Vintage 1999 book by Jo Sonja Jansen. Book is 8-3/8"x10" - 288 pages mostly in color. This book covers folk art - "Traditional Inspirations / Contemporary Expressions".

From my personal collection - excellent condition

Subject matter includes:

1. Materials - paints (acrylics and oils), brushes, mediums, your painting area, palettes
2. Preparing Your Surface - wood, metal, other surfaces
3. Design and Color - the creative process, transferring designs, sketching your own designs
4. Working with a Brush - strokework, special brush loading techniques, lettering
5. Essential Painting and Finishing Techniques - painting fundamentals, retarding acrylics, drybrushing, working with glazes, kleister medium, faux finishes, metallic and irisdescent effects, distressing and aging, finishing
6. Traditional Influences - different styles of folkart from Europe
7. Expanding the Traditions to the New World - adaption of folk art in America
8. Contemporary Expressions: The Tradition Continues - folk art styles in our modern times

Lots of step-by-step illustrations to accompany the text.