How to Start a Faux Painting or Mural Business: A Guide to Making Money in the Decorative Arts

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The complete how-to guide for turning faux, mural, and decorative painting skills into a viable, home-based career! Covering everything from the fundamentals of buying supplies to coping with the growing pains of a successful business, this essential sourcebook provides a wealth of tested tips and techniques on such crucial topics as getting referrals, buying insurance, building a portfolio, dealing with supply stores, evaluating job sites, negotiating prices, interviewing clients, and much more!

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Amazing!.......2007-10-05

The first thing I learned from this book is that I'm NOT ready to start my own faux/mural painting business!! This book is chuck full of information from someone that has been there. The author really explains scenarios well, and prepares you for, from what I can tell, every situation. In the back of the book she provides sample forms, and check lists, etc. I really feel that this is a true gift for anyone interested in this field. Even people that have been doing it for a few years might get some good tips here. Great job!

Very good book.......2007-01-19

I bought this book for my brother who is an artist and he loves the book.

Excellent.......2006-07-03

I read and re-read this book then handed it over to my sales and marketing manager. A MUST for a faux business owner.

Thank Heaven for Rebecca Pittman.......2006-06-14

This book gave me everything I need to start my own faux painting business, including confidence! Thank you Rebecca for the insight, the humor and the weekly accounting ledger located in the back. Great, superb, and HIGHLY recommended.

excellent.......2006-03-18

starting out as a muralist, and i bought the book before i landed my first job. i found it amazing how DETAILED and ENTERTAINING this book was. i knew nothing about how to start being in this business, and this book served as a complete guide. as i was reading it i thought that there were suggestions what i would never never need in life, BUT !!! boy, was i wrong. every word this book has in it is worth the pennies you pay. if you are startin out and have no clue how to manage your own business, this is a must for you!!!

Domus: Wall Painting in the Roman House (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)

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A Must Have Book
Fabulous in every respect

Domus: Wall Painting in the Roman House (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)
Donatella Mazzoleni , and Umberto Pappalardo
Manufacturer: Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0892367660

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A Must Have Book.......2006-01-31

I saw a copy of Domus while in Naples and knew I would have to order a copy when I returned home. The book is beautifully produced with an excellent essay by Donatella Mazzolini on the architecture of Roman houses, focusing on those under discussion in Pompeii, Herculaneum and Rome. This is followed by an essay by Umberto Pappalando on the Domus Romana, focusing on the development of houses and gardens. As good as these essays are it is the pages dealing with the houses themselves that is jaw-dropping. The houses are arranged in sections following the development of the Roman domus and include color pictures and diagrams of the houses. There are short introductions to the homes followed by a portfolio section consisting of close up pictures of the frescos printed on non-glossy textured paper that gives a better impression of how the painting appears to the observer. These reproductions are superb.

The choice of buildings is impressive. There are far too many to list but among them are: from Pompeii the House of the Faun, the House of Julius Polybius, the Villa of Mysteries, the House of the Golden Bracelet, the House of the Tragic Poet and the House of the Labyrinth; from Herculaneum: the Samnite House, the House of the Skeleton, the House of the Grand Portal, the Collegium of the Augustales; from Rome: the House of the Griffins, Livia's House on the Palatine and at Prima Porta and the Domus Aurea. The Villa of Poppea at Oplontis gets special attention in the book, and a fresco from the house appears on the cover.

This book is a must for anyone interested in ancient Roman houses and their decoration. If you have even visited Pompeii, Herculaneum and the other villas destroyed by Mount Vesuvius you will enjoy this book.

Fabulous in every respect.......2006-01-07

A wonderful work in all respects - scholarship, printing, presentation, photography. Some of the paintings are more like wall paper samples, the paper and printing is that good.

Another great work in the Getty catalog. A must have for any serious student of Roman Art/Architecture.

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something better
Great inspiration
an OK how -to-book
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Painting Murals Step by Step
Charles Grund
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Painting Murals
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Trompe L'Oeil Bible

ASIN: 1581801416

Book Description

This unique book gives beginning muralists everything they need to paint large, beautiful murals that fool the eye and stir the soul.

