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Thứ Hai, 22 tháng 10, 2018

How You Can Spruce Up Your Home With Tole Painting Patterns

By Carol Hughes


Sprucing up your home need not be a costly and a pain in the neck enterprise. You need not hire fancy custom painters and high end interior designers to vamp up and beautify your space. You know the nifty alternative, DIY. You dont even have to be a talented or tolerable artist to deliver dazzling enhancements to your home, that is, as long as you have tole painting patterns.

Tole art is a decorative painting method that is applied to tin and wooden objects, utensils, and furniture. It is a form of folk art that first sprung in various parts of Europe, and it comes with different names in each locality of Scandinavia, Germany, Russia, and England. However, it reached its apogee in eighteenth century America.

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.

Tole is the choicest genre because you can do it not just anywhere but also anyhow. There is no limit in the ways it is produced. Just let your hand skate across the object or the canvas. However, hesitation can be well founded when youre new to the technique. Thats the high time to get yourself a tole pattern. The common themes are usually cutesy and whimsical subjects such as flowers, bears, bunnies, birds, butterflies, swans, and nostalgic scenery.

For the medium, acrylic is the most used, since it is inexpensive, long lasting, and quick drying. Oil paint is also popular among those who made the transition from fine art. Aside from tin and wood, other well adapted items for tole are papier mache, terra cotta, and even plastic surfaces.

Applicable skills aside from painting include priming, sealing, sanding, staining, base coating, and varnishing. Techniques include stenciling, bronzing, gold leafing, country, faux finishing, graining, and theorem. Each can be alternatively available in American tole and its fellow associates, Rosemaling, japanning, kurbits, and Russian black lacquering.

Considering, the methods are usually standardized and systematic, this type of decorative painting is considered relatively easy and highly teachable. Because freehand design is encouraged, even the average person can be assured fulfillment and success even without an inherent drawing ability. Discipline and creativity are the operative words here. Then again, if youre just starting and in a little need of a nudge and inspiration, youd just have to pick out a pattern as a start.

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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