10/28/2018

Sprucing Up Your Household Items 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.

Tole art is a decorative painting method that is applied to tin and wooden objects, utensils, and furniture. It is a form of folk art that first sprung in various parts of Europe, and it comes with different names in each locality of Scandinavia, Germany, Russia, and England. However, it reached its apogee in eighteenth century America.

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.

Tole is the choicest genre because you can do it not just anywhere but also anyhow. There is no limit in the ways it is produced. Just let your hand skate across the object or the canvas. However, hesitation can be well founded when youre new to the technique. Thats the high time to get yourself a tole pattern. The common themes are usually cutesy and whimsical subjects such as flowers, bears, bunnies, birds, butterflies, swans, and nostalgic scenery.

The medium used is usually acrylic because it is relatively cheap and long lasting. It also dries quickly, which will enable you to easily layer other colors over it. As was said, tole is usually done on wood and tin, but papier mache, terra cotta, and plastic products are also widely used.

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.

Considering, the methods are usually standardized and systematic, this type of decorative painting is considered relatively easy and highly teachable. Because freehand design is encouraged, even the average person can be assured fulfillment and success even without an inherent drawing ability. Discipline and creativity are the operative words here. Then again, if youre just starting and in a little need of a nudge and inspiration, youd just have to pick out a pattern as a start.

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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