Charles Grund takes the fear out of painting large murals by starting with the very basics. Full-color, step-by-step instructions give decorative painters and do-it-yourselfers the confidence and control they need to:

-Choose subject matter and source material -Create working sketches -Select materials and prepare the wall surface -Scale the design to fit the wall -Achieve proper perspective -Transfer designs to a wall

In addition to detailed chapters on the essentials, this guide includes 11 step-by-step projects with a range of themes suitable for almost any room. Projects feature scenic vistas with rolling hills, blue skies and classical architecture; floral garlands, vines and swags; trompe l'oeil objects; woodland scenes; animals and garden birds; and playful themes for kids' rooms.

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something better.......2006-04-21

Although this book was visually nice to look at I found it lacked in teaching me how to paint murals. I have stumbled across a great site that has free tutorials on it. I hope you find this helpful. The site is [...]

Great inspiration.......2005-08-16

We went to a home tour which included murals by Charles Grund. Wanting to finish one I started, I thought I would be inspired to complete it with a look at more of his works.... and I was!! I only wish there were more tips for painting techniques included.

an OK how -to-book.......2005-07-20

As a decorative artist I can say this book has it's good and bad points.It has some good step by step action for begginers, but it's just bluh.The colors are bluh, Mr Grund knows how to paint though, and teaches You a couple of tricks,but never the less, it is lacking something.LIFE.The paintings are all well done, yet they aren't really alive.But at the same time,everything is nicely done, well researched,maybe it's just how the pictures are photographed...It is a good reference book to have, but not too inspiring.

Joseph Brown's opinion:.......2003-05-26

This is a good book that gives the general idea of how to paint a mural but technique is only lightly touched upon.

Italian Frescoes: The Age of Giotto, 1280-1400

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Hard read
Magnifico!
Il Primo

Italian Frescoes: The Age of Giotto, 1280-1400
Joachim Poeschke
Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
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Fra Angelico (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
Botticelli

ASIN: 0789208636

Customer Reviews:

Hard read.......2007-07-03

I wonder how many people who buy a book like this, actually read it. It took me six months before I had the courage. And now that I have - and have three more volumes to go - I admit that I would have preferred a somewhat more pedestrian approch, perhaps - I should say - a somewhat more Anglosaxon (or American) approach. Because this book is definitely written in the German tradition, which goes especially for the several general introductions to the volume.
Short as they are, they are hard to read and a lot is taken for granted. I am an art lover, am well at home in the nineteenth century, but am less acquainted with the art of the middle ages and early renaissance, whereas on the other hand I know the general history of the period reasonably well. And although I have already visited many of the churches and chapels, frescoes and mosaics, described in the book, I still find parts of the introductory texts hard to follow. Commenting on fhe frescoes in the Assisi upper church, one of the highlights in the volume, Poeschke writes: "As for their innovate artistic qualities in general, these are already seen in the unified overall conception into the built architecture, in part by illusionistic means, and extend to the well balanced pictorial strucure, the clearly defined volumes and body language of the figures, a heightened presence of everything being represented, and an extension and refinement of the color spectrum. More than ever before, a compositional calculus asserts itself in these paintings (...)." (p.64) Which may all be very true of course, but which is also very dull, and in a way also very abstract. And whereas the layout of plates, diagrams and figures is cristalclear, I find the texts about them a lot less orderly.
Why not, before every church, a small historical introduction, and than a running and systematic textual commentary on the plates? And why not, for instance, systematically add the text of Bonaventura, on which the frescoes are based? This book has a strange way of taking its reader seriously, and at the same time not seriously enough. Where `s the editor? Where Poeschke does give an extended description of a fresco, he does so in an excellent way. But why not systematically combine the texts on the plates with the plates itself? I don't think this is really a quibble. It is a bit of a waste to produce a great looking book, without really thinking of the reader. It is easy to leaf through this book and say: "hey, this looks great", which it does, but I found reading it not always a pleasure.
But then, these are also wonderfull volumes, one has to admit. The quality of the photographs is excellent, the extensive coverage of many of the Italian medieval churches and chapels is a pleasure to behold. One may whine now and then at the tedious style, there is also an immense amount of knowledge assembled here. Would' nt it be great to have a very small pocketversion of an improved version of this book, just to take along to Italy?

