At 4 a.m. one day in 1999, decorative painter Elizabeth Harper, of Moravia, was busy gilding a staircase at the Russian Tea Room in New York City. It's painstaking, detailed work that needed to be ...
It wasn't so much the older design of the furniture but its dark-stained wood, against her dark bedroom floors, that bothered Olivia Fleming. The combination darkened the entire room, which didn't ...
As a kid, John Baden always colored inside the lines. His ability to do so has served him well as an adult. Today, Baden is a decorative painter whose work has appeared in stores throughout San ...
Not all paints are suitable for every surface. And not all painters can perform every task. Those statements may seem self-evident, but it's still important to note the qualities that set decorative ...
Carla Gray, decorative painter, is happiest with a brush in hand. What she paints has function: bowls, place mats, jewelry boxes. How she paints is traditional, as folk artists do around the world, ...
A self-taught artisan who works well under deadline, Matt Austin often gets summoned for what he terms “paint emergencies”—when someone has mistaken a faux-marble paint job for real stone and polished ...