Both an easy "how-to" guide and a style book, this manual shows homeowners, designers and craftspeople how to create paint effects - from ageing and verdigris to stippling and trompe l'oeil - for walls, floors, ceilings and furniture. Features include chapters laid out like recipes, complete with ingredients, equipment and step-by-step instructions to inspire do-it-yourselfers at every level of experience.
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The 192-page book is both inspirational and instructional, addressing basic materials and equipment as well as custom paint "recipes" and techniques for applying them. Sunset
--Sunset, May 1996
It seems there's no end to the interest in decorative paint treatments. Now Paint Recipes presents 50 techniques, more than 150 color mixes, and instructions for applying them to a wide variety of surfaces, including walls, floors, and furniture.
The 192-page book is both inspirational and instructional, addressing basic materials and equipment as well as custom paint "recipes" and techniques for applying them. Some techniques are familiar (such as sponging and ragging), while others (like fade-away washing, rubbed-back plaster, and loose-glaze brushing) are more unusual.
Some recipes might seem intimidating, since they require mixing your own paint color with colored powders, but the book explains how you can start with premixed paints or add pigment from artists' paints.
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Liz Wagstaff is a professional designer of sets, props, and painted costumes for theater and opera in England.
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Value, makes a great housewarming gift,
By Angel Lee "Liocorno Amethyst Moonstone" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Paint Recipes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Colors and Finishes for the Home (Paperback)
This is a wonderful book for anyone wanting to decorate or redecorate their home with style. It is great value because it is literally packed with techniques and ideas to suit anyone's taste. Most effects are surprisingly easy to create. The book starts out with a through explanation of materials. This includes color photos of all the tools, as well as charts with great information on mixing and thinning paint types, primers, undercoats, solvents, glazes, varnishes, sealants, and metallic finishes. Information about toxicity, uses and whether it should be used indoors or out is included as well. There are even several excellent charts on preparing almost any surface for painting. Numerous techniques for painting walls including colorwashing, sponging, dragging, rag rolling, stippling, limewashing, dry brushing, fade-away washing, loose-glaze, mock and rubbed back plaster are included. Effects such as Fresco, Mediterranean and Egyptian are also covered as well as creating borders, stone blocking and making distressed plaster patterns. Then wood effects such as aging, spattering, graining, crackling, combing, and staining are covered. The Scandinavian and Shaker color pallets and styles are demonstrated here too. Stone finishes such as marbling, lapis lazuli, sandstone, porphyry, granite and terracotta follow. Then there are metal finishes including patina, verdigris, rust, lead, iron and bronzing. Finally, lacquer, tortoiseshell, shagreen, leather, stenciling, and gilding techniques are shown. Most of the projects use latex or acrylic paint, only a few use oils. Step-by-step directions are given for each of these techniques or effects. Close-up photos show the each style in a few different colors and recipes are given for each one. Some styles have pictures of finished rooms or objects done with them. Since printing accurate colors is tricky and there are so many variables in materials and surfaces, I know that results can vary. I would recommend experimenting on a small scale and tweaking the recipe to get things the color you want. All in all this is fabulous and inspirational book at an excellent price for anyone who wants to do more than brush on off-the-shelf paint.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
good technique info but the recipes are inaccurate,
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This review is from: Paint Recipes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Colors and Finishes for the Home (Paperback)
I was excited about this book at first glance, with all the wonderful painting techniques and very simple easy to follow instructions. However, I've tried 2 projects following the paint recipes with precision and the color of the paint is not at all like it appears in the book. For instance, I tried to get the look of dry brushing with her ultramarine blue. The paint recipe calls for 3 tablespoons of ultramarine blue artists' acrylic paint and instead I had to use about 3 cups. I hoped my second project would be better but I eventually gave up after spending a fortune trying to add enough of the artists paint to get the right shade.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lovely book, but where is my terra cotta stone wall?,
By sararosa@hotmail.com (Brownsville, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Paint Recipes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Colors and Finishes for the Home (Paperback)
I have been enchanted with this book since I first saw and acquired it a few years ago. I have followed only a few recipes, partly because it has been difficult to find some of the ingredients in my area. My most pressing complaint, however, echoes comments by an earlier reviewer regarding the accuracy of the recipes. I am in the middle of a faux stone block wall that calls for a base coat and three glaze coats, followed by veining and shadows--a lot of work. It was clear after the first glaze coat that my wall would never be remotely close to the lovely terra cotta color identified (p. 94) as "the basic recipe". Help, Liz, where are you?
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tossaway brush, white latex flat paint, first glaze coat, ltbsp cobalt blue, white latex semigloss, latex brush, basic colorway, ltbsp titanium white, bronze ocher, red iron oxide primer, second glaze coat, container for mixing glaze, hardwearing finish, deep red latex paint, acrylic primer undercoat, imitation metal leaf, badger blender, gloss base coat, satin polyurethane varnish, aging glaze, spatter coat, acrylic color, crackle varnish, matte polyurethane varnish, latex coat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mineral High, Water Medium, Denatured High, Add the Base, Notes Apply New!
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tossaway brush, white latex flat paint, first glaze coat, ltbsp cobalt blue, white latex semigloss, latex brush, basic colorway, ltbsp titanium white, bronze ocher, red iron oxide primer, second glaze coat, container for mixing glaze, hardwearing finish, deep red latex paint, acrylic primer undercoat, imitation metal leaf, badger blender, gloss base coat, satin polyurethane varnish, aging glaze, spatter coat, acrylic color, crackle varnish, matte polyurethane varnish, latex coat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mineral High, Water Medium, Denatured High, Add the Base, Notes Apply New!
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