Quick & Easy Trompe L'Oeil: Decorative Painting on Walls, Furniture, Frames & More

By Jocelyn Kerr Holding

Book Overview

Decorate your home with trompe l'oeil - spectacular illusions created using special painting techniques. Your realistic looking pictures will convince all that there are columns where there are none, make a differently shaped niche blend in nicely with the rest of a room and more. Practice with these six easy projects that are simple to draw and fun to do. You won't believe what you're able to do, and you won't believe your eyes

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080697138X
• ISBN13: 9780806971384
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

An outstanding how-to guide to decorative painting

Quick & Easy Trompe I'Oeil is an outstanding how-to guide to decorative painting on walls, furniture and even bricks and presents easy step-by-step techniques for using the trompe i'oeil technique. A range of examples of pictorial art from all styles, from still life to Surrealistic paintings, provide painters with many different ideas to choose from, while the techniques are easy to follow and duplicate. Color photos pack the presentation.