Magnifico!.......2006-01-11

The latest in the set of now four brilliant works on the frescoes of the Italian renaissance, "The Age of Giotto" is a masterwork that is worthy of a museum. From the Giotto, Simon Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti, and Cimabue wall paintings in the fascinating double church in Assisi, to the lesser known (and nearly disappeared) work by Cavallini in Santa Cecilia en Trastevere, the commentary is enlightening and the photography stunning. You will not find a better book on the early examples of this wonderful art form than this one. See the other three books - "The Early Renaissance", "The Flowering of the Renaissance" and "The High Renaissance and Mannerism" - for the compete, magnificent look at 200 years of fresco masterpieces.

Il Primo.......2005-11-09

One word describes this book - brilliant! This is the best book on the market for early Italian frescoes with a happy marriage of the finest photography and finest text. Congratulations and thanks.

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Diego Rivera, The Complete Murals
Luismartin Lozano , and Juan Coronel Rivera
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ASIN: 382284943X

Book Description

Diego in detail: The most comprehensive study of Rivera's work ever made

A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist - along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo - Diego Rivera (1886-1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded himself with other artists and embraced the Cubist movement, he returned to Mexico and began to paint the large-scale murals for which he is most famous. In his murals, he addressed social and political issues relating to the working class, earning him prophetic status among the peasants of Mexico. He was invited to create works abroad, most notably in the United States, where he stirred up controversy by depicting Lenin in his mural for the Rockefeller Center in New York City (the mural was destroyed before it was finished). Rivera's most remarkable work is his 1932 Detroit Industry, a group of 27 frescos at the Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan.

Andrea Mantegna: Padua and Mantua (The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance)
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Andrea Mantegna: Padua and Mantua (The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance)
Keith Christiansen
Manufacturer: George Braziller
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Italian Comfort Food: Intensive Eating from Fresco by Scotto Restaurant
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Food, food, food

A history lesson in Italian cuisine

Great Book! Great Place to eat!

Disappointing

THIS BOOK MAKES YOU HUNGRY

Italian Comfort Food: Intensive Eating from Fresco by Scotto Restaurant
Scotto Family
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ASIN: 0060515708
Release Date: 2005-11-08

Book Description

When Marion Scotto's grandmother, Elena, opened a poultry market in South Brooklyn in 1910, she started a family food dynasty. A born entertainer from a long line of fabulous cooks, Marion opened Fresco by Scotto in 1993 with her son, Anthony Jr., and daughters Rosanna and Elaina. Now, in Italian Comfort Food, the Scottos combine the delicious flavors and warmth of Italy with the neighborly atmosphere of a quintessential New York restaurant, sharing funny stories and dozens of their prized recipes. Cooking with Italian Comfort Foodis the next best thing to sitting down to a warm welcome and a wonderful meal at Fresco, an oasis in the heart of Manhattan that Zagat calls "festive" and "fantastic." Mouthwatering recipes include:

The famously addictive Potato and Zucchini Chips with Gorgonzola
Marinated Seafood Salad
Meatball Lasagna
Risotto with Roasted Winter Vegetables
Grandma's Stuffed Chicken
Chocolate Mascarpone Cream Pie

Customer Reviews:

Food, food, food.......2007-07-12

I bought this because I already owned the other cookbook put out by the Scotto family. I was hoping that this one contained some of the recipes I had hoped to find in the first one but, alas, they weren't in this one either. But instead there are plenty of other great recipes to try. And plenty more Italian history to learn by reading through this cookbook.

A history lesson in Italian cuisine.......2005-09-09

Very good, and I love the pictures they look authentic, especially nice to look at. Some of my Italian grandparents look just like that. There is some especially nice recipes I'm going to try. My family is excited about that. MANGIA, MANGIA, LOTS OF LOVE: CATHY ALEXANDER(NH)

Great Book! Great Place to eat!.......2004-01-23

After watching the Scotto family on FOOD TV, It was a must to buy the cookbook. The mouth-watering recipes are a delight! We decided to visit the posh FrescobyScotto restaurant after hearing the great reviews. YUMMY! The food was AWESOME! My boyfriend is Italian and usually critiques every Italian restaurant, but Scotto's restaurant by far is one of his favorites.

