Reverse Glass Painting: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft - Softcover

Dimock, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811705226 ISBN 13: 9780811705226

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2010

Synopsis

Basic skills from an expert

14 projects with patterns provided

Full-color, step-by-step photographs

Reverse glass painting, as demonstrated in this book, involves creating a traditional primitive picture on a piece of glass in a way that the finished image can be viewed on the opposite side of the glass. Here award-winning painter Anne Dimock provides advice on the tools and materials needed to get started, tips on creating a variety of painting effects, techniques on using stencils for borders, guidelines for applying and etching gold leaf, and step-by-step projects for mastering the craft. Helpful series photographs demonstrate the process for creating a variety of traditional images, including landscapes, maritime themes, fruits, flowers, animals, and human figures.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Dimock lives in Trumansburg, New York, and is an instructor of reverse glass painting with the Historical Society of Early American Decoration. She has been teaching the art for more than twenty-five years and has received a number of awards for her work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0811705226
• ISBN 13: 9780811705226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160