Whisper Painting is a popular style that’s soft, subtle, and easy to do, and with these ample photos as a guide, anyone can give plain walls, furniture, and home accessories beautifully understated decorative finishes. The projects showcase 30 different techniques, and start with such simple, unintimidating processes as tracing, découpaging, ragging, and dragging. Add texture to a mantelpiece with dimensional paint; antique a brand-new mirror so that it looks like a Renaissance work of art; and reproduce an aged stone wall. Introductory sections provide paint and color basics, and each project is labeled with one, two, or three paintbrushes according to difficulty.

ISBN: 978-1-4027-2565-4
Дата выхода: август 2011

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1910 года (издательство "McKinlay, Stone& Mackenzie").

ISBN: 978-5-8807-7515-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8755-2584-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8743-4899-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8767-1766-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A lapidary is an artist or artisan who forms stone, mineral, gemstones, and other suitably durable materials into decorative items such as engraved gems, including cameos, or cabochons, and faceted designs. Hardstone carving is the term in art history for the objects produced and the craft. Diamond cutters are generally not referred to as lapidaries, due to the specialized techniques which are required to work diamond. Gemcutter typically refers to diamond cutters or producers of faceted jewels in modern contexts, but artists' producing engraved gems, jade carvings and the like in older historical contexts. The arts of a sculptor or stonemason do not generally fall within the definition, though...

ISBN: 978-6-1318-0702-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cobblestone architecture refers to the use of cobblestones embedded in mortar as method for erecting walls on houses and commercial buildings. Evidence of the use of cobblestones in building has been found in the ruins of Hierakonpolis. Houses were built of mud brick set on cobblestone foundations and cobblestone architecture may have been used on a monumental scale to erect public administrative centers or palaces. Those structures are now collapsed into mounds of stone. Cobbles, mostly flint, became a common building material from the Middle Ages onwards in England and a few parts of Northern Europe where they...

ISBN: 978-6-1328-8912-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

A fountain is a piece of architecture which pours water into a basin or jets it into the air either to supply drinking water or for decorative or dramatic effect. Fountains were originally purely functional, connected to springs or aqueducts and used to provide drinking water and water for bathing, but in ancient Rome they began to be used as decorative elements in gardens and courtyards. The art of fountains reached its peak in the fountains of the palaces of Moorish Spain in the 14th century; in the Italian Renaissance garden in the 15th and 16th century; in the fountains of the Gardens of Versailles in the seventeenth century; and the decorative fountains of Rome in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Fountains today may be...

ISBN: 978-6-1300-9753-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In architecture and decorative art, ornament is a decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in decorative art are excluded from the term; most ornament does not include human figures, and if present they are small compared to the overall scale. Architectural ornament can be carved from stone, wood or precious metals, formed with plaster or clay, or painted or impressed onto a surface as applied ornament; in other applied arts the main material of the object, or a different one such as paint or vitreous enamel may be used. A wide variety of decorative styles and motifs have been developed for...

ISBN: 978-5-5109-9700-2

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Until recently, the limestone building at 445 Smith Avenue North, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, was known in surveys and local architectural history books as the Anthony Waldman House. However, recent research and analysis of the building has revealed that the Waldman House was not in fact built by Waldman, and was not originally a "house" either. Instead, the structure was a small commercial building with residential quarters on the second floor. Evidence of this commercial design include a side porch/loading dock facing the alley to the north (since removed); obvious stone in-filling of the first-floor shop-front windows; a large structural beam above the one-time shop front that...

ISBN: 978-5-5086-6573-9

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pietra dura or pietre dure (see below), called 'Parchin kari in South Asia, is an art-historical term for the technique of using exquisitely cut and fitted, highly-polished colored stones to create what amounts to a painting in stone. It is considered a decorative art. The stonework, after the work is assembled loosely, is glued stone-by-stone to a substrate after having previously been "sliced and cut in different shape sections; and then assembled together so precisely that the contact between each section was practically invisible". Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

ISBN: 978-6-1304-8745-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In architecture and decorative art, ornament is a decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Architectural ornament can be carved from stone, wood or precious metals, formed with plaster or clay, or impressed onto a surface as applied ornament; in other applied arts the main material of the object, or a different one may be used. A wide variety of decorative styles and motifs have been developed for architecture and the applied arts, including pottery, furniture, metalwork. In textiles, wallpaper and other objects where the decoration may be the main justification for its existence, the terms pattern or design are more likely to be used. In a 1941 essay, the architectural...

ISBN: 978-6-1326-5900-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Canning Studios is a nationally recognized, award-winning decorative arts studio located in Cheshire, Connecticut. The studio’s services include decorative finishes such as stenciling, gilding, glazing, trompe l’oeil, murals, wood graining, faux marble, and scagliola, along with cleaning and restoration of wood finishes, metals, and stone. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1342-2224-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Known by his alias, `Oliver Stone`, John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone`s past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone`s freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Joe Knox is leading the charge, but his superiors aren`t telling him everything there is to know about his quarry - and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as the killer he`s trying to catch. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves, even as they try to protect him. As Knox closes...

ISBN: 978-0-330-45653-1
Издательство: Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011

From the groves and vineyards of Provence to the dry hills of California, the farms of Australia and the forests of Canada, Gilles de Chabaneix`s stunning photographs capture the distinctive rural architecture, homely decorative schemes, awe-inspiring landscapes and rustic details that make country living universally desirable. In this comprehensive exploration of the pleasures of country living, traditional and contemporary elements are treated with the same sympathetic eye: an airy, minimalist sitting room looks out on an ancient piazza; bunches of herbs and antique tools hang from rough-hewn beams beside a roaring fire; a stone floor, worn smooth with age, shines through the sleek glass top of a modern dining table, where a bowl of...

