decorative painting

It is fun to learn to create decorative painting techniques for your home and office. Each of the techniques is usually ideally suited for walls, furniture, objects and ceilings. It is simply upto you entirely what you choose to do from the available resources and knowledge. Decoupage is an ornamental technique of Decorative painting which uses paper cutouts to create scenes or decorate items. Paper designs are cut out, pasted on the item to be decorated, and covered with several layers of protective lacquer. An ancient art, decoupage has existed in many folk cultures - notably China, Japan, and Poland, for centuries.

While doing some decorative painting in your own house, there are a few practical tips that might go a long way in helping you do the job the easy way. Low-tack tape is a great way of masking out an area on a painting, but be sure to first do a test on a small bit of the same paper to ensure it does come off again, otherwise you might just end up ruining a whole painting.

To cover up an accidental indent on a small area of the decorative painting, try and paint over the indented area. In order to preserve the paint brush, take a small amount of petroleum jelly and rub between your finger tips, then use your fingers to gently shape the brush head into its correct shape. The bristles will stay soft as new and any residue of paint will not set up.

Decorative painting is seeing a boom in most of the Indian cities today. This is partly due to the fact that Indians are becoming more and more fashion conscious nowadays, not only when it comes to their clothes, but in fact even of their surroundings. Another reason why the decorative painting is booming in India is because of the Real Estate Sector itself is seeing a rise in the Indian economy currently. This boosts all the related activities such as finance, construction, cement, paints etc.
 

Author M. Hemdev copyright data 2004 Indianchild.com

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