Painting China for the Home (Homecraft S.) - Softcover

With this book on designing and painting your own beautiful ceramics you should never be stuck for a personalized gift again - or you can create something for your own home to match your existing interior design. Clear step-by-step photography guides you through over 20 projects that can be done without the need for kiln firing. Choose from a beautiful blue and white oriental bowl, fun herb and spice jars, or a Mediterranean-style terracotta post. There are sections on techniques and materials - showing your how ceramic paints allow you to paint directly onto shop-bought items - and an introduction that will help you look at the ceramic objects around you in a different light.

Lesley Harle is a textile and ceramic designer, who has worked for some years with the prestigious Designer's Guild in London. Her innovative and practical china painting ideas have led to many commissions. Susan Conder is an American now living in the UK. A graduate of Brown and Harvard Universities, she is now a writer and editor on lifestyle, crafts, flower arranging and gardening, and has contributed to a number of books on these subjects.