ISBN: 978-0-500-51567-9
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: август 2011

The Cosmati were a Roman family, seven members of which, for four generations, were skilful architects, sculptors and workers in decorative geometric mosaic, mostly for church floors. Their name is commemorated in the genre of Cosmatesque work, a technique of opus sectile formed of elaborate inlays of small triangles and rectangles of colored stones and glass mosaics set into stone matrices or encrusted upon stone surfaces. Bands, panels and shaped reserves of intricate mosaic alternate with contrasting bands, guilloches and simple geometric shapes of plain white marble. Pavements and revetments were executed in Cosmatesque technique, columns were inlaid with fillets and bands, and immovable church furnishings like cathedras and ambones...

ISBN: 978-6-1307-0778-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Panelling is a wall covering constructed from rigid or semi-rigid components. These are traditionally interlocking wood, but could be plastic or other materials.Panelling was developed in antiquity to make rooms in stone buildings more comfortable. The panels served to insulate the room from the cold stone. In more modern buildings, such panelling is often installed for decorative purposes. Panelling, such as wainscoting and boiserie in particular, may be extremely ornate and is particularly associated with seventeenth and eighteenth century interior design, Victorian architecture in Britain, and its international contemporaries. Данное издание не является...

ISBN: 978-6-1310-9333-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raffaelle Castellini was an Italian artist, who was the director of the Mosaic School at the Vatican, and executed the splendid mosaics of The Sibyl of Cumae after Domenichino and St. John the Baptist after Guercino for the Basilica of St. Peter's. He died at Rome in 1864. Page 249. Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral. Small pieces, normally roughly cubic, of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae, (diminutive tessellae), are used to create a pattern or picture....

ISBN: 978-6-1319-2990-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This variety of brick tiles were of moderate dimensions and could be used for reinforcing lime concretes in the structural walls and other thick components. But, as they made mouldings, cornices, plasters, etc. easy to work into a variety of shapes, they were more often used as cladding or decorative material. More often than not, the structures on which they were used, especially the Sikh temples (Gurudwaras), were a combination of two systems: trabeated and post-and-lintel, or based on arches. The surfaces were treated with lime or gypsum plaster which was moulded into cornices, pilasters, and other structural...

ISBN: 978-6-1345-9551-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Cosmati were a Roman family, seven members of which, for four generations, were skilful architects, sculptors and workers in decorative geometric mosaic, mostly for church floors. Their name is commemorated in the genre of Cosmatesque work, a technique of opus sectile ("cut work") formed of elaborate inlays of small triangles and rectangles of colored stones and glass mosaics set into stone matrices or encrusted upon stone surfaces. Bands, panels and shaped reserves of intricate mosaic alternate with contrasting bands, guilloches and simple geometric shapes of...

ISBN: 978-6-1342-3785-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pietra dura or pietre dure (see below), called parchin kari in South Asia, is a term for the technique of using cut and fitted, highly-polished colored stones to create images. It is considered a decorative art. The stonework, after the work is assembled loosely, is glued stone-by-stone to a substrate after having previously been "sliced and cut in different shape sections; and then assembled together so precisely that the contact between each section was practically invisible". Stability was achieved by grooving the undersides of the stones so that they interlocked, rather like a jigsaw puzzle, with everything held tautly in place by an encircling `frame`. Many different colored stones,...

ISBN: 978-5-5111-7684-0

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral. Small pieces, normally roughly cubic, of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae, (diminutive tessellae), are used to create a pattern or picture.

ISBN: 978-5-5133-3423-1

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tony Booth (b. February 7, 1943 in Tampa, Florida) is an American country music singer who participated in Buck Owens' "Bakersfield sound" revolution.As a boy, Booth showed his talent by winning a contest in New Port Richey, Florida for playing guitar at age 14. After high school, he attended the University of New Mexico with the intent of becoming a schoolteacher. But he decided to give music a try, and began his music career with the Mel Savage Band. Before long, he was touring with Jimmy Snyder.Booth's first single, "Wishful Thinkin'" (backed with "I Think I Can") and album, Country '67 was released under the stage name "Johnny Booth" by Universal City Records in 1967. It featured a cover of...

ISBN: 978-6-1334-7698-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert "Bumps" Blackwell (May 23, 1922 – March 9, 1985) was an American songwriter, arranger, and record producer, best known for his work overseeing the early hits of Little Richard, as well as grooming Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke, Herb Alpert, Larry Williams, and Sly and the Family Stone at the start of their music careers. He should not be confused with another songwriter: Otis Blackwell. Born Robert Alexander Blackwell in Seattle, Washington, he led a jazz group in the late 1940s that included pianist Ray Charles and trumpeter Quincy Jones. He moved to Hollywood, California to continue study composition, but he instead took a job at Art Rupe's Specialty Records as an...

ISBN: 978-6-1311-4329-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

During the past 50 years, the plastic industry has grown at an incredible pace until becoming part of nearly all the areas of human activity, including of course architecture, and easily rivaling the steel and iron industry. The word plastic, which comes from the Greek plastikos (which means easy to mould] is an organic polymer material, rarely natural (rubber and wax) and frequently synthetic or semi-synthetic, created by large macromolecular chains which contain carbon. It is also inexpensive, flexible, mold-able, impermeable, insulating and resistant, although not easy to recycle. It has many practical and aesthetic benefits, thus converting it into star material for hundreds of thousands of consumers who have ceased to be content...

ISBN: 978-3-937718-60-6
Издательство: daab
Дата выхода: январь 2000