Disappointing.......2002-10-14

I was very, very disappointed in this book. The title is misleading in every way. If I had a kitchen staff of 15, these receipes would work. The receipes are time consumming and I did not find one receipe that was comforting. I saw this book advertised on Good Day NY and purchased the book immediately. I thought the biggest downfall was that there were no pictures of the foods. Presentation is very important and this book lacks it. I could of lived without the celebrity name dropping and would have loved pictures of the foods. I might of taken on the challenge of the time consuming receipes had I known seen a picture of it. There was one receipe I would have considered to prepare and then the book mentioned that it was Kathie Lee Gifford's favorite food. That ruined it right there.

THIS BOOK MAKES YOU HUNGRY.......2002-10-06

I TRIED A FEW OFTHE RECIPES AND I FELT LIKE I WAS ON VACATION IN ITALY. THEY WERE AUTHENTIC, EASY TO FOLLOW AND DELICIOUS! I ENJOYED THE PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE BOOK AND THE NON-COOKING STORIES WERE FUN TO READ! THIS BOOK COULD GO ON YOUR COFFEE TAABLE AS WELL AS IN YOUR KITCHEN.

Indian Painting: The Great Mural Tradition

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Stunning

Indian Painting: The Great Mural Tradition
Mira Seth
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Imagine if half the paintings of the Italian Renaissance had never been photographed until now. How great a revelation would a book presenting those works be? That is the perfect analog for the achievement that is Indian Painting: The Great Mural Tradition, the first complete survey of classical Indian wall painting ever published. Author Mira Seth, the world's leading scholar on the subject, has personally visited all of the major sites featured in this book, from the temples of South India, the Deccan, where the world-famous Ajanta and Ellora caves are located, to Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir in the north. This book gives an in-depth analysis of the interconnections not only between different schools of painting but also the sister arts of sculpture and architecture. By putting each work in this lavishly illustrated volume in its political and geographical context, Seth creates the groundbreaking panoramic look at Indian wall painting the art world has long needed.

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Stunning.......2006-11-10

This book is absolutely stunning. All the photos are full color and brilliantly printed. No tiny little photos here, which adds to the considerable size of the book. Most of the images I have never seen anywhere else, the author Mira Seth received permission from various archaeological and art institutes in India to use photos and slides. The history and analysis of the styles is interesting as well, again on things not usually found in other books. A must have for an art book collection.

Luca Signorelli: The San Brizio Chapel, Orvieto (Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance)

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Luca Signorelli: The San Brizio Chapel, Orvieto (Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance)
Jonathan B. Riess , and Luca Signorelli
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Permanently beautiful art
finally a correct book about the "affresco" tecnique!!!

Fresco Painting for Home & Garden
Sarah Hocombe
Manufacturer: David & Charles
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Permanently beautiful art.......2001-08-25

I am an iconographer and work in egg tempera. I became interested in fresco because the same pigments are used. I have been looking for a tutorial for this art form for years. This book is not only readable, it is informative and does not take the ingredients and methods lightly. Working in the old techniques, such as encaustic, tempera and fresco, is slow, meditative and rewarding. This book is simple and beautiful enough for my grandchildren to enjoy and technical enough for me to use successfully to teach myself. Only problem is British material sources. There are a couple of suppliers in the USA.

finally a correct book about the "affresco" tecnique!!!.......1999-07-06

I've been trained as a professional artist in Italy and currently I run a studio in San Francisco where I am an instructor at the Academy of Art College. There is a great difference between an 'affresco' and a generic 'mural' that can be acrilic or tempera. 'Fresco' is a very simple but extremely precious tecnique.I heard people calling a 'fresco' the Leonardo's "Last Supper" wich is not. The Leonardo's painting is a 'tempera', for that reason it did not last.The real 'fresco' last practically for ever (look the great 'fresco' painters like Michelangelo, Raffaello, etc. Their works still shine after centuries). Anyway, this book gives clear and unmistakable instructions to everyone who wants to learn this fascinating tecnique.Well done! By the way:knowing how the great masters did their work does not means automatically joining the Club. Got it?

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