Synopses & Reviews
Jo Sonja's Guide to Decorative Painting is not just a complete painting course that gives readers the tools they need to reach their full creative potential, but it also provides an overview of the rich and varied painting traditions that have left their mark on an extraordinary art form.
Jo Sonja offers indispensable advice on how to choose essential supplies as well as how to properly prepare a wide range of surfaces. Instead of relying on those all-too-familiar creative "crutches" of patterns and projects, she stresses the importance of individual interpretation, encouraging readers to develop their drawing skills and to explore their unique color personalities. In addition, she demonstrates how mastering just a few basic strokes not only improves brush control but can hasten the quest for a personal style. To complete the preparatory chapters, she reviews an impressive array of painting and finishing techniques. In the last three chapters, Jo Sonja illustraes and documents the decorative painting styles of the last 300 years, rendering them in a wonderfully charming way that allows us a glimpse into her own creative process.
No decorative painter's library can be complete without this classic reference.
Synopsis
Written by the premier decorative painter of our time, this book is the most complete decorative painting resource ever assembled in one volume.