Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Sprucing Up Your Household Items With Tole Painting Patterns

By Carol Hughes


Beautifying your home can come with more elbow grease than is warranted. It would be all the more expensive if you want personalized and customized trappings. You may see those fancy items and accessories in those decors and antiques shop and think thats all it would take to spruce up your drab surroundings. However, they can be extravagantly costly, more so than they look. What you havent taken to consideration thus far is that you can always DIY. Budget is not the only moot point here. You may be assured more soulful satisfaction if you unleash your innate artistic prowess. Just start small with 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.

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.

Skills and techniques useful in this craft are wide and sundry. Theres sanding, sealing, priming, varnishing, and base coating. Methods can range from gold leafing, country, stenciling, graining, bronzing, and theorem painting.

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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