Paint: Choosing, Mixing and Decorating with Water-based Paints

by John Sutcliffe (Author), Hilary Hockman (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.25

  This guide explores all the benefits of using water-based paints, and demonstrates the techniques for achieving the broadest spectrum of colours and effects. Worldwide, professionals and amateurs alike are moving from solvent-based paints to the healthier and more ecologically-friendly alternative of solvent-free paints. Easy and pleasant to use, water-based paints are capable of giving doors, walls, ceilings and furniture most of the standard decorative finishes, as well as some new and unusual ones. This book discusses each water-based medium in detail, placing it in historical perspective, and shows how distemper, milk paints, emulsion, acrylics and water-based varnishes can all be used to their best advantage. It shows the myriad paint effects that can be achieved on walls and furniture without resorting to solvents, including wood grain, stone and metallic finishes. There is an analysis of commercially-available water-based paints, and the book gives recipes for mixing paint. Practical step-by-step photographs illustrate how to achieve a foolproof finish, from simple techniques, such as colour washing and stippling, to block printing, stamping and stencilling. The book proves that water-based paint is the medium to use now and in the future to create paint effects that cause no damage to the home decorator or the environment. John Sutcliffe is the author of Decorating Magic . Hilary Hockman is the author of Edwardian House Style .

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  This text explores all the benefits of using water-based paints and demonstrates the special techniques involved in using quick-drying paints to achieve subtle and unusual paint finishes. Suitable treatment for walls, woodwork, furniture and metalwork are all described in detail. With practical step-by-step photographs, the author explains how to obtain a perfect finish, progressing from the simplest broken colour effects to more advanced techniques including block printing, stencilling and exotic tortoiseshell and metallic finishes. Colour schemes and beautiful rooms complete the book's comprehensive, practical and inspirational coverage.