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Summary: A wonderful step by step instructional book full of ideas
Review: My art teacher offered this book to students in my first class on painting murals and furniture. I found it to be an excellent source of ideas for beginners and those with previous experience. The step by step directions made it very easy for me, as a beginner, to get acceptable results the first time, plus there are fabulous projects for those with more advanced skills. Thanks so much for such a great resource book.
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Summary: A great resource book for beginners and accomplished artists
Review: My art teacher offered this book to students in my first class on painting murals and furniture. I found it to be an excellent source of ideas for beginners and those with previous experience. The step by step directions made it very easy for me, as a beginner, to get acceptable results the first time, plus there are fabulous projects for those with more advanced skills. Thanks so much for such a great resource book.
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Summary: Content is of quality but with little diversity
Review: This book could be of no help or inspiration to me for the decoration projects I have which are more "murals" like. The exemples depicted are fun, well detailed and well explained but cover mainly household items on shelves all in the modern folk art tradition. These can look really nice in a home but I have trompe l'oeil windows, arches and blue skies in mind for mine and couldn't find any in there. Number of stars depends on needs... and I need another book.
Rating:
Summary: Content is of quality but with little diversity
Review: This book could be of no help or inspiration to me for the decoration projects I have which are more "murals" like. The exemples depicted are fun, well detailed and well explained but cover mainly household items on shelves all in the modern folk art tradition. These can look really nice in a home but I have trompe l'oeil windows, arches and blue skies in mind for mine and couldn't find any in there. Number of stars depends on needs... and I need another book.
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Summary: Just one word - GREAT!
Review: This book is the absolute best guide for Trompe L'oeil I have ever seen! I whole-heartedly recommend it!
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Summary: Good IF you're a beginner...
Review: This is just a so-so book. It is most helpful for novice painters or total beginners. The projects in the book are relatively basic and they have been "done before" (many, many,many times). Professional and serious decorative painters will find the projects in this book elementary.This book was not very useful to me as a professional decorative painter.
Rating:
Summary: Good IF you're a beginner...
Review: This is just a so-so book. It is most helpful for novice painters or total beginners. The projects in the book are relatively basic and they have been "done before" (many, many,many times). Professional and serious decorative painters will find the projects in this book elementary. This book was not very useful to me as a professional decorative painter.
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