Decorate Your Home with Trompe L'Oeil: On Walls, Furniture, Frames & More

by Jocelyn Kerr Holding

"An unusually good survey of the techniques for decorative trompe l'oeil....Projects...go from painted stones, to decorative panels, to classical forms like arches and columns...accomplished by projecting photographs on a wall, free hand, with stencils, or photocopies."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080697141X
• ISBN13: 9780806971414
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

An outstanding how-to guide to decorative painting

Quick & Easy Trompe I'Oeil is an outstanding how-to guide to decorative painting on walls, furniture and even bricks and presents easy step-by-step techniques for using the trompe i'oeil technique. A range of examples of pictorial art from all styles, from still life to Surrealistic paintings, provide painters with many different ideas to choose from, while the techniques are easy to follow and duplicate. Color photos pack the presentation.