simplicity when it comes to showing just how easy it is for anyone to do decorative painting. A+

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5.0 out of 5 stars donna dewberry book, October 12, 2010

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I always enjoy her books. gives great ideas. I use this technique in my small business.