mardi 30 octobre 2018

Sprucing Up Your Household Items With Tole Painting Patterns

By Carol Hughes


Beautifying your home can be an expense and stress riddled enterprise. Usually, the way to go is to buy those exquisite trappings and accessories that you see through those window shops, or else hire a splendid designer to spruce up your lusterless space. You just dont have enough confidence in your own artistic talents to attempt a DIY. However, the alternative is that exorbitant hiring and purchasing that can possibly result to buyers remorse. So its time to jack up your creative powers and get some tole painting patterns.

There are a lot of things in the household that can do with a little tweaking and makeover. A decorative method geared for this is tole art. It originated in Europe, specifically in Scandinavia, though it also has variations in Britain, Germany, and Russia. Its modern development is based in America, however, with the creation of the Society of Decorative Painters.

Patterns for this art form are available, and they may come in books or packets. This manual contains step by step instructions that enable one to imitate patterns and line drawings. A photograph of the final result is also embedded therein for reference. All kinds of templates are available, wherever you stand in your skills and abilities, from beginner to expert, so youll always find something to satisfy and challenge you.

You can apply tole art on various commonplace household items like furniture, from tables, chairs, cabinets, and boxes. You may do it on kitchenware like utensils, coffee pots, teapots, mugs, cups, and canisters. Toleware also includes thingamajigs like hope chests, candleholders, document boxes, tissue boxes, and wastebaskets.

The best thing about tole is that it can be done freehand, and let your hand move with your unfettered imagination. If you want it orthodox by all means, you may go by the usual patterns. These include Christmas themes like snowmen and Santa, flowers, birds, butterflies, bunnies, bears, swans, mallards, literally anything you can think of. The common denominator is that they are usually whimsical and nostalgic, but then again, it doenst really have to be so.

The media used are typically acrylic, which is both inexpensive and long lasting, and oil. Before the paint is applied, the wooden canvas is usually primed, sealed, and sanded. Usually, the art is done on three dimensional objects, like those enumerated above. Staples are wood and tin, but plastic, papier mache, and terra cotta materials are also popular.

There are essential elementary skills to be learned when you venture on this form of decorative painting. There is the priming, sanding, sealing, base coating, varnishing, and staining of the object. Methods you can go by are bronzing, gold leafing, stenciling, graining, faux finishing, and theorem painting. Outside of American tole, you may also adopt techniques from its associates, Russian lacquering, Rosemaling, kurbits, and japanning.

Because it is systematic and standardized, this form of decorative painting is easily teachable and learnable. Even without an inherent artistic talent, this is achievable by your average layman. That is, as long as he is willing and disciplined enough to practice.

With painting patterns, the enterprise is even further oversimplified. You can now watch your shabby household items come alive in a burst of color and personality. Moreover, with the considerable letting out and self expression, you get to earn satisfaction and gratification in no mean degree.




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