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- Enhancing Your World Decorative Painting:Murals and Faux Finishes - Enhancing Your World Decorative Painting offers hand-painted custom murals and faux finishes. The artist, Alison Vande Slunt, specializes in children's rooms and nurseries and is developing her own line of nursery decor, available by Spring, 2007.
- Fergie's Tole Shop, Inc. - Full service tole and decorative painting shop and teaching studio. Supplier of national seminars, pattern packets, wood and other surfaces, paints, painting supplies, and anything else a decorative painter could think of.
- Distinctive Palettes - Decorative painting and tole painting supplies, books, brushes and kits. Register for decorative painting classes and online newsletter.
- HPDA Heart of Pinellas Decorative Artists - Local chapter of the National Society of Decorative Painters (SDP); organized in June 1997 - affiliated with SDP in May 1999. Dedicated to the education of its members, and the public, about the art of decorative painting. The chapter welcomes painters of all levels and follows guidelines of the Society of Decorative Painters.
- San Antonio One stroke Decorative painting - We teach the Donna Dewberry's One stroke decorative painting method.
- Decorative Painting Guide from Better Homes and Gardens - Offers tips on decorative painting techniques, with step-by-step video downloads available.
- Country Wood - Decorative painting on welcome signs painted with animals, snowmen, wreaths, and fall, winter and spring decor for the home.
- Folk Art and Decorative Painting - Australian Site - Folk Art and Decorative painting offers a teacher listing plus links to free patterns.
- A Touch of Heather Decorative Painting - Heather Robinson offers lessons in decorative painting featuring the One Stroke method.
- MorningGloryArt Decorative Painting - Art studio located in Western Pennsylvania specializing in teaching decorative arts, with an emphasis on acrylic and oil painting.
Wikipedia Articles
- Faux painting - Faux painting or Faux finishing are terms used to describe a wide range of decorative painting techniques. From the French word for "fake", faux painting began as a form of replicating materials such as marble and wood with paint, but has come to encompass many other decorative finishes for walls and furniture.
- Tole painting - Tole painting is the folk art of decorative painting on tin and wooden utensils, objects and furniture. Typical metal objects include utensils, coffee pots, and similar household items.
- Kurbits - Kurbits painting is a decorative style of painting that was very popular in Sweden between 1780 and 1870, particularly in Dalarna and southern Norrland.
- Heimrad Prem - Heimrad Prem (born 1934, died 1978) was a German painter born in Roding, Oberpfalz. From 1949 - 1952 he studied decorative painting at Schwandorf and then studied painting with Josef Oberberger and sculpture with Toni Stadler at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich until 1956.
- Neo-baroque - Neo-Baroque is a term used to describe artistic creations which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not from the Baroque period proper, around the 17th-18th centuries. It is most frequently used to refer to music or architecture, but can also concern painting or the decorative arts.