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Painting & Decorating Eggs: 20 charming ideas for creating beautiful displays shown in more than 130 step-by-step photographs
Schneebeli-Morrell
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Description for Painting & Decorating Eggs: 20 charming ideas for creating beautiful displays shown in more than 130 step-by-step photographs
Hardcover. Contains 20 creative projects using skills such as traditional folk painting, modern dyeing techniques and classic gilding styles. This title helps you how to make your own golden fairy-tale eggs, create glittery decoupage eggs or use leaves as stencils on natural eggs. Num Pages: 64 pages, over 130 photographs. BIC Classification: WFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 210 x 12. Weight in Grams: 410. 20 Charming Ideas for Creating Beautiful Displays Shown in More Than 130 Step-by-step Photographs. 64 pages, over 130 photographs. Contains 20 creative projects using skills such as traditional folk painting, modern dyeing techniques and classic gilding styles. This title helps you how to make your own golden fairy-tale eggs, create glittery decoupage eggs or use leaves as stencils on natural eggs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WFK. Dimension: 209 x 210 x 12. Weight: 408.
This title offers 20 charming ideas for creating beautiful displays shown in more than 130 step-by-step photographs. It is an inspiring craft book full of imaginative designs to dress up the humble egg. It contains 20 creative projects using skills such as traditional folk painting, modern dyeing techniques and classic gilding styles. How to make your own golden fairy-tale eggs, create glittery decoupage eggs or use leaves as stencils on natural eggs. Every project is shown in clear step-by-step photographs, making it easy to create your own stunning displays. It is a helpful introduction that contains a guide to the different types of egg, information on equipment and materials, and the basic techniques you will need to master. It includes over 130 specially commissioned photographs. Decorating eggs has become more and more popular in recent years, for all kinds of events, festivals and celebrations. It is a wonderful opportunity for family crafting, combining classic traditional folk with the potential for fun and simple ideas. Using hard-boiled or blown eggs as your canvas, you can paint, dye, scratch, cover and bleach to create stunning and original objects d'art - whether for an Easter table or a permanent display. The egg has been a powerful symbol of hope and new life in many different cultures throughout history. The purity and strength of its form have made it a classic shape and motif for design. Hen, duck, goose and quail eggs can all be decorated in countless ways, and this unique volume reveals a range of art techniques for embellishing eggs, such as simple dyeing, painting, gilding and sgraffito. From traditional to contemporary designs, the easy-to-follow projects provide enough inspiration to adorn a whole barnyard full of eggs.
Product Details
Publisher
Lorenz Books
Number of pages
64
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780754826361
SKU
V9780754826361
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Schneebeli-Morrell
Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell is an award-winning artist with work in collections in Europe and America. She has contributed to many craft books, appeared on television and radio, and worked extensively in education. Her interest in egg-decorating stems from her marriage into a Swiss family, where she leaned folk-art skills first-hand.
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