How To Design Your Own: Painting Projects

With this book, readers will learn how to create their own decorative painting designs in seven easy steps, starting with finding ideas and inspiration, then applying the principles of a good composition, learning to draw an accurate pattern, developing a colour scheme, and finally, pulling it all together into a great design. Each of the seven steps in creating an original design is illustrated with real-world examples and comparisons of good and bad design, composition, drawing, perspective, colour schemes and painting techniques. In addition, Temares shows how to adapt a successful pattern to a variety of surfaces and how to design coordinating pieces for home decoration. This book is for the decorative painter who is ready to design his or her own projects, and for any painter - beginner to accomplished - who wants to know how an artist goes from the initial idea to the completed project.