"Paint Magic" has undergone a complete makeover since first publication in 1981. Paint effects and products have leapt ahead. Cool, sophisticated finishes have replaced the busy finishes of the 1980s and there has been a worldwide switch from traditional oil-based to environmentally "greener" water-based paint media. Jocasta Innes, a paint expert, enthusiast and teacher, tells you how to get started and gives you the pros and cons of all the latest products for walls, woodwork, floors and furniture.
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Excellent instructions;wonderful photographs;many techniques,
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Antiquing; bambooing; bleaching; colorwashing; combing; decorative painting; dragging; dyeing; gilding; graining; graphiting; japanningh; lacquering; lining; marbling; prphyry; ragging; rag-rolling; rubber stamping; rubbing; spattering; sponging; staining; stenciling; stippling; tortoiseshelling; trompe l'oeil; vinegar painting - all beautifully photographed and described. Makes one want to buy a house and (old) furniture just to do some of these wonderful finishes! Primarily for traditional homes, but this book is well worth having for anyone considering decorating.
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Books shouldn't be judged if you buy them for purposes they weren't intended to fill. But this book did a great job for that alternative purpose, and I'm delighted to recommend it for book artists, which is why I purchased it.
Looking for some new techniques to create backgrounds for my raw-art journals, I flipped through the pages and found a section on using gesso (a background that prepares a canvas or board for paint) and another on stenciling. Each technique has a description of the effect, then includes preparation, materials, equipment, how-to and some variations. There are wonderful photos of the finished result (on walls). Sure, the book includes rubber stamping on walls, but for journals, I recommend Graining (p. 106), marbling (p. 114) and ragging (p. 53). The techniques can be easily adapted and give delightful results.
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This is a perfect book for those of us who are blessed with the time to make our homes more interesting, but lack the money to hire the people who know how to do it.
It is true, as another reviewer has stated, that not all the techniques are fully explained. But any paint store today will have brochures to do that. What's good about this book are the photographs that provoke the imagination and inspire you to get off your seat and do something. I enjoyed this as a young married man and I'm referring to it now as an empty-nester.
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Walls not only define and shape the given space that is a room, they also make up the largest surface area, so that what you add to them in the way of colour, pattern or texture is bound to have a considerable effect. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tinting colours, oak varnish stain, proprietary glaze, combing paste, one part white spirit, universal stainers, transparent oil glaze, carriage varnish, vinyl silk emulsion, lining fitch, wet glazed surface, acrylic scumble, standard decorators, clear matt varnish, heat stripper, stucco lustro, glazing liquid, gloss polyurethane varnish, gouache colours, little white spirit, matt emulsion, paint kettle, badger softener, dragged finish, matt acrylic varnish Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Walls not only define and shape the given space that is a room, they also make up the largest surface area, so that what you add to them in the way of colour, pattern or texture is bound to have a considerable effect. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tinting colours, oak varnish stain, proprietary glaze, combing paste, one part white spirit, universal stainers, transparent oil glaze, carriage varnish, vinyl silk emulsion, lining fitch, wet glazed surface, acrylic scumble, standard decorators, clear matt varnish, heat stripper, stucco lustro, glazing liquid, gloss polyurethane varnish, gouache colours, little white spirit, matt emulsion, paint kettle, badger softener, dragged finish, matt acrylic varnish Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Omega and After: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts by Isabelle Anscombe in Back Matter
- Art Deco (A Guide for Collectors) by Katharine Morrison McClinton in Back Matter
- Painting and Decorating: An Information Manual by A. Fulcher in Back Matter
- The Complete Book of Decorating Techniques by Linda Gray in Back Matter
- William Morris by Linda Parry in Back Matter
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- Kitty Bartholomew's Decorating Style: A Hands-On Approach to Creating Affordable, Beautiful, and Comfortable Rooms by Kitty Bartholomew on 4 pages
- Setting Up Home by Lorrie Mack in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Judith Miller's Color: Period and Regional Style from Around the World by Judith Miller on page 35, page 77, and page 129
- Iain Sinclair (Salt Studies in Contemporary Literature & Culture S.) by Robert Bond in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Complete Book of Floors by Alan Berman in Back Matter
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