Tuesday, October 23, 2018

How You Can Spruce Up Your Home With Tole Painting Patterns

By Carol Hughes


Sprucing up your home need not be a costly and a pain in the neck enterprise. You need not hire fancy custom painters and high end interior designers to vamp up and beautify your space. You know the nifty alternative, DIY. You dont even have to be a talented or tolerable artist to deliver dazzling enhancements to your home, that is, as long as you have tole painting patterns.

If youve seen those beautiful decors on household wooden and tin objects, youre probably seeing and appreciating tole art. This folk craft has its provenance in Scandinavia, with adaptations in England, Russia, and Germany. It became most widely popular in America, however.

A pattern for this art form, which can come in books and packets, can also be availed. This instructional manual has blow by blow directions and variegated patterns. For reference and inspiration, you may view the finished photo at the front or side of the package. Whether youre a beginner, advanced beginner, or an expert, theres a corresponding template just for you.

Tole art is usually applied in three dimensional objects, more so than in flat canvas. You can paint on furniture like tables, chairs, toy boxes, and hope chests. Or else on containers like baskets, magazine holders, and cookie boxes. Kitchenware applications are also common, in china, coffee pots, utensils, canister, cups, and mugs. The craft can also be done on fabric, leather, and various thingamabobs like wastebaskets and tissue boxes.

The best thing about tole is that it can be done freehand, and let your hand move with your unfettered imagination. If you want it orthodox by all means, you may go by the usual patterns. These include Christmas themes like snowmen and Santa, flowers, birds, butterflies, bunnies, bears, swans, mallards, literally anything you can think of. The common denominator is that they are usually whimsical and nostalgic, but then again, it doenst really have to be so.

For the medium, acrylic is the most used, since it is inexpensive, long lasting, and quick drying. Oil paint is also popular among those who made the transition from fine art. Aside from tin and wood, other well adapted items for tole are papier mache, terra cotta, and even plastic surfaces.

Applicable skills aside from painting include priming, sealing, sanding, staining, base coating, and varnishing. Techniques include stenciling, bronzing, gold leafing, country, faux finishing, graining, and theorem. Each can be alternatively available in American tole and its fellow associates, Rosemaling, japanning, kurbits, and Russian black lacquering.

Because of its standardized ways and means, it is pretty much deducible that this technique is relatively easy to teach and learn. Then again, you probably wouldnt have to mind anything other than your own whim and volition, since you are offered a free scope and hand in your subject and methods. You just have to be creative and disciplined enough in order to deliver passable work.

When you have been doing it long enough, youll be able to attempt free hand drawing and learn the according theories, perspectives, and techniques. In the meantime, painting books and patterns can be your handy helpmate. In the long run, though, rest assured youll be able to take your art in a new direction.




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